Radio smow: A Shelving Playlist…….
...Shelves are largely monosyllabic, indispensable in what they do, but not expansive in their repertoire...
...Shelves are largely monosyllabic, indispensable in what they do, but not expansive in their repertoire...
...The Road Ahead: Reimagining Mobility opens at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2 East 91st Street, New York, New York 10128 on Friday December 14th and runs until Sunday March 31st "12 Shelves" at the Aram Gallery, London, England Arguably the fact that the smow blog office has no shelving foretold that the Aram Gallery's new exhibition would appear in this list; however, knowing the attention the Aram Gallery (generally) take when composing their exhibitions, and their promise that all 12 shelving projects presented have arisen in the past five years and therefore allow for 12 contemporary explorations of the possibilities of shelving and/or understandings of shelving, we probably would have been attracted by it even if we had a surfeit of shelving and storage space... 12 Shelves opened at the Aram Gallery, 110 Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5SG on Thursday November 29th and runs until Saturday January 19th "The Sea Ranch: Architecture, Environment, and Idealism" at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California Hippies...
...The combination being logical: if a central, defining, requirement for airport furniture and furnishings is a combination of functionality, flexibility and durability, then the modular and freely configurable USM Haller system makes perfect sense... And that the USM Haller system’s adaptability is itself adaptable was neatly demonstrated by USM Airportsystems in Cologne with a panel crafted from the proprietary material Corian through which an LED display can be projected and thus allowing display and information systems to be integrated with a USM unit without disrupting the optical unity...
...USM Haller Hat Rack... The true beauty of the USM Haller system is its flexibility...
...When USM Haller last exhibited at Orgatec we were still in Kindergarten and our only experience with interior design was the wonderful shapes one could create on walls with wax crayons... 12 years later and not only have we discovered that marker pens are much better suited to drawing on walls, but USM Haller have returned to Cologne and Orgatec...
...Knowing that they needed to defeat Fritz Haller's stable and flexible USM Haller system in order to advance the Italians choose to stick with Antonio Citterio for this all or nothing encounter...
...Then USM Haller arrived with a lorry full of Haller tables, USM Haller sideboards and roll containers... And so we have spent the past few days directing Eiermann desk, Vitra DSR and USM Haller carrying Vitra Eames Elephants through the endless corridors of the (smow)warehouse...