FEATURED Powerful Character3/27/2017Dinesen has outfitted an old Copenhagen blacksmith’s workshop that has been converted into a home with "HeartOak"-planks.
FEATURED Robust elegance3/20/2017Mosa has fitted out the four-star hotel Van der Valk in Antwerp with the new, enlarged “Solids” tiles.
STYLEPARK BETTE Fluffy bathrooms3/14/2017Bathrooms are becoming homelier: With Bette Lux Oval Couture a freestanding bathtub is now available whose exterior is covered with colored fabric. We spoke to designer Dominik Tesseraux.
FEATURED Sitting regally3/13/2017Pedrali has fitted out the Ore restaurant in Versailles château with comfortable Ester upholstered armchairs.
STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL - ACTIVE LIGHT Some like it warm3/8/2017If you feel comfortable in the shop, you also buy more. The right light plays an active role. Three examples show how lighting can affect us during shopping.
FEATURED Noble heart3/6/2017Leicht has developed an open living room-cum-kitchen for a new build – with a view out over nature.
FEATURED Radiant steps2/27/2017Siller has created a transparent staircase illuminated in color by LEDs.
DESIGN Chrome-plated harmony 2/27/2017The Hansgrohe Group has kitted out a hotel on the shores of the Melchsee with fittings and showers from their brands Axor and hansgrohe.
DESIGN We are the robots2/20/2017Vitra Design Museum is presenting "Hello, Robot". One question the exhibition asks is: Will the machines serve us or we them?
DESIGN Onwards and upwards2/7/2017In 1924 the painter, book designer and typographer Paul Renner was commissioned to design “the typeface of our time.” But Renner looked to the future and created Futura. Now Gutenberg Museum Mainz is telling the story of this sanserif typeface.
STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL - ACTIVE LIGHT Modular through the night1/20/2017People need the right light at the right time. And that means outside, too. Which is why “human-scale lighting” is shaping the most interesting developments in outdoor luminaires.
FEATURED Luxury with drip-off effect1/17/2017Villeroy & Boch has fitted out the five-star hotel "The Peninsula Paris" with high-quality sanitary ware.
DESIGN Breathe out slowly1/13/2017Bohemian glass has for centuries enjoyed a great reputation. And Brokis proves that modern design and crystal-clear materials can be easily combined; it’s a company that produces hand-blown glass luminaires in Janštejn in the Czech Republic.
STYLEPARK ZUMTOBEL - ACTIVE LIGHT Mysterious gleam in the Alps1/13/2017Taking as its motto “Bürchen Mystic”, a Swiss mountain village is relying on the hidden power of light, and on the almost invisible solution Zumtobel provided.
STYLEPARK GIRA Home Smart Home1/12/2017At BAU 2017 Gira will be exhibiting a new smart home server: Gira X1. We talked to its developer Martin Gremlica.
STYLEPARK GIRA The Smart Revolution1/12/2017Products for the smart home have never been cheaper, safer, more efficient and reliable. 2017 might just turn out to be the year in which the technological upgrading of private homes prevails on the market and some new standards are set.
STYLEPARK GIRA Remote control for the home1/11/2017With the Gira X1 and the relevant App even when away you still remain the master of the house, well, at least technically speaking.
FEATURED The Individualist1/5/2017Hanne Willmann likes the Nordic design language. Yet in her own designs the Berlin-based designer always goes one step further and arouses attention through exciting contrasts.
KLAAS KUIKEN The Modifier1/5/2017Klaas Kuiken makes use of creative processes that leave their trace on the relevant object, but the Dutch designer also transforms existing products into objects of poetic beauty.
FEATURED Classic in new robes1/3/2017Vola mixers with PVD surfaces set the tone in the new master bathroom in a historicist villa.
DESIGN From selvedge to rug 12/28/2016The basis for the aesthetic felt rugs are high-quality waste selvedges that are arise when producing wool materials.
DESIGN Show who belongs to the club12/20/2016A column by Michael Erlhoff about Brands as designed denunciation.
FREI OTTO RETROSPEKTIVE Successful spread of the burden12/19/2016“Thinking by Modeling” is the title of the first major posthumous exhibition on the oeuvre of the architect Frei Otto, who died last year. Sadly, the show at Karlsruhe’s ZKM wallows too much in the archives of the great creator.
DESIGN Paradisiacal Slips12/6/2016A column by Michael Erlhoff on the tricky ambivalence of service design.
FEATURED Smart homes12/5/2016A home that offers ideal living conditions from the start: In the new residential complex Apartimentum in Hamburg the smart technology by Dornbracht in the bathroom makes for top-class comfort.
FEATURED Focusing on the environment12/5/2016The German head office of Mitsubishi Electric is outfitted with the award-winning Mosa Solids tiles.
DESIGN Design Museum Redux11/22/2016London’s new Design Museum is opening in the former Commonwealth Institute building from 1962. Under the open concrete ceiling, Rob Wilson wonders if building and exhibitions also reflect upon the conditions of the UK after the Brexit vote.
FEATURED Clear lines for conferences11/22/2016The Graph and Timetable conference furniture from Wilkhahn was selected for the conference rooms at the new headquarters of Dutch company Heerema.
FEATURED Kaleidoscopic café11/21/2016With metal and wooden furniture by Pedrali, Moleskine has created a multifunctional space in Milan that combines creative working, relaxed breaks and product presentation.
FEATURED Puristic enjoyment11/14/2016The sturdy bentwood furniture “Punton” by Ton was selected to furnish a new café in the six district of Prague.
FEATURED All Danes together11/8/2016Graceful functionality: Republic of Fritz Hansen has used Arne Jacobsen’s classics for the interior of textile giant “Bestseller”.
DESIGN Cross-Border Design Contest: The new you 11/7/2016The goal of the recently launched "Cross-Border Design Contest" in the Dutch city of Maastricht is to translate the DNA of the Dutch Limburg region in an Interior object.
FEATURED The light of tranquility11/7/2016The sound-absorbing luminaire “Silenzio” by Luceplan enables guests to enjoy the quiet in a restaurant in airy heights in Italy’s Aosta Valley.