ARCHITECTURE Nature Meets High-Tech11/4/2022Madrid-based Ensamble Studio combine sculptural construction with advanced manufacturing methods to create a work of impressive stringency.
MOBILITY With the bus into the future11/3/2022How should mass transit be designed to get people excited about it? Emission-free, autonomous, comfortable, elegant and futuristic? With Agora E, industrial designer Andrea Ponti is designing a vehicle of the future – and of encounters.
FEATURED A Nest Above the Metropolis11/3/2022"One Forty West" is one of the latest additions to Frankfurt am Main's skyline. A model apartment designed by Sebastian Herkner is equipped with switches from Berker, exemplifying the design aspirations these residential units have.
DESIGN The Chameleon Thread11/2/2022The designers at Panorama Fabrics in Berlin have developed a UV-sensitive yarn that changes color. With it, they aim to raise awareness of the potential damage caused by these rays.
FEATURED Luxury in the forest11/2/2022With Fairytale Castle, Knut Eivind Birkeland has built a romantic retreat in the forests of Norway, whose bathroom is equipped with products from Geberit.
INTERVIEWS Designing Life11/1/2022“Design for Democracy. Atmospheres for a better life” is the slogan the City of Frankfurt/Main and Rhine-Main region have adopted in a bid to become “World Design Capital 2026.” Prof. Matthias Wagner K, Director of Frankfurt’s Museum Angewandte Kunst, is heading the bid. He explains the concept behind it in this interview.
ORGATEC 2022 – REVIEW Flexibility for stability10/31/2022Orgatec is back and with it a homely jigsaw puzzle that maps the development of different requirements in the working context since 2018. Our review.
DESIGN Grau 2022: FALLING (2. Generation)10/31/2022As part of a brand relaunch, the luminaire manufacturer Grau presents the "Falling (2nd generation)" pendant luminaire, which is the further development of the classic.
INTERVIEWS Looking Ahead10/31/2022Roberta Silva has been CEO of the traditional Italian company Flos since 2019. In an interview she talked to Stylepark publishers about how she is dealing with the lighting manufacturer's successful past and what her plans for the future look like.
STYLEPARK DOPPELMAYR/GARAVENTA Connecting Lines10/28/2022Doppelmayr's Cablebús Línea 1 aerial cableway complements Mexico City's urban transport system and has contributed to improving the social balance within the city. With Cablebús Línea 3, another line is now planned that will also help integrate tourist activities within the urban fabric.
DESIGN Prostoria 2022: SABOT10/27/2022Prostoria's "Sabot" sofa system offers multi-layered configuration options due to its modularity, providing great spatial flexibility.
YOUNG TALENTS The new self-evidence10/27/2022Design has always been a discipline of questioning, experimenting and reinterpreting. For some years now, a particularly critical generation of designers has been entering the labour market. Ronja Reuber is an example of young designers who want to offer an alternative to the throwaway mentality.
ARCHITECTURE Renz 2022: SLIDE CONNECT10/26/2022With "Slide Connect", Renz is expanding its "Slide" collection with additional options that can be used to furnish future-proof workspaces in a uniform design language.
STYLEPARK AXOR On a voyage of discovery10/26/2022With the P155 maisonette, Peter Ippolito and Stefan Gabel have created an atmospheric retreat for themselves. The bathroom, equipped with the "AXOR Urquiola" collection, is a design highlight.
DESIGN Interface 2022: OPEN AIR10/25/2022The new "Open Air" carpet tile collection from Interface has been specially developed for open spaces. This allows large areas to be played with in a variety of creative ways.
FEATURED A Tent in the Office10/25/2022Steelcase Work Tents are a hybrid of architecture and furniture that can be used to flexibly zone open-plan workspaces.
STYLEPARK ARPER Going full tilt10/24/2022Furniture that does brilliantly in functional and aesthetic terms, both in your own four walls and in classic office spaces. That is something Arper was achieving even before remote working became all the fashion.
FEATURED An all-round table10/24/2022At Orgatec 2022 Gumpo will be presenting “pipo”, a new table offering a maximum of flexibility, an impressive feature in itself. This lightweight item can be assembled without tools, adapted to suit individual requirements, and hooked up to the power supply by means of an invisible cable duct.
DESIGN Camira 2022: MAIN LINE FLAX10/24/2022Camira offers 24 new colours for its popular "Main Line Flax" textile series, which refresh the palette and increase the design possibilities many times over.
DESIGN Flokk: HAG CELI10/24/2022Flokk's "HÅG Celi" is a flexible chair that is lightweight, comfortable, stackable and made from more than 75 percent recycled and renewable materials.
DESIGN S-CAB 2022: DRESS_CODE10/21/2022A casual armchair that leaves plenty of room for individual design: "DRESS_CODE" by gumdesign for S-CAB easily meets this challenge.
FEATURED Time to shine10/21/2022Orgatec, the leading international trade fair for the modern working world, is in the starting blocks – for the first time since 2018 due to the pandemic. Design Post Köln offers a special parallel exhibition space in the listed three-hinged arch hall.
INTERVIEWS Foreign worlds10/20/2022The exhibition "Unknown Unknows" is the centrepiece of the 23rd international exhibition of the Triennale Milano. On display are more than a hundred works, projects and installations that explore the unknown. Curator Ersilia Vaudo, astrophysicist and Chief Diversity Officer of the European Space Agency, explains the concept in an interview.
DESIGN Camira 2022: MAIN LINE TWIST10/20/2022With "Main Line Twist", Camira introduces a new fabric made from two natural fibre yarns that reinterprets the classic tweed.
FEATURED Biographical spaces10/19/2022In Stuttgart, no w here architects have transformed an old building apartment into a personal retreat where serien.lighting luminaires are part of the overall concept.
ARCHITECTURE Between Städel and Erdkeil10/18/2022Every other year, graphic designer Wilhelm E. Opatz and the association Freunde Frankfurts produce an architectural guide on Frankfurt, titled “Architekturführer Frankfurt.” Each edition addresses one decade of architectural history in the metropolis on the Main. And the guides explore much more than the buildings themselves. The latest publication is dedicated to the 1990s.
DESIGN Mara 2022: TIMMY LIBRO H105010/18/2022Mara's new "Timmy Libro H1050" table is a perfect companion for any working or living environment: minimalist in form, foldable in function and flexible to transport on castors.
DESIGN Gira 2022: GIRA ESPRIT10/17/2022Gira has supplemented the "Gira Esprit" switch range with the color spectrum of the "Gira System 55" and offers a total of five colors for this purpose.
INTERVIEWS Tearing buildings down is not the solution10/17/2022“Adaptive Architecture – Building Upon the Existing” is the name of the current DAM exhibition being held at the museum’s temporary quarters in Frankfurt’s Ostend district of. It runs until January 15, 2023 and highlights just how topical the issue is.
STYLEPARK LAUFEN Efficient Network10/14/2022Laufen Smart makes sustainable and predictive water management possible at any time and from any location. Laufen products can be digitally regulated and managed either via an app or by integration into the facility management technology.
DESIGN Kristalia 2022: TONBO10/14/2022Kensaku Oshiro has designed the "Tonbo" chair for the Italian furniture manufacturer Kristalia, whose backrest refers to a shy creature of nature.
NEW WORK A wild ride10/13/2022Rapids, waterfalls, sudden changes of direction: the book "The Office of Good Intentions" is unusual. Our critic Florian Heilmeyer has let himself be shaken by it.
INTERVIEWS At the interface10/12/2022Antrei Hartikainen realises projects from Fiskars Village in southern Finland which can be product design as well as sculpture or installation. The designer, master carpenter and sculptor translates the transitions between the disciplines into extraordinary works.
DESIGN Arper 2022: ONEMM10/11/2022With "ONEMM", Peter Kunz has designed the essence of a table for Arper – purist in form, resource-saving and robust in quality and simple in construction.
SUSTAINABILITY Better rethinking10/11/2022Dr Christian Sonnendecker and his team from the Institute for Analytical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig have discovered an enzyme that can degrade PET plastic in just a few hours. He tells us in an interview what it will take for this technology not to remain research.