For a bar Werner Aisslinger designed in Zurich Rolf Benz contributed customized sofas that bring to mind the one or other hard landing back in your school days.

On May 14, Techtextil 2019 opens for business. And this year the trade fair has chosen “Urban Living – City of the Future” as its special theme.

Black fittings, smart showers and weightless furniture: ISH 2019 offers everything the heart desires, but has virtually no answers when it comes to the reality.

Our image gallery of the big event of Laufen with Stylepark on the occasion of the ISH 2019.

The motto of the event staged by Laufen and Stylepark at the ISH 2019 was: Think BIG! 

Konstantin Grcic has designed washstand solutions for small rooms for Laufen – in part as a response to the challenges of urbanization. An interview.

At ISH 2019, visitors can immerse themselves in oases of well-being that offer a spa experience for all the senses. This also includes tools that provide pleasant support for the daily ritual in the bathroom.

With the Stylepark Selected Award at ISH 2019, Stylepark honours the best product premieres at the fair. These are the winners.

Stylepark brings the best impressions of the trade fair to your monitor.

At the ISH 2019, Laufen celebrates not only the premiere of the new collection “The New Classic” by Marcel Wanders – also Konstantin Grcic and Patricia Urquiola enhanced their series.

For Ligne Roset LucidiPevere have designed a casual and comfortable armchair called “Backpack”. Stylepark is raffling off an outdoor version to its readers.

Arata Isozaki is being awarded the Pritzker Prize in May: a view onto the long journey of the architect, urban planner and visionary theorist.

Light.Space.Human. (Licht.Raum.Mensch.) – Under this name the window manufacturer VELUX is launching its eleventh architectural competition this year. Apply now through 31 March!

Burning wood while living sustainably – a preview of the domestic stoves segment at ISH 2019 shows just how it’s done.

In Mexico City the architecture studio Taller Héctor Barroso has built an apartment block with an extraordinarily interwoven structure that seems impenetrable at first sight.

This Hamburg building demonstrates the potential of smart technologies. An initial look forward to ISH 2019 reveals how good indoor air quality and conditioning can be automated.

He won the Golden Lion in Venice, then he bewitched Paris with his exhibition “Freeing Architecture” at Fondation Cartier. In the summer of 2019, Junya Ishigami will be constructing the Serpentine Pavilion.

Małgorzata Bany is still young but already a celebrated “maker” – thanks to the expressive style with which she shapes objects from Jesmonite.

A design boutique for artistic floral decorations in Hiroshima is displaying its creations with the help of the USM Haller modular furniture system.

For a long time, there has been a dearth of up-and-coming talents from Italy. All of a sudden, things have picked up, with M-L-XL designers Marco Campardo and Lorenzo Mason stepping onto the stage. A portrait.

e15 art director Farah Ebrahimi tells about her special encounter with the master of “banal design“.

Jean Nouvel has converted a historical building complex in Rome for Fondazione Alda Fendi and created an extraordinary synthesis of old and new. 

Jean Nouvel has radically redesigned a complex of historic buildings in the heart of Rome for the Fondazione Alda Fendi.

With “The Unfolding Village” Neri&Hu address the traditional village as Guests of Honor at the Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair. Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu talk to Anna Moldenhauer about why they find its declining importance worrying.

The Tchoban Foundation - Museum for Architectural Drawing in Berlin provides a deep insight into the graphic work of the Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza.

The exhibition of the work of Álvaro Siza at the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin is far more than just a retrospective.

The forest fosters healing. Providing a retreat from everyday clinic life Snøhetta’s compact wood cabins have an unimpeded view of the undergrowth. 

At this year’s Stockholm Design Week, Wästberg presented an update of David Chipperfield’s luminaire “w102,” which now has an extended family.

From bathroom to living space: In 2019, ISH’s special show “Pop up my Bathroom” is focusing on experiencing current trends in color.