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• Preview of Blickfang Stuttgart 2008
• Review of Berlin Fashion Week
• Review of Decorate Life: Tendence Autumn + Winter 2008
• Concrete: Material of the Future!

By Le Vin Chin

For the 11th time, Blickfang once more brought design – in all its many forms – to Zürich. More exactly, it was a veritable showcase for design from Zürich, in the form of a maze, a souk, a bazaar, featuring knitwear, furniture, fashion, handbags, jewelry, textiles, home decoration and much, much more.

Here are some of our selections for what was intriguing …

A wealth of new textiles created by the textile design students at Basel’s Schule für Gestaltung.

Fresh from her win at the Design Plus Awards at Material Vision in Frankfurt just the day before, we bumped into Susanne Schmitt with her label, Schmitthut, once more at Blickfang!

A memento of your travels: Jennifer Flume of jf design has a PICTURING for each travel destination – so you can wear your travel history on your finger …

Traditional – or ultramodern – patterns? The work of Sonnhild Kestler

Vases by Jonathan Baskett at the Sydney Corner

The Celebrity lamp by Element Design at the Pure Austrian Design area.

The Rotario range of glasses and decanters
by Angelika Rümmerle at the Pure Austrian Design area.

Back to the future! Retro Spacecenter Linie tables from b-form

10 Liter Design are the students of the Hochschule für
Kunst und Design in Halle, Germany. Everything on their stand
was made of concrete! UPDATE: an in-depth interview with 10 Liter Design!