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Today, the year 2015 comes to an end – and today we also cross that finishing line.

Gisela Erlacher’ series of photographs shows how residual spaces can create free scope.

In the run-up to New Year’s Eve you quickly realize what it was you always felt you simply had to own: a portable bar hamper for the road.

With his “Grande Cretto”, Italian artist Alberto Burri has created a monument to and for the Sicilian town of Gibellina.

The”Melt and recreate” luminaire by Siri Bahlenberg and Sofia Bergfeldt is a good lesson in the eternal cycle of emerging and passing.

The myth would have it that rebel Sisyphus is condemned to constantly roll a huge boulder up a hill, yet when he reaches the top the rock goes rolling back down again. Today, he goes about a similar occupation.

A kettle can whistle, be it like a bird or a dragon. Something Michael Graves certainly knew.

Do you dance in your bikini round the mountains at Christmas? Or prefer to spend it writing postcards?

For all those men who don’t want to wait till Spring comes: “The Ride” has already shifted up a gear.

With the new “Axor One” control unit for Axor, the Hansgrohe SE design brand, showering is simpler and more intuitive. Designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby explain just how in conversation with Martina Metzner.

A carpet by the duo Veli + Amos wittily undermines media self-adoration and the use of patterns.

Ikea brings people together at the Christmas table. And call it “Gästaurant”.

In museum stores, different ages and worlds mix unabashedly, such that Munch’s “Scream” can easily become the latest rage.

There can be surprises when early and contemporary paintings of one and the same artist meet up – as in the case of Rolf-Gunter Dienst.

“Handle with Care” is the latest addition to Antonia Henschel’s series of “Objects” – this time they’re made of glass, china and ceramic.

“Das Stue” in Berlin boasts a colorful and varied interior. Uta Abendroth talked to Eugenia Linares of LVG Arquitectura about their design concept for the hotel.

Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has had an entire set of “typically Finnish” emojis designed – the first country to take such a step.

The Heimtextil trade fair is prioritizing the topic "Sustainability": with a “Green Directory” guidance system and a total of 125 exhibitors in this section.

Is all the song and dance of staging things now affecting design or do classics need a makeover now and again?