The collection works with tense relationships between Werkbund-specific products and mass-produced goods, one-off craft items and industrial products, objects from well-known designers and anonymous design, highly defined artistic designs and individually designed emergency products, functional, purist objects and “kitsch”, essentially honest objects and material and functional surrogates, branded goods and no-name products, natural and artificial objects. Series on the material, form and functional history of things in the 20th and 21st centuries complete this ensemble.