DeTnk - Vienna

EXEMPLARY 150 Years of the MAK – from Arts and Crafts to Design

Collecting Design — Thu, 12 Jun 2014 15:01:11 +0100

Vienna

The exhibition EXEMPLARY: 150 Years of the MAK – from Arts and Crafts to Design, one of the central projects celebrating the 150th anniversary of the MAK, sparks an inspired and inspiring confrontation between the richly traditional MAK Collection and the contemporary design avant-garde.

Design auction at Dorotheum

Collecting Design — Thu, 31 Oct 2013 11:57:04 +0000

Vienna

The Design auction at Dorotheum on 7th November celebrates benchmark designs of the 20th century.

The collection presents items spanning from the Bauhaus to the Viennese Secession, from the early 20th century to the 2008 re-edition of the Sacco seat by Vanzetti in moulded concrete.

MAK DESIGN SALON #02 STUDIO FORMAFANTASMA. The Stranger Within

Collecting Design — Wed, 04 Sep 2013 19:03:43 +0100

Vienna

Society’s ambivalent stances toward the “foreign” or “strange” are the theme that Studio Formafantasma (Simone Farresin, *1983 and Andrea Trimarchi, *1980) have chosen for their presentation The Stranger Within, to be held as MAK DESIGN SALON #02.

Design Auction at Dorotheum

Collecting Design — Thu, 09 May 2013 09:50:13 +0100

Even though a great variety of objects at the design auction on 14th May 2013 claim to be seats of one sort or another – ranging from the fin de siècle to contemporary prototypes – many of them are considered to be art, with only a fine line dividing the everyday object from the work of art.