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Lensvelt makes furniture and OMA creates an illusion – presenting early designs by Belgium’s Maarten Van Severen, who died in 2005.

There’s still much to be discovered about Hans Jørgensen Wegner, who would have turned 100 this April.

In a previous life Michel Rojkind played the drums for “La Gente Normal”, one of Mexico’s hottest rock bands. Luckily for us, he didn’t stay in music but decided to make architecture instead.

Can pendant luminaires really look as if they weren’t made of glass but of “Kryptonite”, the magic green crystals from Superman’s home planet? Arik Levy is certain they can.

Ricardo Casas is one of Mexico’s industrial designers committed to experimental interior design. In his work he makes use of wood in very many ways and in the process tells stories about spaces.

The new Jumex Museum in Mexico City by Chipperfield Architects speaks a pleasant, restrained architectural language.

Anyone wanting not only to see furniture or stroll around on the roof of the cathedral, can take a glance at how Bernardino Luini painted and how Piero Lissoni places him in the limelight.

Small, superior groups of seats are back in vogue. As the experts at Poltrona Frau well know: With “Nivola” they’re launching a high-end ensemble that will take center stage.

It could be marble, but it’s glass – painted, that is. Dreamed up Oki Sato at Nendo for Glas Italia. The collection’s called “Brushstroke” and consists of seven tables and a bench.

Novelties ain’t everything. Last year Nils Holger Moormann played Ludo and didn’t bother going to Milan. This time he’s heading for the Salone, leisurely, with no furniture of his own.

Indoor as opposed to outdoor furniture – do we actually need to make such a distinction? Dedon, for one, is set to eliminate those boundaries.

Be it exhibitors, young talents or curious specialist visitors – everyone needs assistance in making their way around the Light + Building in Frankfurt. Stylepark spoke with Director Maria Hasselman and asked her about the role the trade-fair plays for experts from the world of light and building technology.

The “Salone Satellite” at the Milan Furniture Fair is considered the springboard for budding designers. Below we are presenting seven young talents who are well worth looking at more closely.

Colorful, transparent and coherent: Kartell is celebrating transparency with uncles and aunts, and at the same time adopting a metallic and luxurious air.

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who are the most beautiful designers of all? Yes, Front has once done magic for Porro and the result is a mirror with immense symbolic power.

Many interior magazines thrive on being able to offer readers a glimpse inside the apartments of strangers. An exhibition during the Salone casts a glance at the private homes of Chipperfield, Ban, Bellini, Libeskind etc.

In Paris it stood in Master Corbu’s living room and is a typical design of the team of Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand. And now Cassina is re-issuing the LC5 sofa in its “I Maestri Collection”.

Derek Dellekamp is one of the group of architects who helped rebuild the architectural scene in Mexico following the economic crisis there in the 1980s and 1990s. A portrait of one of the protagonists in Mexican architecture who is still successful today.

Welcome! It’s Salone del Mobile time again soon. While the design world may be as capricious as the month of April, the Milan cornucopia is filled to the brim again in 2014. Wanna know what’s happening where, how and when?

Tom Dixon has always felt at home in the world of bars and night-life. And now he’s bringing out his own special collection: “Club”, boasting luminaires, an armchair and bar accessories.

Tord Boontje isn’t picking flowers this time, but has opted for a hard-edged, cool look. For Moroso the Dutchman has created the “22nd Floor” modular sofa, with an aluminum base frame, marble inserts and a table.

Productora – stands for unusual yet pragmatic furniture by four young architects from Argentina, Mexico and Belgium, respectively.

The “La Ciudadela” is an example for a sensible restoration of an historical building, showing the flexibility of its use – and how wonderful it is to be surrounded by books.

Rojkind Architectos’ National Cinematheque in Mexico City offers not only new spaces for the film museum and film archive, the architects also created a new public space for open air film events.

To know more about why and how the Archivo Diseño y Arquitectura in Mexico City intends to become a reference for the discussion of design in Latin America, Isabel Martínez Abascal talked with its director, Regina Pozo.

A luminaire that boasts floral themes from the Onam festival or a silver beaker clad in copper that offers the user good health. But two examples of how Indian design combines tradition and innovation – on display with others at the “Samskara – Made in...India” design show.

Cecilia León de la Barra’s design objects are so pragmatic and colorful that you could be forgiven thinking they were already a firm part of every Mexican household.

Anyone visiting Mexico City should put aside some time to visit the marvelous buildings erected in the megapolis before 1980. We’ve compiled a hit list of the ten most interesting buildings aged over 40.

Light+Building is a biennial event held in Frankfurt/Main. From our list of selected exhibitors you can see which manufacturers will be presenting their newest products there this year.

The Vasconcelos Library by the architect Alberto Kalach combines a library and a botanical garden – and looks like a version of Cedric Price’s Fun Palace.

Javier Sanchez Arquitectos and Arquitectura 911sc have modernized a building in Mexico City which dates from the 18th century and is now used by the Spanish Cultural Center.

More efficient, better quality and less expensive: the LED has morphed into the new standard in lighting and enables innovative design. Light+Building 2014 looks likely to hold the one or other surprise in store here, with OLEDs still occupying somewhat of a backseat.

In Berlin, Rem Koolhaas has just presented the program for this year’s architecture biennial in Venice. The expectations are high: This biennial is to be larger, longer, and of course completely different.