The KAPO company can look back on 80 years of craftsmanship tradition. It primarily produces windows, doors and high-quality furniture, upholstered and otherwise, with the label ‘Neue Wiener Werkstätte’. Upholstered furniture is like a ‘black box’; its innards and signs of quality remain hidden. This was the starting point for the Graz design lab White Elephant. They broke open upholstered furniture, manifested its complex inner life, made poetry out of the production process. The ‘wooden skeleton’ was given a structure; the upholstery turns up again in some unusual place; empty spaces are queried.
www.white-elephant.at
www.neuewienerwerkstaette.at

The PASSIONSWEGE format, a core component of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK, brings designers together with Vienna shops and manufacturers with on-the-spot experimental projects and interventions.

The resulting installations are all on show from 1.10. to 10.10. during normal opening hours in the business premises. A special reception takes place on the PASSIONSWEGE evenings in the presence of the designers.

The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Passionswege are supported by the
Vienna Chamber of Commerce