Colour

Sometimes the history of architecture is full of irony. The same is true of Charles Moore’s house in New Haven, which featured in “Playboy” in 1969.

Can an iconic post-War building be reactivated by adding a restaurant?Irina Kromayer and Etienne Descloux show how - with "Pheonix" inDüsseldorf's Dreischeibenhaus

Backdrop, sculpture or theme world? Temporary architectures in the social media age reveal more than one might at first think: an architecture analysis using Instagram.

Interzum in Cologne rounds up all the big names from the furniture making and interior fittings industry, making the trade fair a treasure trove for all those in the fields of design, planning and building.

What would Verner Panton’s furniture be like without the bright fabrics from Kvadrat? From the very outset, the Danes collaborated closely with designers to create striking highlights. Now there’s a book describing the company, which is one of the world’s leading makers of home textiles today. A glance behind the scene.

Loud colors, pastel hues and any amount of highlights. New, unusual color designs for tables, chairs and sofas really stimulated the eye in Milan. Following fashion’s suit. The best example is Vitra with a new color concept for its classics. From occasional contrasts to complete color harmony – the trend is definitely for interiors to become more colorful. And a good thing, too.

Bright neon colors and subtle pastel shades, uninterrupted and plain – several color contrasts are clearly emerging in home furnishings. Photographic evidence from this year’s Salone del Mobile.

Verner Panton once caused quite a stir with his psychedelic design for “Spiegel’s” offices. While parts of the “Spiegel Cafeteria” will soon feature in Hamburg’s Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, the “Spiegel” unveils its new, illustrious office building designed by architectural firm Henning Larsen – this time the Ippolito Fleitz Group has handled the restaurant’s interior design.

Fernando Brízio has kept every single one of his creations, even from his university years, and now it's paying off: For there is currently an extensive solo show of the Portuguese designer's works in Lisbon including a number of previously unseen pieces. And of course, the "Restart" dress made of fabric colored with felt pen could not be left out. Sandra Hofmeister met and interviewed Fernando Brízio for Stylepark.

With their “Boudoir” tile series, Villeroy & Boch are offering not only elegant wall tiles, but also a truly captivating design concept.

Among designers, the word "trend" is definitely a no-no to be avoided at all cost. Rightly so, as the term refers to something that purports to be new but is actually well known. Yet it is worth looking at the concept a little more closely to discern the mechanisms operating behind it.

Snow is white and makes our image of the world resemble a black-and-white print. However, ever since white emerged as the trend color not just in winter does much parade in white. So what is so special about this particular color?

Architect Renzo Piano's design for Central St. Giles breathes new life into a part of London that was otherwise in a sorry state. Urban design that as a stroke of good fortune.

April showers bring May flowers: This year it brings the trend color yellow. Be it lemon yellow, Indian yellow or golden yellow - the ambivalent effect of the color is being put to the test.

The current Stylepark Magazine for Product Culture is devoted to the topic of color and how color is used in the fields of design, architecture and material.

Intent on renovating his freshly acquired castle Schloss Gartow Andreas Gottlieb Graf von Bernstorff had to come up with a plan. It was the end of the 17th century and the bare moorland round about did not even provide timber for renovating the buildings. So he set about reforesting the area, and today this private forest covering 6,500 hectares represents the largest of its kind in North Germany.