Vienna Design Week is in full swing and we are delighted to be able to share our impressions from the Austrian capital. Now in its fifth year, the festival has a wide and very diverse selection of events, exhibitions, talks and indeed very unusual locations on offer—to bring the world of design closer to the public, as well as to create a discourse amongst the Austrian design industry.
The curators of Vienna Design Week, Tulga Beyerle and Lilly Hollein in their Russian style fur caps and duvet jackets, just before they enter the cold storage.
Yesterday was a prototype presentation in the possibly coolest location that i have ever been to for design spotting: In a -25°C (-13°F) walk-in cold storage, the design duo Copa presented their frozen stool "Ljod" (Russian for "ice") to a rather chilled and thrilled crowd.
In order to avoid tension during the freezing process, which could cause cracks in the ice, the designers are cooling the water down to 0° before they pour it into the mould.