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When Koelnmesse invites visitors to Copenhagen to announce news, there can only be a good reason: At the press event, Denmark presented itself as a very appealing partner country for imm cologne 2025 and, with a creative breeze, aroused curiosity about the next international furniture and interiors fair.

With cardboard and tenacity: Berlin designer Pascal Hien founded his own studio last year after ten years at the Fabrica Research Centre, Steelcase and Konstantin Grcic. Hien's first designs for Tecta and Le Klint have just been launched on the market.

Villeroy & Boch offers a wide selection of mixers that are perfectly coordinated with its own bathroom collections. The ingenious new products include the “Infinity Showers” collection.

At the Milan Furniture Fair, Bonaldo presented a new office collection under the name "Executive Space". With its sculptural shape, the "Flatiron" table is made to furnish exclusive working areas as well as to create representative dining and living environments.

A university building from 1908 was carefully refurbished and transformed into a boutique hotel with a special charm: Thanks to custom-made bricks by Petersen Tegl, a relief-like façade was created for an extension that forges a link between the historic building and its new function.

With "Soho", the Kinnarps brand Materia is expanding its portfolio by adding a desk with an expressive design and natural materials that turns any space into a harmonious place for concentrated and inspired work.

With a new recycling plant, Interface is taking a determined step towards its goal of continuously producing more sustainably. The manufacturer is thus giving its customers the opportunity to purchase an environmentally conscious alternative for floor coverings – and to return them to production after use.

Pedrali outdoor furniture is inspired by the natural beauty of Italian landscapes. They carry the flair of Mediterranean sunny spots – and transform outdoor spaces into places of serene harmony.

Heiko Kühnen is the plant and development manager of the Gläserne Manufaktur (Transparent Factory) run by Object Carpet in Krefeld. In the following interview he tells us how his firm’s “DUO” technology will have a lasting impact on the production of high-quality floor coverings and design carpets.

With the re-edition of ‘Kashima’, Ligne Roset is bringing back a comfortable classic that has offered a modern design since the seventies thanks to designer Michel Ducaroy.

Stylepark is raffling off a ‘PARIS M’ pendant light from Ambright!

Architect Björn Liese started out as a one-man office with an unusual project – the conversion of a Hamburg bunker into a residential building. In this interview, he tells us what he has learnt in the process for future construction.

Kari Virtanen is one of the pioneers who came to Fiskars in Finland in the early 1990s and transformed the small town into a design destination. Co-owner and CEO Johanna Vuorio told us how a carpentry workshop became a globally active furniture company during an interview at the headquarters there.

Herzog & De Meuron have designed a luminaire that embodies their architectural language. With Artemide's expertise, "Dreispitz" becomes a balanced triad of composition, production and light performance.

The concept of low dining, previously confined to exclusive outdoor settings, has now been introduced to the interior design sector. The low version of the "Marie" upholstered armchair, created by Freifrau, represents a new synthesis of lounge and dining, offering a sophisticated solution for interior spaces.

Stay flexible and keep the design holistic is the motto: With "Net.Work.Place Wave" König + Neurath has created a lounge system that is based on a sustainable modular concept is therefore ideally suited to shaping working environments.

Summer goes into extra time: from 20 to 29 September, Vienna Design Week invites you to the third district "with a lot of sunshine in the heart". This year's focus district Landstraße attracts visitors with its diverse urban structure – and headquarters, which will be housed in a new building for the first time.

Artificial Intelligence and New Work – two current topics that global design and architecture firm Gensler is constantly researching. We gain insight into their work in an interview with Lukasz Platkowski, Principal and Managing Director for Gensler in Berlin, and Philip Tidd, Principal and Managing Director for Gensler in Munich.

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we are introducing the work of female architects to you at regular intervals. And now it’s the turn of Sofia Ceylan, Dr. Katharina Neubauer and Annabelle von Reutern, who have teamed up under the name TOMAS.

The "Mia" sofa is more than just a piece of furniture – it is a place to feel at ease, a symbol of comfort and versatility. It thus embodies the core values of the Freifrau manufactory in a unique way. In this featured film, Ilja Huber gives an exclusive insight into his design.

For his master’s thesis on “Compostable Devices” Eric Geissler researched alternative materials for small electric appliances. Accordingly, his casing for a hairdryer was made of compostable fungus mycelium. In the interview, he tells us about the benefits of the material.

Architectural structures, empty spaces, abstract fragments: The photographs by Satijn Panyigay show a state between presence and absence, full of calm and tension, melancholy and hope. In our interview, she tells us what she’s looking for.

Aaron Wessels is an architect and designer, realizes interiors, small-scale architecture, and spatial concepts, creates both product designs and sculptural objects. In our conversation he reveals how he came to have his own practice, discusses his creative roles, and why Copenhagen is not an easy place for young creative people.

Sonia Bąk-Tokarska and Michał Tokarski founded Studio Tok four years ago. In addition to their surname, "Tok" also stands for ways of thinking, and thought processes in the Polish language. In this interview, they talk about the role that painting played in their childhood and what a lamp has to do with a sumo wrestler.

Daniel Rybakken's approach has been honoured early on with many awards. We spoke to the designer about how chairs are like human bodies, the relationship between art and design and what his father taught him about cars.

Prof Sebastian Oschatz led the "Flx Tech+ Waste/4" course at the HfG Offenbach together with Prof Janina Schmidt and Carina Moser in the summer semester 2024. In this short interview, he describes how the project uses digital and interaction design to benefit agriculture.

With "J*GAST made of karuun®", the design collective J*Gast explores the qualities of the natural material for kitchen design. The combination of sculptural appearance and advanced function explores sustainable and aesthetic requirements in a new way.

The exhibition ‘Aut Now. 100 x Austrian Design for the 21st Century' at the MAK Vienna from 18 September 2024 will provide a comprehensive insight into what characterises product design today.

The example of the Pustevny Gateway shows how a transport hub at a tourist hotspot can be perfectly designed. Despite a high degree of functionality, Henkai Architekti have realised their imaginative gateway to the Czech Pustevny Mountains in the spirit of the poetic impression of the landscape.

Studio Loes became known beyond Berlin for "Element", a modular timber building. Their love of wood is apparent in many of their designs. In the following interview Gonzalo Lizama tells us how the three founding members got together and what characterizes their work.

A curated selection of light art from the Schaufler Collection is on display at Schauwerk Sindelfingen since the beginning of July. Around twenty works from the last sixty years bring the diversity of this genre of art – and its light sources – impressively into the exhibition space.

During the London Design Festival, visitors can experience a modular system made of red oak by OMC°C, Stefan Diez and AHEC, which serves to green and cool urban spaces.

The "TECEneo" shower toilet combines intuitive handling with the highest hygienic standards and low maintenance. The internationally operating family company is thus focussing on the essential tasks of its new product.

Prof. Ferdinand Ludwig is an architect and holds the Chair of Green Technologies in Landscape Architecture at Technische Universität München (TUM); he is also a partner at OLA Office for Living Architecture. In this interview, he talks to us about the uses of Baubotanik in the city of tomorrow.

The Populus Hotel in Denver is due to open soon and offers a clear contrast to the skyline of Colorado's capital: a conversation with Juliane Wolf, Design Principal and Partner at Studio Gang, about trees as inspiration, hotels to revitalise the city centre and windows that can be lived in.