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No reason to immediately send out a Mayday call: The speech in honor of Konstantin Grcic at the official ceremony presenting the 2016 "German Design Award Personality".

At this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair the Scandinavians show how much we long for homeliness.

Relax, read or work – bedrooms have long since ceased to only be used for sleeping. Assuming the bed is comfy and flexible – and cuts a fine figure, too.

Sleep or simply doze during the day – a thing of the past. Today, the bed drifts in a veritable ocean of information. Lying down is no longer about resting, but about moving.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed roller blinds for Kvadrat. In an interview with Martina Metzner, Erwan Bouroullec reveals the ideas behind the new product and how design stimulates the senses.

Let there be light: The Charité Hospital in Berlin is currently conducting research into how the ambiance in a room affects patients’ recovery.

In the current debate on affordable urban housing that meets the inhabitants’ quality expectations it certainly bears casting a glance at Harry Glück’s buildings.

: goes to festivals and folds up furniture

New housing? Clueless politicians. A commentary by Jeremy Gaines.

Marie Christine Dorner is convinced that a piece of furniture must look good from all sides, even from below. Uta Abendroth talked with the interior architect and designer about her new creations for Ligne Roset.

“Kin” is the name of the family of storage units that Mathias Hahn designed for Zeitraum. The units are made of solid wood, so the designer reveals in conversation with Martina Metzner, and function just as well on their own as they do individually.

Living space is precious, which is why hallways are often cramped and dark. But entrances can be inviting, uncluttered and elegant if you want them to be.

A carpet like a piece of desert, Astroturf for the children’s room, and any amount of color for carpets: What Piero Lissoni and Vanessa Brady noticed when wandering round the Domotex.

Be it new designs or re-issued classics: velvet covers were omnipresent at the imm cologne. But why?

The Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective at the Hypo-Kulturstiftung art gallery in Munich shows why fashion is increasingly present(ed) in museums and art institutions: Haute couturiers not only appeal to a larger audience, but also change the nature of displays.

It’s back: “Slice” by Pierre Charpin. Martina Metzner spoke to the French designer about his unusual armchair.

Playing boule at Pulpo, pulling teeth out at e15 and you could easily lose your bearings in the Conmoto kaleidoscope: the stage was set for the Featured Editions at the imm cologne.

For the fourth time Stylepark, together with AD Magazin and Marc Meiré, invited guests from the worlds of design, architecture, and art to a soirée on the first day of the imm cologne fair: They enjoyed it until the early hours of the morning.

Revivals, evergreens and many colors: imm cologne 2016 likes sending its visitors time traveling. Since it is becoming ever harder to offer something really new, the option is to resort to the archive and refine things.

Hella Jongerius goes for carpets: Uta Abendroth spoke to the designer about her five new models for Danskina.

And Emir Salkic presents the relevant work bench.

Christine Nogtev and Chul Cheong are chirpy.

Floors are getting whiter and parquets now have a face: A tour of the Domotex.

Hubert Sanktjohanser doesn’t want to bang his head against a wall.

Sebastian Herkner has a ball of it.

Smart lighting, bankrupt electricians and photographed butter dishes: On the advantages and disadvantages of networked homes. Developer Martin Walter in conversation with Thomas Edelmann.

Safety first: Michael Baumgarten at Christoph Mäckler Architekten talked with Katharina Sommer about architectural design processes and security systems for new airports.

Kaschkasch reveals all the details.

In the guise of “LDPE” Julian Faulhaber has produced a quite extraordinary photobook.

Cazzaniga Mandelli Pagliarulo swing at giddy heights.

Neven and Sanja Kovačić float in a different sphere.

On the road with Ana María Calderón Kayser and Sebastian Herkner.