10-day festival gains Vienna the centre stage of the European design scene

For the fourth time, the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK turns the city into a showroom and laboratory for all expressions of design, presenting more than eighty events – workshops, lectures, exhibitions, presentations, and installations – as well as design tours and educational programmes. Featuring names such as Konstantin Grcic (GER) or Stefan Sagmeister (US) along with some of the most challenging young designers from Austria and abroad, the festival sets out to think global, yet explicitly embraces the local scene and scenery.

Grand Opening at Liechtenstein Museum
 Kick-off for the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is September 30, 2010, again in the classy Palais rooms of the Liechtenstein Museum. The opening rates as the annual reunion of Austria’s creative industries. For the first time, it will also host an exhibition, “Baroque Brilliance and Stainless Steel”: Three well-known international design teams, Studio Makkink & Bey (NL), Claesson Koivisto Rune (SE) and Olgoj Chorchoj (CZ) put table culture on show that combines history and future. Utensils for gusto and for banquets, and the social facets of eating are most diversely reinterpreted. Also on display at the opening night is “WIEN PRODUCTS Collection 2010”, other highlights include the ceremony of the RADO Young Design Prize - held in Austria for the first time – and the legendary design tombola.