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The lecturers and their masterful buildings

by Ralf Wollheim

As an historical institution Bauhaus may be known across the globe yet its profile remains unusually vague all the same. No wonder. After all there were three different colleges, in three different locations with three different directors. A new travel book now attempts to draw a detailed map of the school’s checkered history.

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Selected Exhibitors at imm cologne 2011

At the beginning of every year the trade fair imm cologne presents new international home trends. We present the list of selected manufacturers to found out which exhibitors they are, and where you can find them.

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News & Stories | Salone del Mobile Milan 2010

On your marks, get ready for… Milan

by Daniel von Bernstorff

To obtain an overview over the new products in the run-up to the international furniture fair "Salone del Mobile" in Milan, Stylepark has combed through the maze of highpoints to give you a foretaste of some of the product highlights you can expect.

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Here’s to the new!

by Daniel von Bernstorff

The time has come around again for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan to open its doors and for the design world to flock to the northern Italian city. And, as always, the question that's being asked is: who has the most beautiful new things to offer? Here is a small foretaste.

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News & Stories | Product typologies

The Couch. A psychoanalytical fantasy

by Thomas Wagner

What is a sofa? A piece of furniture designed for sitting together sociably or for individual relaxation? Or both? And what does that have to do with Freud's couch and the Orient?

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Just plans!

by Mathias Remmele

Hardly any other metropolis has been subjected to such radical upheavals in the last century as the German capital. The exhibition "Das ungebaute Berlin" (Unbuilt Berlin) shows the projects which never saw the light of day. Who, for example, remembers Max Bill's suggestions for expanding the New National Gallery in 1981?

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Bauhaus Revisited

by Daniel von Bernstorff

A visit to Tecta in Lauenförde is like an excursion into a different, better world. There, managing director Axel Bruchhäuser has created a cosmos where the Bauhaus and international post-war architects and artists enter into a fantastic symbiosis.

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