![]() ![]() ![]() Rather than highlight just the well-covered differences, this new show is more interested in the parallels and crossovers that existed despite the very different political regimes and economic conditions. However the reality, says VDM director Mateo Kries, was ‘much more complicated and interesting’. The resulting show, German design 1949-1989 – Two Countries, One History, challenges the popular but lazy stereotypes that have prevailed – that of the sleek, functionalist and sophisticated designs of West Germany and the cheap, tacky and generally all round inferior output of the GDR, perhaps best personified by the Trabant car, the butt of so many jokes. How appropriate then that it should host the first exhibition to look at German design in both the East (German Democratic Republic) and the West (Federal Republic of Germany) during the four decades of separation. The Vitra Design Museum was founded in 1989, the year the Berlin Wall came down ahead of German reunification in 1990. ![]()
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