Crafting the Present — The Dresdner Zimmer at Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau

About

Craft is not heritage. It is practice.
Since 1898, the evolution of craftsmanship has been at the core of Deutsche Werkstätten — continuously embedded in the technological and design contexts of its time. As engineers and makers in the luxury sector, the company occupies a rare position: exceptional quality, properly valued.
For many design-driven craftspeople in Saxony, the reality looks different — despite work of equal precision and ambition.
The initiative Dresdner Zimmer brings these contemporary craft positions into focus. Hosted within the gallery spaces of Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau, it creates a platform for outstanding handcrafted objects — and a space for discourse on what craftsmanship means today.

What we did

showroom concept and realisation
exhibition curation
communication and print

Client

Dresdner Zimmer

Partner

Deutsche WerkstättenWith special thanks to Anette Hellmuth and Colin Ardley

Photography

L. Sprenger
V. Seifert