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Fashion designer Virgil Abloh has passed away

11/28/2021

According to a statement posted by Virgil Abloh's family on the social network Instagram, the internationally renowned designer passed away after a long battle with cancer.

Attractive stay-at-homers

by Anna Moldenhauer | 3/24/2020

#Stayathome, to protect your own health and protect others from an infection with coronavirus – that is the order of the day right now. Stylepark outlines ten practical tips for working from home that will ensure you don’t need to go short on comfort.

Classy copywriting

by Anna Moldenhauer | 7/4/2018

The media company Condé Nast Germany has moved to the Richard Meier Building in Munich after an extensive redesign.

Get on your UFO!

by Adeline Seidel | 8/29/2017

The built future optimism of the 1970s can currently be viewed at the “Utopie Plastic” exhibition in Friche de l’Escalette near Marseille.

Déjà-vu in Basel

by Uta Abendroth | 6/27/2016

The Design Miami trade fair takes place parallel to Art Basel – but this year only featured very few highlights. There was a lack of real innovations or an exciting exhibition.

Not without my quilt

by Martina Metzner | 11/18/2015

Hard-edged and technoid or soft and round – formally furniture and fashion are certainly not so far apart from each other.

Simple and smart – perfect working from home

by Martina Metzner | 10/10/2014

Working from home – a convenient alternative in today’s networked age. Working at the dinner table or cram heavy-duty desks is not necessary – considering the abundance of small, delicate, readily movable and well-designed alternatives. We present the best choices.

Voulez vous Prouvé?

by Uta Abendroth | 6/27/2014

At Design Miami, which took place in parallel to Art Basel, the French galleries presented an awful lot of Jean Prouvé originals. The icing on the cake: Konstantin Grcic transformed an Audi TT into a mobile living machine.

Modernism and its uncle

by Thomas Wagner | 6/17/2014

A fun-loving uncle resides in the French pavilion. He’s called Hulot, was invented by Jacques Tati, and shows in an amusing way all the things that can go wrong in the world of Modernism.

Beef brisket with oh là là

by Martina Metzner | 3/3/2014

Maxie Eisen is the latest culinary addition to the renowned district round Frankfurt’s main station. The bistro-and-bar is not only the new place-to-be for fans of pastrami but will – thanks to the stylish interiors by the likes of Jean Prouvé and Ilmari Tapiovaara – equally appeal to lovers of good design. Only the mafia should have been kept outside.

Going vintage ain’t enough

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 6/16/2013

The Design Miami trade fair, which runs parallel to Art Basel, was not very convincing. It lacked a clear curatorial thrust, exciting exhibitions and statements. And not least there was no clear position on contemporary design, although this is so sorely needed.

Prouvé in context

by Thomas Edelmann | 8/13/2012

The Lorraine city of Nancy is not just the city of Baroque and Art Nouveau, but the birthplace of Jean Prouvé too. And now the city is celebrating this relation with a series of exhibitions and showings.

In a southern light

by Thomas Edelmann | 12/13/2011

What makes Miami a relevant location on the world design map? Is it the flair of "Miami Vice" with the summery villas, luxury yachts and all the naked skin? Definitely not, as today the Design Miami trade fair pulls the crowds with products by Jean Prouvé, presented close to buildings by Frank Gehry and Herzog & de Meuron.

Patterns à la Prouvé

by Sandra Hofmeister | 6/28/2011

Over the past few years several crossover projects between fashion and furniture have attracted much attention. Together, G-Star Raw and Vitra are sounding out the furniture cosmos of Jean Prouvé. The "Prouvé Raw" collection is a successful homage to the French designer.

Fascination with the tried and true

by Znidaric Amelie | 6/21/2011

At Design Miami Basel above all countless classics were on show. But anyone who managed to make their way past all the Jean Prouvés, Bauhaus, Mid Century Modern and Art Deco found contemporary design by the likes of Pierre Charpin and Max Lamb waiting to be discovered.

A traveling house

by Nina Reetzke | 8/23/2010

One area on which Jean Prouvé focused in his work was prefabricated houses, construction elements and façades. The now legendary Maison Tropicale was one product of this. The prototypes stood in West Africa for almost 50 years and are now on show in a series of exhibitions in Europe and the USA.

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