The Qvest boutique hotel combined for a photoshooting neo-Gothic architecture with Richard Neutra products from VS Möbel.

The Westin Hotel in Hamburg’s Elbphilharmonie is pitch-perfect with Villeroy & Boch products.

The patio of a purist villa morphs on request into a world of a cool pool – thanks also to Mosa tiles.

The “Together!” exhibition at Vitra Design Museum campaigns for a common space with successful examples of a new architecture of community.

Everybody is talking about sustainable production. Camira has been practicing it for years. The British textile manufacturer makes fabrics from stinging nettles, hemp and jute and is a great champion of recycling.

In the form of “Noma” in Copenhagen, entrepreneur Thorsten Schmidt and star chef René Redzepi revolutionized cutting-edge restauranteering. And now they’ve teamed up with Norway’s highly successful Snøhetta architects for the next project, the “Barr”.

Design from Poland? Is not known by everyone. But it's absolutely worthwhile to look at the hustle and bustle of the local scene. So follow us on our tour to Gdynia, Gdansk and Warsaw to the hotspots and interesting heads of the Polish design.

He forever stood in the shadow of his predecessor Walter Gropius and his successor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Now two key buildings by Hannes Meyer have become part of the World Cultural Heritage. “At long last!”, declares Philipp Oswalt. 

The Galerie Kreo in London is showing a selection of works by Hella Jongerius – colorful – in the truest sense of the word.

DIY superstores, furniture stores, fast-food restaurants. In commercial zones, the horrendous lurks. Can things be done differently? Here are five current examples.

In retrospect everything looks clearer. A column by Michael Erlhoff.