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Grassimesse 2024: Call for Entries

...Staged in and by the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, and tracing its (hi)story back to 1920, the annual Grassimesse is, as oft noted in these dispatches, not only one of the oldest sales fairs devoted to contemporary craft, applied art and design, devoted to promoting discussions and discourses on contemporary craft, applied art and design, but was initiated in context of advancing meaningful, relevant, contemporary craft, applied art and design of a high quality; a task that was important in the 1920s against the background of the earliest attempts at mass industrial production of objects of daily use, and which often produced but tat...

5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for February 2024

...Our suggestions for those meaningful, worthwhile exploits for the 29 days of February 2024, and beyond, takes us to Leipzig, Malmö, Katowice, Oslo and Jyväskylä... "Technokrat*innen" at Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany Amongst the myriad movements that emerged in America in the early decades of the 20th century as the nation sought to find a way through the political, economic, social, et al turbulence of the period, was Technocracy; a term that although today is widely employed to generally describe any system of government by appointed experts rather than by elected politicians, was in the 1920s and 30s America a much more clearly defined concept, a specific movement, one which foresaw, amongst other novel realities, a four day week and a global basic income, the later based not on conventional financial currency but on energy currency: in effect proposed replacing money with energy certificates, the latter existent in a total volume concurrent with the available global energy, and which would be distributed amongst the global population...

smow Blog Interview: Cornelius Réer - Honing the good ideas so that they result in fantastic products, that's the task

...Following his success in Leipzig we met up with Cornelius in his studio in Nürnberg to discuss his work, his approaches, the realities of life as independent glassmaker and glass as a material, but we began asking why glass, why the decision for the glassmakers profession...

The Historia Supellexalis: "T" for Thonet

...Thonet A Michael; A Twist; A Portfolio of Patents According to the Felsbilder of the Nymphs of Loreley, that most important of sources of information of the earliest (hi)story of the contemporary Rheinland, the Thonet arose in the community of Boppard, a community framed on the one side by a series of swinging aqueous curves as the Rhein meanders its way slowly through the metamorphic rock of the Rhenish Massif, and on the other by a range of peaks of that Massif on whose flowing curving sides innumerable wild vines sweep and curve vertically and horizontally... And thus a Boppard that for a great many centuries was essentially cut off from the surrounding communities, and where the Thonet lived a quiet existence fishing, bee-keeping and building chairs defined by their sweeping, curving, swinging, meandering frames whose origins no-one could explain but which had been constructed in Boppard for as long as anyone could remember...

Grassimesse 2023 Compact: Babette Wiezorek

...de/ And for all in or near Leipzig Babette Wiezorek, her work and research, can be experienced at the Grassimesse, at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig until Sunday 22nd October...

Grassimesse 2023: smow-Designpreis Co-Winners - Annabella Hevesi / Line and Round IO & Cornelius Réer

...In addition to objects from the Modul collection Cornelius Réer is also presenting in Leipzig works from the, and amongst others, Pool, Kaola, Inside Out and Crunch collections, the latter glassware that has been produced as serial originals for over 20 years... For all in or near Leipzig the work of Annabella Hevesi / Line and Round IO and Cornelius Réer, and all 2023 exhibitors and the seven invited design schools, can viewed until Sunday October 22nd at the GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig...

Bentwood and Beyond. Thonet and Modern Furniture Design @ the MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna

...One such being inarguably Michael Thonet... Thonet and Modern Furniture Design the MAK – Museum für angewandte Kunst Vienna navigate the history of that tributary and explore its legacy and contemporary relevance, and relationship, to the course of furniture design...


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