'11 05 25, 01:36

Volker Albus statement about Mary Jo

No doubt – here someone is having a lot of fun. What else can we say when a group of young designers

'11 05 25, 01:34

Volker Albus statement about Custom Made Chair

Design owes some of its most original ideas to the readymade – like Achille Castiglioni’s Mezzadro a

'11 05 25, 01:33

Volker Albus statement about Message in a Box

The postal service means that we can send messages written as letters, printed on paper, or goods of

'11 05 25, 01:32

Volker Albus statement about Werkstadt-Kabinett

The title of this work alone, Werkstadt-Kabinett, promises something new, since to date the place of

'11 05 25, 01:30

Volker Albus statement about EL Sajjadah

Depending on the time of year, Muslims may pray up to three times every day while it is dark – the p

'11 05 25, 01:29

Volker Albus statement about Playing with Tradition

The oriental carpet as most of us imagine it is a picture of pure harmony and symmetry. We could all

'11 05 25, 01:29

Volker Albus statement about decompression chair

Padded furniture is massive, made of feathers, horsehair, foam, or other materials – but certainly v

'11 05 25, 01:28

Volker Albus statement about 1 000 Chairs

If asked what was the most important chair in recent design history, who would be able to decide for

'11 05 25, 01:27

Volker Albus statement about Drueckeberger

The concept of »Gelsenkirchen Baroque«, perhaps more than any other name for a style, evokes very am

'11 05 25, 01:26

Volker Albus statement about kkaarrllssttool

Sketched or painted idylls from gardens from a golden bygone age, in particular the turn of the nine

'11 05 25, 01:26

Volker Albus statement about Made in China

The fascinating thing about these three reproductions of famous furniture classic is definitely thei

'11 05 25, 01:25

Volker Albus statement about PuzzlePerser

Who can really claim to understand the enigmatic ornamentation of oriental carpet culture? Only very

'11 05 25, 01:24

Volker Albus statement about pl(a)ywood

Of course the name of this work is a pun, but not only. Silvia Knüppel’s commode allows for or even

'11 05 25, 01:23

Volker Albus statement about Stuhlserie RH 34

It is slowly getting old – the cantilever chair, that great symbol of classical modernism. It influe

'11 05 25, 01:22

Volker Albus statement about beer table set

We usually use the word rustic to denote simple and chunky furniture. Especially when benches, chair

'11 05 25, 01:22

Volker Albus statement about superflux

A small cause and a large effect – just by changing the consistency of the candlestick from hard to

'11 05 25, 01:21

Volker Albus statement about MOOSE, ROEDER, DEER

If there is an element of our domestic environment that can be seen as a »veteran«, then it is the h

'11 05 25, 01:20

Volker Albus statement about Slow White Table, Slow White Chair

Appealing to charismatic features of bygone style epochs is today part and parcel of the daily busin

'11 05 25, 01:19

Volker Albus statement about Iglu

Pretty well one hundred per cent of all toys we spoil our beloved children with – whether cars, doll

'11 05 25, 01:18

Volker Albus statement about Immoebel

As the successor of the chest, the commode derives from a piece of mobile furniture originally used

'11 05 25, 01:17

Volker Albus statement about dTales

Nina Kappenstein’s small vedute on cups, bowls, and plates recall the good old days. These are idyll

'11 05 25, 01:17

Volker Albus statement about Design Virus

Who invented the light bulb? Was it Göbel, was it Edison? We do not remember. But it is far more tha

'11 05 25, 01:16

Volker Albus statement about Der Volksware Meterware Tisch

Like her colleagues Martino Gamper and Karen Ryan, Silke Wawro makes use of the advantages of the re

'11 05 25, 01:15

Volker Albus statement about Parmops 02

If you were given a description of Sandra Schollmeyer’s lamp Parmops 02 from the Rusalka Home Coutur

'11 05 25, 01:14

Volker Albus statement about Straw Chair

It is slowly getting old – the cantilever chair, that great symbol of classical
modernism. It i

'11 05 25, 01:14

Volker Albus statement about Incognito (Hidden Wealth)

Naimanan’s Incognito collection for the Nymphenburg porcelain manufacturer is one of the most subtle

'11 05 25, 01:12

Volker Albus statement about NIDO

These stools and tables remind us of the bast fibre aesthetics of the 1950s, and their optical appea

'11 05 25, 01:11

Volker Albus statement about Plus de Madam Rubens

Like Bo Reudler, Frank Willems is interested in history. And very much like Reudler, he does not go

'11 05 25, 01:10

Volker Albus statement about POLKA pots

The prime insignia of a good old kitchen include an arsenal of implements, crockery and pots. Within

'11 05 25, 01:09

Volker Albus statement about Flames

When and where did we last consciously take note of multi-armed candelabras? In Neuschwanstein Palac

'11 05 25, 01:07

Volker Albus statement about Monochaise

The oeuvre of Charles and Ray Eames today remains one of the great taboos of design. This means that

'11 05 25, 01:06

Volker Albus statement about Carbon Chair

The oeuvre of Charles and Ray Eames today remains one of the great taboos of design. This means that

'11 05 25, 01:05

Volker Albus statement about Tafelkleed

In contrast to the 1000 Chairs project, which concentrates on commemorating a specific group of peop

'11 05 25, 01:03

Volker Albus statement about Loop

Pretty well one hundred per cent of all toys we spoil our beloved children with – whether cars, doll

'11 05 25, 01:02

Volker Albus statement about Sampling Sehnsucht

Most young people have an ambivalent relationship to their parents, particularly if they are in the

'11 05 25, 01:01

Volker Albus statement about Perserfell

Sebastian Herkner takes a new view of two of the great standard-bearers of traditional living cultur

'11 05 25, 01:00

Volker Albus statement about Bow Bins

Cordula Kehrer is interested in old and dilapidated found objects from everyday life. Her Bow Bins w

'11 05 25, 00:59

Volker Albus statement about Minutes Set

Time is money – this old proverb has probably always been the credo of all societies geared towards

'11 05 25, 00:58

Volker Albus statement about Do frame

Picture frames are heavy, thick, often Baroque, and above all massive – materially present. Martí Gu

'11 05 25, 00:56

Volker Albus statement about Jeesus Furniture

In principle there are two possibilities to rescue an old worn-out but dearly loved piece of furnitu

'11 05 25, 00:55

Volker Albus statement about Mono Thone

Design owes some of its most original ideas to the readymade – like Achille Castiglioni’s Mezzadro a

'11 05 25, 00:54

Volker Albus statement about Bless No.28 Fatknithammock

The German word for hammock is Hängematte, meaning hanging mat, which has very little to do with wha

'11 05 25, 00:53

Volker Albus statement about Blow Away Vase

Form and decoration are traditionally seen as a unity in all kinds of stoneware, porcelain and ceram

'11 05 25, 00:51

Volker Albus statement about Buildings of Disaster

When we hear the word souvenir most of us think of images of famous monuments and buildings – the Ei

'11 05 25, 00:48

Volker Albus statement about AFRODITI

What is this object? A wrap or cover? A kind of permeable sack, in which you can cuddle up, like in

'11 05 25, 00:47

Volker Albus statement about Plastic Chair in Wood

The Monobloc is produced and used worldwide. Made of plastic, or rather polypropylene, it is the epi

'11 05 25, 00:45

Volker Albus statement about Pixelperser

Seen precisely, a carpet consists of thousands of pixels, not in the sense of its technical genesis

'11 05 25, 00:44

Volker Albus statement about Kabelbinderschale

The cable clip is probably no less profane than the paper clip or bottle top. It is known as a stubb

'11 05 25, 00:38

Volker Albus statement about Books

Placing a book on a shelf is an act of archetypical dimensions, but defining the book as a component