Anyone who follows Willy Iffland on Instagram might think that his daily life revolves mainly around trainers, collaborations and the camera. However, when you meet him in person, it quickly becomes clear that this surface-level impression tells only a small...
...Our five featured short steps for July 2023 can be taken in Stuttgart, New York, Hornu, London and Berlin... Habitat X: Climate-adapted coexistence of humans, animals and plants at the architekturgalerie am weißenhof, Stuttgart, Germany Stating the human societies design and plan their spaces for the needs of human societies isn't a radical claim, nor one that over the greater passage of time past many would have questioned; however, of late that questioning has not only begun, but has become increasingly persistent and loud...
...Atop bonny Killesberg, and beside Kochenhof, (the) Akademie der Bildenden Künste, ABK, Stuttgart has been nurturing a basic kernel within a bright kettle of students of numerous creative disciplines since 1761... But do we need that applied, functional art developed in the year past at the ABK Stuttgart...
...", at the architekturgalerie am weißenhof, Stuttgart A home of your own complete with garden, for many, most?... opens at architekturgalerie am weißenhof, Am Weißenhof 30, 70191 Stuttgart on Thursday April 26th and runs until Sunday July 1st "Image Spaces: Biology and Building", at Museum für Fotografie, Berlin That nature always has the best construction solutions is well understood...
...Shortly before the sale of Standard-Möbel to Thonet Anton Lorenz registered patents for his own tubular steel chair designs and also secured the rights to all Mart Stam's cantilever chair designs: Stam having famously presented his first cantilever chair design as part of the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung exhibition in Stuttgart, since when it had had no producer...
...In 1965 Verner Panton wowed Cologne with his flying chair concept before in 1967 the, arguably, defining moment in Verner Panton's career was reached when Vitra released the eponymous Panton Chair; a product that so violently altered what we understood about furniture that although initially only produced until 1979, its influence remains unbroken to this today...
...From his first commissions for the Italian manufacturers Driade and Baleri Philippe Starck has gone on to collaborate with the likes of Vitra, Cassina, Alias and perhaps most famously Kartell where products such as La Marie, Louis Ghost or the Bubble Club sofa have established themselves as genuine modern furniture design classics...
