In his book "Retail in Transition", architect Caspar Schmitz-Morkramer reflects on the question of how online retail is presently affecting urban centres. We spoke to him about the opportunities digitalisation presents as well as a longing for vibrant cities.

At Milan Design Week, Carl Hansen & Søn will be showing new ideas, two classics in fresh outfits and also offering guests the opportunity to immerse themselves in the long tradition of the Danish furniture manufacturer.

Zeitraum presents a variety of new furniture and accessories on the creative platform Alcova during Milan Design Week.

Furniture, luminaires, interiors, brand presences: What Note Design Studio from Stockholm creates looks fresh and contemporary. Behind it is a collective of designers and architects. Even interviews are not necessarily the founders' business: we spoke to graphic designer and art director Johanna Lundberg and furniture designer Joel Fjällström.

Joke Rasch and David Einsiedler have brought new light to the traditional Midgard brand and are offering an insight into their portfolio in Milan that perfectly combines history and the present – as in the form of the new "Ayno wall" by Stefan Diez, the wall-mounted version of the award-winning family of swivel luminaires.

In its own flagship store in Milan, Occhio presents, besides other designs, the new table and reading lamp series "Mito gioia", which was created by the founder Axel Meise.

The new coworking space "Unity" in Bordeaux offers flexible workspaces with a high quality of stay. The furniture by Mara contributes significantly to the pleasant atmosphere.

This year, the historic Circolo Filologico library in Milan will be occupied by Design Variations by Mosca Partners – part of which is the traditional company Thonet.

With its digital professional portal, Villeroy & Boch offers players from the fields of both architecture and design a comprehensive range of tools to help them keep track of things when designing a bathroom.

With "INTEGRALIS", Artemide has developed a lighting technology that combines hygiene with a high level of visual comfort. It is now also used in the "Tolomeo" desk lamp.

Italian lighting company Lodes has for over 70 years now been combining blown glassmaking skills with current lighting technology – for example in the form of the new luminaire collection “Volum” by Snøhetta.

When designing the "Paulo" bar cabinet from more, designer Peter Fehrentz was inspired by Brazilian Brutalism. In the interview, he tells us more about the concept behind it.

During the Milan Design Week, Oechsler will be presenting concept chairs in Brera; they will include chairs such as “Lounge Chair Slope” that demonstrate the many different uses to which 3D printing with plastics can be put in the furniture industry.

Tobias Grau has expanded its color palette and presents its "John" desk lamp in a fresh light blue inspired by the color of the sky on a sunny day.

Young and smart designs characterise COR's programme – an excerpt of which can be experienced during Milan Design Week in the showroom in the Brera district.

Maria Porro is the president of the Salone del Mobile.Milano, which will take place this year in Milan from 7 to 12 June 2022. In an interview she told us what she is focusing on at the moment as well as what visitors can look forward to.

MVRDV designed the pavilion "Fuggerei NEXT500" as a reminiscence of the Fuggerei in Augsburg, which carries the concept of the oldest existing social settlement into the present.

In the project "Distinctive" AXOR deals with the question how industrialization can lead to individualization and what luxury means nowadays.

Dedon is expanding its successful "MBRACE" collection by Sebastian Herkner with the compact "MBRACE Club Chair", which brings swing to the terrace - the new "seville" colour also ensures this.

What could the working world of tomorrow look like? On its new microsite "Brunner Future Works", the contract furniture manufacturer Brunner shows various scenarios and deals with their implementation.

With its sculptural vigor, Oscar Niemeyer’s posthumously realized pavilion in Provence provides yet another example of the Brazilian architect’s prowess.

Müller small living has expanded its "Vertiko" furniture system with the modules "Vertiko Wide", "Vertiko Vertical" and "Vertiko HiFi". Designer Sascha Sartory explains the concept behind it.

The design studio and social enterprise Weserholz from Bremen uses design as a tool: From educational programmes to classic cooperation with companies, the team offers ecological and socially sustainable design. Industrial and product designer Armando Cornejo Chavez tells us in an interview what that means exactly.

The Ca l'Amo residential building on Ibiza brings nature and architecture together in a spectacular way. Products from Gira were also used for this, contributing to the purist appearance of the building.

Paola Lenti expands its "Telar series" with a two-seater sofa that convinces with filigree elegance and a variety of uses.

With a new online product configurator, Bette gives craftsmen, bathroom consultants and end customers the opportunity to plan individual bathroom elements.

Stylepark is raffling off one "AXOR One" mixer in the new "AXOR Colors".

Robert Stadler, an Austrian whose adopted home is Paris, has enriched the tradition-steeped KWM Krefeld with a coffee house that thoroughly lives up to the famed Viennese model. As an “gesamtkunstwerk”, it carries the spirit of productively combining art, craft, and industry forward into the Modern Age and playfully melds design and life, tradition and innovation.

Interior designer Cord Glantz of Geplan Design has created a “temporary home” at the b'mine hotel at Frankfurt Airport. Here, guests can sit down on furniture by Rolf Benz. In this interview, Glantz explains the concept to the publishers of Stylepark.

The cafeteria of the American University in Cairo offers a flexible space for cultural events with an exciting interior architecture and elegant furniture by Pedrali.

The Munich-based company Ambright has developed a light printing technology that enables architects, designers, and planners to create individual lighting solutions and have them produced immediately. The company’s founder and managing director Dr.-Ing. Florian Ilchmann tells us how it all works.

Philipp Mainzer, Office for Architecture and Design, is contributing to a sustainable revitalisation of Berlin's Wilhelm Hallen with the redesign of the spaces for Galerie Mehdi Chouakri. The concept can be explored for the first time during Gallery Weekend, which will take place from 29 April to 1 May 2022.

Light + Building, the world's leading trade fair for lighting and building technology in Frankfurt am Main, will be held as the Autumn Edition from 2 to 6 October 2022.

From 29 April to 11 September 2022, the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main is highlighting the "Craft as Myth Between Ideal and Real Life".

Designer and professor Bitten Stetter is the head of research for the Trends & Identity programme at the Zurich University of the Arts. She is currently developing prototypes for products that can be used in palliative care. In this interview she talks about how she is working to break a social taboo and what benefits product design can have at the end of a person's life.