Coat rack designed by Alvar Aalto, Artek 1936
Blog — Oct ’14 — Design your archive!
With the workshop ‘Design your archive!’ at the Biënnale Interieur, the CVAa challenges designers and producers to reflect on how they take care of their archives and collections. A Modern View has been asked to talk the about the importance of design archives and collections.
- Organisation: Centrum Vlaamse Architectuurarchieven and Design Vlaanderen
- More info: Design your archive!
Blog — Mar ’14 — TUMULTINGENT#2
A Modern View takes part in arts festival TUMULT#2 in Ghent, Belgium. Click here to download the program:
Blog — Apr ’13 — A Modern View featured in Kwintessens magazine
Kwintessens is a quarterly magazine about Flemish design and fashion. Photo by Sarah Eechaut.
Blog — Apr ’13 — The ones that got away
Interesting read on Finnish design ending up in Tokyo and elsewhere: jonasforth.com/the-ones-that-got-away/
Blog — Apr ’13 — April reading list
Blog — Mar ’13 — Gerrit Rietveld, 1937
“It’s hard to say what value an object eventually gets”
Blog — Oct ’12 — Marcel Breuer for Isokon
Marcel Breuer plywood nesting tables from the 1930s. Currently for sale at Stockholm based gallery Jackson Design. Great selection of carefully chosen pieces!
Blog — Sep ’12 — Ilmari Tapiovaara
“Only the simplest is best. Take away all that is unnecessary, develop the plasticity”
Blog — Sep ’12 — Pirkka chair, summer 2012
A Tapiovaara Pirkka chair in its natural habitat; a Finnish summer cottage by the lake.