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SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Pumped up: Tête-à-tête on a chair or sofa

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/13/2017

Velvet, fringes, cushions and love seats galore: The current sofas and easy chairs are ideal for creating a cozy lounge.

Salone del Mobile 2017

New tables: From material fetish to the Zen factor

by Jasmin Jouhar | 4/11/2017

Be they short or long of leg, simply unique or extravagant: there’s no end to the variety of tables in Milan.

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.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Avanti Artigiani!

by Martina Metzner | 3/31/2017

With its small, yet refined Interno Italiano line Giulio Iacchetti seeks to offer an alternative to the Big Brands. Typical Italian products from chairs to trays and even vases.

There’s a strong idea behind each and every one of our products

by Thomas Wagner | 10/27/2016

Thomas Wagner spoke to Alberto Perazza about wrought iron, sustainable products, Venetian hospitality and cosmopolitanism, and the subtle distinctions in design.

For me, quality is the future

by Thomas Wagner | 10/27/2016

Thomas Wagner spoke to Eugenio Perazza about hospitality, Venetian traditions and how ideas for the future come about.

An apartment for friends and their friends

10/27/2016

For the international interview magazine “Freunde von Freunden”, Magis used pieces by a variety of designers to transform an apartment in Berlin into an event venue.

Welcome to our table!

by Thomas Wagner | 10/25/2016

Tables and chairs by Magis are not only the result of an intensive collaboration. They are also suffused with a special spirit of hospitality.

Princely seating

10/25/2016

The renovation of a historical chateau in Belgium was completed with furniture by Magis.

Questioning the conventional

by Thomas Edelmann | 10/25/2016

The Italian furniture company Magis attracts designers from all over the world. They love collaborating with founder Eugenio Perazza. Although the bar is set high.

What touches people's soul?

by Uta Abendroth | 4/26/2016

Jerszy Seymour is a difficult nut to crack. His design is highly individual and not always easy to like. Uta Abendroth spoke to the artist-cum-designer, 48, about humor, poetry and happy endings.

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.

The Modest One

by Thomas Wagner | 1/12/2016

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.

Outdoors or indoors, sitting or rocking

9/4/2015

Finland’s designer star Eero Aarnio conjured up this neat kid’s chair in 2005 – an it also makes for a great seesaw.

Pretty hot-wired

by Martina Metzner | 7/7/2015

They were all the rage in the 1950s, now they are back again: metal-wire structures, both stable and delicate in appearance. We have picked out several large and small tables for you.

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.

Give Tarzan a break!

by Martina Metzner | 5/15/2015

If you’re happy to stay in although spring has arrived, that’s up to you! We had a look around imm cologne and the Salone del Mobile to spot the latest in outdoor furniture designers and manufacturers have created specially for the season.

Industry is not a dinosaur

5/11/2015

On irony, provocative designs, Chair One as a grill, finding treasure troves, the necessity of securing contracts and the fun of advancing existing designs.

Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 3

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

Sam Son Remo ZigZag

4/12/2015

Any number of novelties from Konstantin Grcic

Excitement’s in the air. Shortly before the Salone opens some news has leaked out as regards what KGID is coming up with.

Small is beautiful

by Martina Metzner | 3/25/2015

They’re back in fashion – small, light armchairs with a wooden or tubular steel frame. In the 1950s and 1960s they came to fame as “easy chairs”; now they’ve morphed into “lounge chairs”. For the office or the home.

Forget those old banana boxes

by Uta Abendroth | 1/22/2015

In the hunt for the feel-good factor that straddles the tried-and-true and the surprisingly new, designers and manufacturers are busy presenting their novelties at the imm cologne and the Passagen. The clear message: Things are getting more softer and sensual.

A chair, as taut as a bow Kyudo by Konstantin Grcic for Magis

5/7/2014

Konstantin Grcic has fallen in love with archery, at least as regards materials. For “Kyudo”, a chair he’s designed for Magis and which went on show at the Salone in Milan, he combined beechwood veneer and carbon laminate.

Salone, Salone or Twelve Milan stories

by Thomas Wagner | 4/16/2014

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.

I like the Original

by Martina Metzner | 1/31/2014

Imm cologne attract creative minds from all over the world – this time they included Marc Bailly, interior architect straight from New York. He joined Robert Volhard, Stylepark MD, for a tour of the Cologne interiors fair to find out all about innovative design this side of the Great Pond.

Presents, presents

12/1/2013

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.

Marseille, Corbu, Grcic and the Sex Pistols

by Esther Schulze-Tsatsas | 7/1/2013

You need courage and massive design punch to skillfully combine Punk music and Le Corbusier. Thanks to Konstantin Grcic this summer both join forces in Marseille.

Twelve lightweight pieces for your balcony

5/8/2013

A little bit of happiness just outside the door: seating furniture, light, delicate, flexible and anything but clunky.

Twelve outdoor classics

5/8/2013

Stylish and fit for any activity: Outdoor classics for sitting, lounging or just looking pretty. Attractive, cool and simply indispensable.

18 million coins for the Underground

5/7/2013

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.

Colour Attack!

by Martina Metzner | 5/6/2013

Loud colors, pastel hues and any amount of highlights. New, unusual color designs for tables, chairs and sofas really stimulated the eye in Milan. Following fashion’s suit. The best example is Vitra with a new color concept for its classics. From occasional contrasts to complete color harmony – the trend is definitely for interiors to become more colorful. And a good thing, too.

Good designers, successful products – Milan Marathon part 3

by Thomas Wagner | 4/23/2013

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.

What a relief – The Milan marathon part 1

by Thomas Wagner | 4/17/2013

Milan 2013, a mixture of prudence, consolidation and solid design work. A little less hype and fewer prototypes, too. This is certainly doing the industry good.

Two brothers in a brilliant game with nature. Hey, boys will be boys

by Thomas Wagner | 1/14/2013

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.

Open a door each day

12/23/2012

Do you know your architecture and design? Do you read our News&Stories articles, regularly receive our Newsletter or use our database for research? And do you like tackling tricky questions?

Culture Yard in Helsingør by AART Architects

12/1/2011

Farm and luxury hotel in South Arica

11/14/2011

No Picnic Office in Stockholm by Elding Oscarson Architects

9/22/2011

Swedish architects Elding Oscarson have designed the new office for design consulting agency No Picnic, which is based in Stockholm.

Filling the gap downtown – residential building in Sweden designed by Elding Oscarson

6/24/2011

Milan in four bags or: Design, theatrical, practical, feudal and universal

by Thomas Wagner | 4/27/2011

Perhaps everything on show in Milan at the exhibition center in Rho, in the booths of Superstudio Più, in showrooms and back-yard workshops ultimately fits into four bags. Let’s see if it does. What would we write on the movable containers if we were to put in them the things we noticed among all the abundance?

The Waterhouse in Shanghai

11/19/2010

The Waterhouse is an exclusive 5-star hotel on the outskirts of the megacity of Shanghai. On the basis of an old Japanese army's headquarters, the architects of Neri & Hu developed this luxury boutique hotel.

From volcanoes to universe by spaceship

by Nina Reetzke | 7/17/2010

Jerszy Seymour conjures up a society of amateurs, but not in the sense of "unprofessional", but rather of "lovers and friends". And when it comes to volcanoes, the designer himself becomes an amateur. A trip into a passionate and explosive world.

A successful transformation

6/28/2010

A single-family apartment for four people is situated in a stately building in southern Amsterdam. The original structure, with rooms for staff, a double hall and long hallways with lots of doors has been transformed into a spacious, transparent dwelling full of light and air.

Almost everything that is new!

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 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.

Milan, before the ash came – part 2

by Thomas Wagner | 4/27/2010

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.

On your marks, get ready for… Milan

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 4/7/2010

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.

Here’s to the new!

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 4/14/2009

The time has come around again for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan to open its doors and for the design world to flock to the northern Italian city. And, as always, the question that's being asked is: who has the most beautiful new things to offer? Here is a small foretaste.

German Design Award 2009

2/18/2009

The Design Awards of the Federal Republic of Germany were bestowed in the course of the opening of Ambiente in Frankfurt. There were five Gold and 20 Silver medal winners. Moreover, the designer Richard Sapper was honored for his life's work.

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