...At Orgatec Cologne 2016 Vitra staged, in effect, their own trade fair, renting an entire hall and inviting family and friends along to share the space and their ideas on the future of work... For at Orgatec Cologne 2018 they once again staged the Vitra Fair...
...Rookie by Konstantin Grcic for Vitra In the interests of full disclosure, at Orgatec 2014 Vitra launched the low-tech Allstar office chair by Konstantin Grcic, which kind of passed us by...
...Moving Away: The Internationalist Architect opens at the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, 9/32 Krymsky Val, 119049, Moscow on Wednesday September 12th and runs until Friday November 30th "Victor Papanek: The Politics of Design" at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil Am Rhein, Germany "There are professions more harmful than industrial design, but only a very few of them", thus opened Victor Papanek his 1971 book Design for the Real World And spent the next 350+ pages not only expounding on why that is, but also that it needn't be... The first ever Victor Papanek retrospective The Politics of Design at the Vitra Design Museum promises not only to explore Papanek's life, work and legacy but also present contemporary projects considered by the curators to be very much in keeping with Papanek's positions and principles...
...As if confirmation were needed, the Sticks & Stones crusher greets visitors to the Vitra Design Museum Schaudepot exhibition Ron Arad: Yes to the Uncommon!... An abridged story of What Ron Arad Did After Rover, a concise exploration of Ron Arad, his methods and his work throughout the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, as reflected by those projects held by the Vitra Design Museum collection including, and amongst many others, his London Papardelle, Big Easy and Tom Vac chairs or the singular Concrete Stereo...
...Kempten/Quiberon, Brittany: Bertrand Belin - Hypernuít Formally the twin with Quiberon was arranged in 1971 by the village of Sankt Mang, before being taken on by Kempten following Sankt Mang's assimilation in the course of the 1972 local government reorganisation; and although both Sankt Mang/Kempten and Quiberon can boast a Celtic origin there is otherwise very little that links the Breton peninsula community with the one at the foot of the Allgäuer Alpen... Given Sankt Mang/Kempten/Quiberon's Celtic heritage there was an obvious temptation to select a Breton roots artist, and the responsible committee got stupidly overexcited when they discovered the band Ar Re Yaouank, established by two brothers from Quimper...
...Whereas exhibitions in which designers show prototypes and discontinued projects by way of explaining who they are, where they come from and how they work, are a, relatively, regular occurrence, exhibitions in which manufacturers do such are much, much rarer: with the exhibition Typecasting Vitra make a very rare and very welcome exception And in doing so don't just present an image not only of Vitra past, but also take a look into the future... At Milan Furniture Fair 2018 Vitra will present their latest product portfolio, a mix of new and established products, wrapped up in a carefully, and expensively, prepared PR and advertising package...
...As a confederation the Hanseatic League was based in northern Germany, the reason being quite simply a common language, Niederdeutsch; today with showrooms in Hamburg, Leipzig, Chemnitz, Cologne, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt and Berlin, smow continue this tradition, albeit expanded through southern German showrooms in Stuttgart, Munich, Kempten and Villingen-Schwenningen, and thus showrooms in Oberdeutsch language region with its colourful canvas of Frankisch, Schwäbisch, Alemannische and Bairische dialects...
