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Modernization of an apartment in Amsterdam von Laura Álvarez

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Culture Yard in Helsingør by AART Architects

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Villa in Kitzbühel by Splendid Architecture

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News & Stories | Salone del Mobile 2011 – supported by Villeroy & Boch Tiles

Milan in four bags or: Design, theatrical, practical, feudal and universal

by Thomas Wagner

Perhaps everything on show in Milan at the exhibition center in Rho, in the booths of Superstudio Più, in showrooms and back-yard workshops ultimately fits into four bags. Let’s see if it does. What would we write on the movable containers if we were to put in them the things we noticed among all the abundance?

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Curved surfaces and oblique lines

Designing the new Vodafone building in Oporto, Portugal, the architects José António Barbosa and Pedro Guimarães of Barbosa Guimarães Arquitectos wished to reflect Vodafone's credo "Vodafone Life, Life in Motion".

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Work wherever you want!
Office worlds 2010 – part 1: of citizens, territories and islands

by Thomas Wagner

Work wherever you want!<br>Office worlds 2010 – part 1: of citizens, territories and islands

You will search in vain for a new paradigm or new typologies of work at the Orgatec 2010. Instead, people are busy working away at furniture systems that enable the temporary privacy of retreat in the midst of the open field of omnipresent communication.

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The Pitfalls of Objects – Episode 1: Nature is Super

by Thomas Wagner

A chair is a chair and a table is a table and so on and so forth... That is correct and yet incorrect. For the symbolic qualities of the things that surround us daily are by no means as functional as a chic hat on a bonehead. Yet even symbolism has its pitfalls.

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Two brothers in a brilliant game with nature. Hey, boys will be boys

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Inverted warehouse building in New York by Dean/Wolf Architects

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Farm and luxury hotel in South Arica

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Cisterns and aqueducts – Kinsterna Hotel in Greece by Divercity

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All my sofas are islands

Piero Lissoni’s sofas have an almost legendary reputation. In the design process, he draws inspiration from the Italian lifestyle, and not boring functionalism. Sandra Hofmeister talked to the Italian designer about sofas and royalties, beauty and rituals.

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Ghosts walk in the furniture cemetery

by Silke Gehrmann-Becker

What happens to furniture that has done its service? It is stored in attics, cellars and in forgotten corners. And sometimes it seems as if the old items had taken on a life of their own.

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Architecture en miniature

by Franziska Horn

In Munich, at an exhibition entitled "Architekturchen" Ingo Maurer is presenting surprising works by Italian design star Michele de Lucchi. They show how working with wood can trigger new thought processes and inspire new ideas.

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Molteni & C - Family business and elective affinities

by Vera Siegmund

In Italy, the institution of the family traditionally has a high standing, and keeping it together requires a constant, active entrepreneurial spirit. As such it is no wonder that precisely in Italy there is an above average number of family-run companies - and extremely successful ones at that.
In the case of Molteni & C, with a payroll of 250 the family business has long since reached corporate size, and is one of the most important manufacturers in the furniture industry. Its history is typical of such firms.

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