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No sign of a crisis: the kitchen at this year's Eurocucina presents itself in a visually stunning materiality. Maximalism is becoming the maxim – and even the luxury segment is finally allowed to get dirty.

What does a trade fair like the Salone del Mobile.Milano currently need in order to inspire companies and guests alike? With which concepts do the creatives of Milan Design Week react to the structural changes that the industry has undergone in the last four years? Our Review.

With its "Simonsson House" on the edge of the Arctic Circle, Swedish architecture and design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune is making a sculptural statement, one influenced by the rigid local building regulations and the Arctic conditions.

What's new in the kitchen? Which materials, which styles are in demand? What current ideas are the creatives and manufacturers offering? We have put together a selection of the news for you as part of our Novelties Stage.

Located on the shores of Lago d’Orta in the Piedmont, Casa Fantini offers a pleasant combination of elegance and slow-paced living.

Villa Weidendall in Luxembourg by Rodolphe Mertens Architects draws its inspiration from the country’s industrial past and morphs between a delicate lightness and sculptural heaviness.

Kitchen manufacturers showcased refined portfolios at Living Kitchen in Cologne. Many of them took the motto “green kitchen” literally.

Refinements wherever you look: What caught the eye at Milan’s Salone Internazionale del Bagno.

Why is architecture dangerous and how can a floor protect life – Martina Metzner talked about such things with Piero Lissoni – Special Guest at Domotex 2016.

Found pieces instead of orchestrated spaces: Designs relating to the cool, cleansing liquid substance as are on view at the Salone del Bagno Milan and in the Fuori Salone showrooms, are rich in innovative materials and champion the familiar purist style elements.

EuroCucina, which runs parallel to Milan’s Salone del Mobile, offers furniture for people who would love to cook. And shows the latest status objects that straddle architecture and design. A tour.

“Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen. Cologne calling. We’re presenting the international interior furniture fair to you.” It’s imm cologne time again and much sounds like the old top-of-the-pops charts. So let’s check out who or what’s behind the current line-up.

Ever since people have taken to settling in one place, the kitchen has formed the heart of the home. So in today’s market what sets one kitchen apart from the rest? Robert Volhard spoke to Roberto Gavazzi, CEO of Boffi, about the connections between kitchens and cars and how kitchens can improve our lives.

In conversation with Norbert Wangen about his new "k20", what you learn from snagging your fingers, and the slowness required when designing.

In recent years, the Designer's Days in Paris have emerged as a summer festival, with a very mixed audience strolling through the galleries and showrooms.

Salone del Mobile 2010 has been and gone. Which of the new designs will endure, and which will swiftly be forgotten? The Stylepark ABC of the most persuasive new products predicts what may that future may be.

To obtain an overview over the new products in the run-up to the international furniture fair "Salone del Mobile" in Milan, Stylepark has combed through the maze of highpoints to give you a foretaste of some of the product highlights you can expect.

Marcel Duchamp's famous readymades are objects which have been removed from the sphere of the useful and placed in a new context. For US designer Stephen Burks, this "multiple use" and the fact that our perception influences the intuitive use of an object are highly inspiring.