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70 years Zumtobel – today the Austrian lighting specialist is one of Europe’s market leaders in the field of professional lighting systems. Where do its roots lie and where is it headed?

For the Schönbuch brand Michael Ress and Carolin Sangha have combined manufacturing standards with colorful aesthetics and made their joy of design accessible to an international target group.

Pedrali has developed a plastic made of 100-percent recycled inputs. For its launch, it has been used to produce versions of the armchairs “Babila XL” by Odo Fioravanti and “Remind” by Eugeni Quitllet.

“New Work” – this rather vague catchphrase for the modern world of work actually poses crucial questions: How do we want to and how will we be able to work in the future?

Egon Eiermann’s design classic “SE 68 SU” for Wilde + Spieth provides the central theme for the interior of the Tingbjerg Library and Culture House in Copenhagen.

In a major project for technology and research currently under construction in Paris’ Saclay suburb, developers are making use of sustainable concrete skin façade panels as well as Rieder’s new molded components – the formparts.fab.

In the form of "Coordinates" Michael Anastassiades has designed an elegant luminaire collection for FLOS offering a range of options from the subtle to the spectacular.

From September 5 to November 22, 2020, the Akademie der Künste in Berlin is showing the exhibition "urbainable – stadthaltig. Positions on the European City for the 21st Century".

Stylepark raffles off four modules of the "B-302" shelf by Mara.

Domotex, the world's leading trade fair for carpets and floor coverings in Hanover, will be postponed to May 18-20, 2021 and expanded to include digital offerings.

Object Carpet and the Ippolito Fleitz Group have together developed a carpet collection that creates identities for rooms and conveys a sense of joy in composition.

The minimalist chair "Twig" by Johannes Lindner for Skandiform focuses on clear lines and the balance of opposites.

Safe, hygienic, structured: how work environments can be adapted to suit the new normal.

Kengo Kuma has designed a new museum. The Kadokawa Culture Museum in Tokyo’s metropolitan region resembles an archaic jewelry box, and explores the potential stone offers as a material.

As a futurist with a focus on the development of the working world Franz Kühmayer straddles the interface between trend research and consultancy. In our interview he spoke to us about the current chances and risks he sees for firms.

For the boutique hotel K5 Tokyo, the Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has merged city and nature in restructuring a former bank building in Nihonbashi-Kabutocho. The result is microcosm full of ambiguities.

A new study conducted by Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, shows that bricks are not only a construction material, but in the future may serve as an energy storage medium.

Omer Arbel, co-founder of luminaire manufacturer Bocci, is famous for his highly unusual designs. With the 75.9 project he returns to his roots as an architect and once again imbues a coarse material, namely concrete, with elegance.

Villa Weidendall in Luxembourg by Rodolphe Mertens Architects draws its inspiration from the country’s industrial past and morphs between a delicate lightness and sculptural heaviness.

Lenka Damova and Boris Klimek have with "Geometric" designed a graphic luminaire collection for Brokis.

The design studio Sergio Mannino has transformed the New York City flagship store of a brand for high-quality hair extensions into a soft influencer dream.

From 3 September 2020, Kvadrat will present the results of the "Knit!" project digitally and at 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, for which creative minds have designed multi-faceted objects with fabrics from Kvadrat Febrik.

Attila Veress and Davide Oldani set culinary delights in the right light with the "Bontà" portable luminaire for Artemide.

Their office space required modernization and this provided Schwarz Architekten to transform the sanitary facilities into a modern bathroom using the Geberit ONE integrated bathroom series. The elegant result also serves as an object lesson for builder-owners.

With their Kink Bar & Restaurant, Oliver Mansaray and Daniel Scheppan recently opened a new culinary highlight in Berlin’s Pfefferberg complex – in an old disused brewery building.

A range of luminaires that offers something suitable for every occasion on directed light: Nimbus adds three new versions to the “Q Four” family.

“O.novo” and “Architectura”: Two versatile system collections by Villeroy & Boch. What advantages do they each have, how do they differ? And which solutions does the ceramics specialist offer with a view to hygiene? We asked Thomas Kannengiesser, Director Product Management CSW Projects.

Ulrich Hensel photographs fragments of major construction sites in order to bring out the mystical beauty of the unfinished. His work gives rise to ever new, suspenseful perspectives.

"Bell Chair" is the name of the new, sustainable and affordable chair by Konstantin Grcic for Magis, which sets an end to the negative image of the classic monobloc chair.

Stylepark raffles off the "caribe" lounge chair by ames.

noa* network of architecture have extended the existing structure of the four star hotel "Apfelhotel Torgglerhof" in South Tyrol and added a wellness area.

Note Design Studio expands the "Macka" collection for Arrmet, which manages the balancing act between armchair and bar stool.

Space Copenhagen have come up with a Baroque interior concept for the restaurant and café “Le Pristine” in Antwerp.

Object Carpet and the Ippolito Fleitz Group have jointly developed a bold carpet collection that provides a stage for life.

The new "Integralis" technology by Artemide eliminates pathogens on surfaces through lighting.