...At home with aaroninteriors Designklassiker, USM Haller and Jean Prouvé Anyone who has ever visited Yannick’s home would love to stay there forever... Alongside iconic pieces such as the Eames Lounge Chair and Le Corbusier’s chaise longue, USM Haller shelving also plays a key role in Yannick’s interior...
...In Leipzig the Christmas biscuits and gingerbreads have reappeared on the supermarket shelves, a sure sign of not only the increasingly aggressive commercialisation of Yuletide celebrations that one can't help thinking surely used to have another, long since forgotten, function, an origin beyond profit and gluttony; but also the surest of signs that summer is on its way out... As is the news that the Grassimesse Jury have decreed who have been invited to present their works at the 2025 Grassimesse Leipzig...
...smow Highlight 4: USM Haller – Sognare in Moduli How can function, emotion, and imagination be combined?... USM Haller provided a striking answer at the Fuorisalone exhibition during Milan Design Week...
...In their current exhibition the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, concern themselves with Futures, specifically with the Material and Design of Tomorrow... Material and Design of Tomorrow's chapter Ready Made Future and its discussions on, and introductions to, the great many alternative materials that already exist, and in cases of materials such as, for example, seaweed or the hemp employed by Leipzig based FUSE Composites for a unidirectional tape, a fundamental component of providing strength to lightweight constructions of the type, in all probability, we will increasingly rely on, have been used by humans for centuries...
...Tracing its (hi)story back to 1920, and having featured over the years and decades works by some of the more prominent and important designers, applied artists and crafters of the 20th and 21st centuries, Leipzig's annual Grassimesse has not only an established place in the international creative calender but an established reputation for the quality of the works it presents... And should your application be accepted, then, aside from the opportunity to present, and sell, your work in the exhibition halls of Leipzig's Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, and to be part of Grassimesse (hi)story, there are also 6 Grassi Prizes to be won, including the smow-Designpreis, now in it third year and worth €2,500 to the winner...
...USM Haller A Fritz; A Ball; A System Within the diaries of Heidi, those central documents in the re-telling of the earliest (hi)story of the contemporary Switzerland, it is recorded that one of the oldest examples of vernacular Swiss furniture is the modular metal storage system of the Usm...
Switzerland A Confoederatio; A Range; A Context For a great many centuries the lands of the contemporary Switzerland were unknown, locked as they were behind and between the towering, daunting, peaks of the Toblerone cordillera; but then a fearless explorer...
