DESIGN Beyond time and space10/31/2017“Jackie”, a bar designed by Joanna Laajisto, would be a credit to any Italian metropolis – it so wonderfully quotes postwar Italian design. However, it is located at the opposite end of Europe.
DESIGN Fashion furniture 10/25/2017Parisian Galerie A1043 presents furniture by Japanese fashion designer Rei Kawakubo.
FEATURED A communicating office10/23/2017For a pioneering bank building Wilkhahn has realized individual solutions.
DESIGN The re-definer10/19/2017Ana Relvão and Gerhardt Kellermann like to get down to basics when the talk turns to designs. For the Cor Lab, the redesigned the room divider completely.
DESIGN When design becomes a market advantage10/16/2017The small French hotel chain Okko seeks to win out in the tight market for four-star city hotels – thanks to its design concept. Patrick Norguet designed the latest hotel, in Strasbourg.
DESIGN It’s back!10/15/2017Feria Habitat Valencia is back – thankfully. We cast a glance at the novelties from the South.
DESIGN Making life easier for digital nomads10/11/2017They do exist – items for life with a smartphone and a laptop that are as carefully considered as they are well designed. Users need look no further than the label Nolii, founded by British designer Benjamin Hubert.
STYLEPARK WALDMANN Light as therapist10/9/2017Biodynamic light by Waldmann boosts the quality of life of care-home residents in Altentreptow and Neubrandenburg.
DESIGN Looking for a new kitchen?10/8/2017MyKilos, a Berlin-based label and the brainchild of Daniel Klapsing and Philipp Schöpfer, not only designs fabulous products for the living room, but has now brought out some game-changing kitchens.
DESIGN The chair of nations10/6/2017It is not only the architecture of the UNESCO Headquarters in Paris that is iconic, but also its interior. Pride of place there goes to Eero Saarinen’s “Conference Chair”, which is now set to furnish the building in a new version.
DESIGN Ala Kazam!10/5/2017Material and magic: Vitra Design Museum in Weil is celebrating the outstanding designer duo of Charles and Ray Eames not just with one, but with no less than four exhibitions.
FEATURED Ingeniously combined10/4/2017Build Inc. Architekten have used Zeitraum furniture for the interior for a new gastronomy concept in Lucerne – the “Ampersand”.
DESIGN Ending blue light 9/29/2017Cool spectacles abound. In the flagship store of South Korean spectacles label YUN in Berlin you can not only take glasses home with you immediately, special lenses also provide protection from computer glare.
DESIGN Leaving clichés behind9/28/2017Woman equals pink, weak and cute, man is automatically blue, strong and hard-edged? The iphiGenia Gender Design Award makes a stand against conventional stereotypes.
DESIGN Light-footed9/27/2017For all those who don’t like the idea of abseiling in the Alps, but still have a penchant for ropes: the new table by Moormann, called “Seiltänzer” – rope dancer.
FEATURED Superlative on the Côte d’Azur9/26/2017Paola Lenti has its very own booth to present its current collection at the Monaco Yacht Show.
FEATURED Playfully working9/26/2017Acoustic solutions from Buzzispace structure the new open-plan office of Kienbaum Consultants International.
DESIGN BY NEW TENDENC The expansion of the working zone9/25/2017With its highly precise, pared back furniture the Berlin label New Tendency has made itself an international name. With “New Tendency+” they are expanding their portfolio to include customizing.
DESIGN And now and then a pull-up9/23/2017The architects at Autori have created an interior design for the new office of a Serbian gaming firm that truly facilitates multi-tasking.
DESIGN Fun at work 9/22/2017Anyone wanting to win out in the sector today needs not only a high-end design but also a precise business model, like the young L&Z company which has specialized in intelligent and well-designed office furniture.
FEATURED Showcase stairs and fair-faced concrete9/19/2017How to highlight the stairs in the no-frills architecture of Düsseldorf’s Heinrich Heine University is something Ado Lights achieves perfectly.
DESIGN Living in the office9/18/2017Designers Aust & Amelung, Relvao Kellermann, Studio Pauline Deltour and Uwe Fischer have developed furniture for the “Cor Lab” that create comfy working zones.
FEATURED The best light 24/79/16/2017The new newsroom at Pressehaus Stuttgart boasts a modern infrastructure – and that includes optimal illumination of the workstations by Waldmann products.
MOBILITY Living and Driving9/15/2017At motor shows, and only there, do studies go on display that never actually make it into mass production. If you’re going to dream, then in style is the motto at Renault, where the “Symbioz” concept car comes with no less than a house as the display cabinet.
DESIGN Rendezvous with the car culture9/15/2017“Grand Basel” is the name of the auto salon that is setting out to attract more than just collectors and design aficionados as of next year. The concept was presented in Basel – along with the one or other dream of a car.
IAA 2017 The hitchhiker's guide to a mobile future9/14/2017“Volk ohne Wagen” (a people without a car) is the provocative title of a polemic by mobility researcher Stephan Rammler. What solutions does he actually have to offer for future mobility?
DESIGN What are they doing in there?9/14/2017Ettore Sottsass would have turned 100 years old today. We still know far too little about the designer and architect who looked beyond the walls of the familiar.
STYLEPARK SWAROVSKI An entirely new light9/13/2017Organically formed crystals that haven’t been cut or polished and which softly reflect the light: Swarovski Crystal Palace presents an entirely new development at the London Design Festival with “Luminous Reflections” by Tord Boontje.
FEATURED A cosmos for the inside world9/12/2017The "Cosmo" luminaire by next lighting gives the lobby for a center for plasmapheresis in Hungary a lighter feel.
DESIGN High on design9/7/2017Lifestyle choices now pervade many areas of our existence – even the consumption of drugs is no exception. Design has turned its eye to cannabis use.
DESIGN Qian Jiang wins the Formex Nova Design Award 20179/5/2017It is not just young designer Qian Jiang’s works that are outstanding – a look at the five other designers nominated is well worth while.
FEATURED Dark elegance9/1/2017The Luxushotel "At Six" is Stockholm's newest design hotspot and combines Nordic design with fittings and showers from Axor.
FEATURED Memento in Barcelona8/30/2017For the bathroom in the exclusive "One Ocean Club" in Barcelona the choice fell on ceramics courtesy of Villeroy & Boch.
STYLEPARK BETTE Archetypes in titanium steel8/26/2017With its bathroom series Bette Loft and Bette Loft Ornament, Bette demonstrates its competence in molding technology.