So far, there was only a simple scan of my seminal essay available, that Christian Kracht and Eckhart Nickel published in their magazine DER FREUND in spring 2004. Thanks to the editors, here is a proper, searchable and printable file now. It´s in German, yes. A lousy scan of the English version, abridged and edited, from ART REVIEW is still there. (Click image to get the links.)

I cannot help but silently humming Franz Ferdinand´s “The Dark of the Matinee” since I received that teaser image above. No Terry Wogan in this case, but I will introduce the Monobloc in the BBC2´s new five part series “The Genius of Design”, that will give a tour d´horizon across the story of design in the 20th century. We shot last May in Weil am Rhein, the team around director Chris Rodley and producer Hattie Bowering just came from filming Dieter Rams and prepared for Marianne Panton and Rolf Fehlbaum the next day. So expect a must-see excellent programme, virtually everybody important and influential in the design world will be in there..

After a few too long years of occasional shuttling between Erfurt and Berlin, I have moved back to Europe´s most exciting city again and probably for good. The Erfurt studio loft is history, instead over the next weeks ..

Just noticed public Swiss TV SF1 has this older clip from 2007 now online. It´s a 4:01 minutes report on the (successful) attempts of several Swiss cities´ to ban the Monobloc plastic chair from their centers. Statements from city officials – and myself, shot in my Erfurt loft.

When we upgraded and thoroughly redesigned the website a few months ago, category attributes and photo references were being completely mixed up unfortunately. I just sat down for half a day and got the first category properly back online. “Art & Design” is now accessible from now going back to the 2004 beginnings…

I was in Hamburg last Friday to find out how my “Pedro”-Monobloc fared, that I had lent to the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe for their current side show NON IKEA, which accompanies the larger FENOMEN IKEA exhibition the museum has staged together with the Munich Neue Sammlung…

The last months weren´t that easy, actually I had a pretty tough time for various reasons. Guess, the site is back now and regular posting is up again. Thank you Alex, Christian, Daniel, Ernesto, Martí, Martin, René, Tina, Volker and everybody for kicking me back into this.
Photo: Daniel Spehr, Buenos Aires. Check out Daniel & Cie.´s photo book of visual typologies from Buenos Aires. Upcoming: Paris and Cuba.