100 Years of Great Design at Steelcase

Join Steelcase in their centennial year as they celebrate 100 Years of Great Design.

As part of Clerkenwell Design Week 2012, they will explore the past, present and future of great workplace design with a series of talks and product installations:

22nd May, 12.30pm: Explore the design partnership between Steelcase and Frank Lloyd Wright, including the iconic Johnson Wax building

23rd May, 1pm: Share the latest Steelcase research exploring the global trends that influence the Interconnected Workplace

24th May, 1pm: Join our 100 Minds member Victoria Redshaw of design trends forecasters Scarlet Opus as she looks to the future of great design

The London WorkLife showroom, will also be operating an ‘open house’ each day between 10am and 5pm when you can drop by the showroom to view some iconic Steelcase products from the last 100 years including the Frank Lloyd Wright/Steelcase desk and chair.

RSVP to: gsapra@steelcase.com

End of an Era – Edgar Tafel, one of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous apprentices dies aged 98

Thought to be one of the last surviving members of the Taliesin Fellowship, Edgar Tafel, passed away aged 98 in Manhatten last month.  Aside from his own successful post war practice, he also worked on two of Frank Lloyd Wright’s most famous commissions – The Johnson Wax Building and Fallingwater.

The fellowship was started in 1932 and was Wright’s school for apprentice architects.  They not only worked alongside Wright, they also kept his self sustaining farm going in Wisconsin.