New exhibition celebrates 10 several years of Tsatsas’ impressive leather extras
On the tenth anniversary of the label, ‘Tsatsas. Past, Present, Future’ at Deutsches Ledermuseum in Offenbach, Germany tells the story driving Esther and Dimitrios Tsatsas’ multidisciplinary solution to leather-based goods
Started in 1917 in Offenbach, Germany, Deutsches Ledermuseum – the German Leather-based Museum – has because collected near to 30,000 artefacts, tracing the record of leathercraft for more than six millennia (the oldest is an Egyptian receptacle courting from the fourth millennium BC). Commencing this thirty day period, nevertheless, a new exhibition explores an entirely more modern choose on the ubiquitous materials, celebrating the get the job done of younger German extras label Tsatsas on its tenth anniversary.
Titled ‘Tsatsas. Past, Existing, Future’, the exhibition guarantees a ‘retrospective view of the past which merges fluidly into the now’, collating parts that determine Esther and Dimitrios Tsatsas’ progressive technique to design (the spouse-and-wife duo have also curated the exhibition). Owning started their label in 2012, the past ten years has seen the designers hone a vision at at the time unconventional and timeless, knowledgeable by near-architectural precision. In fact, Tsatsas has collaborated with David Chipperfield Architects on a vacation suitcase (reportedly the only one particular Chipperfield himself takes advantage of to travel) and industrial designer Dieter Rams on the brand’s ‘931’ purse, which received a Wallpaper* Style Award for Greatest Belated Bag. The designers them selves simply call Tsatsas ‘the fantastic harmony involving functions, aesthetics and execution’.
Inside of ‘Tsatsas. Past, Existing, Future’ at Deutsches Ledermuseum
The exhibition usually takes a private technique, tracing the foundations of Tsatsas by way of ephemera that tells the tale of the model, from leather-generating equipment, in-method samples and purses deconstructed to their composite pieces, to guiding-the-scenes pictures and own mementoes (a person handwritten Post-It take note in the exhibition reads ‘context about dogma’). ‘Handcrafted’, ‘Question Everything’ and ‘Down to the Smallest Detail’ are the names of some of the different organising sections, the latter exploring Tsatsas’ engagement with sustainability, a basic principle deep-rooted within just its philosophy. Here, this is celebrated in a demonstration of the brand’s many recycled elements – from brass hardware to cardboard packaging – as effectively as highlighting the substantial-top quality purely natural means which make up each of its extras, designed to last for many years to occur (visitors are encouraged to achieve out and contact a disguise of Scandinavian calfskin).
At the centre of the exhibition is a kinetic installation titled ‘Objects in the Mirror are Closer Than They Appear’, a very clear glass box in which different Tsatsas add-ons circulate close to a looping keep track of. Intended to highlight the designers’ open-ended technique – they insist the exhibition has no commencing nor conclusion – the a variety of objects, established among 2012 and 2022, are not organized chronologically, nor with any specific hierarchy. ‘Staged purely intuitively, the 32 unique objects melt by their monochromatic presentation into a symbol of the Tsatsas’ visual conciseness,’ the exhibition’s notes explain.
Somewhere else, website visitors can watch a movie created for the exhibition that presents a search inside the nearby relatives-owned leather-based workshop the place Tsatsas generates some of its add-ons – in procedure for more than 40 yrs – while an additional section titled ‘1 + 1 = 3’ explores some of its several collaborations, which includes the aforementioned jobs with Chipperfield and Rams, as effectively as Munich-centered jewellery designer Saskia Diez (these collaborations allow the designers to ‘think outside the house the box and depart their individual ease and comfort zone’, as the notes explain). An accompanying e-book, published with bilingual German and English textual content, characteristics essays by Chipperfield and Rams, together with text by Wallpaper* China editor Yoko Choy, design theorist Markus Frenzl, and Esther and Dimitrios Tsatsas themselves – a collaborative tome that encapsulates Tsatsas’ multidisciplinary approach. §
