{"id":19541,"date":"2019-11-19T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designdiffusion.com\/2019\/11\/19\/after-the-wall-design-since-1989\/"},"modified":"2023-07-24T15:26:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T13:26:02","slug":"after-the-wall-design-since-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/designdiffusion.com\/en\/2019\/11\/19\/after-the-wall-design-since-1989\/","title":{"rendered":"After the Wall: Design Since 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"

An exhibition at the<\/strong> Vitra Design Museum retraces the history of design in the latest 30 years, following the fall of the Berlin Wall<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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A view of the exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On November 9th<\/sup>, 1989, the Berlin Wall fell marking the end of an era and the beginning of the following. What has happened in the design field in the latest thirty years? The Vitra Design Museum<\/a><\/strong> presents an exhibition that explores the changes in the design field in the 30 years following the fall of the Wall titled\u00a0 \u201cAfter the Wall: Design since 1989\u201d<\/strong>, running at Vitra Schaudepot until February 23rd<\/sup>, 2020.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Left, Plywood chair by Jasper Morrison; middle, the chest of drawers by Tejo Remy; right, CN II chair by Maarten Van Severen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Thirty years of design: from minimalism to sustainability<\/strong><\/h3>\n

These thirty years, which have passed by in the blink of an eye, are actually dense of events that have deeply changed our relationship with objects. In 1989 the first internet service provider was launched, while the first browser was released in 1993<\/strong>. In the \u201990s Ikea became internationally renowned. Similarly, in the first half of the \u201990s the thought that resources are not infinite started spreading and concepts such as recycling and reuse became increasingly familiar. After post-modernism in the \u201980s, there was a return to minimalism with projects and products reduced to essentials.<\/p>\n

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Mayday lamp, by Konstantin Grcic for Flos<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The exhibition showcases paramount furnishings from the \u201990s, categorized by historical period. Jasper Morrison\u2019s<\/strong> Plywood chair <\/strong>(1988) epitomizes this pursuit of a new minimalism. Similarly, Tejo Remy\u2019s <\/strong>chest of drawers \u201cYou Can’t Lay Down Your Memory<\/strong>\u201d (1991), built with drawers obtained from old dressers, is among the first examples of recycling and reuse, by the Dutch collective droog design. Minimalism characterizes also Maarten Van Severen\u2019s CN II chair (1992) and the most successful products by Ikea, which consolidated its global success in the \u201990s.<\/p>\n

After the 2000s<\/h3>\n

In the 2000s the first experiments in 3D printing<\/strong> took place<\/strong>, such as Patrick Jouin\u2019s Solid C2 chair (2004), and since 2010 sustainability has established its role. The latter period is characterized by the 111 chair by Emeco<\/strong>, built with 111 recycled Coca-Cola PET bottles, the Well Proven Chair by Marjan van Aubel amd James Shaw<\/strong> (2012) that combines bio resin with wooden chips, and the Recycled Carbon Chair (2016) by Marleen Kaptein, made from carbon fiber waste.<\/p>\n

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Well Proven Chair, by Marjan van Aubel and James Shaw<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Of course furniture plays an important role, however, since the 2000s design has evolved in every field, especially informatics. From the first emojis, designed in 1988\/89 for Japanese mobile provider Docomo, to the first iPhone, Time magazine\u2019s invention of the year in 2007<\/strong>, design has become increasingly immaterial. Nowadays, design, as in its original meaning, has become a process again, not a product. In the latest years, many objects are simple reinterpretations and improvements of existing objects, a trend emerging also from specialized researches.<\/p>\n

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Emeco 111 chair, produced by Emeco with 111 Coca-Cola PET bottles<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Hence the question around which the exhibition revolves: \u201cHow does our consumer behavior influence the world we live in? And, above all, what will be the next big thing in design?<\/strong>\u201d [Text Roberta Mutti]<\/p>\n

After the Wall: Design Since 1989, Vitra Design Museum<\/strong>
\nCurated by Erika Pinner
\nUntil February 23rd<\/sup>, 2020
\nVitra Schaudepot – Weil am Rhein, Germany
\nVitra Design.Museum.de<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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