“Nitsche, van de Velde und die Moderne um 1900”. The exciting new exhibition at the Neues Museum Weimar is timed to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus. Based on the philosopher and cult figure Friedrich Nietzsche, the exhibition will present important works of early modernism in Weimar, including pieces by the Weimar Art School and prominent avant-gardists, e.g. Claude Monet and Max Beckmann, who enjoyed the support of Harry Graf Kessler. The exhibition will also present numerous functional and elegant works designed by Henry van de Velde. Our assignment was to develop the colour palette for the interior walls of this prestigious exhibition. It was important to develop colour combinations true and exact to early modernism. To achieve this we sampled and analysed the colours of most of the original paintings and furniture. Using an NCS colour scanner we found the perfect match of colours to create the colour concept of each room. Using this twenty first century technology we’ve accurately recreated the mood and emotion of this important design period. Not bad eh? Exhibition design was made by whitebox from Dresden.
New project: working on the design of the new ClimateChangeTheatre @ Science North, Ontario Canada. Collaboration with Show Communications, Kingston / Canada
Title illustration and graphic design for “Understanding Understanding”, Universität Stuttgart / Universität Tübingen, Proposal for a Cluster of Excellence, Excellence Strategy 2018
Our long term “experimentation field” Schloss Lauterbach made it to the current issue (01/2018) of AIT, a german architecture and design magazine. Two double pages about the “Wohnung Gretl” our new sophisticated holiday rental apartment and retreat in the countryside. See more at www.schlosslauterbach.com. AIT 01/2018 is available from February 15.
TELUS World of Science Edmonton, Ontario has plans to redesign part of its space gallery. Owning a moon rock from Apollo 17 mission drove us to start the design for an “Apollo 17 multi media theatre” together with Cochrane Show Communication from Kingston. More to come soon.
Forschungsauftrag für Henry van de Velde´s “Haus Hohe Pappeln” in Weimar. Im Auftrag der Klassik Stiftung Weimar entwickeln wir in den nächsten Monaten eine denkmalpflegerische Zielstellung für die Architektur-Ikone, die auch Überlegungen zum Nutzungskonzept des historischen Gebäudes einschließen wird.
New on the list: “Radius” a series of lamps. Make it simple: bent steel tubes, black powder coated, custom sizes, variety of fixtures such as wall, ceiling, table, floor.