LAUFEN: ways of seeing | News | Architonic
LAUFEN has long put the lab into collaboration, investing time and money in cross-disciplinary cultural projects that connect design, materials and innovation with art, film and other forms of creative expression – be it an exhibition of experimental sculpture at Art Basel, a cultural salon featuring architects, artists and academics at the 15th-century Palazzo Trevisan degli Ulivi during the Venice Biennale, or a diminutive pop-up cinema in downtown Basel. Places and spaces for the exploration of such questions as who we are, how we live and where we’re heading. The premium Swiss bathroom-solutions manufacturer – pioneering not only in its designs but also in its selection of design partners and materials R&D – has been resident since last autumn on Milan’s Via Alessandro Manzoni with its LAUFEN space Milano. Think open-ended, op…
