For the boutique hotel K5 Tokyo, the Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has merged city and nature in restructuring a former bank building in Nihonbashi-Kabutocho. The result is microcosm full of ambiguities.

Quo vadis, furniture design? This year’s Salone del Mobile reveals a few ideas. An analysis in our glance back at the fair.

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.

Concealed plastic, retro chic and stackable elegance: the number-one furniture item and its many facets.

Jasper Morrison has been voted A&W Designer 2016. At documenta 8 his “Reuters News Room” already focused on the users and saw him pondering the relationship between them and the media.

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.

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

You know the ins and outs of design and architecture? Then take part in our special Stylepark Christmas Contest. Be it chairs, luminaires, or living room accessories – this year there are once again any number of great prizes to be won.

Milan in the days of the Salone and Fuori Salone – is a hodgepodge of impressions, encounters and cameo stories. In terms of form and content, they are as different as, say, people, furniture, brands, and markets.

You know the ins and outs of design and architecture? Then take part in our special Stylepark Christmas Contest. Be it chairs, luminaires, or living room accessories – this year there are once again any number of great prizes to be won.

No, there was no revolt. Even Ventura Lambrate had nothing on offer that even came close to a taste of the future. Instead it was above all Konstantin Grcic who once again showed just what contemporary design can do.