FAIRS & EVENTS Kortrijk Boogie Woogie6/27/2016Silver lining in October: The Biennale Interieur celebrates its 25th edition with a wide-ranging cultural program and some 250 selected exhibitors from the design world.
FAIRS & EVENTS On tiles and other modules10/6/2015Refugees, tradesmen and an open-ended notion of design. The Vienna Design Week differs from other design festivals as a major curated event with qualities all of its own. A tour.
FAIRS & EVENTS At home, assuming it exists?10/1/2014At the Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk, Belgium, curator Joseph Grima seeks to undermine traditional notions of the home. And the “Interieur Awards” category "Spaces" promise a mouthwatering take on design.
FAIRS & EVENTS Mirror, mirror on the wall9/26/2014Split cobs with Sebastian Cox Holz, admire yourself in Barber Osgerby’s huge ceiling mirrors, and watch the future of mobility through stained glass. And in addition to these attractions, this year’s London Design Festival also served up many interesting team line-ups and countless cool results.
FAIRS & EVENTS At home – what’s that? 9/25/2014No London Design Festival without some special highlight. This year, four small houses were on show outside the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square – by Jasper Morrison, Raw Edges, Ilse Crawford and Patternity, created for the “A Place Called Home” project.
FAIRS & EVENTS Tranquility – is to be found in salad bowls9/23/2014The “Helsinki Design Week” took place for the 10th time this year. For all those who may have forgotten what makes Finnish design so special – the trade fair complex and Helsinki’s Design District provided a lot to bring things back to mind.
ART Voulez vous Prouvé?6/27/2014At Design Miami, which took place in parallel to Art Basel, the French galleries presented an awful lot of Jean Prouvé originals. The icing on the cake: Konstantin Grcic transformed an Audi TT into a mobile living machine.
FAIRS & EVENTS Swedish simplicity2/15/2014In recent years, the Stockholm Furniture Fair has morphed into a serious contender that can hold its own alongside interior design heavyweights imm cologne and Milan’s Salone. This is partly the product of the great range of fringe events during the Stockholm Design Week, held at the same time.
ARCHITECTURE Monomade in Tokyo12/25/2013In Tokyo “urban manufacturing” is not just some post-economic crisis slogan, but lived practice day in day out. In Taitō, one of the oldest districts, furniture, bags, paper lanterns and silver tea-ceremony vessels are being made in tiny workshops – and often by craftsmen seated on the floor in the traditional Japanese style.
FAIRS & EVENTS Get your teeth into it12/20/2013For its October 2014 edition, the Biennale Interieur in Kortrijk has launched the new “Spaces” Design Award for hospitality concepts – and is now collaborating with the French creative camp Domaine de Boisbuchet.
FAIRS & EVENTS 28.280 coloured glassbowls10/1/2013Our recce of the London Design Festival scouts six of the core venues to discover the current design tendencies. On this 16 mile whistle-stop tour from the west to the east of London, we start at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the self-proclaimed design hub of the LDF.
INTERVIEWS The main criteria is good work9/29/2013At the London Design Festival Sebastian Wrong presented his new collection “Wrong For Hay” in a stylish Georgian house at St James’s Park. Uta Abendroth spoke to him about the direction the portfolio takes, London as a location and working with the Danes.
MAGAZINE Dreaming of Warsaw6/14/2013The mood was good, the atmosphere great: The DMY Design Festival at Berlin’s Tempelhof Airport complex showed what 500 new design talents can come up with if they try. Innovations were in short supply, however, for all the party feeling and Poland as guest country.
MAGAZINE Light up the cardboard5/26/2013For their 25th annual setting, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair brought environmental awareness to New York.
MAGAZINE Warning: Furniture subject to mood swings5/6/2013From parasitic furniture design to depressing lighting, to poetic wall projections. The young generation of designers at SaloneSatellite turned out to be both fresh and experimental in their approach. And in the competition to be crowned the best young designer at SaloneSatallite it was Portuguese designer Tania da Cruz who came out on top with her range of sustainable cork products.
MAGAZINE The path is the goal4/26/2013This year’s Ventura Lambrate was part of the FuoriSalone for the fourth time. The meeting point for next-generation design, experiments and ambitious individual exhibitors had a real feel of work in progress about it. Development and manufacturing processes played a major role.
MAGAZINE To light or to illuminate – that is the question4/24/2013For quite some time, manufacturers of decorative luminaires were hard hit by the innovation of LEDs. What to do with their traditional designs that were built around lamps and spots? They have since overcome the future shock and the industry is now fielding new products in all shapes and sizes.
MAGAZINE Head for the exit, eyes closed!4/24/2013It would seem obvious that a sensitive nose need not necessarily offer a good handle on things. And designers of all ages should be making sparing use of spaghetti, leather scraps, iron pipes, champagne buckets, wooden laminate and most certainly erotic objects. The seven deadly Salone sins show just who ignored this advice.
MAGAZINE Good designers, successful products – Milan Marathon part 34/23/2013No, there was no revolt. Even Ventura Lambrate had nothing on offer that even came close to a taste of the future. Instead it was above all Konstantin Grcic who once again showed just what contemporary design can do.
MAGAZINE Streamlined nomads – The Milan marathon part 24/17/2013And on we go. To make headway, we up the pace a little and cast a glance at fluorescent yellow shoes, peek into showrooms, inner courtyards, gardens and historical buildings.
MAGAZINE It’s oh so quiet4/17/2013Beyond the hustle and bustle of the fair, BMW joined forces with the Bouroullec brothers and presented an installation that aims to articulate the automotive marque’s new orientation toward sustainability and electromobility. A chat with Head of Design Adrian van Hooydonk sheds light on an unconventional vision of mobility for the future.
MAGAZINE An evening with Karl4/17/2013None other than Karl Lagerfeld graced this year’s Salone del Mobile with his presence. The master of elegance held court with Cassina, for whom he immortalized a selection of furniture classics on film. A marriage of icons the likes of which has never been seen before. And a one-off, almost one-to-one evening with Karl.
MAGAZINE What a relief – The Milan marathon part 14/17/2013Milan 2013, a mixture of prudence, consolidation and solid design work. A little less hype and fewer prototypes, too. This is certainly doing the industry good.
MAGAZINE Yoko: Anderssen&Voll dream up a luminaire for Foscarini4/3/2013We had thought it to be “ex oriente lux”. But “Yoko’s” charming light actually hails from the North.
MAGAZINE Fionda, Medici, Radice: wooden items by Jasper, Konstantin and Sam4/3/2013Mattiazzi is extending Konstantin Grcic’s Medici armchair to include a footstool and a table. Jasper Morrison has busied himself with a camping frame, while Sam Hecht has elected to remain upright.
MAGAZINE Mikado: Showing what you’ve got...4/3/2013... or perhaps not? Cupboards protect objects from prying eyes, light and dust – unless they are designed by Front.
MAGAZINE On Billy Wilder’s set: The things the Eames trained their lenses on4/3/2013Did you know that Charles Eames took photos on his friend Billy Wilder’s movie sets? A current exhibition reveals his photographic work – and much more besides.
MAGAZINE SixE: A PearsonLloyd chair for Howe4/3/2013You can get stacking chairs two a penny. But now PearsonLloyd has developed the SixE for Howe. While it has four legs, it is in fact a combination of six “e”s.
MAGAZINE Every trick in the book…3/22/2013Daniel Buren has been playing around with the boundaries of art since the 1960s, the same boundaries he himself moves in. Now he has switched up the playing field, taking Louis Vuitton models and staging them like pieces in his own game of chess.
MAGAZINE A breath of fresh air from the North2/14/2013Scandinavian design stands for simplicity, reliability and high-quality craftsmanship. At this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair we were met with attempts to redefine such values in the 21st century.
MAGAZINE Sustainability, as you like it12/23/2011BODW Business of Design Week in Hong Kong has emerged as the leading design event in the entire region. This year, the Guest of Honor was Germany, which chose key themes. Renowned German manufacturers presented their products and ideas in the Asian business metropolis. Among the numerous, internationally reputed speakers was Bjarke Ingels, who gave a convincing talk on "Hedonistic Sustainability".
MAGAZINE “Nude” or preferably revealing a little less10/6/2011At this time of year, the Spanish city of Valencia offers prime climatic conditions for a relaxed, short break to visit to the Design Week. But does that mean you have leave all of your clothes at home?
MAGAZINE Experimental designs6/20/2010This year's DMY Design Festival in Berlin showed experimental prototypes by young designers and injected life into the disused Tempelhof airport.
MAGAZINE Form follows performance – The DMY Festival in Berlin5/28/2008DMY – that means: Design forever! A passionate demonstration of love – of design as creative capital. For the refreshing thing about the DMY International Design Festival is the many young designers who are presenting their works for the first time and (before) they have become big business.
MAGAZINE Berlin in May – The new DMY International Design Festival5/15/2008What initially still looks like Design Mai Youngsters, has changed its name. From this year it will be called Daily, Monthly, Yearly (DMY). This year, the established format for young design is opening up its frontiers with the “Allstars.” From May 21 until 25, the main players in the international design scene will meet at the DMY.