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Magis celebrates its 45th anniversary this year and looks back on an eventful success story that began in 1976 when Eugenio Perazza founded the company.

Eugenio Perazza, the founder of the Italian furniture manufacturer Magis, is honoured for his life's work with the ADI Compasso D'Oro Liftetime Achievement Award 2020.

System furniture was long considered the epitome of no-fun and über-rational design, but now it is undergoing a revival. The new items of system furniture are proof that functionalist Modernism is being seen in a new light and mark the end of the heyday of design art and limited editions.

In the hills behind Florence, La Marzocco, a company known for its coffee machines, runs the Accademia del Caffè Espresso, a cultural center housed in a former production plant. Interior designer Stefano Zagni found suitable furniture for the fit-out when viewing Magis’ diverse collections.

This year designers Alberto Brogliato and Federico Traverso presented their latest product for Magis: The "Trave" chair. In this interview they tell us why for them good design is essentially about balance, time, and, paring things back.

Stylepark is raffling off one "Bouquet" table lamp by Magis.

With the Stylepark Selected Award 2022, Stylepark honours the best new products of the year. These are the award winners.

Agrotourism is booming and bringing new forms of hotel business to light. The Berlin-based start-up Raus, for example, develops mobile, self-sufficient hotel rooms that it sets up in forests, meadows, fields and pastures. Architect Sigurd Larsen is responsible for the latest design.

With "Lost" and "Bouquet", BrogliatoTraverso enrich the Magis portfolio with the first light collection and a wireless vase light. Both shapes perfectly translate the philosophy of the Italian family business: they are both unique in design and universal in use.

Orgatec is back and with it a homely jigsaw puzzle that maps the development of different requirements in the working context since 2018. Our review.

The Italian family business Magis combines an international design language in its extraordinary range. "Class not mass" is the credo that Alberto Perazza, together with Barbara Minetto, continues in the second generation. We met him for an interview at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Read part one here.

Robert Stadler, an Austrian whose adopted home is Paris, has enriched the tradition-steeped KWM Krefeld with a coffee house that thoroughly lives up to the famed Viennese model. As an “gesamtkunstwerk”, it carries the spirit of productively combining art, craft, and industry forward into the Modern Age and playfully melds design and life, tradition and innovation.

With his “Bell Chair” for Magis, Konstantin Grcic has not only designed a sustainable and robust alternative to the Monobloc. For he also demonstrates by means of the contemporary color concept that the focus on the essentials in design is important in every respect.

April may be doing its rounds as usual, but the warm summer days won't be far away. For the ideal furnishing of gardens, terraces and balconies, we show you 29 current products that combine craftsmanship with elegant design.

Why do chairs have to be connected to crash bars? And what is the purpose of installing a fire hose on an armchair? In his “New Normals” solo show in Berlin's Haus am Waldsee, Konstantin Grcic shows how much our idea of normality is associated with objects.