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"Aplo" by Tristan Lohner for Fermob brings dynamism to lighting: conceived as mobile, it offers numerous uses in the form of a light bulb.

UNNO – “One” is the name of the first digital gallery for contemporary Latin-American design. For the program, Maria Dolores Uribe and Laura Abe Vettoretti have chosen items that unite traditional craftsmanship and contemporary trends.

edding has opened its first tattoo shop in Hamburg – and here, Zumtobel’s flexible lighting solutions are an important factor in guaranteeing precise lines.

Designing the kind of offices that not only satisfy the demands made on modern working environments but also focus on flexibility and coziness – no easy task. For three of its current projects, multidisciplinary design studio Ippolito Fleitz has solved this challenge dynamically and with adventurous colors.

NKBAK's new Stylepark building in Frankfurt am Main has been awarded the renowned German Brick Award.

Architecture can be beautiful. It can impress, influence and frighten, it can be serious – but above all architecture can definitely be fun! Take WERK12 by MVRDV and N-V-O in Munich’s Werksviertel-Mitte that was named best new building in Germany and awarded the DAM Prize 2021.

More light, more space, and great calm: In Copenhagen, David Thulstrup applied typical Scandinavian coolness and architectural precision in extending a private apartment upwards and completely rethinking its layout.

"Room Service": final-year students at Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm have collaborated with Sweden's leading furniture manufacturers to develop product prototypes that are being presented as a hybrid exhibition during the current Stockholm Design Week.

The new media campus OMA has designed for the Axel Springer Publishing Group sees itself as the concrete manifestation of a hypothesis about the end of classic office structures. The fact that in the digital age we urgently need enough space for communications and the exchange of opinions is something that the current pandemic has no doubt brought home to us once again.

Originally, the X-D-E-P-O-T at the Die Neue Sammlung in Munich was supposed to open its doors in November 2020. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the opening was put back until this spring. We talked to its director Angelika Nollert in advance about the curatorial concept behind it.

The Kreuzbergpass service building in Sexten designed by Pedevilla Architekten and Willeit Architektur offers hikers protection and orientation: Made of concrete and wood, it withstands even extreme weather conditions.

How does Philippe Paré, Managing Director Gensler Paris, see the changes in the world of work? What challenges are waiting around the corner? And what does the office of the future really need?

From 8 February to 14 February 2021, the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair and Stockholm Design Week will take place – due to the ongoing global pandemic as a hybrid event of digital offerings and design presentations in Stockholm.

Jonathan Radetz is currently experimenting with solid-colored cast glass, which he uses to create a fascinating sense of dynamism, one which allows the apparent solidity of his materials to appear more diffuse.

The competition for the Exilmuseum in Berlin has been decided. We spoke to founding director Christoph Stölzl and curator Cornelia Vossen about the thematic concept and the background to the project.

The studio chmara.rosinke from Berlin and Vienna has designed its first office furnishings with the OFIS Collection. Five constructivist anti-designs that question old work typologies - and literally demand a new attitude.

Camira presents "Craggan Flax", a contemporary further development that ideally shows off the natural strength of the bast fibre.

The exhibition “Greening the City” in Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt addresses the greening of buildings. We talked to curator Hilde Strobl about the interplay of nature and architecture.

Stylepark raffles off one "Polygon" easy chair by Prostoria.

The Vitra Design Museum Gallery will shortly present the exhibition “Memphis. 40 Years of Kitsch and Elegance”. Mateo Kries, Director of the Vitra Design Museum, tells us whether design can still provoke today and what message the extraordinary objects have for us.