Please check the remarkable furniture competition «WOOD AWARD» organised by the VSSM, the Swiss association for master carpenter and furniture manufacturers together with Hochparterre. Go for it!

Another discovery from imm cologne – the Swiss furniture manufacturer horgenglarus presents a new simple table named Glaris, designed by Zurich-based designer Moritz Schlatter.

French furniture company ligne roset presents the  large-size-baskets Bidum by young Swiss designer Laetitia Florin at imm cologne – the furniture fair in Cologne. The objects will be available at ligne roset this summer. We are especially delighted to see this product on the market since Laetitia showed the development process of Bidum during our feuille blanche exhibition.

A C E is a furniture company based in Lausanne, Switzerland. They have a new website on which you can order their furnitures.

Today, Thursday 12th of January is the opening day of BESTFORM with works by Atelier Volvox, Cosentino & Spanio, Laurin Schaub, Njomza Sadikaj and more. The exhibition is designed by Nicola Stauebli.

We would like to announce the launch of a temporary design gallery in Zurich realised by HELMRINDERKNECHT. The contemporary design gallery exhibits works by Moritz Schmid (Picture), Frédéric Dedelley, Marti Guixé, Kueng Caputo, Nicolas Le Moinge, Studio Makkink&Bey, Osko+Deichmann, Samare Studio, Judith Seng, Jersey Seymour, Flynn Talbot and Florian Hauswirth, one of our team. Read more.

Thanks for your visits on Sachenmachen.ch. We counted in 2011 around 1′300′000 hits, 90′000 site visits and 40′000 different readers.

Are you still looking for a handy but also nice-looking paper agenda 2012? Then you might like the one by Julie Joliat.

“This Agenda will take you on a year-long journey to the most astounding features of the planet. It will reveal famous places in an unsual way, giving freedom to your imagination. You are invited to draw and re-invent the places you know, as well as the ones you still have to discover. It also contains a lot of useful information like Holidays, laundry symbols, a vintage chart, monthly planners, and a whole new set of world maps!”

LORIS&LIVIA celebrate homemade Lemonade by rethinking the traditional wooden lemon reamer. They team up with skilled wood carvers and turn vintage and new stair balusters into a series of king size sculpted juicers. This is a first edition of twenty pieces, made in beech, ramin, mahogany, ash or english oak. Each piece is unique and hand carved. For more information about the project and the carving process, please visit their website.

Mind The Future – Compendium for Contemporary Trends is a collection of file-cards that summarises the most important developments in the fields of economics, demographics, sociology, technology, politics, ecology, and social modeling.

The Publication is a recent project by W.I.R.E., a pretty interesting independent Swiss Think Tank for the economy, society and healthcare. It is supported by Bank Sarasin, the Collegium Helveticum of the ETH and the University of Zurich. They recently also published the great Handbook for a sustainable World named DOMINO – a must-read with great slogans such as Computer aus – Hirn an!

LA VAGUE is a small object and furniture company founded by Dimitri Bähler, Anurag Etchepareborda, Anne Julmy, Linn Kandel and Charlotte Talbot who all shared the same class of industrial and product design at ECAL. The projects are created and produced by the designers, from the first sketch to the packaging. They attempt to design clever products that are easy to produce in small series locally. They launch the first collection of LA VAGUE this Saturday in Lausanne between 11a.m. – 22p.m., at the Espace DémArt (Côtes de Montbenon 17).

The three designers Natalie Luder (foulards), Luzia Vogt (jewellery) and Laura Pregger (Vases and Lights) show their work at Provisorium IV, Spalenvorstadt 26 in Basel. Opening hours are Friday 16th of December  18.00- 21.00 (Vernissage), Saturday 17th of December 11-20.00 and Sunday 18th of December 11-18.00. (Picture: Lights by Laura Pregger)

Luxury is all about the story behind a product, the know-how and the expertise, thus perfumes are ultimate luxury goods and are the result of the Perfumer’s unique know-how. For his MAS Luxury graduation project at Lausanne’s ECAL, Albert Schrurs – Allegory sarl – chose to work on a project related to this field of expertise, as his wife is a Perfumer. In collaboration with her he designed also  a serie of 5 “natural” scents and 5 “man-made” scents, in order to create olfactive contrasts, related to both his and her field of expertise. The physical object is a simple and clever set up with “tester-paper sheets” that can be mounted on a fan that spread the perfume perfectly through the air.

The 2012 Calendar edition is the result of a joint-venture workshop between Billy Ben & Pan. Circling around wooden objects, from the past, the present and the future. Some have personal meanings others don’t. They know them all, they love or hate them…Read more or buy it!

The Massnahmenzentrum Uitikon is a facility for delinquent young male adults, from 17 – 26 years old, in the Zurich law enforcement office. They launched a new furniture collection called Rotant, which attracts with a clean, straight shape. The sloping legs otherwise brings a lot of momentum to the stool and the playful elm wood or swiss stone pine grain completes this piece of furniture.

The first Font Market will take place in Zürich on December 10, 2011. Designers from Switzerland and abroad are invited to sell their own fonts, catalogues, and posters. We especially recommend the fonts realized by Hammer and Studio Sport. Read more.

The Blackboard house by Fabio Hendry is a childs first home. The abstract yet simplified, archetypal form is easily recognised as a house. The three dimentionality of the product provides a border unlike ordinary drawing materials, and gives the child’s story a frame. The house (160×220x210mm) it’s available at Bord in Zurich.

A Wooden lunchbox designed by Tomas Kral for the Wallpaper Handmade project. The box is inspired by the classic bento box and is designed for the office use.

The Swiss architecture and design magazine Hochparterre award a price to the best in design, architecture and landscape architecture. Read more.

Marc Haldemann designed a small table called «koota» which you can stick together by hand. Read more.

A new exhibition opens this Friday at Gewerbemuseum Winterthur. Historical and contemporary examples from the disciplines of architecture, arts and design are displayed, as well as high-tech applications from the fields of optics, light engineering and medical technology. You will find there among others also works by Moritz Schmid and Matteo Gonet. (Picture Joana Meroz & Andrea Bandoni: The Object Without A Story (The Archetypal Vase), 2009. Sammlung mudac, Lausanne)

A few former students of the style and design classt talk about their business life: This Thursday James Dyer-Smith & Gian Frey, Claudia Eicke (Envoyage), Flurina Gradin & Denise Locher (Landjagd), Dinda Reumer & Marlen Groher (Designomat), Nina Thielen (Muse in a box), Stephanie Walter (Curiosity Rules) and on Friday Sarra Ganouchi & Catherine Heeb (Past.Present.Future.Agentur für Branding and Design), Sarah Buschor (Annabelle), Vania Kukleta (Montagsmarkt und Z Am Park) and Debora Biffi & Benjamin Moser (Senior Design Factory). Read more.

Agile young designer Charlotte Talbot wins the Blickfang Designpreis Gold 2011. Charlotte Talbot studied at the ESAD in Reims and at the ECAL in Lausanne. After her studies, she did internships with Adrien Rovero, Big Game and now with Konstantin Grcic.

She just won the Blickgang Designpreis Gold for her project les Grappes – a storage for things that don’t need to be folded to be packed away. In Charlotte’s words: “The cluster is a storage object. This project arose from the observation of everyday life: a chair that collapses under clothing, a woman in the street laden with bags, market stalls with their hook loaded with products …“

Joan Billing and Samuel Eberli arranged in the context of design+design an exhibition and a publication about the work of the swiss design pioneer Jacob Mueller at Architekturforum Zurich.

Anna Blattert, Thilo Alex Brunner, Philippe-Albert Lefebvre and Stephane Halmaï-Voisard are selling Winter Essentials at Blickfang Zurich.

Thomas Studer sells at Blickfang Zurich his concrete lamp called  «b_light».

The Swiss architects Gramazio & Kohler and Raffaello D’Andrea, build a structure with flying robots that assemble a six metre-high tower at the FRAC Centre in Orléans, France, next month.

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Please join this friday the next «take a seat» auction with new chairs designed by Isabell Gatzen, ZMIK, Brütschmüller, Pascal Robert and Gabriela Chicherio.

Read more about the brand von Rickenbach and their products SOLID WOOD designed by Formpol.

On the occasion of its first participation in the Cologne Fine Art & Antiques the Berlin-based pop-up gallery HELMRINDERKNECHT contemporary design gallery is showcasing a series of the Swiss designer Frédéric Dedelley. He has created a number of new receptacles in his series “Objets mélancoliques” which are to be shown at the COFAA for the first time. In our everyday life we are surrounded by objects made so precisely and perfectly, that one cannot spot any trace of the hand of the craftsman or the tools used to create them. The archaic method of production (lost wax process) and the choice of material (bronze) determine the final shape of the objects. Small imperfections in shape, a vivid and accidental color and the rare quality of the surface provide the unique character of each object.

Bally’s flagship Zurich store is preparing to host a rare exhibition from November 16, 2011 as part of the Swiss luxury brand’s yearlong 160th anniversary celebrations. Twelve Style&Design students have created together with Andreas Saxer the ‘Bally Is Super’ exhibition which takes visitors on a journey to discover 160 years of Bally shoe history. Read more.

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Bureau Purée shows the Cone Light and more. This Friday at Number Two in Zurich.

«Gates» is an interior croquet game for adult players. Read more about Romain Lagrange and his project.

The church of Biel (Stadtkirche) has a new contemporary organ designed by the local architects „MLZD“, they won a competition six years ago. The organ has a brand new feature: the wind dynamic can be mechanically regulated and that makes a totally new sound! The boxy concept is dealing also with the asymmetric structure of the church. It took one year to build it, all  in one factory near Zurich.

…and the good thing there is really no rush for a visit like in other design events, because the organ will be there for sure 50 or 100 years. This month every Sunday special, experimental concerts in the “Stadtkirche” always around 5 pm.

Peter Röthlisberger has initiated a book about the collaboration between the furniture brand Röthlisberger and Trix and Robert Haussmann. On the occasion of the book and the 80th birthday of the couple they realised a small exhibition at Teo Jakob in Bern. The exhibition is designed by Moritz Schmid. Read more.

DESIGNMEILE is an open day for design studios. It’s possible to visit the studios of Brands and Minds, Christophe Marchand, Formpol, Meta Design, produkt design zurich, Tribecraft, Yolk, Büro4 and the office of the Swiss Design Association.