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Conscious, simple – consciously simple
This exhibition presents achievements of the German ‘New Design’, an enormously popular art phenomenon, one of the most interesting in the world’s applied art. It was in Germany that as a result of a clash of various design styles in the mid-1980s a new definition of design was formulated to encompass designing, manufacturing and supplying consciously simple objects. This definition entails beauty and simplicity, which find their practical expression in the excellent workmanship and serviceability, ease of installation, and relatively low prices of the objects.
The installation comprises 122 objects – furniture, lights and a range of household accessories – designed by 35 artists and designer teams that followed in the footsteps of Germany’s rich history of applied art.
For professionals, references to design traditions are clear: the convenience of use harks back to the key objective of modernist artists representing Bauhaus or the Ulm School of Design, and the application of semi-finished products or making use of the potential of recyclable materials conjure up associations with the ideas of objets trouvés. For the wider public, this exhibition gives an opportunity to overview, in a single place, an array of developments and tendencies in modern design, which, aside from being aesthetically exciting, provides helpful hints for whoever wants to design their own environment.
Conscious, simple – consciously simple
The emergence of an alternative product culture
27 May – 30 July 2006
Arsenal of the Princes Czartoryski Museum
Branch of the National Museum in Cracow
ul. Pijarska 8
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