Design Berlin

As an incubator for high quality furniture design, very few locations come close to matching Berlin. Sadly much of the work is as transitory as its creators. And so here we want to document those moments where Berlin product design, fleetingly, lightens our day. The photos aren't meant to be works of arts - just snapshots to document what was....

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Noodles Noodles & Noodles Corp @ Designers Open Leipzig 2011

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Wooden Carpet by Elisa Strozyk

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Barcelona Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Type Y chair by Yu-Chih Chang and Tsuo-Ning Hu @ d3 Design Talents IMM Cologne 2012

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A 1920s ink well produced by the Staatliche Porzellan Manufacture Berlin. Part of the Grassi Museum Leipzig exhibition "Art Nouveau to Present"

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Hugo Häring's contribution to the Großsiedlung Siemensstadt

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The Fernsehturm on Alexanderplatz illuminated green for St Patrick's Day 2012

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Setu by Studio 7.5 for Herman Miller

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Unité d'habitation Berlin by Le Corbusier

Built as part of the International Construction Exhibition: Interbau 57

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James by llot llov

http://llotllov.de/

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Following on from similar experiments in 1997, 2003 and 2007 the 2010 series Coloured Vases (series 3) by Hella Jongerius is an investigation into how we perceive colour involving old mineral recipes an industrial transfers.

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The Charlottenburg based artist Heike Roesner doesn't just create characters from paper. She creates whole worlds!

http://www.geschichtenauspapier.de/

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Light Drop Variations and Cloud Wall Lamp by StockhausenDesign as seen at Designers Open Leipzig 2011

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Created as part of the Trenntmöbel gesucht! competition organise by the BSR in collaboration with Create Berlin and the Berlinische Galerie Schlagzeug by Dörte Ahlgrimm and Johannes Rojahn is a series of rubbish bins in the form of a drum kit.

It didn't win. But was without question the most playful entry!

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Bell by Mark Braun through Northern Lighting

http://northernlighting.no/

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CRNKL! by Create Berlin at Qubique 2011

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Big Babel Zeitungshocker by Adam and Harborth

www.siebensachen.com