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Top notch for living

by Sandra Hofmeister

Boasting perfect details and serene comfort Hermès Maison came a clear winner. The company's tradition in craftsmanship, its finishing techniques for leather and fabric, combined with singular patterns constitute the brand's image in furniture as well. The collection was presented at Pelota hall in a house installation by Shigeru Ban.

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How people experience food processors

Oliver Grabes heads the design department of the long-standing company Braun and in conversation with Jens Müller explains his way of looking at things. What is the design process at Braun like today, how does the company deal with Dieter Rams' legacy, and why are Apple products so successful compared with Braun?

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The return of the curved

by Nora Sobich

Be it purses, chairs or roofs: Wickerwork, one of the world's oldest construction methods is experiencing a revival.

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Stories build, stitch by stitch

by Lucy Bullivant

"Go on with your patchwork, like a little lady", wrote George Eliot, a reminder of the socially aspirational art of making quilts. This British artistic practice went on to influence crafts internationally, think of the Amish quilt. Linking art and social life at all levels, it is the subject of an ongoing exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.

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温泉

They can heal everything, other than a broken heart, or so a Japanese proverb would have it. They are the "onsen", the Japanese term for hot tubs.

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The two goddesses of Indian design

by Georg-Christof Bertsch

When the discussion turns to contemporary design, few people in Germany necessarily think of India. In Ahmedabad, the descendant of an ancient textile empire is working hard to change this.

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Learning from the land of water

by Nina Reetzke

Water destroys, heals, seduces. In hardly any other country is this more apparent than Indonesia, country of countless islands. While in the West, water tends to be managed mechanically, and of late digitally, in Indonesia it is a design element in spatial planning, architecture and interior designs.

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What Bauhaus could never have imagined

by Nina Reetzke

The latest tubular steel product from Thonet is a floor luminaire called "Lum". With its curved shape, it seems to bridge the gap between classic and contemporary tubular steel furniture. Let us take you on a tour of the history, spanning decades, of its development.

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Living in nine tubo

The symposium on "Regionalism in current industrial design from Japan and Europe" offered an opportunity to converse with designer Makoto Koizumi who does not yet have a presence outside Japan. In conversation with Nina Reetzke he explains what his furniture collection "Tetsubo" and his new interpretations of the "9tubohouse" are all about.

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Functional ornamentation

by Nancy Jehmlich

Centuries ago, in a small town in Tunisia on the edge of the Sahara, craftsmen experimented with the decorative potential of brick. At the same time they created functional but contemporary architecture.-

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Re-interpreting tradition

by Sophia Muckle

Stefan Diez has created two chairs for long-standing furniture makersThonet.

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