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The success of Japanese designer Oki Sato is closely bound up with the Milan Salone Satellite. The straightforward approach to various design disciplines he experienced there was his inspiration when he set up his company Nendo. Ayako Kamozawa discusses this with Oki Sato.

In 2021, Barbara Elwardt and Piotr Wisniewski founded weStudio in Berlin, a multidisciplinary creative studio specialising in interior design, gastronomy and the hotel industry. With a focus on art and custom-made furniture, the duo creates harmonious spaces.

In Berlin's West, the architecture office Coordination has converted two attic flats into an elegant penthouse. Now the Wilhelminian architecture serves as a colourful backdrop for the art.

Light, luxury and fluid transitions: Patricia Urquiola has created a modern retreat with the hotel "Il Sereno Lago di Como", which was recently expanded with an exclusive penthouse suite.

With the Shiroiya Hotel, Sou Fujimoto Architects have succeeded in producing a fascinating combination of an old building and a conversion, design, architecture and art. Michele de Lucchi, Jasper Morrison, Leandro Erlich and Sou Fujimoto have each designed one of the rooms.

On the occasion of Vico Magistretti’s 100th birthday.