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REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2024

Nostalgia and drive

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/23/2024

The Salone del Mobile.Milano and Milan Design Week took place from 16 to 21 April 2024 – read our review to find out what moves the industry and the guests got to see.

Two of a Kind

9/19/2023

In the hills behind Florence, La Marzocco, a company known for its coffee machines, runs the Accademia del Caffè Espresso, a cultural center housed in a former production plant. Interior designer Stefano Zagni found suitable furniture for the fit-out when viewing Magis’ diverse collections.

Balance with strong gestures

4/4/2023

The Italian family-owned company Fantini can build on strong roots: founded in 1947, the fittings manufacturer based on picturesque Lake Orta has been renowned for exceptional designs and consistently high quality since the beginning. CEO Daniela Fantini explains to us in an interview what makes Fantini different.

Living traditions

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/11/2022

Until the first of May 2022, the Homo Faber event will take place in Venice, spotlighting international craftsmanship.

Pioneer in the best age

by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/2/2021

Magis celebrates its 45th anniversary this year and looks back on an eventful success story that began in 1976 when Eugenio Perazza founded the company.

A nest with a hill

by Jeanette Kunsmann | 1/8/2021

With 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.

Open-air office

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/8/2020

Spring is just around the corner bringing with it the first warm hours of sunshine. Anyone lucky enough to have their own balcony or patio can move their workplace outdoors – Stylepark provides you with ten ideas for doing your office work in the fresh air.

STYLEPARK PLANK

Balancing act

11/8/2018

With the lounge chair “Land” for Plank, Naoto Fukasawa has created a versatile seat.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018

Impressions of the Salone del Mobile 2018

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/22/2018

You didn't make it to Salone del Mobile 2018? Never mind! Stylepark brings you the impressions of the trade fair and the showrooms in Milan on your monitor.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Salone, viewed critically 01: The heavy and the light

by Thomas Wagner | 4/10/2017

If everything becomes virtual, then the solid gets its day, be it heavy or light in appearance. Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison prove this in very different ways.

The Donkey in the System

by Thomas Wagner | 4/20/2016

Salone 1: In Milan, well-being is the order of the day – Ettore patiently bears burdens,there are benches, small tables, and large sofas.

Busnelli´s Best

by Thomas Edelmann | 4/11/2016

As B&B Italia turns 50, the company is still helping to kick-start change.

Four legs and a seat shell

by Thomas Wagner | 6/13/2015

Yes, folks, it really does exist: the universal chair of 2015. It was designed by various hands, comes in numerous versions and yet still follows a typology going back to a famous forebear. Ultimately, it is the subtle differences that count.

Clerics meet Matrizia

by Thomas Wagner | 4/22/2015

“An impure tongue does not taste; dulled senses only notice the sharpest stimuli, or they chew more than they feel.” – Johann Gottfried von Herder

Cuppa tea anyone?

by Martina Metzner | 3/2/2014

Following the hype about coffee, everyone is suddenly drinking tea. Which brought the teapot back into the designers’ sights. Small, plump and in the Japanese style, it was the shooting star at the Ambiente consumer goods fair in Frankfurt. We present the most stylish examples in a picture gallery.

Globalized eating habits

by Uta Abendroth | 8/11/2013

Enjoying a TV dinner or simply eating with your laptop on your knees? Does either have much to do with cultured meals? And can you use plates, cups and the like made by three Modernist mega-hitters to this end, namely Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Tapio Wirkkala and Timo Sarpaneva? The exhibition on “Vom Stand der Dinge” in Bremen explores these questions, with the help of 11 contemporary designers.

Light is just light

5/21/2012

What is the difference between light and lighting? With “Verto”, Naoto Fukasawa has designed a luminaire for Belux that is based upon the principle of reflection. Nina Reetzke met the Japanese designer for a chat.

Shop curators

by Nina Reetzke | 2/17/2011

The Ambiente in Frankfurt/Main has always been considered at the trade fair of "things to put on things". Any number of accessories for the kitchen, bathroom, living room, kids' room and garden. The selection of fitting innovations for "your store" is a challenge that every purchasing manager has to survive.

The hidden beauty in the loop

by Markus Frenzl | 2/4/2010

The light bulb was once perceived as too bright by many. Today, the purportedly unseemly compact fluorescent lamp tends likewise to be hidden beneath most luminaire designs. With "Koi", Naoto Fukasawa has been the first designer to create an office luminaire series that emphasizes the unpopular lamp's intrinsic and aesthetic beauty.

An essential truth in the chaos of multiplicity

by Nora Sobich | 7/28/2008

The fifth collection of the Japanese design company “plusminuszero” - As for its design maxim, the company has traded in the good old “Form follows function” principle which is always trundled out when a rationale for minimalism is needed, and has exchanged it for a new mantra of industrial design: “Things that seem to have existed already but didn’t”.

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