Vienna Design Week to showcase specially commissioned projects
Dezeen promotion: Vienna Design Week takes place from 25 September to 4 October 2015, and will feature works commissioned especially for the show.
![Chair by chmara.rosinke](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/09/Vienna-Design-Week-promotion_dezeen_468_15.jpg)
Started in 2007 and billed as Austria's biggest design festival, Vienna Design Week aims to bridge the gap between specialist design and the general public.
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Both international and Austrian projects spanning a range of disciplines will be showcased, including graphics, products, furniture and industrial design.
![Toiture by Christophe Machet at Vienna (hi)story](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/09/Vienna-Design-Week-promotion_dezeen_468_18.jpg)
Exhibitions, workshops, talks and guided tours are amongst the 150 events taking place across the 10-day period. Most of the activity will take place at the Brotfabrik Wien – a 19th-century building that was once Europe's largest bread factory.
![Marbleabilia by Lucia Massari](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/09/Vienna-design-week-promotion_dezeen_468.jpg)
Students of the New Design School have created a range of adaptable furniture from reinterpreted retro objects for the festival.
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Italian designer Lucia Massari will be showcasing her project Marbleabilia, that explores ways of reusing marble waste by treating them in the same way as the first choice material.
![JellySeries filter by TaliaYStudio](https://static.dezeen.com/uploads/2015/09/Vienna-Design-Week-promotion_dezeen_468_10.jpg)
An exhibition entitled Viennese (Hi)Stories will focus on the work processes of designers from the fields of architecture, graphics and product design.
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Christophe Machet will exhibit his Toiture surface constructed from discarded foam sandals, and a range of completely natural and biodegradable products made entirely out of sap, root, bark, shells and leaves.
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Last year, Hungarian designer Zsanett Szirmay exhibited a punched-card music box that turned cross-stitch patterns into musical scores and Vienna-based TaliaYStudio released a collection of pendant necklaces that can be used as camera filters.
Vienna Design Week takes place from the 25 September to 4 October 2015 at various venues across the city. Find out more on the event's website.