nodded chair while we visit a design museum in southern germany now in search of some of the answers. this is the vittra design museum in vile am a high southwestern germany its collection includes some twenty thousand works that span two hundred years of design history and it exhibition features about four hundred classic items. the tail is one of the museum's directors. so what exactly is good design. is a kind of form of it which is there's no one formula for good design but of course there are elements that you'll see in many of the most outstanding designs for example functionality a certain timelessness a use of new materials but it's often about expression and originality. in the nineteenth century was
have to be put through a meat grinder. only then will they mix well with the rice. then the whole mixture will spend an entire year if i'm entering in a wooden barrel. for a month and then i try to do different things with my fermented foods it will be boring to always do the same here i have a great great for men to dismiss and over there i have a very me so so you can make a variety of things. because ultimately. when it comes to fermenting having a good imagination is an asset there are few limits to this conservation method but you do need a lot of patience. and finally we round off the show with a look at the elements which contribute to making an object design i can take for example look leather and silver furniture damien hirst's diamond skull or marcel
three d. printers is once again revolutionizing the field of design and also widening its potential designers today have ever greater social responsibility. we're all aware that there's now a surfeit of goods far too much is being produced but there are all sorts of social and political problems that need solving so design is can't afford to say oh i'm not interested in the latter i'm only interested in a statics should fall. it remains interesting to see how designers will continue to tackle the problems of today as well. and with that we were above another week of your remarks now i hope you are able to tune in to our special edition there is if not you can always check it out on our.
became more organic and designed slowly began to filter into the lives of ordinary people. the next revolution in design was looming in the shape of plastic. in the one nine hundred fifty s. danish design event a pantheon and arrow from finland introduced a new aesthetic that was bright colorful and futuristic. society was in flux the younger generation was rebelling against the older generation and the way their homes looked designers seized on that a name to create objects that ushered in a new era in interior design and. design is always a reflection of society by the one nine hundred eighty s. the me decade when conspicuous consumption held sway design became a way of expressing individuality. nowadays technologies such as
is a kind of form of it which is there's no one formula for good design but of course there are elements that you'll see in many of the most outstanding designs for example functionality a certain timelessness a use of new materials it is often about expression and originality. in the nineteenth century furniture was a mishmash of styles and there is. the profession of design only emerged as industrialization got underway. the red and blue chad designed in one thousand nine hundred seventeen by later is an early milestone in design history and interaction of vertical and horizontal planes vestiges in terms of design history it's significant because it completely revolutionized the idea of what a chair can be in the decades later designers exploring the potential of the chair
a very difficult part of the design it's a very different part of it so i think it's great. but it's for free. maybe some argue that but i think that's a very interesting way of putting it. my summoners we're out of time but i want to thank you again for co-hosting your own macs with me today in having us into your show room in your your studio. and to the rest of you your is it we've come to the end of the show i want to say thank you all for tonight. and if you want to keep up with the program you can always check out our social media pages for me and the rest of the crew here from astrodome thank you very much for joining me again soon .
educate at the university and based on that i understood wow this is not some sheet material this is this is textile so i really wanted to make a textile design. so i started to make instead of sheets i started to make ropes with ropes i could make a space for a very open structure that became this piece. and it became reality it is so i can instant hit and it all is also a museum piece so how does something become iconic and everlasting what did what are the elements that are needed well if i would really know or do that all the time and it's not so easy of course but in a way it helps if something is maybe very new at the moment of conceiving it could be technical or so. it's helps if the lawsuit behind it is maybe you know a breakthrough in the history of design and it helps of course if the image itself
marcel and i decided to take a walk through amsterdam's popular your don district he tells me more about his work and what it is about the city which inspires him. so you've created an enormous body of work what would you say the unifying element is in all that. this isn't to say but i think there is another line vision by the work there's a philosophy by the issue of philosophies about. the business to create the type of design that's more durable more mad to more if you have mistakes and therefore and gazes with people in a deeper and longer way so work that finds. tries a way with people longer that's i think hopefully by this is things well what would you say is your signature in all of your designs what i hope it's exactly that and i hope for the rest we find as much as possible diversity i don't want
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and so on from design you've got to plan for a lot of great things big names when it comes to design it seems many people including our viewers might think that design is something exclusive and extremely expensive in only reserved for in the elite level one how do you respond to that design is culture design is culture. and i think it's free designs for free you all have just been watching a show you're not interested in buying so for you're interested in design maybe it's interesting maybe it is do something maybe raise better maybe you've changed my life maybe i can do change my life to be more interesting so design is about that is not about by. the so far is about what it means for you ownership is not for free but ownership is only