--- title: "Magazin" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/news" language: "en" type: "magazin" page: 129 description: "The Stylepark Magazine reports on outstanding projects and products, industry-relevant events and personalities from design, architecture and art. Read more:" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # Magazin [FEATURED Chairs that mean the world 4/2/2012 Industrial designer Odoardo Fioravanti created the wooden "Frida" chair for Italian furniture-maker Pedrali – and last year it won the "Compasso d'Oro", the design Oscar. Today, "Frida" is to be found in several renowned Design Museums worldwide. Moreover you will find Pedrali's products in a series of outstanding international reference projects.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/chairs-that-mean-the-world) [MAGAZINE Why they use two hands to hold a glass … 4/2/2012 Being European in China: A guide. When invited to eat at a restaurant in China, you should always carefully wedge your serviette underneath your plate. That was it doesn't fall on the floor each time you get up because you or one of the guests have a toast to make. The Chinese dinner table is not to be outdone when it comes to symbolism.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/why-they-use-two-hands-to-hold-a-glass) [MAGAZINE Furniture as veritable “machines for thinking” 3/31/2012 Typically furniture is only examined as regards concept, function and design – seldom do you find in-depth media-theoretical considerations. The book “Möbel als Medien” (Furniture as media), featuring contributions by authors including Marshall McLuhan, Vilém Flusser and Mark Kingwell, offers a broad perspective.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/furniture-as-veritable-machines-for-thinking) [INTERVIEWS A little hardship could do architecture good 3/30/2012 For Sauerbruch Hutton, appealing to the senses and passion are integral to architecture. Sandra Hofmeister spoke to Matthias Sauerbruch about sustainability in its various facets.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-little-hardship-could-do-architecture-good) [MAGAZINE It’s important to know where you’re coming from 3/29/2012 Scandinavian design is known for its clear forms, durability and careful craftsmanship. Do students from Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Iceland still design in accordance with these principles today? Juliane Grützner asked some of them.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/its-important-to-know-where-youre-coming-from) [DESIGN Female success beyond embroidered cushions 3/29/2012 There is a noticeably large number of women in design in Scandinavia. From Nanna Ditzel to Front Design, female designers have always played an important role in Nordic countries. Does this have something to do with design style? Or is it quite simply a question of equality?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/female-success-beyond-embroidered-cushions) [MAGAZINE Scandinavian seal of approval 3/29/2012 Creativity, quality and economic viability can all be associated with the term design. The Scandinavian governments have taken advantage of this and are investing in promoting both the discipline and their own image.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/scandinavian-seal-of-approval) [MAGAZINE Reviving Danish furniture classics 3/29/2012 Sometimes they use original plan, other times they rely on an aged furniture item – Erling and Egon Petersen, two brothers from Ormslev, Denmark go to endless lengths in their quest to breathe new life into an original design from the previous century.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/reviving-danish-furniture-classics) [MAGAZINE About tables and benches 3/29/2012 Be it park benches, conference tables or outdoor chairs – there's always an additional use to Thomas Bernstrand's designs, even though they stand in the tradition of classic Scandinavian design.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/about-tables-and-benches) [FEATURED Ideas need to mature – “Kolumba” tiles as design elements 3/28/2012 There are two residential buildings in Denmark made of the same bricks: "Kolumba", which Peter Zumthor developed in 2007 for the eponymous art museum of the Archdiocese of Cologne.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ideas-need-to-mature-kolumba-tiles-as-design-elements) [MAGAZINE The all-rounders 3/27/2012 Currently hardly a car-maker has prioritized special topics. Instead, cars are on show that can potentially do everything. Give you a sporting drive, be safe off-road, and look like a limousine.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-all-rounders) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #228 | 2012 +++ 3/27/2012 Wismar: Summer academyMunich: Women in artK20: Window imagesZurich: Freitag – Out of the BagRotterdam: Architecture biennial](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-228-2012) [MAGAZINE Ready for take-off 3/25/2012 Not much longer to go, as in early June the Berlin Brandenburg airport opens. Heike Nehl and Sibylle Schlaich at Moniteurs designed the signage system. In fact, the first signs have already been put in place on the construction site.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/ready-for-take-off) [MAGAZINE Guardian “HAL” or The Cyclops eye 3/23/2012 In Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film epic "2001: A Space Odyssey" one of the main characters is the computer "HAL 9000". Today we encounter it at any door in the design of video-monitored intercom systems.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/guardian-hal-or-the-cyclops-eye) [MAGAZINE A house with a moustache or mutton chops? 3/22/2012 As is the case in many sectors, in architecture average just doesn't quite cut it. That said, there are plenty of everyday houses that can be considered "quite good". Now Oda Pälmke has taken a closer look at them.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-house-with-a-moustache-or-mutton-chops) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #227 | 2012 +++ 3/20/2012 Karlsruhe: Sound ArtBerlin: Chairs without legsDelft: The Essence of CoolBerlin: Art and PressBoston: The Allure of Japan](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-227-2012) [MAGAZINE Fortune-hunting in the earth 3/20/2012 In the wake of the enthusiasm for cooking, or so many trend gurus have long been prophesying, it's now the garden's day. But it's not just the trend-conscious urbanites who are discovering allotment gardens anew, and not just guerilla gardening and self-supply that are blossoming again – the garden promises veritably paradisiacal states.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/fortune-hunting-in-the-earth) [MAGAZINE The minimalist view 3/18/2012 "I don't draw – I photograph!," says John Pawson. And we can readily believe him: in the course of the last decade the British architect has shot over 250,000 photos. And for the first time a selection is on show at Munich Technical University's Architecture Museum attached to Pinakothek der Moderne.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-minimalist-view) [DESIGN Plagues by the idea of rebellion 3/16/2012 Art has a problem with design, proposes Michael Erlhoff, Professor of Design Theory and History at Cologne's International School of Design. He focuses on the social perception of design and hopes that the technocrats will get worn down.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/plagues-by-the-idea-of-rebellion) [MAGAZINE The townhouse as a palliative 3/15/2012 The townhouse as a type is evidently very much in line with the times. And so it is hardly surprising that Hans Stimmann, once Municipal Building Director in Berlin, has brought out a book on it. The title intimates that the tome is intended to help planning, and it's a high-end volume of examples of specimen townhouses. Does the townhouse really have the muscle to counteract our inner cities emptying?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-townhouse-as-a-palliative) [MAGAZINE On magic caps and slit pants 3/14/2012 In China the babies don't wear diapers, but slit-pants. And everyday life in China otherwise has many particularities that are little known in Europe. The exhibition on "Chinese Suff" at Frankfurt's Museum für Angewandte Kunst presents all manner of wears and wares from China.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-magic-caps-and-slit-pants) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #226 | 2012 +++ 3/13/2012 Diane Arbus: RetrospectiveVienna: HomedepotEast German design: forgotten?Urbanism: Hands-onDAM: Zhang Ke](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-226-2012) [MAGAZINE Buildings suited to bamboo 3/12/2012 Although people in Europe do know that bamboo can be used in many different ways, hardly anybody really knows very much about its characteristics. The situation is very different in Anji, China, where there is hardly any aspect of living where life is not hard to imagine without Bamboo.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/buildings-suited-to-bamboo) [DESIGN Design as a social force? 3/11/2012 Encouraged by this teaching experiences at European design academies, Harald Gründl of Eoos Design Studio contributes four hypotheses on design to the debate on design training](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/design-as-a-social-force) [MAGAZINE For the foodie with a heart 3/9/2012 More creative. More sustainable. “Delicate” – a book about food that shows just how this fundamental human necessity can become a sensory delight, a political statement or even a crazy performance. As surprising as it is critical, this book presents a variety of projects demonstrating current developments in international culinary culture: at times alluring, at others sensual, and then there are some that are just plain disgusting.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/for-the-foodie-with-a-heart) [MAGAZINE Thought comes first 3/8/2012 For Helmut Staubach, Professor of Product and Transportation Design at Universität Berlin Weißensee the ambiguity of the boundaries between art and design constitutes an opportunity for both disciplines.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/thought-comes-first) [MAGAZINE 100 years of Swiss graphic design 3/7/2012 In terms of graphic design, Switzerland is a world leader. Züricher Museum für Gestaltung, the Zurich Design Museum, is currently demonstrating why, in a show that provides an overview of all Swiss design has to offer and is well worth seeing.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/100-years-of-swiss-graphic-design) [FEATURED Variable dividing wall system with an integrated organizing system 3/6/2012](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/variable-dividing-wall-system-with-an-integrated-organizing-system) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #225 | 2012 +++ 3/6/2012 Roman Signer: Street imagesMoMA: Cindy ShermanAlbert Oehlen: The old and the newBlickfang: 20th jubilee](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-225-2012) [DESIGN It’s obviously just too complicated for some people 3/6/2012 Georg-Christof Bertsch, Honorary Professor for Intercultural Design at the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Offenbach, warns designers against making a laughing stock of themselves by striving to be auxiliary artists. It is in fact the increasing complexity of industrial design as a profession itself that is presenting the challenges facing this sector today.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/its-obviously-just-too-complicated-for-some-people) [DESIGN Everyday America 3/4/2012 Of course, Coca-Cola, Campbell’s Tomato Soup and Zippo lighters are familiar even to Europeans. But have you heard of Lasko’s “Box Fan”, the “Snuggie” fleece blanket or “Little Red Wagon” for kids? If not, then it’s high time for an excursion into the wonderful world of American consumer goods.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/everyday-america) [MAGAZINE Reflections on architecture 3/3/2012 The "Testify! The Consequences of Architecture" exhibition at Deutsches Architektur Zentrum in Berlin explores individual experiences with architectural projects worldwide.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/reflections-on-architecture) [DESIGN What can design do? Response to a banana critic 3/2/2012 Evidently Friedrich von Borries has the one or other problem with bananas. That being so it cannot harm to read exactly what the fruit has to do with design, low sensations and art – and which concept of design will pop out of the banana skin in the end.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/what-can-design-do-response-to-a-banana-critic) [MAGAZINE Exploring urban structures 3/1/2012 Demographics, infrastructure and resources are key factors driving urban development. Audi is for the second time holding the Audi Urban Future Award, an architecture prize designed to foster research into the mechanisms of urbanity.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/exploring-urban-structures) [DESIGN New formats? Yes please! 2/28/2012 Are teachers who are themselves barely able to lay claim to noteworthy practical experience in design in a position to train others? This is a question that has been raised by Egon Chemaitis, retired Professor of Design Foundations at Universität der Künste Berlin. He cites four reasons, which from his point of view have contributed to the shift in design education in the direction of art.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/new-formats-yes-please) - [1](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=1) - [2](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=2) - [3](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=3) - … - [127](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=127) - [128](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=128) - [129](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=129) - [130](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=130) - [131](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=131) - … - [154](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=154) - [155](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=155) - [156](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=156)