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31 October 2009 > 7 February 2010 Siegfried De Buck
a career as a jewellery designer and silversmith
Siegfried De Buck will turn sixty on 24 August 2009. To mark this occasion, Design museum Gent will present an overview of his work.
As a contemporary jewellery designer and silversmith, Siegfried De Buck plays an important role in the development of Belgian jewellery art. His career, in which craftsmanship and elegance are key, spans over 30 years and bears witness to a great personality. By virtue of his incessant drive for innovation, various style periods surface within his design. Led by his sense of materials, the designer joins precious and non-precious materials to form unique objects.
31 October 2009 > 7 February 2010 Artel
Czech cubism
The Wiener Werkstätte were a source of inspiration for the Czech Artel Cooperative (beginning of the 20th century until 1924), artisanal workshops for ceramics, textiles, carpets, furniture and metal wares. The generators of this movement, artists, designers and craftsmen, wished to pay more attention to the aesthetic nature of daily objects. They were a centre of innovative design. They released their designs onto the market collectively. Contrary to commercial undertakings, the Artel Cooperative was mainly driven by ideological and artistic viewpoints.
The following artists were among those who took part in Artel: Jaroslav Benda, Pavel Janak, Helena Johnova, Marie Teinitzerova and Otakar Vondracek. The Cooperative sold designs through various shops. They generated the requisite publicity by way of exhibitions.
In collaboration with UPM
31 October 2009 > 7 February 2010 Disappeared from the GDR
Design from 50 years ago
In 1959 Christa Petroff-Bohne (°1934) was commissioned by the Ministry of the Interior of the GDR to design a series of crockery for the GDR gastronomy. At the time Christa Petroff-Bohne was working at the East Berlin Academy of Arts. This academy had been set up at the beginning of the 1950s under the direction of the Dutch architect/designer Mart Stam.This commission, which was actually a pioneering work, was a challenge for Christa Petroff-Bohne. She did not know any foreign designs and she was rather unfamiliar with the term ‘Bauhaus’. Walter Ulbricht, the leader of the GDR, who had been trained as a traditional furniture maker, hated the Bauhaus designs. Bauhaus was taboo to him. ...
28 October 2005 > end of 2010 Alonso
collection
from art nouveau to Studio Glass Movement.
Many decades ago, Mr. Alonso became fascinated by the various qualities and technical possibilities of glass. Collecting crystal and glassware has been one of his true passions ever since.
The Alonso collection is highly varied, both in forms and in techniques. It
covers the period between the end of the 19th century up to ca. 1990: from
art nouveau to Studio Glass Movement.
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