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Museum Für Gestaltung Zürich Until 26 March, 2023 The Swiss design pioneer Willy Guhl (1915-2004) designed world-famous seating furniture such as the Eternit beach chair and Europe’s first plastic seat shell. For decades, Guhl conveyed a holistic design approach geared to people and their needs: durability, functionality and reduction to the essentials characterize his homely interiors and well thought-out everyday objects. As a teacher at the Zurich School of Applied Arts (today Zurich University of the Arts ZHdK), he showed generations of interior designers and product designers how good design is recognized with all the senses. The exhibition presents Willy Guhl’s work using design processes,Read More →

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An exhibition exploring the legacy of a designer who kept collaboration, innovation and adventure at the heart of her work. 19th June – 5th September 2021The Design Museum, London AS A YOUNG Parisian creative in the 1930s, living a Bohemian life in a Montparnasse garret, Charlotte Perriand trained for weekend ski trips in her beloved Alps by working out on a flat 8th-floor rooftop. In an early brush with death, recorded in her autobiography, A Creative Life, she nearly went over the edge chasing a misdirected medicine ball.Read More →

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06.02.2021 – 23.01.2022 Vitra Design Museum Gallery The Memphis group was one of the most unusual phenomena to appear in the world of design in recent decades. It emerged in the winter of 1980/81, when a group of young designers eager to break away from the dogmas of functionalism and industrial design formed around the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass.Read More →

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11 May – 12 September 2021 The retrospective, realized in collaboration with Fondazione Vico Magistretti and curated by Gabriele Neri, brings together the heritage of drawings, sketches, models, photographs, prototypes and original pieces preserved in the archives of the Milanese architect and designer. The exhibition traces Magistretti’s entire design career, which began at the Palazzo dell’Arte after World War II. Divided into thematic sections, the exhibition presents for the first time the work of Vico Magistretti in a unified way, from architecture to installations, from design to urban design, together with his numerous international contacts. Red, the distinctive color of many of his projects, constitutesRead More →

Triennale Museum Milano, Until 18 April 2021

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Enzo Mari Curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist with Francesca Giacomelli Enzo Mari leaves us with an exhibition that documents his more than 60 years of activity. He is one of the main masters and theorists of Italian design. The exhibition project is divided into a historical section and a series of contributions by international artists and designers – Adelita Husni-Bey, Tacita Dean, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Mimmo Jodice, Dozie Kanu, Adrian Paci, Barbara Stauffacher Solomon, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Danh Vo, Nanda Vigo, Virgil Abloh for the special mercahandising project – invited to pay tribute to Mari through site-specific installations and new works commissioned for the occasion. Nanda Vigo’sRead More →

Vitra Design Museum. Until 18.04.2021

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Gae Aulenti is one of the most influential architects and designers of the post-war period. As early as the 1960s, her iconic creations – such as her »Locus Solus« series (1964), the »Pipistrello« (1965)Read More →