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5 New Design Exhibitions for September 2017
The September architecture and design exhibition recommendations are arguably the cruellest to write: the fact that the majority of the exhibitions end in the depths of the European winter meaning that...
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smow Blog Interview: Ronan Bouroullec – For me the most important place is to...
Having grown up near Quimper, Brittany, Ronan Bouroullec moved to Paris in 1989 to study industrial design; since when the French capital has not only witnessed him complete his studies, but establish...
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An Eames Celebration @ The Vitra Design Museum
With their 1997 exhibition The Work of Charles and Ray Eames the Vitra Design Museum staged one of the first major Charles and Ray Eames retrospectives Twenty years later they return to two of the 20th...
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smow Blog High 5 Special: When fashion meets design…..
As regular readers will be well aware, here at smow blog HQ we’re very much of the opinion that fashion isn’t design. Never was. Never will be. Design, and without wanting to wade too deep into the...
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Night Fever. Designing Club Culture 1960 – Today @ Vitra Design Museum
Nightclubs and discos are not only about entertainment and sensory overload, but also provide a society with means of expression and reflection. With the exhibition Night Fever. Designing Club Culture...
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Milan Design Week 2018 Compact: Vitra – Typecasting
Whereas exhibitions in which designers show prototypes and discontinued projects by way of explaining who they are, where they come from and how they work, are a, relatively, regular occurrence,...
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Ron Arad: Yes to the Uncommon! @ The Vitra Design Museum Schaudepot, Weil am...
In his Ron Arad monograph Restless Furniture Deyan Sudjic notes that the Sticks & Stones furniture crusher Arad developed for the exhibition Nouvelles Tendances staged by the Centre de Creation...
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5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for September 2018
According to Germanic lore, “ein guter Septemberregen kommt nie ungelegen“, a good rain in September is never inopportune. This year arguably more so than ever. Similarly a good architecture and design...
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Orgatec Cologne 2018: High Five!!
As previously, and repeatedly, noted, one of the defining aspects about an office furniture fair such as Orgatec Cologne is that wherever one looks one sees a similar vista. Whereas in terms of...
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Vitra – Work @ Orgatec Cologne 2018
At Orgatec Cologne 2016 Vitra staged, in effect, their own trade fair, renting an entire hall and inviting family and friends along to share the space and their ideas on the future of work. And...
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