As part of Berlin Design Week, the Budapester Salon becomes a meeting place for architects, planners, and designers.
\n“piccolo mondo” explores the theme of surface \u2014 bringing together five Berlin-based positions that show just how differently materiality can be conceived.
\nZascho Petkow \u2014 master carpenter and designer \u2014 creates handcrafted objects and small series that navigate between craft tradition and contemporary design, with a material aesthetic that recalls a pre-industrial sensibility. Atelier Hau\u00dfmann produces individual furniture and spatial objects in metal and wood in Berlin \u2014 with clear, graphic silhouettes as a nod to traditional steelcraft and classic industrial design.
\nElisa Strozyk transforms wood into a flexible surface: she deconstructs it into small, thin tiles and attaches them to a textile base, creating a material that looks and smells like wood \u2014 yet behaves like a fabric. Heike Buchfelder explores the sensorial and sculptural qualities of materials. With an architectural eye and a preference for the unexpected, she works with feathers, glass, paper, and metal \u2014 always searching for what a material can do beyond its familiar form. Polsterhans has been based in Berlin since 2001 \u2014 a master upholstery workshop specialising in the restoration of design classics and bespoke interiors. In this exhibition, upholstery takes centre stage as a design practice in its own right: fabric as a surface that carries meaning.
\nMateriality, structure, atmosphere \u2014 “piccolo mondo” shows how surfaces shape spaces and hold significance.<\/p>\n
Friday, 28 May: The exhibition is only accessible that evening as part of the accompanying talk. Entry by RSVP only.<\/p>\n
Accompanying the exhibition, the evening format “Beyond Context \u2014 Insights into the Work of Jasper Architects” with Martin Jasper takes place on 28 May \u2014 part of the joint ARCHITECTURE ICONS talk series by Berlin Design Week and Budapester Salon.<\/p>\n