With "VERD°", OMC°C is bringing a quite radical vertical greening system to series production readiness for urban locations where trees cannot be planted. In summer it provides shade, in autumn the plants are harvested and provide biomass for energy.

What can an inclusive sports and culture park look like that has its place under a motorway bridge? Students from the Urban Design department at HfG Offenbach answered this question for the non-profit association Vair e.V. under the project name "Vairplay" with designs that were recently presented during the HfG Offenbach tour.

The Zurich-based company Dukta turns the characteristics of wood upside down: through targeted incisions, solid mouldings and panels become flexible – and offer new possibilities for interior design.

For years our author Andrea Mende has been focusing on the topic of light – from planning via luminaire design through to light art and research. What, we wonder, does she make of the new publication “Licht Natur Architektur” (Light Nature Architecture) by lighting designer Ulrike Brandi?

In collaboration with LAR Studio, pur natur is pushing the boundaries of the technically possible for the extraordinary design of the rooms of “Haus Brutalisme” in Ludwigsburg.

With the elegant "Black Edition", Dallmer has created a collection of aesthetic bath elements that can serve both for a monochrome design and for setting accents.

For the Chouchou Hotel in Paris, interior designer Michael Malapert achieves a coherent overall effect by combining cultural references and opting for AXOR's elegant fittings in the bathrooms.

In collaboration with Typico, the experts for textile communications, the Zumtobel team has developed the sound-absorbing pendant luminaire "TRAMAO" – a sustainable lighting solution that offers a holistic spatial experience.

“Making the impossible possible” is part of the DNA at Brunner, the contract furniture manufacturer from Baden in South Germany. Stylepark publisher visited the family-owned company in Rheinau-Freistett and were able to experience the team’s great drive for themselves.

Barefoot on plastic? It can surprisingly be both comfortable and stylish! “Mediterraneo”, the new and first carpet collection by Object Carpet for indoor as well as outdoor use, is visually reminiscent of rattan, is robust, and yet amazingly soft to the touch.

Our author Claudia Simone Hoff paid a visit to Carl Hansen & Søn: In the factory on the Danish island of Funen she found out what is behind a classic furniture item such as the “Wishbone Chair” by Hans J. Wegner, sanded down a chair leg herself, and visited Knud Erik Hansen’s manor house.

Stylepark is raffling off a "Randevu" table by Cisotti+ Laube for Plank!

With "Aava 02", Arper presents a classic collection that has been optimised in terms of both material and the wide range of finishes.

Normal Studio expands the "Paname" collection by Sammode with three impressive floor lamps that make the French company's industrial-looking lighting universally useful.

Elegant, decent, robust and practical: with the "CleanLine50", Geberit presents a shower channel that leaves nothing to be desired.

With "CeraFrame Liquid", Dallmer has developed an innovative and smart shower channel for seamless bathrooms with thin-layer floors.

Robert Volhard, founder and board member of Stylepark, visited Ligne Roset’s main factory outside Lyon. There not only did he found out some fascinating things about the history of the 160-year-old family-run business but he was introduced to product innovations and new store concepts.

The traditional Swiss textile specialist Création Baumann presents a new look after its brand relaunch. Managing Director Philippe Baumann explains the concept to us in an interview.

A renaissance of architecture and design – this claim characterises both the ambition and the working approach of the Indian architecture and design studio Renesa.

A luminaire that ideally illuminates workplaces as well as living spaces: "AMBITUS" by Zumtobel. Yorgo Lykouria, founder and creative director of Rainlight Studio, came up with the design – a flat light ring made of anodised aluminium that combines diffuse indirect light, direct light suitable for workplaces and maximum performance.

Villeroy & Boch has recently begun to offer faucet collections that are a perfect match both technically and in design terms for its own range of bathroom ceramics. They go by the name "Top Together".

For the "Padiglioni" table, Alain Gilles was inspired by one of the internationally most famous Bauhaus buildings: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's pavilion, which he realised for the 1929 World's Fair in Barcelona.

At the recent Milan Design Week, Ukrainian designers showed how design can contribute to self-assertion. Our author Thomas Edelmann took a look at the joint exhibition "Contïnuum", which was realised by the architect and designer Victoria Yakusha.

Norm Architects have created a swinging homage to the material rattan with the "Loop" chair for Expormim.

How do you design a chair that is comfortable, made entirely of wood and can be ideally integrated into any setting? The "Blueprint Chair" by Herman Studio for the Danish design brand Form & Refine meets these requirements effortlessly.

High-rise. Office. Historic preservation. And sustainability as the top priority in the conversion: the interior design studio "Elbstrand & Mannschaft" is currently completing office space in Hamburg according to the standards of the future. DGNB platinum certification is the goal for the interior work - it would be just the fourth project in Germany to achieve the associated specifications.

Stylepark is raffling off a limited "Drip" edition in orange by Bernhard Müller for more!

Comfort in contrast: the "NOOK" collection by jehs+laub for COR includes a floor-level high-back chair, a pouf and four side tables that show that compact forms can also have a light and elegant effect.

With the modular "Pira G2" shelving system, String Furniture offers the re-edition of a classic from the fifties that provides maximum freedom in room design.

In collaboration with the creative minds at jehs+laub, contract designer furniture makers Brunner have developed “oval”, a flexible lounge system for cozy seating settings that promote interaction, networking, and relaxation, while enabling synergies to be tapped.

A door phone as a design statement: with "Adelante" from Basalte, this is possible. Linear in shape and available in premium finishes, it can be ideally adapted to any entrance area and integrated into the Basalte Home system.

With their extensive "Antao" bathroom collection Kaschkasch’s Florian Kallus and Sebastian Schneider have realized a harmonious design language for Villeroy & Boch that translates the subtle asymmetry of nature into a sustainable bathroom design.

With "AXOR Drain", AXOR offers a shower channel that, with its slim, rectangular cover, looks more like a design object than a component.

Sustainable, diverse and vibrant: The biophilic design of Interface's new "Connected Ethos" carpet tile collection is inspired by nature and creates homely living and working spaces.

Levitating between art, sculpture and functional design, the works of Simon Mattisson are challenging outdated perceptions about form and function and what a piece of furniture is and can be.