DESIGN Golden Vision6/24/2024 The "Costume" sofa designed by Stefan Diez for Magis was honoured with the prestigious ADI Compasso d'Oro for its pioneering design.
FEATURED Two of a Kind9/19/2023 In the hills behind Florence, La Marzocco, a company known for its coffee machines, runs the Accademia del Caffè Espresso, a cultural center housed in a former production plant. Interior designer Stefano Zagni found suitable furniture for the fit-out when viewing Magis’ diverse collections.
INTERVIEWS Designing the Essentials8/14/2023 This year designers Alberto Brogliato and Federico Traverso presented their latest product for Magis: The "Trave" chair. In this interview they tell us why for them good design is essentially about balance, time, and, paring things back.
STYLEPARK RAFFLE Technology and poetry1/1/2023 Stylepark is raffling off one "Bouquet" table lamp by Magis.
AWARD Stylepark Selected Award 202211/28/2022 With the Stylepark Selected Award 2022, Stylepark honours the best new products of the year. These are the award winners.
STYLEPARK MAGIS A new approach to light11/9/2022 With "Lost" and "Bouquet", BrogliatoTraverso enrich the Magis portfolio with the first light collection and a wireless vase light. Both shapes perfectly translate the philosophy of the Italian family business: they are both unique in design and universal in use.
INTERVIEWS Always a step ahead7/14/2022 The Italian family business Magis combines an international design language in its extraordinary range. "Class not mass" is the credo that Alberto Perazza, together with Barbara Minetto, continues in the second generation. We met him for an interview at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. Read part one here.
FEATURED A fitting addition4/21/2022 With his "Bell Chair" for Magis, Konstantin Grcic has designed an alternative to the Monobloc. For he also demonstrates by means of the contemporary color concept that the focus on the essentials in design is important in every respect.
DESIGN Pioneer in the best age9/2/2021 Magis celebrates its 45th anniversary this year and looks back on an eventful success story that began in 1976 when Eugenio Perazza founded the company.
FEATURED Modular Alphabet3/19/2021 In the form of “Costume” for Magis, Stefan Diez has designed a durable sofa that is straightforward to repair and flexible in use.
FEATURED The sofa, revolutionized2/23/2021 What if we completely rethought the sofa? – this question brought Magis together with Stefan Diez for a joint experiment: a flexible system.
DESIGN With courage and passion9/14/2020 Eugenio Perazza, the founder of the Italian furniture manufacturer Magis, is honoured for his life's work with the ADI Compasso D'Oro Liftetime Achievement Award 2020.
DESIGN Revolution from a single source8/4/2020 "Bell Chair" is the name of the new affordable chair by Konstantin Grcic for Magis, which sets an end to the negative image of the classic monobloc chair.
DESIGN Magis 2020: MARIOLINA MONO7/6/2020 Magis creates elegant monoversions in black and white of the classic "Mariolina" by Enzo Mari.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017 New tables: From material fetish to the Zen factor4/11/2017 Be they short or long of leg, simply unique or extravagant: there’s no end to the variety of tables in Milan.
STYLEPARK MAGIS An apartment for friends and their friends10/27/2016 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.
STYLEPARK MAGIS Princely seating10/25/2016 The renovation of a historical chateau in Belgium was completed with furniture by Magis.
FAIRS & EVENTS The Design Confectionery10/1/2026 From 24 to 27 September 2026, the ‘neue räume’ design trade fair took place in Hall 550 in Zurich-Oerlikon. Read our review of the International Exhibition for Living, Furniture and Design to find out what the exhibitors were showcasing.
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?
FAIRS & EVENTS La dolce design10/17/2025 Since Edit Napoli was founded, Naples has become an important location for author design. The format brings together young design talents as well as established designers and manufacturers. We travelled south and discovered objects that show where contemporary design is heading.
HOTEL Room in the green11/22/2022 Agrotourism is booming and bringing new forms of hotel business to light. The Berlin-based start-up Raus, for example, develops mobile, self-sufficient hotel rooms that it sets up in forests, meadows, fields and pastures. Architect Sigurd Larsen is responsible for the latest design.
ORGATEC 2022 – REVIEW Flexibility for stability10/31/2022 Orgatec is back and with it a homely jigsaw puzzle that maps the development of different requirements in the working context since 2018. Our review.
ARCHITECTURE More than a café4/29/2022 Robert Stadler, an Austrian whose adopted home is Paris, has enriched the tradition-steeped KWM Krefeld with a coffee house that thoroughly lives up to the famed Viennese model. As an “gesamtkunstwerk”, it carries the spirit of productively combining art, craft, and industry forward into the Modern Age and playfully melds design and life, tradition and innovation.
DESIGN On the sunny side4/7/2022 April may be doing its rounds as usual, but the warm summer days won't be far away. For the ideal furnishing of gardens, terraces and balconies, we show you 29 current products that combine craftsmanship with elegant design.
DESIGN Projection forward1/28/2022 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.
MOBILITY Clean driving5/1/2021 Heatherwick Studio with IM Motors has unveiled a fully automated electric-powered concept vehicle that uses a HEPA filter to clean ambient air while driving.
ARCHITECTURE The architectural desire to travel4/7/2021 OOAK architects have designed a holiday home on the island of Karpathos. The building stages the surrounding landscape and with its patios creates complex spatial relationships.
SUSTAINABILITY STYLEPARK Talk @Clubhouse #2: Sustainable Design3/15/2021 Sustainable design – what matters now? Is the call for sustainability in design a trend or is a change in values taking place? Is the designation "sustainable" being given too lightly? We discussed these and other questions on March 18, 2021 at 6:30 p.m. on Clubhouse.
SUSTAINABILITY Cards on the Table1/29/2021 The time is ripe for change: Stefan Diez has formulated ten requirements that he believes products should meet. He explains the concept to us in an interview.
ARCHITECTURE Concrete in the rotunda1/28/2021 Tadao Ando has transformed a 250-year-old former commodities exchange in Paris into a new contemporary museum for the Pinault Collection. The Pritzker Prize winner has inserted a richly-contrasting horizontal line into the venerable rotunda beneath which fair-faced concrete shimmers gently.
DESIGN Fresh start1/22/2021 The start of the year is reservedly optimistic in view of the ongoing pandemic and strengthens the desire for variety, energy and colour. For a fresh boost, we have gathered a colourful bouquet of current interior products for you from our Novelties Stage.
HOTEL A nest with a hill1/8/2021 With the Shiroiya Hotel, Sou Fujimoto Architects have succeeded in producing a fascinating combination of an old building and a conversion, design, architecture and art. Michele de Lucchi, Jasper Morrison, Leandro Erlich and Sou Fujimoto have each designed one of the rooms.
DESIGN Open-air office4/8/2020 Spring is just around the corner bringing with it the first warm hours of sunshine. Anyone lucky enough to have their own balcony or patio can move their workplace outdoors – Stylepark provides you with ten ideas for doing your office work in the fresh air.
RESTAURANT Seaside Colors9/11/2019 Maritime flair does not always have to be a matter of blue and white stripes, as is demonstrated by the recently opened Oktopussy design restaurant on the island of Norderney.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2019 Revival vs. Innovation4/25/2019 The grand review: These are the trends and highlights of this year's Milan furniture fair.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2019 Milan Design Week: Live Blog4/11/2019 Stylepark at every turn: Follow our encounters and discoveries live from Milan in this daily updated feed.
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.
SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK Impressions of the Salone del Mobile 20184/22/2018 You didn't make it to Salone del Mobile 2018? Never mind! Stylepark brings you the impressions of the trade fair and the showrooms in Milan on your monitor.
ARCHITECTURE Sit down please!6/5/2017 Imagine an arcade or a park without benches. Impossible. The parkbench is as important in urban spaces as salt is in soup. The most exciting models in an overview.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017 Pumped up: Tête-à-tête on a chair or sofa4/13/2017 Velvet, fringes, cushions and love seats galore: The current sofas and easy chairs are ideal for creating a cozy lounge.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017 Salone, viewed critically 01: The heavy and the light4/10/2017 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 Forza Salone!4/6/2017 Off we go! Take a walk with us through trade-fair fairyland, catch the mood at the one or other booth and a glimpse of the novelties at this year’s Salone del Mobile.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017 Avanti Artigiani!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.
FAIRS & EVENTS Convey the enthusiasm that in this job there’s still things to be achieved1/5/2017 The exhibition “Full House: Design by Stefan Diez” is still being assembled at MAKK. But what is already clear is that what will go on display in Cologne will be far more than a simple show of his work. We talked in advance with Stefan Diez about his concept.
STYLEPARK MAGIS There’s a strong idea behind each and every one of our products10/27/2016 Thomas Wagner spoke to Alberto Perazza about wrought iron, Venetian hospitality and cosmopolitanism, and the subtle distinctions in design.
STYLEPARK MAGIS For me, quality is the future 10/27/2016 Thomas Wagner spoke to Eugenio Perazza about hospitality, Venetian traditions and how ideas for the future come about.
STYLEPARK MAGIS Questioning the conventional10/25/2016 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.
STYLEPARK MAGIS Welcome to our table!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.
INTERVIEWS What touches people's soul?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.
FAIRS & EVENTS The Donkey in the System4/20/2016 Salone 1: In Milan, well-being is the order of the day – Ettore patiently bears burdens,there are benches, small tables, and large sofas.
FAIRS & EVENTS The Modest One1/12/2016 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.
DESIGN Outdoors or indoors, sitting or rocking9/4/2015 Finland’s designer star Eero Aarnio conjured up this neat kid’s chair in 2005 – an it also makes for a great seesaw.
DESIGN Pretty hot-wired7/7/2015 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.
DESIGN Four legs and a seat shell 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.
DESIGN Give Tarzan a break!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.
INTERVIEWS Industry is not a dinosaur5/11/2015 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
FAIRS & EVENTS Clerics meet Matrizia4/22/2015 “An impure tongue does not taste; dulled senses only notice the sharpest stimuli, or they chew more than they feel.” – Johann Gottfried von Herder
FAIRS & EVENTS Sam Son Remo ZigZag4/12/2015 Any number of novelties from Konstantin GrcicExcitement’s in the air. Shortly before the Salone opens some news has leaked out as regards what KGID is coming up with.
DESIGN Small is beautiful3/25/2015 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.
FAIRS & EVENTS Forget those old banana boxes1/22/2015 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.
FAIRS & EVENTS A chair, as taut as a bow Kyudo by Konstantin Grcic for Magis5/7/2014 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.
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 I like the Original1/31/2014 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.
MAGAZINE Marseille, Corbu, Grcic and the Sex Pistols7/1/2013 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.
MAGAZINE Twelve outdoor classics5/8/2013 Stylish and fit for any activity: Outdoor classics for sitting, lounging or just looking pretty. Attractive, cool and simply indispensable.
MAGAZINE Twelve lightweight pieces for your balcony5/8/2013 A little bit of happiness just outside the door: seating furniture, light, delicate, flexible and anything but clunky.
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 Colour Attack!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.
MAGAZINE Good designers, successful products – Milan Marathon part 34/23/2013 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.
MAGAZINE What a relief – The Milan marathon part 14/17/2013 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.
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 Milan in four bags or: Design, theatrical, practical, feudal and universal4/27/2011 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?
ART From volcanoes to universe by spaceship7/17/2010 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.
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 Here’s to the new!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.
