MAGAZINE Twelve outdoor classics5/8/2013Stylish and fit for any activity: Outdoor classics for sitting, lounging or just looking pretty. Attractive, cool and simply indispensable.
MAGAZINE Our environment is designed, but our gardens are cultivated5/8/2013A little backyard, a terrace, a balcony – all of these have some kind of connection to mythical garden worlds, even to paradise itself. After all, those who cultivate a garden do more than simply design an environment
MAGAZINE Twelve adult playgrounds5/8/2013Crawling into hanging birds’ nests, taking refuge in airy tipis and hiding in modern wooden constructions: Kids aren’t the only ones allowed to play outdoors.
MAGAZINE Twelve urban garden tools5/8/2013Today amateur gardeners are referred to as urban gardeners. The new generation of urban nature lovers has no need for simple flower pots; multifunctional is the name of the game!
MAGAZINE Twelve dreams under the big blue sky5/8/2013Lounging and dreaming in the big outdoors, preferably on huge sofas and comfy daybeds, into which we lightly sink and forget the everyday rat race.
MAGAZINE Twelve lightweight pieces for your balcony5/8/2013A little bit of happiness just outside the door: seating furniture, light, delicate, flexible and anything but clunky.
MAGAZINE 18 million coins for the Underground5/7/2013In 2012, Edward Barber uand Jay Osgerby caused quite a stir with their design for the Olympic torch. This year the two architects are placing a renewed emphasis on furniture design. Uta Abendroth met with one half of the duo, Jay Osgerby, in Milan, where their sofas, tables and stool premiered at Knoll.
MAGAZINE Warning: Furniture subject to mood swings5/6/2013From parasitic furniture design to depressing lighting, to poetic wall projections. The young generation of designers at SaloneSatellite turned out to be both fresh and experimental in their approach. And in the competition to be crowned the best young designer at SaloneSatallite it was Portuguese designer Tania da Cruz who came out on top with her range of sustainable cork products.
MAGAZINE Colour Attack!5/6/2013Loud colors, pastel hues and any amount of highlights. New, unusual color designs for tables, chairs and sofas really stimulated the eye in Milan. Following fashion’s suit. The best example is Vitra with a new color concept for its classics. From occasional contrasts to complete color harmony – the trend is definitely for interiors to become more colorful. And a good thing, too.
MAGAZINE Life is too short for jetlag5/2/2013Jean-Marie Massaud lives and works according to the motto “Design is nothing, life is everything.” Uta Abendroth spoke to the Frenchman about his “Lightwing” design for Foscarini, the quality of light, the right way to grow and life outside of work.
MAGAZINE Pleasing an entire island4/30/2013Hamburg is building 6'000 new homes each year. The city is upping its density. And now it is presenting exemplary urban development in the form of the international building exhibition “IBA Hamburg”. Or not?
MAGAZINE Teeth on a string and a Matterhörnli in a box4/29/2013A Swiss army knife with the head of a bearded man hidden somewhere among the blades and tools but that despite its multitude of capabilities can’t do what Peter Sauer does, namely, carve. It is joined by a Matterhörnli chocolate in a box, Jochen Rindt’s ruined Ferrari in a nutshell – and a Swiss passport as a catalog, which provides a coveted insight into Sauerer’s “Miniversium”.
MAGAZINE The path is the goal4/26/2013This year’s Ventura Lambrate was part of the FuoriSalone for the fourth time. The meeting point for next-generation design, experiments and ambitious individual exhibitors had a real feel of work in progress about it. Development and manufacturing processes played a major role.
MAGAZINE Curtain raised in Weil am Rhein4/25/2013The Vitra Campus gleams resplendent with a new building designed by masters of the trade: the production hall for Vitrashop by Japanese architectural duo SANAA. A classy contribution to contemporary industrial culture and not least a paramount example of formally perfected weightlessness.
MAGAZINE To light or to illuminate – that is the question4/24/2013For quite some time, manufacturers of decorative luminaires were hard hit by the innovation of LEDs. What to do with their traditional designs that were built around lamps and spots? They have since overcome the future shock and the industry is now fielding new products in all shapes and sizes.
MAGAZINE Head for the exit, eyes closed!4/24/2013It would seem obvious that a sensitive nose need not necessarily offer a good handle on things. And designers of all ages should be making sparing use of spaghetti, leather scraps, iron pipes, champagne buckets, wooden laminate and most certainly erotic objects. The seven deadly Salone sins show just who ignored this advice.
MAGAZINE Good designers, successful products – Milan Marathon part 34/23/2013No, there was no revolt. Even Ventura Lambrate had nothing on offer that even came close to a taste of the future. Instead it was above all Konstantin Grcic who once again showed just what contemporary design can do.
MAGAZINE Streamlined nomads – The Milan marathon part 24/17/2013And on we go. To make headway, we up the pace a little and cast a glance at fluorescent yellow shoes, peek into showrooms, inner courtyards, gardens and historical buildings.
MAGAZINE It’s oh so quiet4/17/2013Beyond the hustle and bustle of the fair, BMW joined forces with the Bouroullec brothers and presented an installation that aims to articulate the automotive marque’s new orientation toward sustainability and electromobility. A chat with Head of Design Adrian van Hooydonk sheds light on an unconventional vision of mobility for the future.
MAGAZINE An evening with Karl4/17/2013None other than Karl Lagerfeld graced this year’s Salone del Mobile with his presence. The master of elegance held court with Cassina, for whom he immortalized a selection of furniture classics on film. A marriage of icons the likes of which has never been seen before. And a one-off, almost one-to-one evening with Karl.
MAGAZINE What a relief – The Milan marathon part 14/17/2013Milan 2013, a mixture of prudence, consolidation and solid design work. A little less hype and fewer prototypes, too. This is certainly doing the industry good.
FEATURED Mirror, mirror4/11/2013The Milan Furniture Fair is just around the corner. Now in its 52nd year, the annual get-together for design enthusiasts is the biggest in the industry. The Italian firm Pedrali (est. 1963) is almost the same age and will not only be celebrating its 50th anniversary but also its 25th appearance at the Salone del Mobile.
MAGAZINE The brand in the basement4/11/2013An international trade fair for heating, sanitation and climate, not only did the ISH present a plethora of well designed bathrooms, but new combinations of heating and hot water technology too.
DESIGN Escape to the country?4/11/2013Architects, urban planners, hipsters and geeks, all speak of the city and indeed megacities as a place that will prove decisive for the fate of humanity. But a countermovement has been emerging for some time now. Publications such as the German magazine “Landlust” show us “the beautiful side of country life” and depict a fictive rural paradise.
MAGAZINE Like a snowdrift on the slope4/11/2013Be it in summer or winter, the highest café in Austria offers a breathtaking view of the Eastern Alps. The architects at “Baumschlager Hutter Partners” have certainly succeeded in creating something quite extraordinary in the form of the new upper station of the “Wildspitzbahn” cable car route.
MAGAZINE Britain can make it4/11/2013Despite the Nazis’ ostracism of Modernism, in the wake of World War II the Germans reassumed their role as trailblazers in industrial design almost immediately. A recently rediscovered “secret report” reveals how in 1946 the British secret service went on a mission to scent out the German consumer goods industry.
ART To create is to change4/11/2013There is certainly no shortage of photographs of Joseph Beuys. But few accompanied him as continuously and closely as did graphic designer Klaus Staeck and printer/publisher Gerhard Steidl. The snapshots taken on several occasions between 1972 and 1986 shed light on some surprising and unexpected facets to the artist and grand communicator.
MAGAZINE “Maybe one day we’ll find a goat grazing on our roof”4/11/2013Who actually decided we should cover our roofs with tiles? How about a dune instead, one that surrounds the entire house, that you can even walk over – like the “Dune House” in the Portuguese town of Grândola.
FAIRS & EVENTS Craftsmanship & Design: Salone Satellite, ever young4/4/2013How you get into the Salone Satellite as a young designer and all the things that can come of it.
INTERVIEWS Nichetto = Nendo: Working with kami no ku and shimo no ku4/4/2013The formula N = N sounds intriguing, as does the collaboration. But how did the whole thing work and what came out of it?
MAGAZINE Aava: Making wood flow4/4/2013Nature offers a really great inspiration source. Finnish designer Antti Kotilainen has adopted the metamorphoses that shape nature for a chair collection in collaboration with Arper.
MAGAZINE Membrane and Cradle: Benjamin Hubert modulates materials4/4/2013Does a comfortable armchair necessarily have to be big and heavy with thick padding nowadays? Benjamin Hubert asks questions, using them as a starting point to design not one, but two armchairs.
