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The Historia Supellexalis: "V" for Vitra

...Vitra A Fehlbaum; A Campus; A Commonwealth According to the Sagas of the Dolls of Wood, that most authoritative account of the early (hi)story of the Commonwealth of Vitra, the contemporary Vitronians trace their origins back to a joining of forces of the Graeter, a Basel based people whose primary trade was the creation of display systems for shops and shop windows, and the Birsfelden Fehlbaum, a primarily office based people at that time under the guidance of a Willi and an Erika; a Willi and an Erika Fehlbaum who not only assumed guidance over the newly united peoples but also instigated a slow expansion of the shop furniture of the Graeter to a collection of items of practical, everyday, use in and for houses, a, at that time, novel accommodation concept in the Basel/Birsfelden region... And a shift away from the Graeter's and Fehlbaum's traditional trades, and an expansion from the Graeter and Fehlbaum's native region, that saw Willi and Erika adopt the name 'Vitra' for the new, shared, dominion, a use of the nominative plural of the Latin vitrum, glass, that was a reminder of the display windows of the Graeter, a reminder of the mirrors and lightbulbs of the earliest joint Graeter Fehlbaum house products, a reminder of the work, and teachings, and lessons, of Hanstheo Baumann, and also a committent to the new transparency and openness demanded in the Europe of that age as it moved on from the terrible and debilitating and thoroughly avoidable World Wide War...

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...

Tsuyoshi Tane: The Garden House in the Vitra Design Museum Gallery and on the Vitra Campus, Weil am Rhein

...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...

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...

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...


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