Galerie Hans-Peter Jochum, Berlin
04.11. - 23.12.2011
Galerie Hans-Peter Jochum will feature original furniture and lighting from Dino Gavina’s various creative phases. Described by Marcel Breuer as the most impulsive and emotional furniture designer and manufacturer ever, Gavina was the driving force in Italian design during the 60ies, aligned to an elite list of designers such as Scarpa, Casiglioni, Takahama, Enzo Mari, Gardella, Zanuso and Magistretti.
Punkt. offers consumers a simple and intelligent design alternative to multifunctional electronic devices that complicate life. The research of Punkt. products goes back to the origins of consumer electronics in order to replenish the prime uses and functions of everyday electronic devices, and combine them with the best modern day solutions, to produce simple, durable and good-looking products.
At Qubique in Berlin, Punkt. presents a limited special edition AC 01, of which 100% of the profits will go to rebuild family homes and play areas in Maeami, a fishing village which was swept away by the tsunami in March 2011. The project is run by
Architecture for Humanity.
German Design Council
The German Design Council presents the initiative "Deutsches Design Museum" in Berlin on the 20th September 2011. This open and discursive process was started by a round table, gathering designers, professors, journalists and artists, resulting in a published magazine with their statements. The continuation of this now public discussion takes place on the website www.deutschesdesignmuseum.de
HELMRINDERKNECHT
13.11.2010 - 29.01.2011
This group show is curated by the well-known design author and critic Sophie Lovell. Freak Show: Strategies for (Dis)engagement in Design is a selling exhibition of objects by a very special selection of international designers that think differently and who challenge the system. They are the “freaks”, showing that design is no longer what we thought it was. They are turning accepted norms on their heads and confronting our preconceptions about design.