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The Springer media corporation seeks to take its place alongside the likes of Facebook and Google. Which is why it’s having OMA design a new headquarters: a monument that can be used as an office building.

It’s 30 years since Finn Skjödt premiered “Divina” for Kvadrat. To celebrate the fabric’s jubilee the Danish textile manufacturer has put together an exhibition for which it asked 24 designers to interpret the fabric in their own personal way.

In the cities of tomorrow high-tech networks are expected to make everyday life a lot easier. But the more complex the systems become, the more error-prone they get. Anthony M. Townsend confronts us with the extremely fragile systems of permanent enhancing efficiency.

The 53rd edition of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile is ready to go from 8th to 13th April, along with the biennial EuroCucina and International Bathroom Exhibition. Amazing designs can also be found at the showrooms across the city. A list of selected exhibitors shows which manufacturers are to be found where.

With “Mono” Steffen Kehrle is presenting a polyethylene stepstool for Richard Lampert. Practically offers you a step up in life.

Lensvelt makes furniture and OMA creates an illusion – presenting early designs by Belgium’s Maarten Van Severen, who died in 2005.

There’s still much to be discovered about Hans Jørgensen Wegner, who would have turned 100 this April.

In a previous life Michel Rojkind played the drums for “La Gente Normal”, one of Mexico’s hottest rock bands. Luckily for us, he didn’t stay in music but decided to make architecture instead.

Can pendant luminaires really look as if they weren’t made of glass but of “Kryptonite”, the magic green crystals from Superman’s home planet? Arik Levy is certain they can.

Ricardo Casas is one of Mexico’s industrial designers committed to experimental interior design. In his work he makes use of wood in very many ways and in the process tells stories about spaces.

The new Jumex Museum in Mexico City by Chipperfield Architects speaks a pleasant, restrained architectural language.

Anyone wanting not only to see furniture or stroll around on the roof of the cathedral, can take a glance at how Bernardino Luini painted and how Piero Lissoni places him in the limelight.

Small, superior groups of seats are back in vogue. As the experts at Poltrona Frau well know: With “Nivola” they’re launching a high-end ensemble that will take center stage.

It could be marble, but it’s glass – painted, that is. Dreamed up Oki Sato at Nendo for Glas Italia. The collection’s called “Brushstroke” and consists of seven tables and a bench.

Novelties ain’t everything. Last year Nils Holger Moormann played Ludo and didn’t bother going to Milan. This time he’s heading for the Salone, leisurely, with no furniture of his own.

Indoor as opposed to outdoor furniture – do we actually need to make such a distinction? Dedon, for one, is set to eliminate those boundaries.

Be it exhibitors, young talents or curious specialist visitors – everyone needs assistance in making their way around the Light + Building in Frankfurt. Stylepark spoke with Director Maria Hasselman and asked her about the role the trade-fair plays for experts from the world of light and building technology.

The “Salone Satellite” at the Milan Furniture Fair is considered the springboard for budding designers. Below we are presenting seven young talents who are well worth looking at more closely.

Colorful, transparent and coherent: Kartell is celebrating transparency with uncles and aunts, and at the same time adopting a metallic and luxurious air.