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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?

With the Stylepark Selected Award 2022, Stylepark honours the best new products of the year. These are the award winners.

In the west of Munich, Stenger2 Architekten and the interior experts at Arnold/Werner are transforming the former Aubing thermal power station into a monumental cultural meeting place complete with bat biotope. It is to go by the name of Bergson Kunstkraftwerk.

Roberta Silva has been CEO of the traditional Italian company Flos since 2019. In an interview she talked to Stylepark publishers about how she is dealing with the lighting manufacturer's successful past and what her plans for the future look like.

With the "Almendra" pendant lamp, Patricia Urquiola has created a modular organism for Flos whose design is based on the poetic aesthetics of an almond tree.

In Berlin's West, the architecture office Coordination has converted two attic flats into an elegant penthouse. Now the Wilhelminian architecture serves as a colourful backdrop for the art.

Designed by Stuttgart-based architecture practice Yonder, Haus S together with the adjacent sauna annex forms an ensemble that boasts an extraordinary view out over the Allgäu countryside.

Due to the pandemic, the 3daysofdesign took place this year from 15 to 17 June and once again showed how varied Scandinavian design can be. "Remember to Play" was the motto, which Luca Nichetto translated graphically. We have selected ten highlights from the numerous showrooms and exhibition areas.

A modern "village in village" is currently taking shape on land formerly used by the military in Andermatt, Switzerland. The project is a brainchild of entrepreneur Samih Sawiris and one element of it is "Mira", an apartment house designed by Ilg Santer Architekten and atelier 522, containing 18 duplex apartments. It is scheduled for completion by 2023.

Why do chairs have to be connected to crash bars? And what is the purpose of installing a fire hose on an armchair? In his “New Normals” solo show in Berlin's Haus am Waldsee, Konstantin Grcic shows how much our idea of normality is associated with objects.

FLOS offers its successful "Coordinates" collection by Michael Anastassiades in a new colour: Argent Moon.

With the Stylepark Selected Award 2021, Stylepark honours the best new products of the year. These are the award winners.

The history of the creation of "Parentesi" by Flos is that of a collaboration between two designers who passed the baton to each other without knowing each other: Pio Manzù, developer of the legendary...