A leading interpreter of Mahler and Beethoven, Benjamin Zander is known for his charisma and unyielding energy — and for his brilliant pre-concert talks.
Benjamin Zander has two infectious passions: classical music, and helping us all realize our untapped love for it — and by extension, our untapped love for all new possibilities, new experiences, new connections.
Since 1979, Benjamin Zander has been the conductor of the Boston Philharmonic. He is known around the world as both a guest conductor and a speaker on leadership — and he’s been known to do both in a single performance. He uses music to help people open their minds and create joyful harmonies that bring out the best in themselves and their colleagues.
His provocative ideas about leadership are rooted in a partnership with Rosamund Stone Zander, with whom he co-wrote The Art of Possibility.
Zurich-based Alfredo Häberli is one of Switzerland’s most renowned designers. The monograph exhibition at the Museum of Design Zurich presents Häberli’s work for the first time in a museum environment.
The show “SurroundThings” provides an overview of the products and projects he realized for firms such as Alias, Iittala, Kvadrat, Moroso and of course the Salim rug from the Plus 2005 Edtion by Ruckstuhl.
In this conversation with Sabine Trieloff, Alfredo Häberli explains the title of the exhibition “SurroundThings” and talks about his design idols, swiss design history, the influence of his Argentinean background, the kitchen as the soul of a home, why observing is the best way of thinking, and what he would like to design in the future.
Alfredo Häberli was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1964. In 1977 he moved with his family to Switzerland, where he studied Industrial Design at the Zurich University of the Arts. Alfredo Häberli received many international award. In 2006 he was guest-of-honour at the 20th Design Biennale in Kortrijk, Belgium.
The exhibition has been curated by Alfredo Häberli, Angeli Sachs, and Moritz Schmid.
Uncompromising quality and innovative design - these are the parameters that we have set ourselves to meet. We will be showing the results this year at Zona Tortona, the creative heart of the International Furniture Exhibition in Milan. In this setting, where exceptionally creative and experimental designers put their worlds and products on view, our exhibition shows our conception of contemporary living. In this connection we have been developing our knowledge on an ongoing basis for 125 years, always adapting our materials and techniques to the needs of the time. For us carpets are more than just a floor covering - they are objects that shape ambient space and define its charactersitics.
Partnership with Atelier Oï
The exhibition is being mounted in an empty warehouse. It has been impressively set up by the architecture and design studio Atelier Oï. ‘Ruckstuhl’s current collection,’ says Patrick Reymond of Atelier Oï, ‘is something completely new, a hybrid that hovers between carpeting and furniture.’ So it was a fascinating project for the design team to present the carpets as flying three-dimensional objects. Barely suspended from threads, they reveal the spectacular structure of the materials of which they are composed - felt, wood and linen strips. Reymond comments: ‘We wanted to show the flexibility that lies behind the creation of these unusual material combinations.’
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