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Two works of Judaica by Lueckenhausen now in the collection of the Jewish Museum Berlin

February 11, 2011 Filed under: Judaica in craft and design — Tags: Lueckenhausen's works in Jewish Museum Berlin — helmut @ 11:47 pm 1. Magen David Yom-hashoah Candelabra The Hebrew name Magen David, literally...

Boxing Angels: Artifacts and the Attempt at Order

For: Cultural Pacemakers: Art and Scholarship in Australia State Library of NSW, Sydney 17 July, 2004. A seminar presented by the NSW chapter of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia Inc. and the State Library of NSW. This...

A New Suit - Craft in Contemporary Design and Production.

Lueckenhausen, H, and Austin, V. A New Suit - Craft in Contemporary Design and Production. Proceedings – Designing Minds Symposium, University of South Australia, Adelaide, 2000, pp 49-52 The published aims of this conference - to...

Objects to Inspire

The Good Weekend, The Age Magazine. 17 June, 2006 When we speak of designer items, we often mean familiar 20th-century icons such as Bauhaus furniture or domestic products by Alessi - everyone wants the Alessi kettle – but design also...

Letter from Melbourne - Federation Square

Letter from Melbourne Written for digital magazine, Sau Paulo, Brazil October 2003 Federation Square, Melbourne’s new cultural and civic centre, floating on a platform on springs over the city’s largest rail-yard, is...

Zeitgenoessisches Kunsthandwerk und Design im Bereich Holzgestaltung in Australien,

Lueckenhausen, H, Zeitgenoessisches Kunsthandwerk und Design im Bereich Holzgestaltung in Australien, Ligna, Duesseldorf, Mai, 1999 Seit den 70er Jahren hat Australien eine sehr grosse Wiederbelebung der Ausuebung von Handwerk erlebt, hin zu...

Design as Story Telling

Lueckenhausen, H, Design as Story Telling, Platform, Spark (DIA Newsletter), Autumn 2006, p5 Whether we are conscious of it or not, the things we design and produce sit within a range of political, social, commercial, religious, institutional...

Surface and Form

Lueckenhausen, H, Essay for Surface and Form catalogue, Craftwest, May 2002. Non-aboriginal Australians sometimes appear to have consciously adopted adolescence as a national ethos, "...for we are young and free" - adhering to a...

Changing Parameters in Education and Craft.

Lueckenhausen, H, Changing parameters in Education and Craft. Craft Victoria, vol 28, no 236, 1/1998, pp 16-18 Craft in the sense of works based on skill, materials expertise and one hopes, intelligent reflection on material culture is one...