FEATURED An old tower gets a new climate8/17/2012Frankfurt’s Silver Tower boasts ceilings with integrated Plafotherm® heating and cooling systems as well as Nortec and Floor and more® hollow flooring by Lindner.
MAGAZINE Anonymous, reduced and good to have8/17/2012Japanese designer Nendo adheres to the following principle in his design: giving people a small “!” moment and a little surprise. One of his latest projects is the “K%” label, which brings brands such as “Muji”, “Plusminuszero” and “1%” to mind.
MAGAZINE A lot of nature in a small space8/15/2012Enveloped in the seclusion of Sweden’s west coast, Torsten Ottesjö’s new building "Hus-1" boasts curved contours and a squamous façade, its silhouette blending in like a natural part of the encompassing landscape.
MAGAZINE Prouvé in context8/13/2012The Lorraine city of Nancy is not just the city of Baroque and Art Nouveau, but the birthplace of Jean Prouvé too. And now the city is celebrating this relation with a series of exhibitions and showings.
MAGAZINE Mirror, mirror on the floor8/10/2012“Your glacial expectations” is the title chosen for a reflective installation that artist Olafur Eliasson realized together with landscape architect Günter Vogt for the outdoor area of the Kvadrat headquarters in the Danish town of Ebeltoft.
MAGAZINE The beauty in brass grommets8/8/2012What is jewelry? Surely it is much more than something made of silver or gold. For quite some time now, jewelry designers have been experimenting with traditional forms and new concepts. And theorists are also thinking more and more about the kinds of jewelry we wear today.
MAGAZINE Shifting spaces8/6/2012It was the billowing curtains at Venice’s Piazza San Marco that provided the inspiration for the temporary art installation “Replika” by Ayzit Bostan and Gerhardt Kellermann – currently on show in Munich’s Hofgarten.
MAGAZINE A table, a chair, an apple tree8/3/2012ACE has now presented its second collection. The products are all made of ash wood and are certainly eye-catching with their clear, concise lines. Reduction is the determining factor for the entire concept at the young Swiss label.
MAGAZINE Concrete wastelands8/1/2012Can you even “design” parking lots? In the USA, where there is more paved space for parking cars than anywhere else in the world, the calls to take these “lost spaces” more seriously in their role as public spaces are growing louder and louder.
MAGAZINE Pottery in white matt7/30/2012The title “Pottery from Hameln” stretches across the entire cover. The heavyweight publication (it boasts 640 pages) presents hundreds of photos of ceramic collector’s items. Here is an exclusive glimpse at the photo series “white matt”.
MAGAZINE Munich’s showcase7/27/2012Jürgen Mayer H. installs a temporary building for the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich.
MAGAZINE So where to put the car?7/25/2012Parking is by definition the temporary placing of vehicles on a space foreseen for this. In reality, however, the automobile does not get placed somewhere temporarily: they get driven temporarily. So where to put the rising number of vehicles not running? In car parks!
MAGAZINE Oh, if only we could walk through ebony peacock gates and enter florally decorated, elegant high-rise palaces7/23/2012Where everything centers on being youthful today what is our attitude to Art Nouveau? Is it as young and new as the name claims and as Adorno admonished nothing but “puberty declared as a permanent state”? Has it become a dream world far removed from our box culture? Or is it making a cinematic return?
MAGAZINE Aesthetic enlightenment7/20/2012Nina Yashar is head of the Nilufar gallery in Milan, known for its eclectic installations. Here oriental rugs can be found alongside furniture classics, together with new creations by young designers. Now there is a collection of furniture, lighting and accessories under the label Nilufar Unlimited.
MAGAZINE Between the poles7/18/2012Companies bring in designers to join forces with craftsmen to develop new products, which are subsequently produced in structurally-weak regions. Such approaches are quick to label themselves sustainable, as advocates of ethical consumption. But which projects have actually been consistently done through the years? A selection of ten examples between industry and craftsmanship.
MAGAZINE Enjoying the material7/16/2012In their inhouse Matériothèque the designers at Atelier Oï play around with materials such as birdseed, paper, fabric, ropes and gelatin. The resulting products for Atelier Pfister, Bulgari, Swatch and other manufacturers are now on display in the monograph “Workshop Guide Atelier Oï”.
MAGAZINE Opposites attract7/13/2012French Label “La Chance” recently presented its first collection of furniture and lighting, “Jekyll & Hyde”. True to its literary role model, each object has a contrasting counterpart.
FEATURED Open, cube!7/12/2012The bulthaup b2 kitchen workshop is the perfect complement to the open-plan concept in Studio Furillen located on the eponymous peninsula in Sweden.
MAGAZINE When apartment blocks are built of asparagus7/9/2012Designs by architect Terunobu Fujimori present an encounter between the archaic and the futuristic. Up to now, all of his buildings have been in Japan. Now Villa Stuck in Munich is presenting his first major show in Europe. And Fujimori has even created a vision made of asparagus and other eatables especially for the Bavarian capital.
FEATURED What’s mine is yours7/6/2012A major Swiss bank has constructed a new building in Zurich based on the “smart working” concept, complete with furniture from Lista Office LO.
MAGAZINE Out of love for materials7/4/2012For “design publisher” Thomas Eyck craftsmanship translates into the utmost care in the use of materials. Juliane Grützner spoke to the Dutchman about his collection of hand-crafted objects.
MAGAZINE Wooden novelties6/29/2012Nicola Stattmann is considered an expert on new materials and technologies. In a joint venture with her brother she is now presenting “Stattmann Neue Möbel” and in doing so takes her family’s joinery into its fourth generation. The first designs illustrate that there are still a great deal of opportunities for development innate in reputedly traditional wooden furniture.
MAGAZINE The experience of nostalgia: Craftsmanship has a future6/27/2012Craftsmanship – is it a thing of the past? Not at all. More and more frequently we see designers and manufacturers making recourse to traditional technical know-how and craftsmanship. And not only when it comes to luxury products.
MAGAZINE Lasting Values6/25/2012The “Metropole Aluminum House” by Jean Prouvé was the big attraction at the seventh Design Miami Basel and the trade fair continues to be a fixed date in the diaries of vintage design collectors and admirers of classic design icons alike.
MAGAZINE Constellations: Rietveld and the revolution of space – part 26/22/2012Architecture for Rietveld is spatial art. The Rietveld Schröder House in Utrecht is not the only example of open-space constructions by Rietveld that foster a new lifestyle.
MAGAZINE Nodes: Rietveld and the revolution of space – part 16/18/2012Gerrit Rietveld is one of the best-known Modernist designers and architects. However, his oeuvre is not just of historical interest. A visit to the exhibition at Vitra Design Museum in Weil am Rhein shows how Rietveld addresses space, and proves himself to be highly topical.
ARCHITECTURE Witnesses to violence6/18/2012Should architecture serve power, provide a visual representation of it? How do we read traces of destruction that scar the urban space? An ambitious reader by Bechir Kenzari on the relationship between architecture and violence seeks to answer precisely such questions.
MAGAZINE Breathing a sigh of relief – behind the blinds6/15/2012In the form of “JOH3”, J. Mayer H. Architects have completed their first construction project in Berlin. The apartment block is clad in aluminum blinds and has a curved silhouette – offering a new interpretation of the Berlin tenement block.
MAGAZINE Observations in space and time6/13/2012Documenta 13 has begun. For 100 days, Kassel will host the work of over 150 artists, scientists and philosophers from 55 countries. A photographic tour offers a first impression of the works.
MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #239 | 2012 +++6/12/2012Zaha Hadid: High-risesHamburg: Lost PlacesBasel: Art and designMunich: L’Architecture Engagée3sat: Konstantin Grcic
MAGAZINE Paola’s world6/11/2012Paola Antonelli is a design critic and curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Untiring in her enthusiasm, she tells the world why design as part of everyday culture has earned a permanent place in the MoMA.
MAGAZINE Near-perfect living6/8/2012What attitude do the Germans have toward their homes? This is an interesting question, which sociologist Alphons Silbermann pursued in his 1989 study “Neues vom Wohnen der Deutschen”. It is now to be updated with “Deutschland privat”, which has shown many German homes to be in almost perfect condition. Leo Lübke, the commissioner of the study, is delighted at the Germans’ affirmation of furniture as a cultural asset.
MAGAZINE Forging a new world6/6/2012Ingo Maurer, Enzo Mari, Eero Aarnio – they all belong to a group of designers who were born in 1932 and by tenaciously advancing their own ideas have succeeded in creating sensational works. A consideration of the 1932 designers.
MAGAZINE +++ NEWSTICKER #238 | 2012 +++6/5/2012Zurich: The Swiss TouchBerlin: DMY 2012New York: Art of Another KindKassel: Documenta 13Munich: Image Counter Image