Magazine for architecture, design and art

DOMOTEX 2017

Along new paths

1/5/2017

The projects of the Young Designer Trendtable is slowly taking shape. And the young designers are questioning the customary manufacturing methods with their personal visions for the floors of tomorrow that they will present at the DOMOTEX. They’re still tweaking the details.

FEATURED

The Individualist

1/5/2017

Hanne Willmann likes the Nordic design language. Yet in her own designs the Berlin-based designer always goes one step further and arouses attention through exciting contrasts.

KLAAS KUIKEN

The Modifier

1/5/2017

Klaas Kuiken makes use of creative processes that leave their trace on the relevant object, but the Dutch designer also transforms existing products into objects of poetic beauty.

BILGE NUR SALTIK

The Poet

1/5/2017

The designs by Bilge Nur Saltik blend old and new craft techniques, different cultures and modern design. One instance, for example, is her combination of marble and high-tech, which have already been brought together in an ingenious way.

BRIGGS & COLE

The Artists

1/5/2017

Jane Briggs and Christy Cole together form Briggs & Cole. For the Glasgow-based duo, each design begins with a collage. Their products are hugely diverse, ranging from silk cloths to entire interior design concepts.

FEATURED

Classic in new robes

1/3/2017

Vola mixers with PVD surfaces set the tone in the new master bathroom in a historicist villa.

THE BF-PREIS

Up-and-coming design critique

1/2/2017

Thoughtful reflection expressly desired: In Berlin the Wilhelm Braun-Feldweg advancement award for essays in design criticism is being bestowed for the seventh time.

IMM COLOGNE 2017

Picking up the thread

1/2/2017

The “Featured Editions” curated by Stylepark for the imm cologne 2017 furniture trade fair center around the key theme, “textiles”. For the very first time, visitors to the fair can choose their favorites.

ART

What it takes

12/28/2016

Again the calendar has jumped. Behind the 20 is now the 17. What is behind this number?

DESIGN

From selvedge to rug

12/28/2016

The basis for the aesthetic felt rugs are high-quality waste selvedges that are arise when producing wool materials.

ART

A touch of glamour, if you please

12/27/2016

Once upon a time, Hollywood stars and starlets had Peter Gowland photograph them nude in erotic poses. Now the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen Mannheim reveals that as testimonies to cultural history, Gowland’s pinups are far more exciting.

ARCHITECTURE

A completely false and scurrilous architectural fairytale

12/27/2016

We know the name of neither the city nor the country, and not even the surname of the man about whom I recorded the following story. An architectural fairytale by Arno Lederer, illustrated by James Turek.