DESIGN Stefan Diez7/31/2015Space travel, Grcic, an all-round chair, new materials, a portrait and a giant mushroom: Stefan Diez selected not one, but six favorites.
DESIGN Inga Sempé7/29/2015We certainly didn’t imagine that designer Inga Sempé has a soft spot for gas stations and autos.
DESIGN What’s up pussycat?7/28/2015Sunglasses obviously aren’t just about protecting your eyes. Models à l’extrême always guarantee you a cool place in the summer shades stakes.
DESIGN Vettura sportiva: Lamborghini and the Miura7/24/2015Low, compact and very fast: In the Lamborghini “Miura” with its transversely mounted V12, the automotive fighting bull is comparatively gentle.
DESIGN Girard meets Eames7/23/2015Alexander Girard and Charles Eames shared a close friendship, which proved highly productive in creative terms. Works by both designers can now be found in Vitra’s “Home Complements” – and this reunion is anything but a chance encounter.
DESIGN La motoretta: The Vespa by Piaggio7/17/2015Sun, air, love – and a “Vespa”. Mobility can’t get any more Italian and folksy than that. The little “Wasp” has long since become mythical.
DESIGN Out on the roof, too 7/15/2015Product Design students of École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne had a go at outfitting “Appartement 50” in Marseille’s “Cité Radieuse”. The result is an homage to Le Corbusier that uses plenty of color and adaptable furniture.
DESIGN Coconut fiber string in Singapore, steel caps in Paris7/14/2015A global and forever recognizable brand combined with local architectural references. So how does that work? Cosmetics brand Aesop shows how – in its stores.
DESIGN Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica: Alfa Romeo’s B.A.T. mobiles7/9/2015Are they really beautiful, the 1950s Alfa Romeo models known as “B.A.T.” for short? Spacey all three certainly are, even if Batman was not an Italian and is not called “pipistrello”.
DESIGN Pretty hot-wired7/7/2015They were all the rage in the 1950s, now they are back again: metal-wire structures, both stable and delicate in appearance. We have picked out several large and small tables for you.
DESIGN Macchina da scrivere: Ettore Sottsass and Olivetti7/1/2015Typewriters are hybrids, combining elements of both tools and machines. As for their design, they remained as good as interchangeable for a long time. Ettore Sottsass put a stop to all that with his designs for Olivetti: the “Tekne” and “Praxis 48” models.
DESIGN Il motore a dodici cilindri: Scuderia Ferrari and its 312 6/27/2015To this day the Italians are the unrivaled masters of making the most beautiful machines. Some have red heads and 12 cylinders.
DESIGN Expert hand, fresh mind6/25/2015Ever since 2012, the "Japan Creative" initiative has functioned as the interface between internationally active designers and traditional Japanese crafts workshops. Most recently, Stefan Diez took even the Japanese experts by surprise – with his version of bamboo furniture.
DESIGN A footwear store with a twist6/23/2015Fancy a new pair of shoes to go with your design classic? No problem. On the Vitra Campus, architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has established a Camper pop-up store in a domed structure à la Buckminster Fuller.
DESIGN Macchina per il caffè: La Cornuta by Giò Ponti for La Pavoni6/20/2015At the beginning of the 20th century the Futurists exalted it to the rank of a deity: la macchina.
DESIGN Four legs and a seat shell 6/13/2015Yes, folks, it really does exist: the universal chair of 2015. It was designed by various hands, comes in numerous versions and yet still follows a typology going back to a famous forebear. Ultimately, it is the subtle differences that count.
DESIGN New light on chairs6/11/2015Swedish designer Alexander Lervik asked famous photographer friends of his to portray his output. Powerful pictures that lend Lervik’s furniture an extraordinary character are the result.
DESIGN No perspicacity6/4/2015What happens if we simply believe our eyes and always go by the images we see?
FEATURED Spots of color on the green5/26/2015Summer is here and life can at long last move outside again. To mark the start of the al-fresco season Italian furniture manufacture Pedrali has launched four new outdoor lines destined to transform your patio and garden into an open-air living room with a Mediterranean flair
DESIGN Breaking with marble 5/21/2015Frankfurt has a new restaurant. It’s called “Stanley Diamond”, has a gentlemanly flair that also has its shady sides and pleases the plate with high-end traditional cuisine.
FEATURED Flexing muscles in the office5/18/2015Wilkhahn’s new “IN” office chair not only cuts a fine figure thanks to its fresh and young design, but above all it provides plenty of freedom, offering users outstanding comfort while staying dynamic and active as they sit.
DESIGN Give Tarzan a break!5/15/2015If you’re happy to stay in although spring has arrived, that’s up to you! We had a look around imm cologne and the Salone del Mobile to spot the latest in outdoor furniture designers and manufacturers have created specially for the season.
DESIGN Get stuck!5/6/2015The postage stamp is celebrating a special anniversary. And while the postal service has been mostly privatized, commemorative stamps featuring architecture and design have enjoyed a growing significance. Nonetheless, is the good old stamp destined to soon become extinct and confined to the groves of collections?
DESIGN A fine flair for the user5/3/2015In Belgium’s erstwhile colliery of Grand-Hornu just outside Mons, European Cultural Capital this year, a major retrospective of the work of Jasper Morrison is now on show.
FEATURED Minimalist break with Pedrali4/10/2015Fresh colors, minimalist design and stylish furniture by Pedrali – food corporation Nestlé has come up with a persuasive recipe against canteen-world misery in open-plan offices for its new Italian head office in the industrial estate of “Milanofiori” in Assago, southeast of Milan.
DESIGN Small is beautiful3/25/2015They’re back in fashion – small, light armchairs with a wooden or tubular steel frame. In the 1950s and 1960s they came to fame as “easy chairs”; now they’ve morphed into “lounge chairs”. For the office or the home.
DESIGN Enjoy the ride!3/10/2015Be it a wellness rocking chair, with a rainwater flush or restrooms with a back door: Students at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts have developed toilets that break with the traditional images of the WC.
DESIGN Åke’s passion for chairs3/2/2015Many have sat on his chairs in libraries, museums and government buildings. Yet Åke Axelsson, joint owner of Gärsnäs, is only known to the cognoscente outside his native Sweden. Stylepark visited his studio.