(smow)wintertour 2010: Weil am Rhein
Weil am Rhein Rathaus When we were still young, fit and healthy, towns and cities existed. Just existed. These days in order to exist a city needs to be the city of something. And so as one drives...
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Design for Use, USA. The cover of Alexander Girard's catalogue. “Wooden spoon for pickled vegetables by John F. Kennedy” ? ? ? John F. Kennedy. Green Mountain Woodcrafters, Vermont. And no relation of...
View ArticleIMM Cologne 2013: Wilde+Spieth. Interview with CEO Thomas Gerber.
Older readers will be aware that we have often held up the absence of some of Germany’s most important designer furniture manufacturers as an unmissable indicator of an inherent weakness in the IMM...
View Article(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: February
IMM Cologne kept us busy into February, but the month also saw the opening of an Eileen Gray retrospective in Paris, a visit to the Louis Kahn exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum and the sad passing...
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