The Design Annual - inside: showtime

The culinary result was more than delicious at 'The Design Annual - inside: showtime' – and so that you can recreate the show on a smaller scale in your own kitchen, here is chef Tim Raue’s recipe.

Four days of “Showtime”, four days of flash-lit faces, flamenco and Disneyland, four days of going up and down in an elevator, stroking ponies and hearing parrots blabber, four days of marveling at bags, switches, shelves, kitchens, sofas, fireplaces, cars. Four days of cups and plates, slides and carpets, vases and sounds. Four days under counters, at toadstool tables and on the stage.

“Mies van der Rohe’s famous pavilion in Barcelona is a copy. Where did the original stand?” At The Design Annual - inside: showtime Mats Theselius offered a brilliant stage show that with guests and guests of honor, with musical backup and dance sets. And a quiz show. All the questions relate to design, architecture, and associated topics.

Yesterday Paul Cocksedge has lectured on his view of light at The Design Annual - inside: showtime, presenting the intentions and methods that he brings to bear in his constant inquiry into light and luminaires.

How did you ever come up with the idea of building a Disneyland/Favela installation and what notion of “showtime” is at work there? Yesterday Editor-in-Chief of form Gerrit Terstiege has asked Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter about their artistic efforts for The Design Annual – on the Festhalle viewer’s gallery at Messe Frankfurt.

There it is, finally hanging up there as though on a mountain face, this small labyrinth-like, bewitchingly colorful, madly flashing, tenderly romantic and miracle-working mountain village of the imagination, in which Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter are staging an encounter between art and design, an interface between show and reality.

It's showtime, for four whole days of nine hours each, nonstop entertainment!

Flying pies, weeping trees, confused giraffes, speaking clocks, precious lighthouses, owls that play the flute - in only 14 days time the waiting will be over, and the wonderland designed by Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter will open its doors. It's showtime! To put it mildly!

It’s showtime. For The Design Annual 2008 we have consciously chosen a very exciting theme which will generate controversial discussion. The two artists Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter are responsible for the spatial concept. Here are new impressions of Claus Richter’s studio.

As in the past few years The Design Annual will once again be accompanied by an extremely varied interdisciplinary program of events. The motto for 2008 is “showtime” – a highly expressive and contradictory theme, which we shall be discussing in all its facets. This year as well current trends and the tasks design will face in the future will the subject of talks, lectures and presentations.

It’s showtime. For The Design Annual 2008 we have consciously chosen a very exciting theme which will generate controversial discussion. The two artists Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter are responsible for the spatial concept. Together they will develop a diverse and multi-functional environment in the Festhalle. Here are the first impressions of Claus Richter’s studio.

And they’re off. Building started this Monday. This kicked off the countdown to our event The Design Annual. From Friday, July 4 until Monday, July 7, 2008, the showcase for high-end design will take place for the third time in the Festhalle in Frankfurt. And this time the motto is: it’s showtime! Tobias Rehberger and Claus Richter will be giving visual form to the theme.

After the great success this year, with over 10.000 visitors, The Design Annual 2008 will be the third in the series, devoted on this occasion to the theme of "showtime". And it is not only the motto that is changing this time.