DESIGN Inga Sempé7/29/2015We certainly didn’t imagine that designer Inga Sempé has a soft spot for gas stations and autos.
DESIGN What’s up pussycat?7/28/2015Sunglasses obviously aren’t just about protecting your eyes. Models à l’extrême always guarantee you a cool place in the summer shades stakes.
DESIGN Vettura sportiva: Lamborghini and the Miura7/24/2015Low, compact and very fast: In the Lamborghini “Miura” with its transversely mounted V12, the automotive fighting bull is comparatively gentle.
DESIGN Girard meets Eames7/23/2015Alexander Girard and Charles Eames shared a close friendship, which proved highly productive in creative terms. Works by both designers can now be found in Vitra’s “Home Complements” – and this reunion is anything but a chance encounter.
ART #Architecture for Instagram7/22/2015Backdrop, sculpture or theme world? Temporary architectures in the social media age reveal more than one might at first think: an architecture analysis using Instagram.
ARCHITECTURE Working in the park 7/21/2015Summer, sun, sunburn – not for us. After all, there are places and products that provide pleasantly refreshing shade. An office in the park, for instance.
DESIGN La motoretta: The Vespa by Piaggio7/17/2015Sun, air, love – and a “Vespa”. Mobility can’t get any more Italian and folksy than that. The little “Wasp” has long since become mythical.
DESIGN Out on the roof, too 7/15/2015Product Design students of École Cantonale d’Art de Lausanne had a go at outfitting “Appartement 50” in Marseille’s “Cité Radieuse”. The result is an homage to Le Corbusier that uses plenty of color and adaptable furniture.
DESIGN Coconut fiber string in Singapore, steel caps in Paris7/14/2015A global and forever recognizable brand combined with local architectural references. So how does that work? Cosmetics brand Aesop shows how – in its stores.
INTERVIEWS Erik Olovsson7/12/2015: meditates every day, and designs furniture items as if they were 3D graphics
ARCHITECTURE Walnut doesn’t need the peeling treatment7/10/2015Australian cosmetics brand Aesop’s concept centers on a mix of global and local elements for the interior design of its stores. In Frankfurt, it was Philipp Mainzer who designed the store.
DESIGN Berlinetta Aerodinamica Tecnica: Alfa Romeo’s B.A.T. mobiles7/9/2015Are they really beautiful, the 1950s Alfa Romeo models known as “B.A.T.” for short? Spacey all three certainly are, even if Batman was not an Italian and is not called “pipistrello”.
DESIGN Pretty hot-wired7/7/2015They were all the rage in the 1950s, now they are back again: metal-wire structures, both stable and delicate in appearance. We have picked out several large and small tables for you.
ARCHITECTURE Architecture’s quaint qualifications7/3/2015Those lamenting the fact that the introduction of the Bologna Reform has sounded the death knell of the good old German diploma certificate can rest assured. It is manifestly still going strong. Take the Half-Timbered Guide Certificate, for example, which was introduced in 2010. Germany’s veteran comedian institution Loriot would have gone to town on the oh-so-typical moniker of Half-Timbered Guide Certificate. Precisely because the matter is hardly wooden.
DESIGN Macchina da scrivere: Ettore Sottsass and Olivetti7/1/2015Typewriters are hybrids, combining elements of both tools and machines. As for their design, they remained as good as interchangeable for a long time. Ettore Sottsass put a stop to all that with his designs for Olivetti: the “Tekne” and “Praxis 48” models.
INTERVIEWS Only the watercolors burned to nothing6/29/2015How to live in orbit? Adeline Seidel talked with Galina Balashova, the interior designer of the Russian space capsules, about green floors, blue ceilings and creating a sense of homeliness in space.
DESIGN Il motore a dodici cilindri: Scuderia Ferrari and its 312 6/27/2015To this day the Italians are the unrivaled masters of making the most beautiful machines. Some have red heads and 12 cylinders.
DESIGN Expert hand, fresh mind6/25/2015Ever since 2012, the "Japan Creative" initiative has functioned as the interface between internationally active designers and traditional Japanese crafts workshops. Most recently, Stefan Diez took even the Japanese experts by surprise – with his version of bamboo furniture.
DESIGN A footwear store with a twist6/23/2015Fancy a new pair of shoes to go with your design classic? No problem. On the Vitra Campus, architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has established a Camper pop-up store in a domed structure à la Buckminster Fuller.
DESIGN Macchina per il caffè: La Cornuta by Giò Ponti for La Pavoni6/20/2015At the beginning of the 20th century the Futurists exalted it to the rank of a deity: la macchina.
ARCHITECTURE Sweating in a tin box6/15/2015In Göteborg in Sweden, the free port is gradually being transformed into a new district – complete with a sauna designed by Raumlabor.
DESIGN Four legs and a seat shell 6/13/2015Yes, folks, it really does exist: the universal chair of 2015. It was designed by various hands, comes in numerous versions and yet still follows a typology going back to a famous forebear. Ultimately, it is the subtle differences that count.
DESIGN New light on chairs6/11/2015Swedish designer Alexander Lervik asked famous photographer friends of his to portray his output. Powerful pictures that lend Lervik’s furniture an extraordinary character are the result.
ARCHITECTURE The machinist’s revenge6/9/2015Love, pretensions and four deaths: A new book and two films tell the story of Eileen Gray and her legendary villa E.1027.
INTERVIEWS Axel Schindlbeck6/7/2015: makes everyday items that forge links between man, technology and humor
DESIGN No perspicacity6/4/2015What happens if we simply believe our eyes and always go by the images we see?