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1. October 2020

The Silke Wagler Couture fashion studio designs individual and tailor-made fashion – from classic men's suits, including matching accessories such as bows or ties, to evening dresses and festive wear for men and women, to bridal wear or stage dresses.

Silke Wagler's highly qualified team of experts has been guaranteeing craftsmanship for more than 30 years – from advice, sketching and fabric selection to the production of the desired garment, from individual ball gowns, wedding dresses, cocktail dresses or tailor-made suits.

Silke Wagler
WAGLER COUTURE
Käthe-Kollwitz-Straße 60
04109 Leipzig

Web: www.silke-wagler.de
Phone: +49 341 98 00 950

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Franziska Klee

1. October 2020

Atelier FRANZISKA KLEE sees itself as a young fair fashion label for fresh product design, handmade with care and love.

Here, bags and accessories inspired by everyday life are created from natural leather – in clear, minimalist cuts and designed with an eye for details. Classic craftsmanship is combined with new ideas and high-quality, sustainable materials.

"All the decisions we make serve only one goal – to create a true favourite that you want to take with you wherever you go."

Franziska Klee Taschen
Prellerstraße 54a
04155 Leipzig

Web: franziskaklee.de
Phone: +49 152 23 02 47 45

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Inka Schubert

1. October 2020

In 2011, Inka Schubert was part of the team at her former training company who was involved in the reconstruction of Josef Albers' spectacular stained glass windows for the main staircase of the Grassi Museum.

Today, she works part-time at the renowned glass manufacturer F. Schneemelcher in Quedlinburg, which leaves her also time for her own independent work. Here, she takes on challenging tasks in the field of glass processing in the areas of restoration, reconstruction and redesign – church windows, Art Nouveau windows and modern architectural glass design, as well as the design of independent curtain walls.

With great professional enthusiasm and expertise, Inka Schubert is dedicated to a millennia-old craft that has remained young, and she is happy to accept commissions.

Inka Schubert
Stained glass, glass design
Franz-Flemming-Strasse 15
04179 Leipzig

Web: inkaschubert.de
Phone: 0175 96 30 256

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Torsten Franke

In 2000, the furniture designer took over a workshop area of the cotton spinning mill Leipzig in order to realise his furniture designs in wood.

Since 2011, he has also been exhibiting the works of artisans friends of him in this charming ambience under the label Black and White Design. Torsten Franke is a trained piano maker who began his apprenticeship in 1980 at the Blüthner company and is still working there today, now only part-time.

He is interested in the interplay of construction, design and function, which characterises his own collection of furniture and lamps, which is remarkable in terms of craftsmanship and design.

Schwarz-Weiss Werkstattgalerie
Spinnereistraße 7
Baumwollspinnerei Haus 20, Eingang D
04179 Leipzig

Web: schwarz-weiss-design.de

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Dörte Dietrich

The goldsmith and jewellery designer Dörte Dietric places the inexhaustible wealth of forms and colours of the world of plants at the centre of her work.

The continuous process of becoming and passing away in its various stages of development is her source of inspiration and determines her formal approach. 

Capsules and calyxes as well as embossed, chiselled and enamelled forms driven from the surface grow in pieces of jewellery into new abstract sculptural formations with a floral character, sometimes in pure silver, sometimes in the intense, coloured melt of enamel.

Dörte Dietrich Schmuck
Karl-Heine-Straße 9
04229 Leipzig

Web: doertedietrich.de
Phone: +49 176 240 18 575

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Claudia Biehne

Ceramic artist Claudia Biehne calls her sculptures, on which abstract, artificial clusters and structures form, “Between the Tides.” The seductiveness of these visual works of magic is heightened by the tactile horror of transparently sharp edges.

“Lumos,” “Growth,” “Volcanoids,” and “Time and Visibility” are other groups of works based on her deep fascination with natural growth and becoming, which she expresses through her generous use of materials.

Thanks to the successful division of labour with her partner Stefan Passig, her multifaceted handicrafts reaches an international audience.

Porzellanatelier
Claudia Biehne & Stefan Passig
Spinnereistraße 7
Baumwollspinnerei Halle 10
04179 Leipzig

Show: biehne-porzellan.de
Shop: porcelight.com
Phone: +49 341 260 85 30

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Anne Deuter

Anne Deuter's artist's books are striking for their concentrated, conceptual composition.

Her own brief texts about self-observations of the weather or childhood memories find their counterpart in laconic typography, special papers, graphic blind embossing, refined folds, unusual bindings, protective flaps, banderoles or slipcases.

Each of the hand-sized gems is an intimate, outwardly closed, poetic work of art that does not reveal every secret even when opened.

Objects of desire
Room for Book Art and Drawing
Georg-Schwarz-Straße 11
04177 Leipzig

Web: annedeuter.com
Mail: anne.deuter@mail.de

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Annekatrin Döll

9. September 2020