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The company Alape was set up more than a hundred years ago by Adolf Lamprecht. Located in Penig, Saxony it initially made enamel products before gradually shifting its focus to the bathroom. Production concentrated on sinks and bathroom furniture, and over the years a close cooperation with designers and architects evolved.

Major events often leave behind a void. It takes a little time to fill a vacuum again and in the case of Expo 2000 in Hanover, it seems this time has now come. Competence and creativity have now settled on the site which, seven years ago, was devoted to representation and discourse between countries.

After the great success this year, with over 10.000 visitors, The Design Annual 2008 will be the third in the series, devoted on this occasion to the theme of "showtime". And it is not only the motto that is changing this time.

As part of its commitment to the environment, the Zumtobel Group awarded for the first time ever an extremely generous international architecture prize for sustainability and humanity in the built environment.

Arguably, the idea that your own home might provide a castle, warding off the outside world, was a sentimental illusion even before the invention of WLAN. Let's face it, since time immemorial the interior has in addition to ornamental individualism been the private reversal of zeitgeist, economic development and technical invention.

Produzieren, wo der Kunde ist: Die Leuchtblumen von Janne Kyttänen leiten eine neue Ära im Produktdesign ein.

The Black_Honey bowl that Arik Levy designed for Materialise.MGX looks like a natural, flexible structure that has solidified in full flight. The company is primarily known for the opportunities provided by its rapid prototyping and is regarded as the market leader in 3D printing.

It is well known that the beginnings of innovation are to be found on the periphery of a discipline, where there are no longer any clear boundaries, where an experimentation results in something new, where there are exceptions to rules. As someone who routinely criss-crosses borders Mike Meiré would appear to have specialized in driving developments forward and searching for new design approaches.

Materialworks Zoom: the CUT'N FOLD® process by the Northeim company, Hannecke

Rem Koolhaas macht jetzt Mode. Bruce Willis trägt seine T-Shirts, und Miuccia Prada verkauft sie.

The Berlin architect Jürgen Mayer H. has completed the extension of the Danfoss Universe Science Park in Nordburg, Denmark.

On the death of Dino Gavina, one of the last "great masters" of Italian design. Typical somehow, the tardiness in writing about the death of one of Italy's really greatest designers. All the more Dino Gavina retreated from the public eye in the last decades, all the less was published on his sudden death on April 6.

"MYTO", a fully synthetic cantilever-based chair was created in what has been an unparalleled cooperation between a designer, a furniture manufacturer and an industrial corporation.

Auf einem Taschentuch präsentierte Nils Holger Moormann auf der diesjährigen Mailänder Möbelmesse seine neuen Produkte. "Benutzt es zum Trocknen Eurer Abschiedstränen", rief uns der Chiemgauer Querdenker selbstbewusst zu, als wir seinen Stand verlassen wollen.

In Berlin, the Werkbundarchiv - Museum der Dinge is opening its doors at a new venue.

During "The Design Annual - inside: private identity" in Frankfurt, DuPont presents the exhibition "40 Years/40 Designers". On the occasion of the 40th anniversary of DuPont™ Corian®, 40 designers and architects developed table or desktop accessories made of the solid surface material.

Generally, the most beautiful finds are those we did not actually set out to find. This is why, in their joint project, Stylepark and the magazine Baumeister are presenting surprising and inspiring moments from art, architecture and design whose special qualities deserve personal consideration and a second look.

NASA-Experimente und andere Lichtspiele mit Achille Castiglioni

A book has been published just in time for the Milan Furniture Fair - on the oeuvre of Ludovica + Roberto Palomba.

If the last edition of the Salone del Mobile in Milano proved anything, it might well be the fact that the luxury industry, after buying the major players of what always was in essence a family business, is now remoulding the design world to its corporate laws. A total transformation is the result, with the anonymous replacing the personal, and a celebration of the surface any search of depth.