The human soul is like water Wellness, spa, ritual baths, the bathroom is becoming the living room, the materials more ecological, the technical equipment more complex. The world's leading trade fair in its field, the ISH, takes place every other year and this year, in March, it is celebrating its Golden Jubilee.

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Excavations in the sediments of lifestyles Not always are trend forecasts completely free of embarrassment. For many years now Li Edelkoort has been considered the industry's most influential representative. Her "Archeology of the Future" exhibition is currently on show in Paris - in it, for the first time she presents her work and design trends of the last 20 years. Without in any way having cause for embarrassment.

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Complete artwork including big game In 1953, when Gio Ponti was commissioned to design the Villa Planchart, he was not even sure in which country Caracas was located. Nonetheless in the following years on a hill overlooking the Venezuelan metropolis he created a complete artwork of decorative Modernism set. Fifty years later it looks just as fresh as it did on the first day.

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The Language of Things In the book "The Language of Things" the director of the Design Museum in London writes about his future vision of a world drowning in things and a society that produces these things.

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Magpies, barbed wire and Swedish Design So much is evident: The big furniture fairs face tough competition. After all, while they are moaning in Cologne about vacant booths at roughly the same time Stockholm successfully hosted a small event that was booked out. Moreover, the Stockholm Furniture Fair & Northern Light Fair have even expanded their capacities and proven that they can certainly play in the first league of the design fairs.

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German Design Award 2009 The Design Awards of the Federal Republic of Germany were bestowed in the course of the opening of Ambiente in Frankfurt. There were five Gold and 20 Silver medal winners. Moreover, the designer Richard Sapper was honored for his life's work.

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Design in Dubai still comes from Europe Dubai is a place that is on the one hand the product of immense artificiality and yet, on the other, one where art and design continue mainly to lead a hidden existence. This state of affairs is starting to change on the basis of a new form of interculturality, as evidenced, for example, by the "Traffic" design gallery.

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Sushi meets sauerkraut When two brands join up you can expect the results to be surprising: At the Tokyo Design Week, Thonet and Muji presented the first fruits of their joint efforts. Do these furniture designs really reflect the two partners' values?

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Sundown over the Stardust For the first time in 1972, "Learning from Las Vegas" took an unbiased look at an architectural genre, which consciously bought into ostentatious effects and symbols, so it's hardly surprising that overly serious architects still turn up their noses when they hear the name. Now a beautifully presented illustrated book has been created, which allows the reader to take a look into the photo archives, which form the basis for this book by Venturi and Scott Brown.

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Curtains of steel The fabrics in the Silver and Steel Collection from Creation Baumann are a technical innovation: Using a thin aluminium or steel coating, these textiles actually reflect the sun's rays, thus controlling light and heat.

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What does “autonomous” mean here? Object Rotterdam focuses on contemporary Dutch design. It initially took place two years ago as a one-off pilot project. Now it has been launched as a new trade fair, parallel to Art Rotterdam. So far so good. However, the event format needs some refining.

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Sergeant Pepper’s Longing for the Fur Cup Don't think graphic designers would be content with giving surfaces an appealing design. They too feel the urge to break out into the freedom of 3D. What happens when they do so can be marveled at in the book ‘Drei D - Grafische Räume.'

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9/11 also destroyed design Every morning I have my tea from a cup that he designed. The favourite hotel of a friend of mine originated in his work. Matteo Thun is undoubtedly one of the great designers of our time. For Parador, he created several floor designs. We talked with the architect about the tactile appeal of wood and the decline of design.

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Almost gone with the wind The trade fair Maison & Objet in Paris only partially exploited the sorry scene the crisis-ridden imm Cologne preented. A gale prevented total triumph.

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Views of a casual visitor It is anything but a small fair – sixteen halls in total, which every two years open their doors for BAU in Munich. Visitors encounter a sort of labyrinth-like microcosm of anything related to building. “Same groove as for HP5” the poster reads. I see! A fair for the experts.

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Fundstücke: lacing with cult status In tune with Zaha - from head to toe: not only buildings, landscaped spaces, sofas - now there are shoes that bear Zaha Hadid's unmistakably dynamic signature.

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