Vienna Design Week 2015

  • Cucina Futurista 2.0
  • Polder Sofa
  • RAW
  • 366 Easy Chair

Vienna Design Week enters its 9th round this year and transforms the city into a showcase of design and a platform for on-site experimentation, with various locations and events. Far from being just a designed object, design is an essential component of the cultural production. VDW shows how design influences our every-day life and culture, and most fundamentally our aesthetic senses and judgements.

cucina_futurista_chmararosinke

[Cucina Futurista 2.0] The Museum of Applied Arts of Vienna is a main venue of VDW, where local studio chmara.rosinke promotes an alternative haute cuisine inspired by the Marinetti’s manifesto proclaiming the futurist kitchen. Far from focusing on designing a table service, cucina futurista 2.0 investigates how one could cook depending on the aesthetic conditions providing a culinary-creative experiment.

[Polder Sofa] In an amazing exhibition during the VDW, the Vitra Showroom is showing products and ideas by the designer Hella Jongerius. The designer is known for the unique way she combines industry with handicraft, high-tech with low-tech and tradition, and for her expertise in surfaces and coulors in contemporary design. For Vitra, Hella Jongerius has designed pieces like the Polder Sofa.

raw-feinedinge

[RAW] Feinedinge* is a local company devoted to produce porcelain tableware and household accessories. Every piece is 100 % hand-made with minimal design and delicate external textures and structures. Feinedinge* products are  are characterized by high-level functionality and forms based on re-interpretations of the past design.

During the Vienna Design Week the Austrian label presents RAW, a set of plates and cups made of recycled porcelain slip. The maker shows visitors all the stages of the creation by processing polychrome porcelain remains from the ongoing production.

366-concept-easy-chair-chierowski

[366 Easy Chair] 366 Concept is a company devoted to the relaunch of the Polish design from 20th century. In 2014 the label began by re-introducing the renowned 366 easy chair designed by Joseph Chierowski (1962), now produced under an exclusive copyright.