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IMM COLOGNE 2017

Fitted out or fitted in?

by Thomas Wagner | 1/9/2017

Head now – for Cologne. From January 16-22, it’s imm cologne time again – and there’s a lot to discover round and about the city, too. Not just for the man without qualities. Here’re the most important items.

STYLEPARK MAGIS

Questioning the conventional

by Thomas Edelmann | 10/25/2016

The Italian furniture company Magis attracts designers from all over the world. They love collaborating with founder Eugenio Perazza. Although the bar is set high.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Gender-sensitive design

by Thomas Edelmann | 4/9/2015

In Hamburg, after years of preparation, in 2014 a new platform for presentations and debates relating to design opened in the form of designxport. Currently on show: an exhibition on the gender influence in design and possible alternatives.
FAIRS & EVENTS

In praise of Italianità

by Thomas Wagner | 3/31/2015

Members of the furniture industry will soon be flocking to Milan again to worship the novelties cult at the Salone. What can we expect? Or is the furniture fair merely the appetizer before the Expo?
MAGAZINE

Tea, coffee and architecture

by Thomas Wagner | 11/23/2012

The “Tea & Coffee Towers” project, initiated by Alberto Alessi and Alessandro Mendini in 2002, has long since enjoyed legendary status. Now, three interviews have been released in which David Chipperfield, Greg Lynn and Gary Chang explain how they went about it.
INTERVIEWS

In the design world we all like each other

by Sandra Hofmeister | 6/3/2010

On behalf of Munich's Neue Pinakothek Alessandro Mendini has curated a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design. Sandra Hofmeister talked with him about the "Objects with a Soul" and eclecticism in design.
MAGAZINE

Designers don't drink from paper cups

by Markus Frenzl | 8/7/2008

Achille Castiglioni, Andrea Branzi, Alessandro Mendini, Ettore Sottsass and Richard Sapper talk in these short "Design Interviews", which are now out on DVD, about their paths to what was still, at that time, a new discipline, about their own development and careers, about their search for design solutions, which, for the most part, still owed greater allegiance to society than to industry.