...With whom over a coffee they spoke about his work, the poetic power of his work, the story behind the iconic La Grange barn — and, of course, the new Vitra Mynt chair... How did the project for the Mynt chair for Vitra come about?...
...Whether at Vitra, Hem Frama, or &Tradition – the patterns gave minimalism a subtle, skillful break...
...In their current exhibition the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, concern themselves with Futures, specifically with the Material and Design of Tomorrow... Material and Design of Tomorrow's chapter Ready Made Future and its discussions on, and introductions to, the great many alternative materials that already exist, and in cases of materials such as, for example, seaweed or the hemp employed by Leipzig based FUSE Composites for a unidirectional tape, a fundamental component of providing strength to lightweight constructions of the type, in all probability, we will increasingly rely on, have been used by humans for centuries...
...Tracing its (hi)story back to 1920, and having featured over the years and decades works by some of the more prominent and important designers, applied artists and crafters of the 20th and 21st centuries, Leipzig's annual Grassimesse has not only an established place in the international creative calender but an established reputation for the quality of the works it presents... And should your application be accepted, then, aside from the opportunity to present, and sell, your work in the exhibition halls of Leipzig's Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, and to be part of Grassimesse (hi)story, there are also 6 Grassi Prizes to be won, including the smow-Designpreis, now in it third year and worth €2,500 to the winner...
...Born and raised in Leipzig, Nadja Schulze completed her Bachelor in Innenarchitektur at Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle in the spring of 2023, before beginning an Interior Architecture Master's at the Burg in the autumn of 2023, a Master's in the course of which three lamps, three lamp families, arose, LiLa, Bow and 360°: the lattermost, wall lamps that you turn like an olde worlde telephone dial and as you do the cable rolls in and out thereby providing for both cable storage and a graphic element; the middlemost a flexible, positionable, wall lamp inspired by, and constructed from, tent poles; the foremost Lightweight Lamps, a modular lighting system inspired by tent poles, developed from Bow, that can exist as a wall, floor or ceiling version, and can not only be extended or reduced as a wall, floor or ceiling version, but switched between a wall, floor or ceiling version... Nadja Schulze: I'm from Leipzig and as a child began competing in gymnastic competitions, later training in Halle where I got to know the Burg...
...LiLa, Bow and 360° by Nadja Schulze and all other projects selected or invited to participate in the 2024 Grassimesse Leipzig can be enjoyed, viewed, engaged with until Sunday October 27th at the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Johannisplatz 5-11, 04103 Leipzig...
...1 The exhibition Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery, and the eponymous Garden House by Tsuyoshi Tane, the latest addition to the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, allow one to approach not only a better appreciation of Tane's positions but also to experience how they influence and inform his approach, his works, his architecture... For all that Vitra is popularly associated with Weil am Rhein, Germany, the company's origins are to be found just across the border in Switzerland, specifically in Birsfelden on the edge of Basel, the association with Weil am Rhein being first forged in the early 1950s, a period when Vitra was still, primarily, a shop-fitting company, if one taking its first, tentative, steps into domestic interiors alongside retail interiors...
