Prototypes fascinate me because they visualise the moment in which something fleeting becomes tangible. They show the birth of an idea and its development into something concrete. Hardly any first draft succeeds in expressing the idea in all its clarity. This is what makes them special. They are bridges between imagination and reality. For me, translating this intermediate space into a product together with other people is an exemplary act of design and development.
Exhibition as part of the Passagen Interior Design Week Cologne.
16 - 22 January 2026
Fri - Thu | 12 - 20 h
Roonstraße 51
50674 Cologne
Zur idd cologne kooperiert Designers Tower mit der Design Post Köln, einem der zentralen Orte für nationales wie internationales Interior- und Möbeldesign in der Rheinmetropole. Überdies wird der rechtsrheinische Showroom im Herbst 2025 Herz und Epizentrum der idd sein, dem neuen Branchenevent für exklusives Interior Design.
Unter dem Titel Sitzmöbel:Standpunkte legt die Ausstellung den Blick auf das Sitzen als kulturelle Praxis und gestalterische Herausforderung, etwa in der Verknüpfung von Materialität und Dimensionierung, Ergonomie und Komfort, Identität und Experiment. Auf das Sitzobjekt als eine Königsdisziplin des Designs.
Environmentally friendly materials, local production and functionality characterize the collection from Verlag der Dinge, which will be presented for the first time at PASSAGEN - with items by Sebastian Goldschmidtböing, Dustin Jessen, Klemens Schillinger, Fritz Specht and Thomas Schnur.
Vernissage
11.1. / 18 h
10. - 16.1.2025
Fri - Thu 12 - 20 h
Körnerstr. 48
50823 Cologne
www.vededi.de
Design Post Köln
Chairs, Stairs & Tables
Exhibition at Design Post Köln
„A piece of Furniture is a vehicle, it is a tool to communicate, to create connections between people.“
Craft and industry, wood and metal, round and square, theory and practice. As a trained carpenter and studied designer, Thomas Schnur works as a designer and university lecturer to unite and manifest contradictions in objects of everyday use.
In the first part of the exhibition, the final designs are juxtaposed with initial sketches, photos and models. These include various already established pieces of furniture, like K5 and K7 for TECTA, but also prototypes, such as the ARFINIO Chair, made of a new, recyclable plastic, which was created in collaboration with the material manufacturer COVESTRO.
In part two, the series is completed by a reading room with the publication CHAIRMAN. Here, table designs by the Cologne designer enter into dialogue with his selection of pioneering seating furniture by different designers and manufacturers.
Design Post Köln
Deutz-Mülheimer Str. 22A
Online Course
In the online course Intro to Sustainable Product Design with Wood, you will learn why sustainability in design is above all about a holistic view of the process. Deepen your knowledge of product design by planning and building a piece of wooden furniture.
Book & Exhibition
The publishing house of Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König presented the Chairman Book by Thomas Schnur. In addition to the book, the furniture designs for Tecta, Echtstahl, Magnus Mewes und Valentin Winder documented in the book are presented in the bookshop's window on Ehrenstraße in Cologne.
Wat does a design exhibition during the Corona Lockdown look like? Does it make sense at all to design products now and to show them, when nobody is allowed to go to a cultural event?
Video documentary by Sven Lützenkirchen on youtube
More Information about Generation Köln at www.generation-koeln.de
Jan Kurtz
Presentation of Holzbank for Jan Kurtz during IMM Cologne.
IMM Cologne 2020
Hall 11.1 Stand A 024 / 028.
Walther König
Imaginary archive in the shop window of Buchhandlung Walther König during Passagen 2020. Group exhibition with Kai Linke, Antonia Henchel and Jonathan Radetz.
Passagen 2020
Buchhandlung Walther König
Ehrenstraße 4
50672 Köln
MAGAZIN and Süddeutsche Zeitung Edition are inviting at November 6th at 7:30 pm to MAGAZIN Munich to a product presentation of ALI hook stand and three other products in special colour combinations
Workshop and Lecture at Kunsthochschule Kassel. On Invitation from Kai Linke.
Visiting Lecturer at UdK Berlin to the STANDARD project of Design & Social Context course. On Invitation from Ineke Hans.
Two door handle concepts in cooperation with Kober and Olivari will be presented at Enter Porcelain Exhibition during Milan Design Week at Palazzo Litta.
New chair project for Magnus Mewes. A metal frame will be combined with pressed wooden parts for the seat and backrest using a technology developed by Magnus Mewes and Walter Amrhyn. On show during IMM Cologne. Hall 3.1 / G40.
Talk about the Common Things Book during Coburger Designtage. Invited by Njustudio.
01 June 2018, 5.30 pm
Pakethalle | Historischer Güterbahnhof Coburg
Selected Works by Klemens Grund and Thomas Schnur at Galerie HBK Saar. Initiated and curated by Mark Braun.
Munich
Common Things Exhibition from 3th to 11th of March during MCBW in Munich. Lecture on Thursday, 8th of March at 6:30 pm in Blumenstraße 22.
IMM Cologne
Talk about the reason for the Common Things Book at THE STAGE during IMM Cologne. Thursday, 18 January in Hall 3.1. at 12:15 pm.
In Arbeit exhibition, featuring unpublished three dimensional studies and prototypes by Thomas Schnur and Klemens Grund at Bismarckstraße 56 in Cologne.
New year, new chair. Wood chair Nora for Jan Kurtz will be presented at IMM Cologne in Hall 11.1 Stand A24.
Second edition of Generation Köln exhibition will show selected projects of Cologne-based designers Karoline Fesser, Klemens Grund, Meike Harde, Tim Kerp and Thomas Schnur, as well as interior photographer Thomas Wiuf Schwartz at Bismarckstraße 70 in Cologne.
From a small metal part at grandparent's courtyard to understanding as a key to a respectful dealing with the environment. Thomas Schnur is talking about his practice in Ethics for Design documentary from Gauthier Roussilhe.
New variations of Twist Table for Functionals will be presented in the frame of Generation Köln exhibition during Dutch Design Week. Including one version with a black glass table top and an outdoor version.
Kazerne Expo
Paradijslaan 2-8
5611KN Eindhoven
Leipzig
During Designers Open Leipzig, the Common Things Exhibition presents a collection of anonymous everyday objects of our industrialized world: objects that have become archetypes of particular functions due to their technical efficiency and global trade. In the framework program Thomas Schnur, Volker Albus and Jens Thiel, will lecture about the meaning, as well as our appropriation and relationship to these overlooked things.
Tapetenwerk
Lützner Str. 91
Leipzig
The Common Things Book will be published by Trademark Publishing. It's first presentation will be at Frankfurter Buchmesse in Hall 4.1. | Stand H83.
The Factory of Ideas, an installation for Covestro, will be on show at Interzum in Cologne. Hall 10.2 Stand F041.
Salone Satellite
Gravity Rack edited by Nomess Copenhagen and Rubber Table are selected for the 20 years anniversary exhibition from Salone Satellite. The show will take place at Fabbrica del Vapore, via Procaccini 4 during Milan Design Week.
Construct Table is now in production by Magazin. The Table is available in two sizes and three colors at the shops and the website.
Bench Chair is part of the Monobloc Project exhibition by Michel Kowalski and Franck Dujoux at cultural center ARCADE / Château de Sainte Colombe in Auxois, France.
In the Common Things exhibition and the eponymous book, Thomas Schnur reflects on everyday objects that have become stereotypes of common use. Besides the book presentation, selected everyday objects are presented on furniture designed by Thomas Schnur, visualising a dialogue, between his research and practice.
Address: Bismarckstraße 68, Cologne
During PASSAGEN Functionals will be presenting the Twist Table at NODD Office, Marsilstein 6 in Cologne.
The result of the collaboration with Functionals will be presented during Dutch Design Week at the Kazerne.
Thomas Schnur will exhibit 10 selected objects at the event "Klarheit und Form" - parallel to the ongoing exhibition "Bauhaus - Alles ist Design" at Bundeskunsthalle in Bonn.
and Space
The Exhibition From Object and Space displays furniture projects by Thomas Schnur in the store of Funktion Schnitt at Ehrenstraße 84 in Cologne. The Funktion Schnitt Store also designed by Thomas Schnur builds the perfect setting for this exhibition as it brings furniture and interior projects together so that the approach of the designer becomes visible.
Meine Feinde
Text and Photos for the column 'Meine Freunde / Meine Feinde' at issue 17 of the german domus magazine.
The exhibition Funktionsraum by Thomas Schnur and photographer Sven Lützenkirchen juxtapose furniture and photographic pieces, this giving rise to associative cross references that allow new perspectives on their work.
Depot Basel
In the context of Forum for an Attitude Thomas will talk about his practice and Richard Sennett's book 'Together'. Saturday 17 October at 8 pm at Depot Basel.
Maison & Objet
Gravity Wardrobe for Nomess Copenhagen will be presented at Maison & Objet 2015 in Paris at Stand A17, Hall 7.
Four new Objects are ready for the Another Perspective Exhibition and will be on show from 14th to 19th of April at Ventura Lambrate in Milan.
The group exhibition Objects in Between organized by Karoline Fesser, Kai Linke, Torsten Neeland, and Thomas Schnur presents 10 designers and their objects on the theme of in between.
Rail and Rubber Table will be part of the exhibition Verschiebung in the framework programme of Designsupermarket in Prague.
Holzbank and Rubber Table are part of the exhibition Jeux de Design at Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie
in Paris.
The 7 Minute presentation Perspektivenwechsel is now available with english subtitles. The Speak was held at the frame of K Fair on the Fairstand from Bayer Material Science.
Nominated for Designpreis der Bundesrepublik Deutschland 2014. Together with Samuel Treindl for the submission of Construct Table & Construct Table Shelf.
Design Report Award 2014 Special Mention
Jury Members: Jurgen Bey, Marco Dessí, Yael Mer, Ludovica Palomba, Lars Quadejacob, Timo Salli, Carola Zwick
The group exhibition Objects and the Factory organized by Kai Linke, Karoline Fesser and Thomas Schnur presents 11 designers and their objects on the theme of factory.
In the 7 Minute presentation Thomas explains a part of his work under the titel Perspektivenwechsel. The Speak was held in german (translation will follow soon) at the frame of K Fair on the Fairstand from Bayer Material Science.
