VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 1.-11.10.2009 Newsletter
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On display 

Under the category „on display“ VIENNA DESIGN WEEK features exhibitions and product presentations as well as site specific installations and work-in-progress design events. All displays can be seen during the regular opening hours at their respective locations from 1 – 11 October unless otherwise indicated. There is free admission to all events except for interventions and guided tours in museums.


Swarovski Crystal Palace: Arik Levy

Two Chaton Superstructures will be displayed in the court yard of the Liechtenstein Museum during VIENNA DESIGN WEEK. In addition, TableScape Jewellery in marble and wire frame will be exhibited at Sotheby’s Vienna.
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Bejeweled
Industrial Design Meets Jewellery

A project of Schullin jewellers with nine industrial design students of the University of Applied Arts Vienna.
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Freitag brothers: Urban Gardening

An installation by the designer brothers and bag producers Daniel and Markus Freitag at Walking-Chair Design Gallery. 
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Rado’s Surprise Presentation 
The fascination of light, space, and matter will again be the subject in the Rado Store Vienna, which has created a unique atmosphere with its design as a mirrored cube.
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Michael Young - works in China 

Designfunktion for the first time in Europe presents  Michael Youngs newest work from Hong Kong.
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Convergent Design

Works by the students from of Industrial Design II (Prof. Hartmut Esslinger) will be on display.
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Artemide modern classic

The exhibition is made up of 18 light fixtures, designed by the most famous Italian designers and architects of the 1960s. 
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Design Tradition – The First Step

Three Vienna art and design dealers have redefined the judgements of historical and authentic Austrian creations.
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A Nice Room 

What happens to pieces of furniture when artists begin working with them will be shown by Rudi Molacek.
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Love Design
For the most wonderful hours in life… 

The exhibition uses numerous objects to delve into the many-facetted relationship between design and strong feelings.
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please touch!
children’s furniture by perludi

For the first time the brand new shelving unit “Pauli” will be presented.
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African Stools
Mentors of Modernity!

HABARI shows the close connection between African stools and the creations by wellknown Western designers.
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The Making of the Aromapot 
dottings work for RIESS Email

dottings has developed three new product lines in enamel for RIESS KELOmat.
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En suite

Sebastian Menschhorn has radicalised the form of furnishing in his wonderfully anachronistic installation at mood.
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Living in Crisis
At the Hofmobiliendepot two design positions of DANKLHAMPEL and Robert Rüf will devote themselves to the subject of living in crisis.
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Tech“Know”Logie 2009

A cross-section of the works by the students of the Institute for Aesthetics and Art History, Education, and Communication will be on display.
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Main Street - Design without Designer

This show is meant to entice us to seek good design in the unknown and unlabelled.
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Du Wo

The “Du Wo” design phenomenon as an intuitive and adaptive method of designing, with a “do-it-yourself” character.
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MAK Design Shop
After Work Meeting Point feat. EOOS

The universal degustation glass Alberto’s Vineyard by EOOS for Alessi resists the trend towards exaggerated differentiation in wine tasting.
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Thomas Feichtner: Reset

Thomas Feichtner forgoes the classical characteristics of a table service by combining varied materials.
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How much less is more?

An exhibition curated by DANKLHAMPEL and Julia Landsiedl (jeplus) at forum mozartplatz. 
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MAK DESIGN NITE 2009 - RECESSION DESIGN 

RECESSION DESIGN will demonstrate – in the form of an interactive presentation – their ideas of socially relevant design.
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MAK DESIGN NITE 2009 - Project Vienna - A Design Strategy 

MAK and departure announce a first-time-ever joint ideas competition: under the heading of "Project Vienna – A Design Strategy" proposals are invited for innovative design strategies and concepts.
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Room Service
Afternoon Tea with Chocolate Cake and POLKA 

The Hotel Altstadt Vienna and POLKA (A) invite you to come to the hotel rooms designed by Marie Rahm and Monica Singer to taste the newly created “Otto Cake”.
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Stadtalphabet
Vienna from A to Z 

 A varied city alphabet with Viennese history by Martin Ulrich Kehrer. On display at Wien Museum Karlsplatz. 
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NDU-Workshop EIN-LEUCHTEN
A workshop and award ceremony of the NDU St.Pölten within the framework of the BE CREATIVE! – Festival der Kreativität und Innovation.
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Designing Education: Project DAE City

Students of DAE will be presenting in conjunction with MIK design solutions of bicycle stands, barriers, and demarcations at the Genochmarkt in Stadlau.
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Designing Relationships

Walter Knoll Showroom Opening at Grünbeck’s.
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Magische Metamorphosen
The Glamour of Transformation 

The design studio desitlat will be presenting its project of a light-emitting mirror at Wohnsalon P.
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je suis dada - between dream and reality

designaustria and the designforumWIEN present the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Guest Country Belgium. The exhibition will display 30 contemporary designers from Belgium whose works are predominantly influenced by Surrealism and Dadaism.
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design > neue strategien

A collaboration between MAK and departure explores how Vienna can position itself internationally as a location for new design. Several interventions have been planned.
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Real-World Laboratory
Produced for the St. Étienne International Design Biennial, this exhibition presents outstanding designs from the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovenia, Slovakia, Hungary, and Austria.
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The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK supports the initiative “Hunger auf Kunst und Kultur” (Hunger for Art and Culture). The partners are the Architekturzentrum Wien, Hofmobiliendepot, the MAK, the Stadtkino, Technisches Museum Wien, Wien Museum Karlsplatz, and ZOOM Children’s Museum. 

 
Picture above: Urban Gardening © FREITAG courtesy Walking-Chair Gallery
 
Last modified: Oct 16, 2009 2:21 pm