Deliverance from the curse of Marinetti: Venetian expedition episode 10 Our era tends to be more backward-looking than future-led. Nonetheless Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's technofacist, imaginative awakening haunts Giardini. Only Tamara Grcic's life rafts help with this.

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The Codes of the Invisible Martin Margiela is the conceptual thinker of fashion, but one who consciously remains invisible. His oeuvre is more present than ever before on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the existence of Maison Martin Margiela: in the form of exhibitions in Antwerp and Munich, an installation in Milan and a book that is coming out in the fall. It all shows that he pre-empted not only trends in fashion but also in furniture design.

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The Palestine Syndrome: out and about in Venice episode 9 Can art be instrumental in eluding the vicious circle of violence? Not being an officially recognized state, Palestine does not have an official pavilion. Nonetheless, the show "Palestine c/o Venice", demonstrates how diversely and vividly a subtenant can operate.

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Don’t take his kindness for weakness Gaetano Pesce's sofa design gives you the feeling of lying by a refreshing waterfall high up in the mountains. A piece of furniture with a summer feeling.

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Design debate to the power of three A valuable, collectable design object is resplendent on every page. The Zurich Museum of Design presents its collection in a practical, almost square but good book.

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Come to table Be it outside in the balmy summer air under the large "table" outside the Schirn, or inside enjoying a coffee at one of the small tables with the latest chair designs by Nitzan Cohen and Stefan Diez, or even at the terrazzo bar, or having a meal in a large group, like knights - at the large round table beneath the massive canopy. "Table" offers it all.

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Urban Panorama as Cosmic Beauty: Venetian Wanderings, Part 8 It would not let me go. I had to go back there two, three, four times. Back to this work from the glisteningly bright City of Water: "Orbite Rosse", a double video projection in Venice's pitch black Arsenale hall.

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Matt gold, please! Hand-crafted porcelain: obscenely expensive, decorative items for the glass cabinet, figurines ... we know the kind of thing only too well. And then you find yourself taking part in a guided tour round the Nymphenburg porcelain manufactory and you rediscover a world long thought to be forgotten, full of craftsmen who are proud of their work and pieces which breathe life.

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The greyhounds of the art business: Venetian Wanderings, Part 7 In the giardini the spectacle is in full swing. People everywhere and art everywhere. Everything is important and everything clamors for attention. But in the film "Giardini" by Steve McQueen in the Great Britain pavilion, visitors are confronted with a surprisingly different image of the gardens of the Venetian Biennial and of art.

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No Peace in the Huts: Venetian Wanderings, Part 6 Architectural models usually depict buildings which have not yet been built, in a smaller form. In the Turkish pavilion it is a different story. Here, Ahmet Ögüt displays a model city of houses which no longer exist.

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Double the design budget! Is Opel now in crisis because its design was not right? What sources of inspiration does a designer draw on? Does good design flourish more in a large enterprise or a family-run business? At an event organized by Mini München in cooperation with bulthaup and Loewe, three discussion rounds addressed these questions.

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The Bauhaus is blue A young guy is waiting at the traffic lights next to us wearing a machine gun. While wandering along looking in shop windows, we come across a black and white poster with German text referring to the new paper bag by Munich-based designer Saskia Diez. We are in Tel Aviv, on the trail of the largest conjoined ensemble of buildings in the early international style.

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The luxurious suffering of Mr. B.: Venetian Wanderings, Part 5 A house full of art that's up for sale, and a Modernist bungalow in whose noble seats young men pose slurping their vodka-&-tonics. In the form of "The Collectors", Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have created not only a psychogram of art collectors today.

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