Design, did you mention design?

08.03 → 04.06.2006
Affiche de l'exposition Design, vous avez dit design?

Although the word design is very common in every­day language, its defin­i­tion remains prob­lem­atic. Nobody is really able to give a precise mean­ing to it, be they special­ists or members of the public. For several years now, immersed in the subject on a daily basis, the mudac has been attempt­ing to define the limits of the term more precisely with the exhib­i­tion Design, did you mention design?.

Approached as a series of focused explan­a­tions, this exhib­i­tion has no ambi­tions to decide on a single defin­i­tion. It opens up vari­ous paths for inter­pret­a­tion, coming back on the history of design, its vari­ous styles, its char­ac­ter­ist­ics. It tries to under­stand how design­ers work, what links them to one another and how a designed object is real­ised. An approach that is volun­tar­ily wide while remain­ing light, for a focused them­atic.

Design­ers, artists and creat­ors: Achille Castigli­oni & Pier Giac­omo Castigli­oni, Alpa, Arne Jacob­sen, Atelier Oï, Bolex-Pail­lard, Bruno Munari, Caran d’Ache, Charles & Ray Eames, Chris­tophe Marchand, Eero Saar­inen, Enzo Mari, Exper­i­mental Jetset, Felco, Fiskars, Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, Gian­carlo Piretti, Gian­do­men­ico Belotti, Gio Ponti, Graphic Thought Facil­ity (GTF), Hans Coray, Harry Bertoia, Humberto & Fernando Campana, Jaeger-Lecoultre, Joe Colombo, Kath­rin Leist, Maarten Van Severen, Marcel Breuer, Mario Bellini, Martin Margiela, Michael Thonet, Nagra / Kudel­ski, Nespresso / Antoine Cahen, Niess­ing, Pail­lard, Phil­ippe Starck, Riccardo Blumer, Ron Arad, Sandra Kuratle, Sophie Hanagarth, Stefan Diez, Suva, Swatch, Tom Dixon, Verner Panton