...And that not least because in context of the 2025 edition of Pasasgen Interior Design Week Design Post played host to a presentation of the results of the project Find Your Footprint staged at the Universität der Künste, Berlin, under the guidance of Prof...
..." Our locations for taking advantage of all 31 glorious days of December 2024 can be found in Herford, Philadelphia, Bratislava, Berlin and Caesar's native Rome... sk "Dessauer Strasse and other stories on emancipatory housing" at the Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ, Berlin, Germany As preparations were being made for the 1987 International Building Exhibition, IBA, in West-Berlin, a group of female architects and planners questioned the male dominance of not only the projects being planned for IBA 87, but of architecture and urban planning in general that the male dominance of IBA 87 reflected, and mobilised themselves as Feministische Organisation von Planerinnen und Architektinnen, FOPA, by way of demanding a less male centric architecture and urban planning...
...With the exhibtion Design for Children the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, explore the relationships between design, children and childhood over the century and a bit of their co-existence... A focus on playgrounds the curators very satisfyingly locate in Berlin, including mapping where examples of Beltzig's designs can be found in the German capital, and thereby encouraging you to get out and explore the works in situ, and in the hands of children not of museum curators and custodians...
...The latter being the case with Berlin based manufacturer vondingen a...
...Our five locations for a party of the spirit, intellect, soul and for improving your understanding of the world material and immaterial around you in October 2024 can be found in Brussels, New York, Hornu, Berlin, and, once the beer tents have been packed away for another year, Munich... be "Design for Children" at the Bröhan Museum, Berlin, Germany There is an argument to be made that 'childhood' as it is popularly understood today is a relatively novel phenomenon; that while all adults were without question once children, not all went through a childhood as understood in the contemporary sense...
...Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen's brief tour through the (hi)story of chair design in western Europe ends with Harry Thaler's 2011 Pressed Chair through Nils Holger Moormann, a chair that as Harry once told us began as "a small fork made from one piece of wood", became a desire to create a chair in one material, and which through the choice of pressed aluminium not only neatly translates the moulded plywood of, for example, Arne Jacobsen, Aino and Alvar Aalto or Charles and Ray Eames into metal, but reminds that the plastic shell of the RAR that rocks next to the Pressed Chair in Stühle zum (Be)Sitzen began life as pressed steel, before that was deemed too expensive and the, then, novel fibreglass was used... And a Pressed Chair produced by Nils Holger Moormann, a manufacturer, a furniture publishing house, who arose from the ferment of 1980s Neue Deutsche Design, that questioning, challenging, provoking and polarising of and with furniture design and relationships to furniture of that period, by the eponymous Nils Holger Moormann who as a designer took the impulses and experiences of Neue Deutsche Design and began developing furniture that for all it appears very far removed from the brashness, insolence, humour, questioning, challenging, provoking and polarising of the 1980s, is but an alterative expression of that brashness, insolence, humour, questioning, challenging, provoking and polarising...
...Amongst the European designer furniture publishers Nils Holger Moormann has long stood out from the crowd, and that primarily because Nils Holger Moormann has never sought the crowd, has always done Nils Holger Moormann's thing, not the crowd's thing, and who in doing such has very much, and very justifiably, attracted a crowd lot of individuals... Thus while other furniture publishers dance to the tune of the international trade fair crowd, Nils Holger Moormann organise their own trade fair...
