Tassilo from Grolman

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Tassilo von Grolman (* 1942 in Iserlohn ) is a German product designer .

Career

Von Grolman first completed an apprenticeship as a machine fitter at AEG in Oldenburg, followed by a mechanical engineering degree in Lage / Lippe. He then worked for a year as an engineering assistant on the MS Santa Rosa / Reederei Hamburg-Süd and finished his mechanical engineering studies in Berlin. In Kassel he studied at what was then the Werkkunstschule, later the Academy of Fine Arts, a forerunner of the University of Kassel , with a degree in industrial design . He was assistant to Professor Arnold Bode in the area of ​​exhibition planning. He then gained experience in advertising agencies ( TBWA and Lürzer Conrad) and in an architecture office in Frankfurt am Main . Von Grolman has been running his own design office since 1975, initially in Frankfurt am Main and in Oberursel (Taunus) . Since summer 2011 von Grolman has lived and worked in Berlin. He specializes in product design and design consulting.

activities

His name stands for numerous successful design products, especially in the upscale tableware and kitchen segment. His products are now design classics such as u. a. the vacuum jugs Achat, BigMama and HotelDesign by Alfi and the teapot series designed for Mono since 1983 , which was made in sterling silver for the 25th anniversary in 2008 by the Bremen company Koch & Bergfeld in a limited edition.

Von Grolmans products are used in national, e.g. B. in the Museum of Applied Arts Cologne , and international museums, z. B. in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City , exhibited. He has received numerous national and international awards for his work, including from Design Plus - Messe Frankfurt; Red Dot Award - Design Center North Rhine-Westphalia; Good Design Award - Chicago Athenaeum; Silver and Bronze Awards - DDC German Designer Club: Product of the Year - Fachverband Kunststoff-Konsumwaren; Product of the Year - Kookgilde Netherlands; ADC Art Directors Club Germany ; European Design Annual; IF Industrie Forum Design , Hanover; UNICEF ; KitchenInnovation of the Year® - LifeCare Initiative.

1989: Founding of the DDC Deutscher Designer Club , of which he was president until 1997, since then he has been honorary president. Since 2003: CEO of the Design Center Hessen, today Hessen-Design. 2006 founding member with lawyers and designers of the association FIDIUS Faire Designwettbewerbe e. V. to achieve more fairness for competitive conditions.

1988: Guest lecturer at the Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences . 1991: Visiting professor for product design, University of Fine Arts, Lisbon. 1999: Guest lecturer in the history of design at the Academy of Fine Arts, Nuremberg . 2004: Visiting professor for product design at the Chinese University of the Arts , Hangzhou / China. 2005/2006: Substitute professorship in the industrial design department at the Kassel University of Art .

Exhibitions

  • 1995 "Design and Innovation - Tassilo von Grolman" Securitas Gallery Bremen
  • 1997 joint exhibition with Michele de Lucchi, Ole Palsby, Timo Sarpaneva , Motomi Kawakami and Kathrin Mc Coy in the Tobu Design Department in Tokyo
  • 2001 “25 years of living in - Tassilo von Grolman Design - photographed by Anja Conrad ” in Darmstadt and Weimar
  • 2005 “Rethinking Shape - Design Products by Tassilo von Grolman”, Grassi Museum for Applied Arts Leipzig.
  • 2009 “Arena Design 2009”, Poznan International Fair
  • 2018 "Tribute to 100 Years of Bauhaus - Tea and Coffee Design by Tassilo von Grolman", German Museum for Culinary Art and Table Culture in Frankfurt am Main

literature

  • Design Monographs: Tassilo Von Grol, Princeton Architectural Press, Birkhauser Basel, 2001, ISBN 978-3764368654

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ alfi vacuum jug agate
  2. ↑ mono teapots
  3. ↑ Why real design classics are never trendy , welt.de, October 22, 2016
  4. ↑ Party cutlery, 5 pieces "mono filio" , www.kulturelles-erbe-koeln.de
  5. ^ [1] , Metropolitan Museum of Art
personal data
SURNAME Grolman, Tassilo of
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German product designer
DATE OF BIRTH 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Iserlohn