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.
DESIGN A license to RO-CK2/17/2015For his lifetime achievements Nils Holger Moormann has been presented with the “German Design Award” in Frankfurt. Prompting Florian Hufnagl, former Director of the Neue Sammlung in Munich, to compose a special laudation in words and images.
DESIGN Mika Barr12/29/2014: is a design entrepreneur and she has her textiles “wrinkle” in their very own way.
DESIGN Behind Swedish curtains12/24/2014In his book “Ett Hem” painter Carl Larsson talks about the way that Swedes used to live about a century back. What has remained of their predilection for adorning their homes? A trip to Stockholm provides some answers.
DESIGN Design like a rock12/12/2014Design and rock – that is just as much a success story as the “Objects” books by Antonia Henschel and Trademark Publishing. This year, the publishing arm of Frankfurt agency “Sign Kommunikation”, which works on specific projects with Stylepark, has once again brought out some exciting new books.
DESIGN Floors make the space12/8/2014The right floor covering can appreciably enhance a building’s quality. We present five good examples: A high school in Ergolding, a PR agency in Toronto, a residence for art lovers in Turnhout, Belgium, a maternity ward in Essen and an art forum complete with bar installation in Düsseldorf.
DESIGN Auto-psy. Notes on automotive existence11/21/2014It seemingly moves of its own volition, creates its own cosmos, tells us what we have to do, plays the lead in movies, has its own sound, and everything about it has to be designed: Our relationship to the automobile and the automobile to us, proves to be astonishingly diverse.
DESIGN Elementary shapes for the floor11/20/2014Square one-size-fits-all carpet tiles are very yesterday – the hottest trend in floor coverings are jigsaw carpets. The result of a collaboration between Vorwerk and Berlin designer Werner Aisslinger, “Elementary Shapes” enable us to piece together personalized carpet creations from six basic geometric shapes.
DESIGN Perfectly functional: Vesuvio by Gaetano Pesce11/19/2014Functionalism teaches that form shall follow function. A caffettiera proves what it means to take “form follows function” literally.
DESIGN The digital sculptor 11/17/2014Many items that previously had to be painstakingly made today can be realized using CNC milling. Not only does the process permit complex forms to be made quickly and precisely, some design classic also benefits from this digital manufacturing technique.
DESIGN My colleague, the Robocar11/9/2014Many driving instructors enjoy the driver assistance systems in today's cars. The sector is not worried that piloted driving might one day cost them their job – to the contrary actually.
DESIGN Data make clothes10/31/2014Are we soon going to be wearing “digital fashion”? Will jackets with integrated solar cells, lingerie with inbuilt GPS systems and 3D-printed garments be posing a serious threat to tried-and-tested manufacturing processes?
FEATURED There are volcanoes along the interstate10/23/2014Embedded between poppy fields and asphalt in Lainate, Italy, a striking roof almost 28 meters high interrupts the landscape. What looks from a distance like a small volcano at closer inspection turns out to be the “Villoresi Est” interstate service station.
FEATURED Taking the waters with St Francis of Assisi10/22/2014An exclusive spa complex with medical center was realized on the outskirts of St. Gallen. The modern fittings include office furniture by Lista Office LO.
DESIGN Let’s print a pizza! 10/17/2014Pasta from a printer and banana skins that are decorated by laser are intended to expand our culinary world. Is that what we want? Or are we just doing it because it’s possible? A conglomeration of useless things.
