During imm cologne 2016, Stylepark is playing the host in the Architects’ Lounge located in Hall 4.2 – an exclusive venue for architects and interior designers.

It all comes back to Ferdinand Kramer. With the exhibition “Line Form Function”, Frankfurt’s Deutsches Architekturmuseum is presenting a show that is really worth seeing on Kramer’s architectural legacy. At the same time, the City of Frankfurt looks set to abandon this legacy and have the buildings torn down in the near future.

The numerals have moved on a notch. We’re long since used now to the 20. But what about the sweet little 16?

Today, the year 2015 comes to an end – and today we also cross that finishing line.

Gisela Erlacher’ series of photographs shows how residual spaces can create free scope.

In the run-up to New Year’s Eve you quickly realize what it was you always felt you simply had to own: a portable bar hamper for the road.

With his “Grande Cretto”, Italian artist Alberto Burri has created a monument to and for the Sicilian town of Gibellina.

The”Melt and recreate” luminaire by Siri Bahlenberg and Sofia Bergfeldt is a good lesson in the eternal cycle of emerging and passing.

The myth would have it that rebel Sisyphus is condemned to constantly roll a huge boulder up a hill, yet when he reaches the top the rock goes rolling back down again. Today, he goes about a similar occupation.

A kettle can whistle, be it like a bird or a dragon. Something Michael Graves certainly knew.

Do you dance in your bikini round the mountains at Christmas? Or prefer to spend it writing postcards?

For all those men who don’t want to wait till Spring comes: “The Ride” has already shifted up a gear.

With the new “Axor One” control unit for Axor, the Hansgrohe SE design brand, showering is simpler and more intuitive. Designers Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby explain just how in conversation with Martina Metzner.

A carpet by the duo Veli + Amos wittily undermines media self-adoration and the use of patterns.

Ikea brings people together at the Christmas table. And call it “Gästaurant”.

In museum stores, different ages and worlds mix unabashedly, such that Munch’s “Scream” can easily become the latest rage.

There can be surprises when early and contemporary paintings of one and the same artist meet up – as in the case of Rolf-Gunter Dienst.

“Handle with Care” is the latest addition to Antonia Henschel’s series of “Objects” – this time they’re made of glass, china and ceramic.

“Das Stue” in Berlin boasts a colorful and varied interior. Uta Abendroth talked to Eugenia Linares of LVG Arquitectura about their design concept for the hotel.

Finland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has had an entire set of “typically Finnish” emojis designed – the first country to take such a step.

The Heimtextil trade fair is prioritizing the topic "Sustainability": with a “Green Directory” guidance system and a total of 125 exhibitors in this section.

Is all the song and dance of staging things now affecting design or do classics need a makeover now and again?

The Heimtextil, takes place in Frankfurt/Main from January 12-15, 2016, and thus on different days than in the past, highlights the topics of "Sustainability", “Well-Being 4.0” and "Hospitality".

Artist Stephan Huber has created many fantastics map. And they’re now all brought together in his “world atlas".

: is a design nomad and explores the culture of the global economy

In Rotterdam the Timmerhuis designed by Rem Koolhaas and his OMA is fast closing on turnkey.

Meß mer’n Tee with a spoon for measuring out the tea or enjoying the taste of snow? What we can learn from the literature on branded goods.

An attentive viewer will constantly find something new and surprising in Christiane Schlosser’s drawings.

The Stylepark team recommends special gifts, has any number of good wishes, and is busy handing out lots of tinsel, too.

When it’s time for a color switchover on the Pedrali furniture production line, there are various surprising side-effects in the injection molding plant.

Were buildings constructed to the passive house standard just an architectural flash in the pan. Will everything now turn for the better with the advent of the Active House?

The choice of textiles employed in the luxury hotel sector is primarily determined by quality. Decision-makers see this aspect as being even more important than sustainability, design and price – says a study carried out by Business Target Group for Frankfurt's Heimtextil - International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles.