400 Stylepark Newsletter – 4x4 Lieblingsartikel

Space travel, Grcic, an all-round chair, new materials, a portrait and a giant mushroom: Stefan Diez selected not one, but six favorites.

We have for years interacted professionally with Munich-based designer Stefan Diez. And this has long since morphed into a great friendship. Yet to this day we didn’t know that as a student he was interested in space travel and knew some of the drawings by Galina Balashova, who designed the interiors of the Soviet space capsules. Which is why, or so he comments, he so enjoyed reading the interview with her.

Stefan Diez was among those we asked to choose his four favorite items from the wealth of 400 Newsletters. But he insisted on going for six, explaining that “It was so much fun delving through the pile of articles and dipping into the different topics. I found it really hard to make a choice, and the items aren’t necessarily favorites, but more a matter of showing the broad spectrum of things I find fascinating.”

For example, he supported our proposition that there is an all-round chair of the year 2015 and thus the second part of our trilogy of interviews with Konstantin Grcic, with and for whom he once worked. Diez says he chose precisely these two texts because “I am interested in how things can be read looking back.” As a designer, he always finds new materials and forms of processing exciting, just as he likes finding out more about those people who supported the designer in realizing a project, such as Egon Bräuning, Head of R&D at Vitra, whom we portrayed back in 2009. (AS)