Zeitraum currently presents "Vermu" and "Vermu High", two new tables in many variations that provide the perfect base for a short break in a restaurant or café.

"Plico" is the name of the folding lounge chair with striking details and elegant frame from the Swinging Sixties, which Carl Hansen & Søn is now reviving.

The new "AXOR One" collection by Barber Osgerby exemplifies AXOR's "Compact Luxury" project. We spoke with Jay Osgerby about new interaction possibilities in the bathroom and the future definition of luxury.

MINI has teamed up with British fashion designer Paul Smith to design the MINI STRIP. The result shows how aesthetic and simultaneously sustainable a successful pared-down product can be.

Sebastian Herkner pays homage to the painter and sculptor Imi Knoebel with the handmade ceramic "imi" side tables for pulpo.

With "BetteAntirutschSense", Bette has created a new surface for all shower trays and bathtubs in glossy colours that offers the highest level of slip resistance on glazed titanium steel.

Gonzalez Haase AAS have fitted out a boutique in Berlin with a polychrome colour concept, light lines and sculptural furnishings that effectively showcase the MDC cosmetic range.

A virtual workspace for the architecture, construction and design industry: SpaceForm is the name of the project currently being developed by UNStudio, BIG - Bjarke Ingels Group and the creative studio Squint/Opera.

Four young designers we want to see, read and hear more of in the future.

With its Dondola hinge Wagner encourages dynamic sitting and actively promotes a healthy back.

Stylepark raffles off one "BM0488S Table Bench" by Carl Hansen & Søn.

Ligne Roset has expanded its “Taru” collection by Sebastian Herkner to include an armchair and a sofa. The furniture’s design succeeds in striking a balance between overall coherence and items each with a character of its own.

Gira stands for innovative building automation and control plus top-quality products combined with an attractive design. We talked to Architecture Media Manager Julian Waning about the company’s new image campaign.

The ideal symbiosis of function and form is very much in demand in the kitchen - anyone who likes to cook appreciates when products are well thought out down to the last detail. The iF Design Award 2021 serves as a good guideline for evaluating the multitude of products on offer. We present ten award-winning kitchen gadgets to you.

AXOR is looking into the future of urban living with its "Compact Luxury" project. In the same context the designer brand of the Hansgrohe Group is asking the question of how the definition of luxury is changing and is busy investigating the effects of the process on architecture and interior design.

Since 2019, creative jack-of-all-trades Luca Nichetto, who runs his own design studio in Stockholm and Venice, has been art director of the French lifestyle brand "La Manufacture". In addition to interiors, this also markets fashion of a kind on which Nichetto has his own particular take. How does he see the present and future of the design industry?

IVC Commercial has expanded its successful "Rudiments" collection with the Clay and Clay Create designs.

The iF Design Award 2021 was recently presented – for the 67th time, to be more precise – thus honoring outstanding ideas in the relevant disciplines. We are presenting four prizewinners to you, designers whose approach to sustainability is particularly impressive.

With "Revisiting Factory", the Croatian furniture manufacturer Prostoria marks the return to the factory after the pandemic and uses an impressive installation to show the creative potential of the young family business.

Stylepark raffles off one "Nostromo" single-hole washbasin mixer by Fantini.

With the “dito Workbench” Gumpo is expanding its successful collection "normcore" by Relvāokellermann.

The Bröhan Museum in Berlin is currently showing an exemplary digital programme to accompany the exhibition "Braun 100".

burgbad is presenting its most important product innovations and additions to its range in a new and original way with the digital 360-degree tour burgbad@home and an exclusive show truck that is currently touring Europe.

A shower tile that is flush with the bathroom floor: with "BetteAir", Dominik Tesseraux has created a shower tile for Bette that can be glued directly onto the screed.

With "Elastica", Innocenzo Rifino and Diego Rossi from Studio Habits span the light across the room and from the floor to the ceiling. The luminaire can be controlled with a simple hand movement.

The Future of Living: On the initiative of the Center za kreativnost – the Center for Creativity in Ljubljana – the exhibition on contemporary design from Slovenia is currently touring Europe’s design metropolises. On show are sustainable, innovative, functional but also socially committed creative projects.

What's new in the kitchen? Which materials, which styles are in demand? What current ideas are the creatives and manufacturers offering? We have put together a selection of the news for you as part of our Novelties Stage.

Studio Besau-Marguerre has created an interior design concept for the workrooms of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe MK&G in Hamburg that combines different trends.

Villeroy & Boch has fitted out the bathrooms of the “Kaunas”, a historic 4-star superior hotel in Lithuania and in the process combined contemporary design with clever details that make for maximum comfort.

Colored faucets – in the mid-1970s, they amounted to a revolution in the market. For Italian design workshop Fantini, they marked the dawn of a new age in several respects: Their “I Balocchi” mixer, which translates as “the toys”, designed in 1977 together with Davide Mercatali and Paolo Pedrizzetti, represented the company’s entry into the world of design.

Werner Aisslinger has designed the robust "1140" table for Thonet that boasts a host of ingenious details. It has excellent chances of becoming something that accompanies its owner through all the various phases in life.

Robust and colourfast: The carpet tile "Blurred Edge 854" is one of the latest novelties from IVC Commercial.

To make its cars with internal combustion engines carbon-neutral, Mazda is supporting research into a biofuel made from algae.

Jorge Pensi has collaborated with Italian furniture makers Pedrali for over a decade now – his classic “Ara” chair celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The architect and designer has just created flexible solutions for a new world of work in the form of the “Ypsilon Connect” room divider and the “Temps low back” task chair.

The Canadian artist, designer and architect Omer Arbel moves between disciplines with his creative works, creating extraordinary objects and buildings that fascinate and offer a new experience of space. Phaidon Verlag recently published the first monograph on his work.