--- title: "Magazin" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/news" language: "en" type: "magazin" page: 132 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 [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #209 | 2011 +++ 11/15/2011 Shenzhen and Hong Kong Biennale Fashion on the move Paper here Film „Le paysage intérieur"](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-209-2011) [MAGAZINE The rocking chair as a phenomenon for the arcades 11/15/2011 Is the rocking chair the follow-on from the cradle? An upper? Or a nostalgic object, evidence of a time when peace and quiet was still of some help to us? But it must be more than this, for if it weren't, there the variety of design approaches and solutions would be hardly as diverse.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-rocking-chair-as-a-phenomenon-for-the-arcades) [MAGAZINE Pillar of society 11/12/2011 In Germany, “Billy”, “String” and “USM Haller” can be considered some of the best-known shelves. Yet in fact, a whole plethora of shelving types has been developed in the last hundred years. Appearing sometimes as an architectural component, sometimes as a fixture in exhibitions, the shelf is, ultimately, a simple piece of living room furniture – and sometimes it even collapses.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/pillar-of-society) [MAGAZINE Design classics as child’s play 11/10/2011 There are all kinds of things we can say about design that interest not only adults, but children too. "Farbe, Form, Orangensaft" is one of the first children's books on the icons of our daily lives.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/design-classics-as-childs-play) [MAGAZINE Tough landing 11/9/2011 Berlin-based furniture and design fair Qubique aimed at setting new standards in the sector. However, its first effort at the former airport Tempelhof failed to live up to expectations. Nevertheless, the underlying conceptual approach, with the emphasis on more quality despite practical difficulties, does seem to be the right one.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/tough-landing) [MAGAZINE How the armchair got its wings… 11/9/2011 An armchair comes with a promise of comfort. That is its strength, but at the same time also its weakness. For there is nothing mustier than that feeling of grandpaness. So much the better that models such as "EC03 Eugene" and "Alcove Highback" provide a highly contemporary take on the classic armchair.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/how-the-armchair-got-its-wings) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #208 | 2011 +++ 11/8/2011 +++ Opportunity Green +++ +++ Sustainability in the design process +++ +++ Experimentdays +++ +++ Reflections on the European city +++ +++ Design Miami +++](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-208-2011) [MAGAZINE A feel for the theatrical 11/7/2011 Marc Newson originally studied jewelry design and sculpture, then switched to designing spaceplanes, sports boats and even fashion collections. And he has just won the Lucky Strike Designer Award in Hamburg. There, he commented on early influences, on urgency in the fashion industry and on how the present suppresses the future.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-feel-for-the-theatrical) [MAGAZINE The shelf – furniture for public order 11/5/2011 Not only the origin of the notion, but most certainly the future of the shelf currently seems undecided. There are high-bay warehouses with them – and they’re booming. But shelves in apartments, homes, or libraries are in crisis since the digital media have seized control over the book.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-shelf-furniture-for-public-order) [MAGAZINE A master’s apprenticeship 11/3/2011 It seems to be a regular sculptor's chisel. It just happens to have a strangely short blade. Frankfurt-based artist Jürgen Krause needed two and a half years to grind the originally more than ten centimeters long blade down by hand – the chisel has thus become proof of the grinding process.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/a-masters-apprenticeship) [MAGAZINE All the things chair can be 11/1/2011 What do you do if you want to sit down and there's no chair handy? You take a tree stump, a concrete block, or a suitcase as emergency seating. Although it looks more DIY-fun if you take this or that element and combine them to create seating of your own choice.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/all-the-things-chair-can-be) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #207 | 2011 +++ 11/1/2011 +++ Ventura Lambrate 2012 ++++++ Modular structure ++++++ Lowest-Income Apartments ++++++ Reconsidering Postmodernism ++++++ Business of Design Week +++](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-207-2011) [MAGAZINE In Chair World 10/30/2011 Any designer worth his salt must at some point in his career design a chair. Even the design theorists constantly refer to chairs when analyzing the latest trends. Despite all the technical innovations, the notion of the substantive and super-normal currently prevails.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/in-chair-world) [MAGAZINE Icy setting instead of earthquakes 10/28/2011 The prominent line-up for Munich’s “Seismographs of Architecture” symposium kindled great expectations. Kazuyo Sejima, Matthias Sauerbruch, Brendan Macfarlane and others traveled to the Bavarian capital specially for the occasion. Since the event hinged not on dialog but on lectures, many a question went unanswered. And the freezing cold draughty glass foyer of the Academy of Fine Arts certainly placed the audience’s patience under additional strain.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/icy-setting-instead-of-earthquakes) [MAGAZINE Triumph of Good Design 10/27/2011 As the original producer, the Zurich dealer Wohnbedarf is launching a re-edition collection of furniture by Max Bill. A representative of the Zurich school of Concrete Art, Bill played a decisive role in shaping the face of the long-standing company. The re-edition of products such as the "Ulm stool" draws on this past collaboration.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/triumph-of-good-design) [FEATURED Villa in Kitzbühel by Splendid Architecture 10/25/2011](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/villa-in-kitzbuehel-by-splendid-architecture) [DESIGN Foam meadow, stays fresh for longer 10/25/2011 The legendary exhibition “Italy – The New Domestic Landscape” held in New York’s MoMA in 1972 was devoted to the work of Italian designers. To this day, the catalog accompanying the exhibition has been highlighting a creative stance that took social responsibility as second nature. Consequently, many of the issues debated are still surprisingly topical for today’s generation of designers.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/foam-meadow-stays-fresh-for-longer) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #206 | 2011 +++ 10/25/2011 Minimal Art World Architecture FestivalSTADTplusArchitectural positions](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-206-2011) [MAGAZINE Fringe voice 10/25/2011 A desire to experiment and a focus on manual production methods are two things that are highly regarded by designers. Now, a scene has emerged beyond the pale of traditional publishing houses and conventional book production, one that produces and distributes more unusual printed matter. Running parallel to the Frankfurt Book Fair, the first edition of "First Issue – Self-Publishing Book Fair for Design and Art" offered an insight into the work of small independent publishing houses.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/fringe-voice) [MAGAZINE Everyday objects that are always the same bore me 10/25/2011 Fernando Brízio has kept every single one of his creations, even from his university years, and now it's paying off: For there is currently an extensive solo show of the Portuguese designer's works in Lisbon including a number of previously unseen pieces. And of course, the "Restart" dress made of fabric colored with felt pen could not be left out. Sandra Hofmeister met and interviewed Fernando Brízio for Stylepark.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/everyday-objects-that-are-always-the-same-bore-me) [MAGAZINE On tranquility and comfort 10/21/2011 The English armchair was for many years considered the epitome of luxury. So what could a contemporary version look like, freed of all the historical frills and that demonstration of bourgeois power? A stroll through the history of the lounge chair, from the Eames's ideas to the Brothers Campana.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-tranquility-and-comfort) [MAGAZINE The secret beyond the demilitarized zone 10/20/2011 The "Pyongyang Architecture Guide" by Philipp Meuser classifies the design of North Korea's capital as a systematic cabinet of curiosities and also explains the history of the city.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-secret-beyond-the-demilitarized-zone) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #205 | 2011 +++ 10/18/2011 Conference "Who designs design?"UrbanTecTokyo Designers WeekExhibition "Black and White – Designing Opposites"](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-205-2011) [MAGAZINE Do not lean back! 10/18/2011 Few pieces of furniture are as insignificant-looking as the stool. As a small, handy object with a variety of uses it often has to take a back seat. But a few models really stand out and deserve closer attention. And without wanting to be jump the gun – the trend is stools made of straw.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/do-not-lean-back) [MAGAZINE Everything that is furniture 10/17/2011 Over the next few weeks we are engaging in a daring experiment. We will be presenting important product typologies. Not only in order to inform you about the vast array of different chairs, stool, shelves, armchairs and office furniture there is. But also to explore the ruptures, revivals and reprises in the development of the respective product families.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/everything-that-is-furniture) [MAGAZINE Viewing and evaluating 10/16/2011 It is Hannes Wettstein's former desk that is attracting particular attention at the exhibition currently being held at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule – ETH). The found objects and equipment on display there show the Swiss industrial designer, who died in 2008, to have been an inspired and inspiring person. It is definitely a good thing that all of the sum total of 347 projects he is recorded as having made have for the first time been extensively documented in an exhibition and catalog.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/viewing-and-evaluating) [MAGAZINE The competition heats up 10/14/2011 When, at the beginning of the 1950s, the federal government launched the first initiatives for the promotion of design, the world of consumer goods was still modest and those in charge of the official competitions had understood their assignment. Today, three major internationally-oriented competitions dominate the arena in Germany. The event organizers make a good profit and each year the participating manufacturers are able to look upon their accolades with pride. Yet the orientation-giving function of such awards for both the end-consumer and participants seems to be hanging in the balance.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/the-competition-heats-up) [MAGAZINE So anyone who to read the documents … 10/14/2011 The "German Design Award" is being hotly debated. A new and independent concept, or just an old thing in new wrapping? Jörg Zimmermann asked Andrej Kupetz, CEO of the German Design Council, what he thought.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/so-anyone-who-to-read-the-documents) [FEATURED Of hidden helpers – Danish radio concert hall by Jean Nouvel 10/13/2011](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/of-hidden-helpers-danish-radio-concert-hall-by-jean-nouvel) [MAGAZINE Tea silk, Mao Zedong and a Chinese actress’ memories of childhood 10/11/2011 The name Dashilar stands for an exciting district of Beijing. Several of the Beijing Design Week events tempted visitors into seeing both once magnificent buildings and former Maoist factories. Alongside exhibitions such as Arik Chen's "Silent Heroes", there's also a longer-term modernization project underway here. The plans by Liang Jingyu and his colleagues could turn out to be trailblazing in the battle against gentrification.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/tea-silk-mao-zedong-and-a-chinese-actress-memories-of-childhood) [MAGAZINE Rock solid 10/11/2011 Heavy, solid materials, sturdy designs, massively muscular buildings – the current issue of Stylepark Magazine for Product Culture focuses on the issue of “the enduring”.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/rock-solid) [MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #204 | 2011 +++ 10/10/2011 MaterialicaInternational Design Alliance Congress in TaipehDesigners' OpenCologne Design Prize Conserving digital artworks](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/newsticker-204-2011) [MAGAZINE Modernity via Katsura 10/10/2011 A great many Western artists, designers and architects have looked to Japan for inspiration for their works. Bruno Taut spent three and a half years in Japan and during that time wrote numerous treatises, which were recently published in German for the first time. The Katsura Imperial Villa, for instance, was in Taut's eyes the perfect expression of a refined form of Modernism that had been carefully thought through down to the very last detail.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/modernity-via-katsura) [MAGAZINE Death of a Palace 10/8/2011 The Palast der Republik in Berlin may no longer exist, but documentation of its demolition does. Christian von Steffelin captured the stages of its destruction on camera. His photos can now be appraised in a commendable illustrated book.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/death-of-a-palace) [MAGAZINE Steve Jobs, 1955-2011 10/7/2011 The news of Steve Jobs' death was not unexpected, and yet it came suddenly. While the official notice on the Apple homepage is very short, the articles that seem, to pop up by the minute in the Internet are anything but that. Read on for a selection of articles that emphasize precisely the design achievements of Steve Jobs and Apple.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/steve-jobs-1955-2011) - [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) - … - [130](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=130) - [131](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=131) - [132](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=132) - [133](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=133) - [134](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news.md?page=134) - … - [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)