ARCHITECTURE Renz 2022: SLIDE CONNECT10/26/2022With "Slide Connect", Renz is expanding its "Slide" collection with additional options that can be used to furnish future-proof workspaces in a uniform design language.
STYLEPARK AXOR On a voyage of discovery10/26/2022With the P155 maisonette, Peter Ippolito and Stefan Gabel have created an atmospheric retreat for themselves. The bathroom, equipped with the "AXOR Urquiola" collection, is a design highlight.
DESIGN Interface 2022: OPEN AIR10/25/2022The new "Open Air" carpet tile collection from Interface has been specially developed for open spaces. This allows large areas to be played with in a variety of creative ways.
FEATURED A Tent in the Office10/25/2022Steelcase Work Tents are a hybrid of architecture and furniture that can be used to flexibly zone open-plan workspaces.
STYLEPARK ARPER Going full tilt10/24/2022Furniture that does brilliantly in functional and aesthetic terms, both in your own four walls and in classic office spaces. That is something Arper was achieving even before remote working became all the fashion.
FEATURED An all-round table10/24/2022At Orgatec 2022 Gumpo will be presenting “pipo”, a new table offering a maximum of flexibility, an impressive feature in itself. This lightweight item can be assembled without tools, adapted to suit individual requirements, and hooked up to the power supply by means of an invisible cable duct.
DESIGN Camira 2022: MAIN LINE FLAX10/24/2022Camira offers 24 new colours for its popular "Main Line Flax" textile series, which refresh the palette and increase the design possibilities many times over.
DESIGN Flokk: HAG CELI10/24/2022Flokk's "HÅG Celi" is a flexible chair that is lightweight, comfortable, stackable and made from more than 75 percent recycled and renewable materials.
AWARD NOMINATION S-CAB 2022: DRESS_CODE10/21/2022A casual armchair that leaves plenty of room for individual design: "DRESS_CODE" by gumdesign for S-CAB easily meets this challenge.
FEATURED Time to shine10/21/2022Orgatec, the leading international trade fair for the modern working world, is in the starting blocks – for the first time since 2018 due to the pandemic. Design Post Köln offers a special parallel exhibition space in the listed three-hinged arch hall.
INTERVIEWS Foreign worlds10/20/2022The exhibition "Unknown Unknows" is the centrepiece of the 23rd international exhibition of the Triennale Milano. On display are more than a hundred works, projects and installations that explore the unknown. Curator Ersilia Vaudo, astrophysicist and Chief Diversity Officer of the European Space Agency, explains the concept in an interview.
DESIGN Camira 2022: MAIN LINE TWIST10/20/2022With "Main Line Twist", Camira introduces a new fabric made from two natural fibre yarns that reinterprets the classic tweed.
FEATURED Biographical spaces10/19/2022In Stuttgart, no w here architects have transformed an old building apartment into a personal retreat where serien.lighting luminaires are part of the overall concept.
ARCHITECTURE Between Städel and Erdkeil10/18/2022Every other year, graphic designer Wilhelm E. Opatz and the association Freunde Frankfurts produce an architectural guide on Frankfurt, titled “Architekturführer Frankfurt.” Each edition addresses one decade of architectural history in the metropolis on the Main. And the guides explore much more than the buildings themselves. The latest publication is dedicated to the 1990s.
DESIGN Mara 2022: TIMMY LIBRO H105010/18/2022Mara's new "Timmy Libro H1050" table is a perfect companion for any working or living environment: minimalist in form, foldable in function and flexible to transport on castors.
DESIGN Gira 2022: GIRA ESPRIT10/17/2022Gira has supplemented the "Gira Esprit" switch range with the color spectrum of the "Gira System 55" and offers a total of five colors for this purpose.
INTERVIEWS Tearing buildings down is not the solution10/17/2022“Adaptive Architecture – Building Upon the Existing” is the name of the current DAM exhibition being held at the museum’s temporary quarters in Frankfurt’s Ostend district of. It runs until January 15, 2023 and highlights just how topical the issue is.
STYLEPARK LAUFEN Efficient Network10/14/2022Laufen Smart makes sustainable and predictive water management possible at any time and from any location. Laufen products can be digitally regulated and managed either via an app or by integration into the facility management technology.
DESIGN Kristalia 2022: TONBO10/14/2022Kensaku Oshiro has designed the "Tonbo" chair for the Italian furniture manufacturer Kristalia, whose backrest refers to a shy creature of nature.
NEW WORK A wild ride10/13/2022Rapids, waterfalls, sudden changes of direction: the book "The Office of Good Intentions" is unusual. Our critic Florian Heilmeyer has let himself be shaken by it.
INTERVIEWS At the interface10/12/2022Antrei Hartikainen realises projects from Fiskars Village in southern Finland which can be product design as well as sculpture or installation. The designer, master carpenter and sculptor translates the transitions between the disciplines into extraordinary works.
DESIGN Arper 2022: ONEMM10/11/2022With "ONEMM", Peter Kunz has designed the essence of a table for Arper – purist in form, resource-saving and robust in quality and simple in construction.
SUSTAINABILITY Better rethinking10/11/2022Dr Christian Sonnendecker and his team from the Institute for Analytical Chemistry at the University of Leipzig have discovered an enzyme that can degrade PET plastic in just a few hours. He tells us in an interview what it will take for this technology not to remain research.
DESIGN Martinelli Luce 2022: AVRO10/10/2022The pendant lamp "Avro" by Martinelli Luce offers a socket in the lower part of the shade, allowing new forms of smart working.
FAIRS & EVENTS The new light10/10/2022Vibia, Midgard, e15, Diez Office, Neumann Communication and Stylepark present a flexible lighting concept developed by Stefan Diez at Badias Schirn Café in the old town of Frankfurt am Main. The installation was opened last Monday evening with an atmospheric dinner.
FEATURED STORY New accesses10/10/2022The new "Gira Keyless In Fingerprint" adds a module to the "Gira System 106" that enables keyless access to buildings.
YOUNG TALENTS Not made to stay in the shop window10/7/2022Benedikt Stonawski and Hauke Unterburg founded ante up – a studio for circular product and furniture design – in 2020. In addition to design, they have since worked as consultants for companies on the topic of eco-design principles, sustainable materials and production methods. We met them for an interview.
FAIRS & EVENTS Green Roots10/6/2022Pedrali thinks green – in every aspect of its work from sustainable production to environmentally conscious design. Nature conservation and cultural heritage have been part of the Italian furniture maker’s DNA since its founding. The publishers of Stylepark accepted Pedrali’s generous invitation to the festival “I Maestri del Paesaggio”.
DESIGN Martinelli Luce 2022: COBRA 10010/6/2022Martinelli Luce celebrates the 100th birthday of company founder Elio Martinelli with a "Cobra" lamp in yellow, limited, signed and numbered to 100 pieces.
LIGHT + BUILDING AUTUMN EDITION – REVIEW 10 Highlights Light + Building Autumn Edition10/5/2022This autumn, Messe Frankfurt is shining all the brighter: the compact special Light + Building Autumn Edition of the world's leading trade fair for lighting and building technology is bringing the industry together again after the pandemic-related break. We show you ten highlights out of the halls.
RESTAURANT Between Heaven and Earth10/4/2022Bonnie, a restaurant in the Morland Mixité Capitale, refurbished and extended by David Chipperfield Architects, is now one of Paris' architectural and gastronomic highlights.
DESIGN Gira 2022: GIRA E2 SURFACE-MOUNTED BLACK MATT10/4/2022The "Gira E2" switch range has been expanded to include a surface-mounted solution that is also available in matt black and includes a lighting element.
FEATURED Harbor light10/3/2022The KAI 8B office building, equipped with luminaires from TTC Timmler Technology, forms a new luminous building block in Düsseldorf's Medienhafen.
STYLEPARK RAFFLE Sustainable and convenient10/1/2022Stylepark is raffling off one "Tion" swivel chair by HÅG.
DESIGN Gloster 2022: HAVEN9/30/2022With "Haven", Sebastian Herkner has designed an outdoor collection for Gloster whose comfortable furnishings create a place of retreat.