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City + Country Portraits
The Design Project: Paris, ENSAD
The Task
The task of the Ecole nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs
(Ensad), founded in 1766, is the artistic, scientific and technical training
of creative students capable of designing, promoting and developing all
manner of works in the field of decorative arts, and the direction of
research in the same sectors.
The teaching offered at the School focuses on drawing and visual arts
for all students.
It encourages link-ups between the different disciplines by means of
shared classes and team work on multidisciplinary subjects.
It leads to a good command of a professionally-oriented area of design,
combined with one of the School's areas of activity.
Its areas of expertise are : creation, design, execution, artistic management.
The School
ENSAD has its roots in the Royal Free School of Art (l'Ecole royale
gratuite de dessin) founded in 1766 by Jean-Jacques Bachelier (1724-1806),
confirmed by letters patent from Louis XV in 1767. Its founder's aim
was to develop crafts relating to the arts in order to improve the quality
of manufactured goods.
Through a rigorous and demanding apprenticeship
in the arts, the school strove to combine technique and culture, intelligence
and sensitivity, so as to enable the more gifted artisans to develop
into creative artists. After several changes of name, in 1877 the school
became the National School of Decorative Arts (l'Ecole nationale des
arts décoratifs) before taking its present name of ENSAD (l'Ecole
nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs) in 1927.
ÉCOLE NATIONALE SUPÉRIEURE DES ARTS DÉCORATIFS
People Portraits
Prof. Peter Raacke: Designmai 07 Berlin
The perfect backdrop to visit Professor Peter Raacke in the Germanys capital.
Scene of the Crime: Sushi Circle & Haus am Waldsee
Weapons: Camera, microphone and many questions
© DS TV 2007, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva
Event Reports
Design & Emotion
Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe present over 200 items detached from traditional classifications of function, style, materials.
This exhibition focuses on the visceral appeal of products and defines the popular concept of emotional design.
People Portraits
Sagmeister 08
"Things I have learned in my life", Stefan Sagmeister Show in SOHO/New York.
Watch out for the video, realized by HillmanCurtis film and video.
City + Country Portraits
GreenPix Documentary
GreenPix: 2,200 sqm LED media wall powered by solar panels. Alexandra Lerman published a documentary about the GreenPix on which Simon Giostra, founder of Simone Giostra & Partners, explains the challenge to design and build this gigantic media wall, with the help of engineering experts ARUP.
People Portraits
Design + Emotion: Manfred Gotta
Twingo, Megaperls an Smart - Manfred Gotta is Germany´s name inventor number one.
See the interview (in german) in the course of the Design + Emotion exhibition of the Badisches Landesmuseum Karlsruhe.
Event Reports
KISD Graduation 2008: phase08
One of the older more cultivated traditions at the Köln International School of Design is to send the graduates of the design department off with a great display and even greater festivity and to celebrate with them an exhibition. DS TV took a look around.
© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva
Event Reports
PREVIEW imm cologne 09: Trend Board + trend book
The latest trend book edition for the imm cologne features the Interior Trends for 2009. The overwhelming response received in previous years demonstrates that this annual book provides a detailed reference work not only for exhibitors, visitors and journalists...
© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva
Event Reports
Chris O´Shea: Audience
Audience, conceived by rAndom International, is an installation consisting of around 64 head-size mirror objects. Each object moves its head in a particular way to give it different characteristics of human behaviour. Some chat amongst themselves, some shy away and others confidently move to grab your attention.
City + Country Portraits
Bombay Sapphire Gallery Berlin
Bombay Sapphire opened a temporary gallery this June to showcase an exhibition of design objects commissioned by the premium gin. The 450 sqm exhibition space displayed timelessly elegant designs by major design industry names such as Tom Dixon, Karim Rashid and Eva Zeisel.
People Portraits
DS TV meets Prof. Michael Erlhoff
On this years´ graduation party of the Koeln International School of Design we met Prof. Dr. Michael Erlhoff. He told us some very interesting things about the brand new "Kölner Design Preis" which will be awarded on 6 November 2008.
© DS TV 2008, producer: Ioanna Paraskeva
