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Postcards of the Wertheim Store in Berlin, 1909. Shoe and hat department, Winter garden, Arts & Crafts and carpet department. and last but not least – automobiles. Architect: Alfred Messel. Maas Museum

Built in 1906 on Leipziger Platz and designed by architect Alfred Messel (1853-1909), the Wertheim department store was one of the most famous commercial buildings in Europe. After an extension in 1906, it was also one of the largest: it included a spacious glass-roofed courtyard, numerous elevators and an enormous range of goods under one roof.

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Jacob and Josef Kohn, Cradle, 1875-1899. Bentwood. Vienna, Austria.

J and J Kohn offered several designs of cradles; this is number 1571, perhaps the most extreme example in Art Nouveau style. Via maas museum

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HIPGNOSIS.BREATHE. Album Cover Art und Photo Design by Aubrey Powell & Storm Thorgerson Celebrating 50 Years THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON. Exhibition Ludwiggalerie Schloss Oberhausen, Germany, 21. Januar – 20. Mai 2024.

01 Pink Floyd, The Dark Side of the Moon, Design Hipgnosis, A. Powell, S. Thorgerson © Pink Floyd Music Ltd. 02 10cc, Look Hear? © Hipgnosis 03 ACDC, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap © Hipgnosis 04 Led Zeppelin, Presence © Hipgnosis 05 Peter Gabriel, Scratch © Peter Gabriel 06 Pink Floyd, Animals © Pink Floyd Music Ltd. 07 Pink Floyd, Arnold Layne © Pink Floyd Music Ltd. 08 Pink Floyd, Belsize Park, Foto Aubrey Powell © Pink Floyd Music Ltd. 09 Pink Floyd, Live at Knebworth 1990 © Pink Floyd Music Ltd. 10 Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here, back sleeve, invisible businessman © Pink Floyd Music Ltd. 11 Rainbow, The Best of Rainbow © Hipgnosis 12 Pretty Things, Savage Eye © Hipgnosis

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Verner Panton, Spiral lamp, 1970. Grassi Museum 2/ White version. Acryl. Manufacturer J. Lüber, Switzerland. The Verner Panton Collector

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Emile Gallé, vase with metal mount, 1895-1900. Nancy, France. Via Grassi Museum Leipzig

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Frederick Judd Waud, Rum Row, 1922. Via Art Gallery X

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It's not history but I like it. Bouke de Vries for Dries Van Noten.

He reclaims broken pots after their accidental trauma, calling it ‘the beauty of destruction’. Instead of reconstructing them, he deconstructs them. Installation on display at Galerie Quai Malaquais, Paris, until March 12th.

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Portable Radio Carnaby, 1970. Blaupunkt, Germany. Via Hifi Archiv

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Enzo Mari, The Nature Series No. 1: La Mela (The Apple) with Elio Mari. 2/ Modells for "Proposta per un'autoprogettazione", 1973. 3/ The Nature Series No. 4 The Panther. 4/ Formosa perpetual wall calendar, 1963. Timor perpetual table calendar, 1966. 5/ La Mela e La Farfalla, printing draft of a book page, 1958/1969.

Future exhibition Enzo Mari, 29 March - 8 September 2024, Design Museum London.

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Eero Saarinen, Interior view of General Motors Technical Center, Michigan, 1956. Foto Ezra Stoller.

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Ernst Paul Lehmann, Toy car 'Tut-Tut', 1910-1920. Clockwork operated, metal, Brandenburg, Germany. Via Maas Museum

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Saul Steinberg, Christmas Card for MoMA, 1949. The Saul Steinberg Foundation

Merry x-mas ... Let's celebrate Love, Peace & Friendship!

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Hans Theo Baumann, coffee set Arzberg 3000 Dekor Sizilia, 1977. Germany. Badisches Landesmuseum

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Koloman Moser, marbled paper technique, 1904. Vienna, via Leopoldmuseum

For this age-old process a shallow tray is filled with oil paints which are then made into patterns or various motifs using a needle or marbling comb. Subsequently, a piece of paper is dipped into the tray to absorb the paint. These papers were either used as endpapers or covers for books, or as autonomous artworks.

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Christopher Dresser, Teapot and milk jug, 1875-1880. Terracotta, partially glazed. Made by Watcombe Pottery Co, Torquay. Photo: Felix Bielmeier. Grassi Museum Leipzig.

I am always amazed how modern, how minimalist Dresser has designed in the over-decorative Victorian age, decades ahead.

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Naum Gabo, Linear Construction NO. 1 , 1963/64 (Design 1942/43) Via Kunsthalle Hamburg

In the 1930s, the Russian constructivist came across models that mathematicians had built from wire, wood and fabric threads in the 19th century. They were used to visualize geometric formulas and thus a hypothetical space in the real world. Gabo created works of art in which he worked in a similar way. He wound spin two nylon threads around acrylic glass plates, an exploration of space with the means of art. The British sculptor Henry Moore commented on Gabo's artworks in 1983: "His structure always became space itself."

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Massimo Vignelli, Harper’s Illustrated Handbook of Cats or Dogs, 1985. Via Vignelli Archive