...In collaboration with the Eames Office, Vitra has now revised the Eames Collection with a focus on sustainable production, materials, and colors... Vitra developed new color variants for this in close collaboration with the Eames Office...
...In Leipzig the Christmas biscuits and gingerbreads have reappeared on the supermarket shelves, a sure sign of not only the increasingly aggressive commercialisation of Yuletide celebrations that one can't help thinking surely used to have another, long since forgotten, function, an origin beyond profit and gluttony; but also the surest of signs that summer is on its way out... As is the news that the Grassimesse Jury have decreed who have been invited to present their works at the 2025 Grassimesse Leipzig...
...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?...
...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...
...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...
...Diaries which contain some of the most complete and detailed descriptions of Swiss society, and in which one also finds the earliest descriptions of the earliest (hi)story of the contemporary Switzerland, a, as Heidi records, nation constituted from a loosely bound collective, a cantonation, of ancient peoples, including, and amongst many, many others, the Röthlisberger, the Horgenglarus, the Usm, the Wohnbedarf, the Embru, or the Vitronians whose contemporary Commonwealth of Vitra was initially established across a number of fields on the banks of the river Birs in the north-western corner of the Toblerone cordillera... Yet it was, inarguably, the Vitronians, for all under the leadership of the benevolent Fehlbaum der Jüngere, who were the most active in terms of international exchange; not only cooperating with an American Miller by the name of Herman to introduce works and positions by the likes of, for example, Eames Office, I Samunoguchi, George Nel-son or Alexander Gi Rard into Switzerland, but also expanding the Commonwealth of Vitra to the neighbouring regions of Germany and from where they introduced the furniture of the American Miller Herman to the many peoples of Europe...
