HOTEL Boundless pleasure7/8/2021Light, luxury and fluid transitions: Patricia Urquiola has created a modern retreat with the hotel "Il Sereno Lago di Como", which was recently expanded with an exclusive penthouse suite.
FAIRS & EVENTS London in the light7/7/2021The 19th edition of the London Design Festival will take place from September 18 to 26, 2021. In addition to providing a creative platform for presentation and networking, the festival is intended to play a central role in the city's economic recovery as well as giving visitors the opportunity to rediscover London.
DESIGN IVC Commercial 2021: "CLAY" and "CLAY CREATE"7/6/2021IVC Commercial has expanded its successful "Rudiments" collection with the Clay and Clay Create designs.
FEATURED Securing the Future7/6/2021The iF Design Award 2021 was recently presented – for the 67th time, to be more precise – thus honoring outstanding ideas in the relevant disciplines. We are presenting four prizewinners to you, designers whose approach to sustainability is particularly impressive.
FEATURED Create new spaces7/5/2021With "Revisiting Factory", the Croatian furniture manufacturer Prostoria marks the return to the factory after the pandemic and uses an impressive installation to show the creative potential of the young family business.
RESTAURANT Art meets culinary arts7/5/2021When the buzzing creative team at Snøhetta collaborates with Bronx-based food, design and art collective Ghetto Gastro, it seems something unique is bound to happen. In this case, the culinary cultural space Burnside in Japan's capital Tokyo.
ARCHITECTURE Architectural pinpricks7/2/2021Since 2014 the Chinese architect Xu Tiantian and her studio DnA has implemented more than 20 projects in rural China. Like architectural acupuncture, the small, modest projects are intended to help give villages a future once again. The “Songyang Story” is impressive – and full of hope.
STYLEPARK RAFFLE Beautifully shaped function7/1/2021Stylepark raffles off one "Nostromo" single-hole washbasin mixer by Fantini.
FEATURED Staying flexible7/1/2021With the “dito Workbench” Gumpo is expanding its successful collection "normcore" by Relvāokellermann.
COLUMN Social gas station in the mice bunker6/30/2021As a team, the gallery owner Johann König and the architect Arno Brandlhuber bring new wind into the discussion about the preservation as well as the further use of the "mice bunker" and the Institute for Hygiene and Microbiology in Berlin Lichterfelde.
DESIGN Braun hybrid6/29/2021The Bröhan Museum in Berlin is currently showing an exemplary digital programme to accompany the exhibition "Braun 100".
ARCHITECTURE In the light of the south6/28/2021With "The Tower", Frank Gehry has created the heart of the new LUMA Arles cultural centre in the south of France and at the same time built the city a landmark that attracts international attention.
ARCHITECTURE Architecture to be6/25/2021"TinyBe" seeks a dialogue between art, science, architecture and business with residential sculptures and offers visitors the option to stay in them temporarily for an individual experience of space.
FEATURED Elegant journey back in time6/25/2021Petersen Tegl provided the cladding for a new skyscraper in Manhattan with hand-crafted bricks that lend the concrete building an unusual elegance.
SUSTAINABILITY Greener densification6/24/2021With “Carré Belge” ingenhoven architects working in collaboration with Proximus Real Estate AG have created a new quarter in Cologne’s downtown area that should improve the city’s microclimate through densification and urban greening.
STYLEPARK BURGBAD Daring to differ6/24/2021burgbad is presenting its most important product innovations and additions to its range in a new and original way with the digital 360-degree tour burgbad@home and an exclusive show truck that is currently touring Europe.
ARCHITECTURE Melancholic euphoria6/23/2021Lina Ghotmeh’s Stone Garden is a synthesis of architecture and archaeology, of rocks and flora as well as a highly emotional homage to the inhabitants’ will to survive in the architect’s catastrophe-ridden home town Beirut.
DESIGN Bette 2021: BETTEAIR6/22/2021A shower tile that is flush with the bathroom floor: with "BetteAir", Dominik Tesseraux has created a shower tile for Bette that can be glued directly onto the screed.
DESIGN Martinelli Luce 2021: ELASTICA6/21/2021With "Elastica", Innocenzo Rifino and Diego Rossi from Studio Habits span the light across the room and from the floor to the ceiling. The luminaire can be controlled with a simple hand movement.
DESIGN The future is now6/21/2021The Future of Living: On the initiative of the Center za kreativnost – the Center for Creativity in Ljubljana – the exhibition on contemporary design from Slovenia is currently touring Europe’s design metropolises. On show are sustainable, innovative, functional but also socially committed creative projects.
DESIGN Greetings from the kitchen6/18/2021What's new in the kitchen? Which materials, which styles are in demand? What current ideas are the creatives and manufacturers offering? We have put together a selection of the news for you as part of our Novelties Stage.
DESIGN Harmonic tension6/18/2021Studio Besau-Marguerre has created an interior design concept for the workrooms of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe MK&G in Hamburg that combines different trends.
FAIRS & EVENTS Revitalise city6/17/2021On 22 and 23 June 2021, the German Institute for Urban Architecture will broadcast the 11th Conference on the Beauty and Viability of the City from Frankfurt am Main as an online live stream.
STYLEPARK VILLEROY & BOCH Modern twist6/17/2021Villeroy & Boch has fitted out the bathrooms of the “Kaunas”, a historic 4-star superior hotel in Lithuania and in the process combined contemporary design with clever details that make for maximum comfort.
INTERVIEWS Architecture of encounter6/16/2021The Serpentine Pavilion opened in London's Kensington Gardens recently. In an interview, Sumayya Vally, founder of the Counterspace office from Johannesburg, explains how London's migrant communities inspired her design.
FEATURED Constantly reliable6/16/2021With his new Axel-Springer building Rem Koolhaas has created a landmark in Berlin that thanks to its radically modern architecture stands for the move towards a new way of working. The comprehensive supply and drainage system in the heart of the building is courtesy of Geberit.
FEATURED Great Diversity of Colors6/15/2021Colored faucets – in the mid-1970s, they amounted to a revolution in the market. For Italian design workshop Fantini, they marked the dawn of a new age in several respects: Their “I Balocchi” mixer, which translates as “the toys”, designed in 1977 together with Davide Mercatali and Paolo Pedrizzetti, represented the company’s entry into the world of design.
ART Reverberating images6/14/2021For decades photographer Ursula Edelmann documented the reconstruction of Frankfurt/Main as well as its economic and cultural boom. To mark her 95th birthday KunstRaum Bernusstrasse is presenting a retrospective of her architecture, art and object photography. In this interview she gives us an insight into her work.
FEATURED A table for all situations in life6/14/2021Werner Aisslinger has designed the robust "1140" table for Thonet that boasts a host of ingenious details. It has excellent chances of becoming something that accompanies its owner through all the various phases in life.
INTERVIEWS A new approach to material6/11/2021The focus of Sofia Souidi's work is clearly on one of the greatest challenges of our time – it is about sustainability. In 2020, she was nominated for the German Sustainability Award for Design. As artist in residence at the Fraunhofer Institute for Wood Research, the designer is currently working on her project "Superwood".
DESIGN IVC Commercial 2021: BLURRED EDGE 8546/11/2021Robust and colourfast: The carpet tile "Blurred Edge 854" is one of the latest novelties from IVC Commercial.
MOBILITY Algae instead of diesel6/10/2021To make its cars with internal combustion engines carbon-neutral, Mazda is supporting research into a biofuel made from algae.
FAIRS & EVENTS Sustainability for reference6/9/2021The Heimtextil 'Future Materials Library' digital material library shows trend-setting materials for interior design.
STYLEPARK PEDRALI Stylishly functional6/9/2021Jorge Pensi has collaborated with Italian furniture makers Pedrali for over a decade now – his classic “Ara” chair celebrates its 10th anniversary this year. The architect and designer has just created flexible solutions for a new world of work in the form of the “Ypsilon Connect” room divider and the “Temps low back” task chair.