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No reason to immediately send out a Mayday call: The speech in honor of Konstantin Grcic at the official ceremony presenting the 2016 "German Design Award Personality".

At this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair the Scandinavians show how much we long for homeliness.

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed roller blinds for Kvadrat. In an interview with Martina Metzner, Erwan Bouroullec reveals the ideas behind the new product and how design stimulates the senses.

Be it new designs or re-issued classics: velvet covers were omnipresent at the imm cologne. But why?

It’s back: “Slice” by Pierre Charpin. Martina Metzner spoke to the French designer about his unusual armchair.

Revivals, evergreens and many colors: imm cologne 2016 likes sending its visitors time traveling. Since it is becoming ever harder to offer something really new, the option is to resort to the archive and refine things.

Pascal Bosetti takes to the stage as a magician.

The imm cologne takes place from January 18-24. The Cologne trade fair is very upbeat and with good reason. Although the basic conditions of homes and living are changing.

Jasper Morrison has been voted A&W Designer 2016. At documenta 8 his “Reuters News Room” already focused on the users and saw him pondering the relationship between them and the media.

Richard Neutra wanted to expand architecture to include a biorealistic element. Evidently he also had an eye for animals.

Leather, hide or brocade – fashion is reveling in high-grade materials and elaborate textures. The furniture design at times remains restrained.

Hard-edged and technoid or soft and round – formally furniture and fashion are certainly not so far apart from each other.

Do furniture design and fashion swing to the same rhythm? We had a look round in Cologne, London, Milan, New York, Paris and Stockholm: And started with color.

Sebastian Herkner is a very sought-after designer. We accompanied him from Offenbach to Selb, where he is to boost business for Rosenthal with porcelain vases and teapots.

Why is architecture dangerous and how can a floor protect life – Martina Metzner talked about such things with Piero Lissoni – Special Guest at Domotex 2016.

Maria Hibri has no time for ideologies. In her apartment Orient cuddles up to Occident. Visiting the democrat of things.

Rest, nap, read or let your thoughts wander during the day – on a daybed. Be it an upmarket modern version, a narrow bench, a chaise longue or a new wave – they all look great.

What is involved, what needs to happen for a few thoughts and sketches to get turned into a chair, a table or a sofa? Want to know more? Then the monographs on the respective oeuvres of James Irvine and Jasper Morrison are a great place to start.

We visited the London Design Festival with a group of architects and interior designers and met Barber Osgerby, who in the form of “Axor One” are no also focusing on the bathroom.