ART Arty Advertizing9/6/2016Museum August Kestner is looking back at 70 years of advertising from Hanover – encountering many an avant-garde poster in the process.
DESIGN Not only Grillo had a future5/17/2016Marco Zanuso was born 100 years ago. The Milanese architect is one of the inventors of post-1945 Italian design and for decades inspired other architects and designers.
DESIGN A bed for the stars of the media age 2/12/2016Sleep or simply doze during the day – a thing of the past. Today, the bed drifts in a veritable ocean of information. Lying down is no longer about resting, but about moving.
DESIGN Better than demolition 1/6/2016It all comes back to Ferdinand Kramer. With the exhibition “Line Form Function”, Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum is presenting a show that is really worth seeing on Kramer’s architectural legacy. At the same time, the City of Frankfurt looks set to abandon this legacy and have the buildings torn down in the near future.
DESIGN They know what they are doing10/9/2015What is involved, what needs to happen for a few thoughts and sketches to get turned into a chair, a table or a sofa? Want to know more? Then the monographs on the respective oeuvres of James Irvine and Jasper Morrison are a great place to start.
DESIGN Girard meets Eames7/23/2015Alexander Girard and Charles Eames shared a close friendship, which proved highly productive in creative terms. Works by both designers can now be found in Vitra’s “Home Complements” – and this reunion is anything but a chance encounter.
INTERVIEWS Only the watercolors burned to nothing6/29/2015How to live in orbit? Adeline Seidel talked with Galina Balashova, the interior designer of the Russian space capsules, about green floors, blue ceilings and creating a sense of homeliness in space.
DESIGN No perspicacity6/4/2015What happens if we simply believe our eyes and always go by the images we see?
INTERVIEWS Industry is not a dinosaur5/11/2015On irony, provocative designs, Chair One as a grill, finding treasure troves, the necessity of securing contracts and the fun of advancing existing designs. Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 3
INTERVIEWS Work where you have the freedom do to so5/4/2015On art and design as a way of life, public places, the designer’s responsibility, the culture of Italian manufacturers, taste and breather Marcel Duchamp. Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 2
STYLEPARK-SPECIAL: RETROSPECTIVE Hieronymus at the airport4/27/2015Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 1: On "Panorama", the airport as a residential location, glancing sideways, digital tools, physical models, how to design a chair, and why designers cannot simply be replaced by programs.
ARCHITECTURE Ressource Africa3/24/2015Vitra Design Museum is devoting not just one, but two exhibitions to Africa. While the one suggests the "re-maker culture" is a blueprint for design in the Global North, the other explores how to achieve architectural independence.
DESIGN A license to RO-CK2/17/2015For his lifetime achievements Nils Holger Moormann has been presented with the “German Design Award” in Frankfurt. Prompting Florian Hufnagl, former Director of the Neue Sammlung in Munich, to compose a special laudation in words and images.
FAIRS & EVENTS New Sense of Comfort or GreyUrbanUnderIslandTropicAir2/5/2015Claudia Kleine and Jörg Kürschner together constitute “Formstelle”. At the Thonet booth at the imm cologne the designer duo presented a much-discussed lounge chair. Thomas Wagner spoke to them both about the “808”, the design process and the issue of how one can cocoon and nevertheless remain open-minded.
FAIRS & EVENTS Fixed on the mark2/1/2015Inga Sempé has dragged the winged armchair into contemporary life – with “Beau Fixe” for Ligne Roset. In an interview with Uta Abendroth, the French designer explains what the design has to do with her childhood, why she likes working in a team, and why she feels attracted to small objects.
ARCHITECTURE Happy Birthday Gottfried Böhm!1/23/2015Gottfried Böhm’s oeuvre is immense and even with 95 work still has a firm hold on him. We congratulate the first German Pritzker Prize winner to his birthday and take you on a journey in time through five of his buildings in Cologne.
FAIRS & EVENTS The Rasch Brother’s universe11/14/2014An exhibition at Marta Herford juxtaposes the lifework of Heinz and Bodo Rasch to built and dreamed utopias of the 1960s and artistic projects of today. The show attempts too much, but is still well worth a visit.
DESIGN Snow White and the Apple10/8/2014Who kissed life into Snow White? Hartmut Esslinger has written a book about the early design years of Apple, the “Snow White” process, his friendship with Steve Jobs and the difficulties with managers.
FAIRS & EVENTS Mirror, mirror on the wall9/26/2014Split cobs with Sebastian Cox Holz, admire yourself in Barber Osgerby’s huge ceiling mirrors, and watch the future of mobility through stained glass. And in addition to these attractions, this year’s London Design Festival also served up many interesting team line-ups and countless cool results.
DESIGN A prize for the wrong decisions7/8/2014The Berlin company “Dark Horse” consists of 30 partners who all have equal status – and has done so for five years. Can a hierarchy-free enterprise really succeed?
INTERVIEWS A Mexican collection3/26/2014To know more about why and how the Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura in Mexico City intends to become a reference for the discussion of design in Latin America, Isabel Martínez Abascal talked with its director, Regina Pozo.
DESIGN Anthology with friends3/16/2014He owned a drugstore, but ever since his passion was design. He encouraged, motivated, he was design entrepreneur, consultant and museumsfounder. With Anthologie Quartett he edited designs by Ettore Sottsass, Elizabeth Garouste und Mattia Bonetti. A memorial to Rainer Krause, who died in June 2013.
FAIRS & EVENTS Knock-Down, not craftsmanship2/8/2014Frankfurt’s Museum of Applied Art presents Ferdinand Kramer – the designer, that is, not the architect. The show focuses on Kramer’s philosophy of creating adaptable, multi-purpose furniture.
INTERVIEWS You need the right opportunities to create the new1/24/2014Simon Collezione was presented in a new look at the imm cologne. Entrepreneur Dino Gavina and architect Carlo Scarpa shaped the collection that now belongs to Cassina. Thomas Edelmann spoke to Tobia Scarpa about his father, mayonnaise and opportunities for trying out the new.
DESIGN Certainties – shaken, not stirred11/17/2013In his discerning but chatty volume, Michael Erlhoff draws our attention to the potential and ideas innate in design. A book for anyone who views aesthetic debate as something more than just a matter of theoretical edification.
ARCHITECTURE New found design11/6/2013On a rocky outcrop of Newfoundland, where there’s nothing between you and the Artic, the Fogo Island Inn has since May of this year proved that good design can foster tourism and thus create jobs.
ARCHITECTURE Divine sense of detail10/11/2013Carsten Krohn’s photographic study of Peter Behrens’ architectural efforts provides a complete overview of his built output as is still in existence today. And bears witness to the photographer’s extraordinary passion for detail. An illustrated book for Behrens enthusiasts. But be advised: Prior knowledge is a must.
FAIRS & EVENTS 28.280 coloured glassbowls10/1/2013Our recce of the London Design Festival scouts six of the core venues to discover the current design tendencies. On this 16 mile whistle-stop tour from the west to the east of London, we start at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the self-proclaimed design hub of the LDF.
MAGAZINE Marseille, Corbu, Grcic and the Sex Pistols7/1/2013You need courage and massive design punch to skillfully combine Punk music and Le Corbusier. Thanks to Konstantin Grcic this summer both join forces in Marseille.
MAGAZINE Eiermann felt the ostentatious was highly suspect6/21/2013In our present age, often over-emphasizing contemporaneity, it can’t hurt on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the founding of the German Design Council to cast an eye over its history. Including surprising.
MAGAZINE Design or, at the end of the day, only business promotion?6/19/2013The “German Design Council” has turned 60 and is feting itself with a “Second German Design Debate” at Frankfurt’s Paulskirche.
MAGAZINE The state of design in Germany and Europe6/19/2013What future is in store for design in this country? What has altered? At the “Second German Design Debate” designer Stefan Diez held a highly-acclaimed talk on the current state of design.
MAGAZINE Others were more radical5/31/2013At the moment, as part of the Van-de-Velde Year, Erfurt’s hosting an exhibition on architect and designer Peter Behrens. While there can be no doubting his status as the father of Modernism, in retrospect the one or other of his designs seems decidedly a product of its day.
MAGAZINE Britain can make it4/11/2013Despite the Nazis’ ostracism of Modernism, in the wake of World War II the Germans reassumed their role as trailblazers in industrial design almost immediately. A recently rediscovered “secret report” reveals how in 1946 the British secret service went on a mission to scent out the German consumer goods industry.