With their exquisite floorboards, the rooms in Villa Austevoll, the brainchild of Saunders Architecture, create an ideal reference to Norway’s impressive world of countless islets.

The International Architecture Triennial recently opened in Sharjah. The curator is the Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo – in this interview, she tells us what to expect.

With "Frank" for Pedrali, Robin Rizzini has created a table that impresses from every angle and whose sculptural form can be customised in numerous ways.

The new "COLUMN" collection by Inga Sempé for Reform shows the future of the modern kitchen: multifunctional, modular and unconventional.

With "Tolda", Cleaf has designed a surface that is inspired by boat planks and brings a maritime aesthetic to interiors.

Object Carpet creates a homely atmosphere in the CSMM office in Düsseldorf with silky velour carpets in strong colours that can be flexibly adapted to creative tasks.

The communicative spaces inside Sigma's new Kawasaki office are furnished with Arper products, which define the areas of the building through their function and colour.

With the new "Past Forward" carpet tile collection, Interface is presenting a functional homage to the innovations of recent decades to mark the company's 50th anniversary.

Repairing instead of throwing away and, if you want to make a change, simply optimising the look instead of buying new. Manufacturers such as Stykka from Denmark and J*Gast from Germany are rethinking the kitchen and thus represent a sustainable investment as well as an aesthetic alternative.

From January 9–12, 2024, Heimtextil Trend Space will showcase the status of all the different efforts to achieve a more sustainable textile industry. And what it needs first and foremost is a new mindset, a new sensitivity.

If you want a professional-level cooking experience, you need equipment that leaves nothing to be desired: The "CombiSteamer V600045L Grand" from V-Zug offers an exceptionally wide cooking space that can accommodate several dishes at the same time.

He leads interviews and designs situations: A conversation with the young German designer Silvio Rebholz.

As part of the “Make it yours!” promotion campaign AXOR has developed three new bathroom concepts with Barber Osgerby, Ushi Tamborriello, and Masquespacio, which demonstrate how a sensory experience can be created in the bathroom through color, texture and tactility.

This is how mountain hotels work today: the family-run Hotel Saltus above Bolzano in South Tyrol celebrates closeness to nature – with contemporary architecture instead of chalet chic.

Stylepark is raffling off a "giro" table lamp from mawa!

The DVRZ Design Days in Kyiv recently provided a platform for designers from all corners of Ukraine to showcase their creations, fostering an environment of collaboration and mutual support. Curator Larysa Tsybina and architect Anait Danielian tell us what it takes to continue their creative work in the midst of war and what we can all learn from it.

In recent years, Arper has shifted its strategic focus from Corporate Social Responsibility to Corporate Shared Value in order to meet the demands of the environmental crisis. So what are the essential steps involved here?

With "MATCH", müller möbelfabrikation has developed a modular shelving system that can be flexibly adapted to different settings.

Dutch Design Week was held in Eindhoven until 29 October 2023. "Designers are on a mission," states a press release of the event, with the aim of offering solutions to global challenges on a local level. This includes the climate crisis as well as the future of our nutrition or a more efficient layout of urban environments.

Michele Cazzaniga, Simone Mandelli and Antonio Pagliarulo founded the interdisciplinary CMP Design Studio in 2009 and since then have been creating both furniture and brand identities. We visited them in their studio in Como.

Environmental science graduate Jörg Hoffmann is the Sustainability Manager at German furniture manufacturer and international player Wilkhahn. In this interview he highlights what issues are key in its commitment to the environment and which goals are still on the agenda.

With its flagship product "SparkShape", Ambright offers a patented light-printing process that gives architects, designers and planners maximum freedom of creation.

In “Van B”, Munich’s latest architectural landmark, Holzrausch was one of only ten German interior design studios selected to exclusively fit out an entire penthouse apartment. In the “Holzrausch Edition Van B”, superlative no-frills clarity combines with the carefully executed craftsmanship in the company’s own workshops.

The Venetian luminaire manufacturer Lodes and Stylepark recently invited to the Stylepark Architects Day in the lagoon city.

With new colours, LX Hausys/ HIMACS is expanding its exclusive design possibilities with its own solid surface material, which can be shaped into any required form.

A variety of carpet tiles that can create any interior design imaginable – Interface has been developing textile modular floor coverings for 50 years. To celebrate the anniversary, the US company is showing a new collection inspired by the styles of the past decades: "Past Forward".

With a 124-metre-long apartment line, the team of Christ&Gantenbein Architects from Basel activates an area in the middle of the south of Paris that has not been used for residential purposes until now and shows how social housing can be designed in 2023.

In our series Spotlight on Women Architects we regularly present the work of female architects – for example the buildings of Silvia Gmür, whose residential buildings and hospitals left a mark on Swiss architecture.

At a recent press conference for the the international furniture and interiors fair imm cologne 2024, the Koelnmesse pointed the way towards community: "Connecting Communities" is the new guiding theme.

Elena Kayser recently attracted attention to herself as part of the "Mono Residency" when she reinterpreted a classic: the teapot from the Mono manufactory. For her jewellery label Studio Èna, the up-and-coming designer works with a traditional material that has lately had a shadowy existence in design: pewter.

With the renovation and restoration of the Derzbachhof in Munich, Peter Haimerl and raumstation have breathed new life into an old farmhouse. Berker switches, now a subtle part of the architecture, constitute a key element of the interior design.

"A Lot With Little" is the name of Noemí Blager's current work. The architect and curator recently presented the interdisciplinary project at the Architecture Biennale in Venice: Ten short films made in collaboration with filmmaker Tapio Snellman and composer Daniel Nolan. The project is supported by the design label Arper.

Architect@Work will soon be presenting its diverse programme of product presentations, exhibitions and lectures in Stuttgart and Düsseldorf.

The "Schulen am SteinPark Freising" schools are embedded in spacious parkland. Structured on the upper floors by Rieder’s "formparts" their facades jell well with the outdoor world.