REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026 The Great Desire4/28/2026 The Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2026 kept us busy last week. What themes are the exhibitors focusing on, and what developments are emerging?
PORTRAIT Harmony in contrast5/19/2020 Dimitri Bähler likes balance – between a personal and a user-oriented approach, between simple and complex, decorative and functional. Since 2014 he has been walking the line within the different poles of design from his studio in the Swiss town of Biel.
PORTRAIT Boundless creativity4/29/2020 “We have a great urge to experiment,” says Yael Mer. She and Shay Alkalay founded the studio “Raw Edges” back in 2007 and have been coming up with unusual approaches in design ever since.
DESIGN Luminaire that looks like sugar6/23/2018 Established & Sons shows with "Filigrana" playful pendant lamps made of Venetian glass.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 A touch of new objectivity5/10/2018 Quo vadis, furniture design? This year’s Salone del Mobile reveals a few ideas. An analysis in our glance back at the fair.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 I’m not ready to retire4/25/2018 In Milan, Konstantin Grcic presented his furniture collection “Chess” with Magis, a sofa with Established & Sons, a chair with Plank, and much more besides. Uta Abendroth spoke to him about inspiration, materials and the relocation of his studio.
FAIRS & EVENTS At home – what’s that? 9/25/2014 No London Design Festival without some special highlight. This year, four small houses were on show outside the National Gallery on Trafalgar Square – by Jasper Morrison, Raw Edges, Ilse Crawford and Patternity, created for the “A Place Called Home” project.
FAIRS & EVENTS Salone, Salone or Twelve Milan stories4/16/2014 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.
FAIRS & EVENTS 28.280 coloured glassbowls10/1/2013 Our recce of the London Design Festival scouts six of the core venues to discover the current design tendencies. On this 16 mile whistle-stop tour from the west to the east of London, we start at the Victoria & Albert Museum, the self-proclaimed design hub of the LDF.
INTERVIEWS The main criteria is good work9/29/2013 At the London Design Festival Sebastian Wrong presented his new collection “Wrong For Hay” in a stylish Georgian house at St James’s Park. Uta Abendroth spoke to him about the direction the portfolio takes, London as a location and working with the Danes.
MAGAZINE The longing for a studiolo7/17/2013 With “7 Studies”, gallerist and furniture maker Jörg Schellmann is showing in Munich how seven renowned artists and designers, among them Stefan Diez, Liam Gillick and Donald Judd, are furnishing workspaces. And that they are not all that far from the Renaissance studiolo.
MAGAZINE 18 million coins for the Underground5/7/2013 In 2012, Edward Barber uand Jay Osgerby caused quite a stir with their design for the Olympic torch. This year the two architects are placing a renewed emphasis on furniture design. Uta Abendroth met with one half of the duo, Jay Osgerby, in Milan, where their sofas, tables and stool premiered at Knoll.
MAGAZINE Two brothers in a brilliant game with nature. Hey, boys will be boys1/14/2013 I’m tempted to say: It’s about time. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have been named “A&W Designers of the Year 2013”. Certainly cause for a portrait of these two designers extraordinaire.
MAGAZINE This is London10/5/2011 London, Vienna, Beijing – at the moment there is one design week after the other. As London is still considered a design metropolis, it is worth visiting the city on this occasion. Even if the trade fair "100% Design" is becoming increasingly uninteresting, the fringe events in the city were once again impressive.
MAGAZINE Return of the grid8/3/2010 System furniture was long considered the epitome of no-fun and über-rational design, but now it is undergoing a revival. The new items of system furniture are proof that functionalist Modernism is being seen in a new light and mark the end of the heyday of design art and limited editions.
INTERVIEWS Things that show we are alive5/11/2010 Dutch designer duo Scholten & Baijings add subtle patterns and colors to forms, make fabric rhubarb stalks objects of communication, envelop design classics with their "Colour Plaids" and reinterpret traditional Dutch items of furniture. At the Milan Furniture Fair, they premiered designs with Established & Sons. Markus Frenzl caught up with the designers in Rotterdam and Milan.
MAGAZINE Almost everything that is new!5/4/2010 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.
MAGAZINE Milan, before the ash came – part 24/27/2010 Admittedly, the borders of the Zona Tortona are a little frayed at the edges and in the new design district Ventura Lambrate designers are pushing into an area where artists once thronged, but there is a great deal to be discovered here. And, when all is said, when it comes to furniture design, things do tend to go around in productive circles.
MAGAZINE On your marks, get ready for… Milan4/7/2010 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.
MAGAZINE Visiting the design Mecca10/6/2009 The London fair 100% Design might be going through a bad patch but the city itself has a number of interesting things to see in the realm of design, art and architecture.
MAGAZINE All about of carbon12/18/2008 Strong and light: Carbon is the high-flyer. In product design too and even in times when sustainability should play an ever greater role, the industrial material shows its sensational potential.
MAGAZINE Established & Solid9/25/2008 One doesn't always need new products and innovations to be successful. London shows how it is done. A visit to the "100% Design" show and to the "London Design Festival"
MAGAZINE Two fold a sofa6/26/2008 The young design studio Raw-Edges in London was officially founded in July 2007. Yet the paths of Yael Mer and Shay Alkalay, who were both born in Tel Aviv in 1976, first crossed many years ago. They are currently exhibiting works at Fat Galerie in Paris with Peter Marigold.
