{"id":10698,"date":"2010-09-08T18:08:30","date_gmt":"2010-09-08T23:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kitkadesigntoronto.com\/?p=10698"},"modified":"2010-09-08T18:08:30","modified_gmt":"2010-09-08T23:08:30","slug":"weniger-aber-besser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/?p=10698","title":{"rendered":"Weniger, aber besser."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dieter Rams once described his design approach with the phrase “Weniger, aber besser.” which translates to “Less, but better.”<\/p>\n

It’s a simple philosophy we need to remind ourselves of.<\/p>\n

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We’re really happy with the filing cabinets we found by Jean Nouvel at the Queen West Antique Market<\/a>. They were $150 each, and couldn’t have fit into the office any better.<\/p>\n

If you’re saying, “Oh! I wish I would’ve known about those cabinets!” Well, then you really should consider adding us to your Twitter<\/a>! One of our followers did nab one after we posted a quickie photo.<\/p>\n

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“A complete modular system built with simple, linear, clean-lined elements. Functional. Forms pared down to pure sign. Essential volumes that design the contemporary office space. Noiseless, disembodied presences that define with rigourous simplicity a sober, rational, authoritative…rhetoric-free work environment. A cityscape delineated by slender architectonic structures.”<\/p>\n

I like words like “sober” and “authoritative” when describing our office furniture.<\/p>\n

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I ordered a Naoto Fukasawa cd player for the office. We even got out our old CDs from storage to listen to while we’re working away.<\/p>\n

The CD player follows Naoto Fukasawa’s ethos of design “without thought”. The simple CD player whose form mimics a ventilation fan as it spins its exposed compact disc. Distilled into its most minimal form, the CD player works for people without vision since the player consists of a single speaker, no cover, a vertical power cord, and no digital displays. And yes, it actually sounds good!<\/p>\n

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It’s great that it’s looking a lot more polished, but there is still a lot of things to do!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dieter Rams once described his design approach with the phrase “Weniger, aber besser.” which translates to “Less, but better.” It’s a simple philosophy we need to remind ourselves of. We’re really happy with the filing cabinets we found by Jean Nouvel at the Queen West Antique Market. They were $150 each, and couldn’t have fit […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1251],"tags":[1232,1189,157],"class_list":["post-10698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-home-reno","tag-dieter-rams","tag-naoto-fukasawa","tag-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10698"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10715,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10698\/revisions\/10715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kitka.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}