DESIGN Where work lives12/5/2018For the new Artek Oy headquarters in Helsinki, the British architect Sevil Peach combined office and showroom to create a place where you feel at home.
DESIGN Lay down your head10/24/2015Rest, nap, read or let your thoughts wander during the day – on a daybed. Be it an upmarket modern version, a narrow bench, a chaise longue or a new wave – they all look great.
DESIGN The boss sat at the back10/2/2015He knew how spaces functioned and how to build modern furniture without requiring tubular steel: Walking in Alvar Aalto’s footsteps in Finland.
ARCHITECTURE Energy remains within the interior10/3/2014Vitra Design Museum is focusing on Alvar Aalto. And the result is more than just another show on that Grand Old Master of Modernism.
FAIRS & EVENTS Tranquility – is to be found in salad bowls9/23/2014The “Helsinki Design Week” took place for the 10th time this year. For all those who may have forgotten what makes Finnish design so special – the trade fair complex and Helsinki’s Design District provided a lot to bring things back to mind.
FAIRS & EVENTS Here come the Finns!9/2/2014Soon it’ll be book fair time again in Frankfurt. And as always, the fair’s Guest of Honor country gets to shape the face of culture in the city for a short time. So what does Finland have to offer in addition to vodka and forests, sauna and Saarinen, Artek and Aalto?
REVIEW – STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR 2024 Pragmatic and upbeat2/16/2024“A test bed for new ideas” was the overarching theme of the Stockholm Furniture Fair from February 6 to 10, 2024. The presentation was by no means as prosaic as the title, and in fact it quickly became clear: This ongoing experiment is starting to get playful.
REVIEW – MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023: DROPCITY & U.F.O.G.O. On the fast track4/28/2023As part of Milan Design Week 2023, also questions were asked about our future life and living – like on the part of the new centre for architecture and design Dropcity and the Swiss university ÉCAL. We present the pioneering projects to you.
PREVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023 Designing change4/11/2023From 18 to 23 April 2023, the Salone del Mobile.Milano will be held at the Fiera Milano Rho exhibition centre and include the Euroluce lighting biennale. Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi, founders of the research-based design studio Formafantasma, have created modular exhibition designs for it. Andrea Trimarchi explains the concept to us in an interview.
REVIEW – STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR 2023 Stay flexible2/18/2023For three years, the Stockholm Furniture Fair had to take a break due to the pandemic. That both the organisers and the Scandinavian creatives and companies have integrated the current change into their work during this time became quite clear when the gates of Stockholmsmässan finally opened again from 7 to 11 February 2023.
HOTEL Room in the green11/22/2022Agrotourism is booming and bringing new forms of hotel business to light. The Berlin-based start-up Raus, for example, develops mobile, self-sufficient hotel rooms that it sets up in forests, meadows, fields and pastures. Architect Sigurd Larsen is responsible for the latest design.
ARCHITECTURE Harmonious Contrasts8/11/2021Studio Ben Allen has painstakingly modernized a terraced Victorian house in London and added an extension to it, one that combines various different styles. “House Recast” recently received the 2021 “Don't Move, Improve” award.
DESIGN Harmonic tension6/18/2021Studio Besau-Marguerre has created an interior design concept for the workrooms of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe MK&G in Hamburg that combines different trends.
NEW WORK Breaking the Grid3/2/2021With their Douglas House in London’s West End, Note Design Studio has created a new feel-good place for flexible working. In the process, the Swedish collective has given this 1930s building a gentle nudge and a slight wave.
HOTEL A nest with a hill1/8/2021With the Shiroiya Hotel, Sou Fujimoto Architects have succeeded in producing a fascinating combination of an old building and a conversion, design, architecture and art. Michele de Lucchi, Jasper Morrison, Leandro Erlich and Sou Fujimoto have each designed one of the rooms.
FEATURED German Sustainability Award Design: The Winners12/4/2020The German Sustainability Award is the largest of its kind in Europe. Now for the first time it has also been conferred in the area of design.
INTERVIEWS STYLEPARK ZOOM IN with Besau Marguerre5/4/2020Eva Marguerre and Marcel Besau founded their studio in Hamburg in 2011. Since then they've been working with great success and a holistic design approach for renowed companies such as Vitra, Artek, Thonet, E15 or Fürstenberg.
STOCKHOLM FURNITURE & LIGHT FAIR 2020 Innovative traditionalists2/11/2020The Stockholm Furniture Fair and Stockholm Design Week showcase Scandinavia’s high standards of craftsmanship and design once again in 2020.
