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He is one of the figureheads of design and was always surrounded by a cluster of the greats of his trade. Without producer Dino Gavina, the international success of Italian design would have been inconceivable. His self-image was manifest on his visiting card, on which was printed: "Dino Gavina. Sovversivo". A Portrait of a Subversive.

The London fair 100% Design might be going through a bad patch but the city itself has a number of interesting things to see in the realm of design, art and architecture.

Home living magazines announced the "multicultural furniture" trend, the "ethno-style" and "intercultural design" trend. The new color frenzy is being judged as an expression of overcoming a "design style" which is far too plain and of the need for individuality and unconventionality. The world of design seems to have opened up to foreign creative styles.

Martin Margiela is the conceptual thinker of fashion, but one who consciously remains invisible. His oeuvre is more present than ever before on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the existence of Maison Martin Margiela: in the form of exhibitions in Antwerp and Munich, an installation in Milan and a book that is coming out in the fall. It all shows that he pre-empted not only trends in fashion but also in furniture design.

Gaetano Pesce's sofa design gives you the feeling of lying by a refreshing waterfall high up in the mountains. A piece of furniture with a summer feeling.

Be it outside in the balmy summer air under the large "table" outside the Schirn, or inside enjoying a coffee at one of the small tables with the latest chair designs by Nitzan Cohen and Stefan Diez, or even at the terrazzo bar, or having a meal in a large group, like knights - at the large round table beneath the massive canopy. "Table" offers it all.

A house full of art that's up for sale, and a Modernist bungalow in whose noble seats young men pose slurping their vodka-&-tonics. In the form of "The Collectors", Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset have created not only a psychogram of art collectors today.

Artists and designers, cultural ambassadors and dreamers: Vitra Design Museum presents the refreshingly diverse oeuvre of Brazilians Fernando and Humberto Campana.

One of the highpoints of this year's Milan Design Week took place at the Triennial: the "Tokyo Fiber 09 - Senseware" exhibition. It presented new materials and was also a festival of the senses.

Artek is re-issuing an old, modular chair design created by Shigeru Ban in 1993, and is thus continuing its successful collaboration with the architect, making a statement fully in keeping with its corporate culture.

The diverse world of furniture in Milan leaves us facing many questions. Can we shed our fear of the foreign in the current worlds of sofa cushions with all their different patterns? Can a fashion label does everything better? And what is the future of Mannerism and the Ethno mix?

Just as a quodlibet combines different melodies that essentially having nothing to do with one another, but now resound simultaneously, Milan's Salone del Mobile brings together all manner of things. One set of objects seem to be art, another a matter of banalities - and here or there you may sense the sounds of the future.

Inspired by colourful leaves the architects Tham & Videgård Hansson create a bold composition of colours and patterns, which flow between the rooms of a large 10-room apartment in central Stockholm.

The time has come around again for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan to open its doors and for the design world to flock to the northern Italian city. And, as always, the question that's being asked is: who has the most beautiful new things to offer? Here is a small foretaste.

In the last 50 years, the number of one-person households has more than tripled. The German Federal Statistics Office predicts that for the next fifteen years more than half the number of people who live in cities will live alone. Time for a few pieces of furniture for singles.

So much is evident: The big furniture fairs face tough competition. After all, while they are moaning in Cologne about vacant booths at roughly the same time Stockholm successfully hosted a small event that was booked out. Moreover, the Stockholm Furniture Fair & Northern Light Fair have even expanded their capacities and proven that they can certainly play in the first league of the design fairs.

In tune with Zaha - from head to toe: not only buildings, landscaped spaces, sofas - now there are shoes that bear Zaha Hadid's unmistakably dynamic signature.

It was tough going for Cologne's furniture fair this year. But not everyone let the crisis get them down. There were some strong showings in connection with the imm cologne, but naturally this overview is incomplete and subjective.

Designer Eric Degenhardt studied architecture, which might be one reason why dealing with space has always been high on his list of priorities. He has also long been interested in parasitic architectures. At the imm in Cologne he presented his mobile unit "Landed" together with Richard Lampert.

There is a legendary furniture scene in Jacques Tati's 1958 film classic Mon Oncle. The lady of the house gives the neighbor a tour of her modern home and stops in front of a paltry composition of wire chairs. "This is our seating area," she says proudly, and the spectator smiles. For let's be honest, wire furniture is a strenuous contemporary. It inevitably has the dreaded ‘rolled roast effect' on the sitter's derrière.