Zurich Design Weeks
  • We are part of ZURICH DESIGN WEEKS

  • TEAM UP! From September 4-14,2025, the Zurich Design Weeks will take place. We're joining in to celebrate the power of community. Across Zurich, shops, studios, exhibitions, and showrooms will open their doors. Stop by and visit us as part of Switzerland's largest design festival!

    Open Studio at EA: Understatement im Untergrund

    FRI 05.09.2025: 14:00 - 21:00 / Opening 17:00 - 21:00

    SAT 06.09.2025: 10:00 - 18:00

    SUN 07.09.2025: 11:00 - 18:00

    Challenging times spark creative forces. This was already proven in the 1920s and early 1930s. Back then, the costume jewelry collection by Jakob Bengel made design history with modest materials, vibrant colors, and clean shapes. At the same time, a French designer skillfully responded to the resource shortages following the Great Depression with his furniture designs. 

    Nearly a hundred years later, these themes remain relevant. This is evident in objects that a contemporary Swiss designer has brought back to life. You can discover all of this at Enthusiastic Approval in the basement of the Maintower. And if you fall in love with something, you can even buy it. These pieces are definitely vintage, not mainstream.

    A TEAM UP between Enthusiastic Approval and the Jakob Bengel-Stiftung on one side, and Robert Wettstein on the other.

    You can find the full program at designweeks.ch.

     

     
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Industriedenkmal Jakob Bengel, Idar-Oberstein
  • Jakob Bengel industrial heritage monument, Idar-Oberstein, Germany
  • Visiting the industrial heritage monument Jakob Bengel in Idar-Oberstein will allow you to see the fully preserved historic jewellery production facility of the Jakob Bengel factory. The museum is not only telling you the story of Jakob Bengel's successful modernist costume jewellery collection in the 1920s and 1930s. The Jakob Bengel foundation is also devoted to exhibitions and artist in residence programs related to contemporary jewellery design. The industrial heritage monument is the only authentic manufacturing plant with company flats and an industrialist mansion,
    which embodies the over 150 year industrial history of the city of Idar-Oberstein.
     
    Picture: © Industriedenkmal Jakob Bengel
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Netzwerk Designgeschichte NDG, Schweiz
  • Design History Network, Switzerland: Netzwerk Designgeschichte NDG

  • "The association Netzwerk Designgeschichte NDG (Eng. Design History Network) is a platform that connects people interested in design history within Switzerland, both in theory and practice, and facilitates exchanges among them. The aim of the association is to promote awareness, research and mediation of design history in Switzerland. (...) " Source: Website Netzwerk Designgeschichte NDG

     
    Interested? For more information, simply take a look at the website of Netzwerk Designgeschichte NDG:
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