...The new architecture of the collective the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig explore, and thereby allow for a focus on, contemporary communal living... Rooting, if you will, the exhibition in Leipzig the Grassi Museum have extended the original Vitra Design Museum presentation with ten examples of local contemporary communal housing projects...
...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...
...With the exhibition New Urban Production Halle 14 Leipzig explore possible future realities... Curated by Leipzig based agency tri:polιs, New Urban Production presents projects by 9 international creatives/studios/collectives which approach possible answers, and which focus not only on production but the whole consumer chain from production over consumption and on to the post-functional use of that which is produced and consumed i...
...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...
...Design since 1900, the Grassi Museum of Applied Arts Leipzig demonstrate that design in Denmark does have a pre-war, and pre-design, history... Ahead of the exhibition's opening the Grassi Museum Leipzig's Director Dr Olaf Thormann posed the, rhetorical, question, why such an comprehensive exhibition of Danish design should be taking place in Leipzig?...
