Concrete curtains, synthetic paper bags, knitted fabric seat covers - new materials inspire new products.

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Iittala, a leading, Scandinavian design brand for homeware products, has opened a new flagship store in Berlin.

Alongside Charles and Ray Eames, designer and architect George Nelson rates as one of the formative representatives of American design in the second half of the 20th century. He would have turned 100 this year - an occasion which the Vitra Design Museum has seized to devote a first, comprehensive retrospective to his oeuvre.

It is with great sadness and shock that we learned of the death of architect and designer Hannes Wettstein.

Ettore Sottsass died in his home in Milan aged 90 on the very last day of 2007. Not only in Italy, and not only in the world of design and architecture are people mourning the loss of a designer of genius, as the world has lost a great humanist. For Sottsass, who construed design as the incessant search for a possible metaphor of existence, the search has come to a dramatic end.

When an international chemical conglomerate, an Italian furniture manufacturer and a German designer collaborate on the development of new materials and their application then legends are born. For example the new plastic cantilever chair "Myto".

On the death of Dino Gavina, one of the last "great masters" of Italian design. Typical somehow, the tardiness in writing about the death of one of Italy's really greatest designers. All the more Dino Gavina retreated from the public eye in the last decades, all the less was published on his sudden death on April 6.

"MYTO", a fully synthetic cantilever-based chair was created in what has been an unparalleled cooperation between a designer, a furniture manufacturer and an industrial corporation.

NASA-Experimente und andere Lichtspiele mit Achille Castiglioni

A book has been published just in time for the Milan Furniture Fair - on the oeuvre of Ludovica + Roberto Palomba.

The young Spaniard Jaime Hayon is currently one of the most dazzling figures in the international design scene. Without taking existing styles into account, he drew the attention of the crowds and was omnipresent in Milan.

New standards in product photography: the book about Konstantin Grcics stool Miura with photographs by Florian Böhm.

If there really are things, which are not apparent unless you are aware of them, then the Fortuny lamp is a good example of this. If you didn't know it had been designed exactly a century ago, you definitely wouldn't notice it.

The Kram Weisshaar office has designed a limited edition for porcelain manufacturer, Nymphenburg.

With coatings, technical details and new production methods makers of carpets and floor coverings are offering a new approach to room design. An overview of selected innovations@Domotex.

Walls becoming doors: Car concepts inspired by nature.

It needn’t always be digital. The good old notebook, without the upper case N, proves its worth in an age when everyone has to be permanently creative.