© Photo: Ralph Fischer.

On 26 February 2025, curators Prof. Patrick Thomas and Stefanie Schwarz, both designers and lecturers at ABK Stuttgart, will guide visitors through the exhibition they curated together with Tobias Bednarz, art historian, and Anja Krämer, museum director of the Weissenhofmuseum.

The guided tour is for free and no registration is required.

Date
Wednesday, 26 February 2025, 2 pm

Place
Weissenhofwerkstatt in the Mies van der Rohe House
Am Weissenhof 20, 70191 Stuttgart

Curators
Prof. Patrick Thomas (Communication Design, ABK Stuttgart
Stefanie Schwarz (CTI Typography and Type Design & ABK Stuttgart
Anja Krämer (Director of the Weissenhofmuseum in Le Corbusier House)
Tobias Bednarz (art historian, M.A. cand.)

A project by Stefanie Schwarz and Patrick Thomas, both designers and teachers at ABK Stuttgart, in collaboration with Tobias Bednarz, art historian, and Anja Krämer, Director of the Weissenhof Museum im Haus Le Corbusier Stuttgart.

The British Arts and Crafts movement centred around the designer William Morris is often regarded as a pioneer in the development of modern design. While Morris’ interior designs were strongly characterised by craftsmanship and natural motifs, modernism developed an increasingly reduced and functionalist aesthetic. But was modernism really as free of patterns as is often assumed?

In the Weissenhofwerkstatt, Patrick Thomas confronts the clean-lined architecture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe with a reinterpretation of Morris’ iconic “Willow” pattern (1874). Stefanie Schwarz expands this intervention with a typographical component by placing quotes from important representatives of modernism on the subject of patterns and ornament in the exhibition space. An accompanying showcase exhibition throws some spotlights on modern interior design, illustrating that decorative surface design and sometimes opulent patterns also played a role in modernism.

The opening will take place on 2 December at 7 pm.

Where
Weissenhofwerkstatt im Haus Mies van der Rohe, Am Weißenhof 20

Duration and exhibition opening hours
Sat, Sun und public holidays: 12 pm -5 pm
2 December 2024 – 2 March 2025
(closed in 24 December and 1 January)

Guided tours
Sunday, 5 January 2025, 2 pm
Mittwoch, 26 February 2025, 7 pm

Admission
free of charge

We would like to thank the Cultural Office of the City of Stuttgart and the Friends of the Weissenhofsiedlung e.V. for their support.

The Long Night of Museums (Lange Nacht der Museen) will take place in Stuttgart on Saturday, 22 March 2025.
The Weissenhof Museum will also be taking part and opening its doors until 1 a.m.!

Admission is only possible with a ticket for the Long Night of Museums. Tickets can be purchased in advance (from 21 February 2025) and at the box offices of the participating cultural institutions – including ours.

From 6.30 p.m., special 15-minute guided tours will take place every half hour. We will explain why the Weissenhof Estate is world-famous and what makes Le Corbusier’s idea of a changeable house so special.

There are no restrictions on the number of participants on the tour itself, but there are restrictions on access to the house itself. There may be a short wait, as the Le Corbusier House can accommodate a maximum of 50 visitors at a time.

Photos: Long Night of the Museums, Ralph Fischer/Weissenhofmuseum, Manfred Ulmer/Freunde der Weissenhofsiedlung e.V.