The 80s – love it or hate it, what a radical decade in terms of style and design. In Germany, interior and product design movement called Neue Deutsche Design (New German Design) – comparable to the music genre Neue Deutsche Welle – offered a whole new approach to design at the time. Instead of following the established Bauhaus tradition of “good and functional” design, this movement let go of all the rules offering “shrill, bizarre and brutal” design, hence the name of the exhibition at the Bröhan Museum. Among the 80 pieces shown: designs by Axel Kufus, Jasper Morrison, Möbel Pentagon from Cologne, and Cocktail from Berlin. The reconstructed “Deutsche Wohnzimmer” (German living room) made by Brandolini for Documenta 8 is there, too. A show true to their claim “form follows free will” – how brutally beautiful. (Text: Nina Trippel / Photos: Martin Adam)
Bröhan-Museum, Landesmuseum für Jugendstil, Art Deco & Funktionalismus, Schloßstr.1a, 14059 Berlin-Charlottenburg;map
“Schrill. Bizarr. Brachial. Das Neue Deutsche Design der 80er Jahre” Tue-Sun 10-18h until 2.1.2015
