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Dental surgeries are rarely spaces where you enjoy your visit. To ensure that at least the waiting time for the appointment flies by, Batek Architekten have created an interior design for the extension of the T7 practice in Berlin that is both individual and inspiring.

Matter and Shape invites to Paris from 7 to 10 March 2025: the design salon will take place for the second time in the Jardin des Tuileries.

Zeitraum will be exhibiting at the Munich Design Days from 13 to 16 March 2025 on the Praterinsel: Including a new version of the ‘SIT’ chair by designer Catharina Lorenz.

From 8 to 13 April 2025, the industry will be looking to Milan for the Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week. ‘Thought for Humans’ is the guiding theme of Dentsu Creative Italy and photographer Bill Durgin, whose campaign aims to make the subtle relationship between man and material visible.

Visitors to the Biennale Architettura 2025 can experience the high necessity of climate-adapted urban planning at first hand in the German Pavilion. The International Architecture Exhibition as a whole is intended to serve as a dynamic laboratory that enables disciplines to work together to make cities more resilient, healthier and more liveable.

In cooperation with Messe Frankfurt, Stylepark is organising a talk with Jens J. Wischmann and Malte Just on the first day of ISH 2025, the world's leading trade fair for water, heat and air in Frankfurt am Main, on the topic of ‘Solutions for a sustainable future: What trends does ISH offer?’.

The special exhibition ‘Pop up my Bathroom’ at the upcoming ISH in Frankfurt am Main from 17 to 21 March 2025 offers a glimpse into the future of the bathroom as well as a central meeting point to discuss holistic design.

Performance artist Marina Abramović recently presented a limited edition collection of handmade wooden and copper chairs in collaboration with Studio La Metropolitana. The setting was provided by Mexico City Art Week and the historic industrial building ‘La Laguna’, which was carefully modernised by architecture studio Productora.

With the remodelling of Eurolub's headquarters, Holzrausch demonstrates the potential that exists in brittle commercial buildings. Fine material and detail solutions were used to realise a corporate architecture that skilfully alternates between representation and comfort.

Katja Thoring is Professor of Integrated Product Design in Munich. She teaches and researches at the interface of product, space, architecture and technology. In this interview, she explains her interdisciplinary approach and how creative working environments can be designed with the needs of the user in mind.

The jury of the Designplus Award by ISH has selected 34 nominees. The competition was organised by Messe Frankfurt in cooperation with Stylepark. The final winners will be honoured on the first day of the world's leading trade fair for HVAC + Water at 2 p.m. at the DesignPlaza in Hall 3.1.

For over 30 years, the Esser/Horn duo has been impressively demonstrating how diverse textile art and design can be. In this interview, Wolfgang Horn tells us why the subject fascinates them and what characterises their work.

Vola stands for one principle: it's the original that counts, not the imitation. Architects, designers and planners have appreciated the consistently high quality offered by the traditional Danish company for decades. Its new main catalogue demonstrates that this promise also applies to the agency.

From 13 to 16 March 2025, Münchner Stoff Frühling will have a new addition this year: the Munich Design Days will take place for the first time alongside the established event for textile interior design.

With ‘Luna’ by Axel Meise, Occhio offers a fascinating luminaire series that optimises the atmosphere of rooms in a variety of ways. The ‘Luna sospeso’ pendant luminaires are part of this range.

The floor coverings by modulyss offer sustainable design that optimally supports the desired soundscape of a room. We give you an exciting insight into the wide aesthetic portfolio of the Belgian brand, which uses its expertise and creative ideas to optimise contract areas.

Kinnarps has equipped the Clermont School of Business with furnishing solutions that both take up the identity of the renowned business school and provide an ideal basis for modern higher education.

As part of Ambiente, the leading international consumer goods trade fair, the Word Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 team recently provided an initial insight into the upcoming programme.

Exceptional construction projects require customised interior design solutions – especially when it comes to lighting. Lodes offers customised lighting compositions and a service that extends from the design phase through to installation. One of the unique ideas was realised in the Kempinski San Lawrenz Hotel on the island of Gozo.

High up in the Highlands, there is a new culinary gem that forms the first outpost of the top Spanish restaurant ‘El Celler de Can Rocan’. It is owned by ‘The Macallan’, a well-known whisky distillery that has had its 200-year heritage transformed into an extraordinary restaurant experience by architect David Thulstrup.

Stylepark is giving away the 'Leyasol' Wingback Chair by Freifrau.

Stefan Seitz is the Head of Brand Management ISH at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH. In this interview, he tells us what the new offerings at the world’s leading trade fair for HVAC + Water from 17 to 21 March 2025 are and what is important in the industry now.

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Jeanne Gang. A skyscraper that set the record for the ‘tallest building designed by a woman’ certainly helped her. More important, however, is the stylistic breadth and self-assurance in her designs.

The young designer Kateryna Basiuk works on new and sustainable textiles in Lucerne. For her ‘Silent Canvas’ project, she investigated the sound-absorbing structure of insects and transferred it to knitwear. A conversation about virtual textiles, local natural materials and what moth wings have to do with fibres.

At the upcoming ISH from 17 to 21 March 2025, the premium brand Laufen will provide a diverse insight into its strong commitment to a more sustainable bathroom industry. They will also be defining their holistic approach with smart complete solutions.

When Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, supposedly ordered a yacht that runs on hydrogen, the excitement in 2020 was huge. It seemed that the technology had made it out of its niche after failed experiments as a form of propulsion for cars. The topic became virulent again after Russia's attack on Ukraine. What is the state of the debate?

With the versatile textile installation ‘among us’, renowned designer and architect Patricia Urquiola offered a glimpse of the textile design of the future at Heimtextil in Frankfurt am Main, as she demonstrated its powerful effect on the room. In this interview, she explains the concept.

We need to talk – about renewable energies, the latest technologies and circular construction methods. Messe Dortmund offers the ideal platform for discussing the future of construction with the new architecture congress ‘Impulse’.

At the Louisiana Museum in Humlebaek near Copenhagen, the first exhibition in the new series “Architecture Connecting” is currently on display: “Living Structures”. The aim is to encourage interdisciplinary discourse on how to achieve a new, environmentally aware start in architecture and design. In this interview, curator Mette Marie Kallehauge explains the concept.

Since studying at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, Frederik Weber & Gustav Dupont have played a formative and illuminating role in the Danish capital's art and design scene as the duo Frederik Gustav. In this interview, the two reveal what inspires their love of experimentation and why they have a special bond with a chair back.

For the founders of By Hogen Goh and Neoh, ‘Made in Malaysia’ is not just a description of a production location. Rather, it is a synonym for the animating power of lived multiculturalism, for traditional craftsmanship and a high standard of quality.

Bette produces architectural bathroom elements made of glazed titanium steel. In the search for new perspectives, the team is constantly exploring the limits of steel molding with renowned designers. Thilo Pahl, managing director of Bette, gives the publishers of Stylepark a glimpse behind the scenes of the think tank.

Under the name ‘into stories – architecture and beyond’, Berlin architects Romina Falk and Sophia Frommel develop individual narratives for their building projects, going beyond the usual design process. They are concerned with core questions: how they want to work and respond to the signs of the times.

SO-IL, one of the most interesting architecture studios in the USA at the moment, has set out to revolutionise multi-storey residential construction in New York City. The office is characterised by high standards in terms of both programme as well as materials and formulates a complex approach to what architecture should achieve.

Stylepark is giving away the 'Salto' storage item by Richard Lampert.