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(smow) blog Design Calendar: April 28th 1925 – L’Exposition internationale...
“What is the Paris Exposition?”, asked Roger Gilman in the September 1925 edition of The Art Bulletin, “It is a new world of the applied arts. It is a new world of reality, reality in the square mass...
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5 New Design Exhibitions for July 2014
Tradition being the predictable beast that it is, July and August tend to be quiet months in the design universe – most everyone taking themselves off to their Gîtes, Dachas, Ferienwohnungen,...
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(smow) blog compact: aed Stuttgart present Zukunftslabor Weißenhofsiedlung
Erected in 1927 in context of the Deutscher Werkbund exhibition “Die Wohnung” the Weißenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart aimed to achieve “…. a reduction in house construction and running costs, in addition to...
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5 New Design Exhibitions for April 2015
“Who’s the more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him?” asks Obi-Wan Kenobi, more or less rhetorically, in Star Wars. Chewbacca understood. And the Wookie warrior also understood that foolish...
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5 New Design Exhibitions for July 2015
It being July, there is an obvious temptation to search for new design and architecture exhibitions opening near the coast, maybe in interesting seaside holiday locations. That four of our five tips...
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smow blog compact: Le Corbusier – The Measures of Man at the Centre Pompidou,...
On days when his sketches didn’t meet with his own, self-critical, approval, the Swiss architect and urban planner Le Corbusier is reported to have laid down his pencil and quietly reflected, “c’est...
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smow blog Interview: Margret Hoppe – As a photographer you can influence...
Buildings are, somewhat logically, 3D. Photographs 2D. The challenge of architecture photography is transforming the 3D to 2D in such a way that the building maintains its identity without the...
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smow blog 2015. A pictorial review: July
The older we get the more important July becomes as it allows us to return to college to view design schools end of term exhibitions – a genuine highlight of our year. In addition July 2015 saw us...
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smow blog 2015. A pictorial review: September
The end of design’s summer hibernation is traditionally marked by the opening of the Vitra Design Museum’s winter exhibition, which for 2015/16 is the fulminate The Bauhaus #itsalldesign Elsewhere...
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5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for May 2018
In the wonderful month of May, As all the buds bloomed, My heart became, With Love consumed In the wonderful month of May, As all the birds did sing, I confessed to her My desire and yearning. Heinrich...
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