As Emily Dickinson so very nearly wrote in the early 1860s: Answer July — Where is the Bee — Where is the Blush — Where is the Hay? Ah, said July — They are all — In a museum — Why aren't you? Answer Thee — Me —* Our five recommendations for new architecture, design and art exhibitions opening in July 2025 for bees, blushes, hays, and you, can be found in Berlin, Remagen, New York, London and Chemnitz....... "Defiance. Jewish Women and Design in the Modern Era" at the Jewish Museum,
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One of the principle motors of the development of new products is new materials: stone famously ceding its primacy to bronze, which in turn ceded to iron... to .... to .... to .... plastics; new materials not only allowing for new forms of objects, but for objects with new functionalities, new properties, new purposes, and thus objects both reflective of the new needs of a continually evolving society and also allowing those needs to be not only met but, ideally, exceeded, thus contributing to
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A couple of years ago N.W.A. frontman Ice Cube shot a short celluloid tribute to Charles and Ray Eames. Without even having to use his AK ... We didn't think anything more culturally acontextual could happen to the pair. And now ? On Thursday March 7th the exhibition "Eames by Vitra" opens at the Wasserschloß Klaffenbach in Chemnitz. A Charles and Ray Eames exhibition. In Chemnitz. The story of Charles and Ray Eames as furniture designers starts with their collaborations with Hermann
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