Collection BY DANTE - GOODS AND BADS
The Midsummer Session is a unique interview format designed by Dante - Goods and Bads to foster creativity, reflection, and connection among our designers. This initiative gathered our talented team for a short, yet profoundly enriching period in our headquarters deep in the Bavarian Forest.
During the Midsummer Session, designers stepped away from their usual routines to explore the tension between two contrasting worlds: structured work and creative freedom. On one side, we created a custom-built, enclosed space - the „claustrophobic triangle"- where designers had to fully engage with the questions posed, fostering deep focus and introspection. On the other, we balanced this with walks through nature, allowing thoughts to flow freely andconversations to unfold organically.
The result was not only a series of deep and revealing interviews, exploring designers' relationships with objects and the meanings they might hold for others, but also a stunning collection of photographs - capturing their interactions not just with their creations, but with the natural world that surrounds and
inspires them.
The questions posed during these sessions drew inspiration from a variety of profound sources. They echo the introspective nature of Max Frisch's „Fragebogen", the whimsical wisdom of fortune cookie sayings, the raw honesty of „Confession of Depression" by Langreuter/Schmidbauer, the existential inquiry of „Will Happiness Find You?" by Fischli/Weiss, and the contemplative silence found in Heinrich Böll's „Murke's Collected Silences". These diverse influences shaped our conversations, encouraging our designers to ponder deeply and share openly.
THE MidsummerSession© wurde in Zusammenarbeit mit Christophe De La Fontaine und Aylin Langreuter (Dante goods and Bads), Stefan DIez, Christian Haas, Andrea Steidl und Raquel Pacchini (Studio ÁR0), Shane Schneck, Patrick Henry Nagel und Nils Körner (Haus Otto), Jakub Zak und Calen Knauf Erarbeitet.
