News & Stories | Craftsmanship – nostalgia, innovation or luxury?
Between the poles
by Nina Reetzke
News & Stories | Craftsmanship – nostalgia, innovation or luxury?
Out of love for materials
News & Stories | Craftsmanship – nostalgia, innovation or luxury?
The experience of nostalgia: Craftsmanship has a future
by Thomas Wagner
An exhibition at Château de Boisbuchet is presenting "naked” aluminum objects from Japan, thereby portraying an episode of cultural history and the qualities of anonymous Japanese design.
The creations of carpet-makers Nanimarquina stand out for their marvelously designed patterns. The company has been designing, producing and distributing textiles since the 1980s. A trip into a fairytale world, on location in Spain and India.
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The return of the curved
by Nora Sobich
The symposium on "Regionalism in current industrial design from Japan and Europe" offered an opportunity to converse with designer Makoto Koizumi who does not yet have a presence outside Japan. In conversation with Nina Reetzke he explains what his furniture collection "Tetsubo" and his new interpretations of the "9tubohouse" are all about.
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Juuri or the genie of the bottle
by Nancy Jehmlich
Ströhmann Steinkult, a company based in Central Germany, devotes itself to experimenting with stone, especially with stone surfaces. What they achieve by combining the effects of materials, shapes and light is quite astonishing.
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Architects, sculptors, painters - we must all return to crafts!*
I only caught the tail end of the Salone in Milan this year, so I missed all the parties and the people, BUT I saw a lot and could still feel the hype.
Nicola Stattmann is considered an expert on new materials and technologies. In a joint venture with her brother she is now presenting “Stattmann Neue Möbel” and in doing so takes her family’s joinery into its fourth generation. The first designs illustrate that there are still a great deal of opportunities for development innate in reputedly traditional wooden furniture.
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A cobalt blue ship sails across the porcelain sea
by Nina Reetzke
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What Bauhaus could never have imagined
by Nina Reetzke
Architecture
Translucent, folded and perforated
"Go on with your patchwork, like a little lady", wrote George Eliot, a reminder of the socially aspirational art of making quilts. This British artistic practice went on to influence crafts internationally, think of the Amish quilt. Linking art and social life at all levels, it is the subject of an ongoing exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
In Munich, at an exhibition entitled "Architekturchen" Ingo Maurer is presenting surprising works by Italian design star Michele de Lucchi. They show how working with wood can trigger new thought processes and inspire new ideas.
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Matt gold, please!
by Markus Frenzl
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My private Sky
by Daniel von Bernstorff
