MAGAZINE Yoshioka’s mirage: Mirror, mirror, on the wall…4/4/2013Can a mirror be anything more than a mirror? Tokujin Yoshioka responds to this question in the affirmative, and with a great deal of finesse at that.
MAGAZINE Yoko: Anderssen&Voll dream up a luminaire for Foscarini4/3/2013We had thought it to be “ex oriente lux”. But “Yoko’s” charming light actually hails from the North.
MAGAZINE Moormann or Milan, don’t fire my ire!4/3/2013Milan is definitely not just a matter of novelties. There are also defeats and losses to report. One prominent loss who takes his own irritation quite literally playfully is Nils Holger Moormann.
MAGAZINE Fionda, Medici, Radice: wooden items by Jasper, Konstantin and Sam4/3/2013Mattiazzi is extending Konstantin Grcic’s Medici armchair to include a footstool and a table. Jasper Morrison has busied himself with a camping frame, while Sam Hecht has elected to remain upright.
MAGAZINE This That Other: Stefan Diez has a new trick up his sleeve for e154/3/2013It was at the latest with the premiere of “Houdini” that we realized that Stefan Diez is a magician. Now he has shown that he’s a master of card tricks too.
MAGAZINE Bikini Island: 4 questions for Werner Aisslinger4/3/2013What do seating isles, a two-part bathing suit and an atoll have in common? Werner Aisslinger knows...
MAGAZINE Mikado: Showing what you’ve got...4/3/2013... or perhaps not? Cupboards protect objects from prying eyes, light and dust – unless they are designed by Front.
MAGAZINE SixE: A PearsonLloyd chair for Howe4/3/2013You can get stacking chairs two a penny. But now PearsonLloyd has developed the SixE for Howe. While it has four legs, it is in fact a combination of six “e”s.
MAGAZINE Gardenias: Jaime Hayon’s garden fantasies4/2/2013Gardenias, even the name has a special ring to it. In particular as the eponymous collection that Jaime Hayon designed for BD Barcelona offers more than just a touch of garden romanticism.
MAGAZINE Club and More: Agape presents Mangiarotti4/2/2013A chair, a table and a retrospective – anyone with an appreciation of Angelo Mangiarotti’s work will certainly get their money’s worth in Milan this year.
MAGAZINE A thousand possible worlds of water3/18/2013The noticeable trend at the ISH 2013: Under the sign of the transformation of the energy sector in Germany, technology is once again taking front seat, and not just in the energy sector, but in the bathroom, too. Yet there are various new designs all the same. And alongside wellness, the sector is also busy discovering health.
MAGAZINE So that rightly flow the torrent3/15/2013There is water flowing and circulating everywhere at the ISH fair! Which needs the right engineering. A slightly different tour of the trade fair in images.
MAGAZINE Water: the sensual element3/13/2013Good products alone are no longer a sure ticket to success in today’s market, and things are no different in the sanitary industry. They want their moment in the limelight too. In the two latest promotional videos produced by Meiré und Meiré for Dornbracht, information and sensuality go their own separate ways.
MAGAZINE Design is an attitude3/11/2013At this year’s imm cologne the “Featured Editions” exhibition, created in collaboration with Stylepark, formed an integral component of the new “Pure Editions” hall concept used to strengthen the trade fair’s position within the high-end segment, a concept that proved to be an instant success. Ten platforms dotted throughout the hall formed the basis of presentations by selected exhibitors. We documented a number of them on film and in interviews with the creative minds behind them.
MAGAZINE Synthetic flooring goes green with castor oil Part 33/5/2013He’s not really interested in skylights. But in the third part of our tour of the “BAU” trade fair in Munich, Amandus Sattler discovers that there are in fact some well-executed specimens out there, such as those developed in collaboration with Foster+Partners. He also finds out that you can’t tar all drainage systems with the same brush either, that no two types of paint are the same, and that “green PVC” is really quite an attractive option.
MAGAZINE Now that is a great stand! Part 23/4/2013In the second half of our trip to the Munich trade fair BAU with Amandus Sattler, he discovers some well-designed stands, tells us what he thinks of sound insulation and why he is particularly fond of façades made of translucent glass and textile-based media façades.
MAGAZINE Selected Exhibitors at ISH 20133/1/2013Every two years the fair Frankfurt invites everyone to attend ISH. From 12th to 19th Marchapproximately 2,300 manufacturers will present the world's largest exhibition for bathroom design and building-services technology. An exhibitor schedule presents the most important manufacturers.
MAGAZINE Our favorite place for a bath is outdoors2/28/2013Anyone who likes taking a bath would in fact much rather be doing it in the great outdoors. So why should only bathroom technology be “green”? On the surface at least the bathroom is seeking to find a connection to the garden, lake and forest.
MAGAZINE Water and energy2/28/2013This year’s ISH in Frankfurt boasts a list of exhibitors nearing the 2,300 mark and over 250,000 square meters of exhibition space. To make planning your trip to the fair that little bit easier we’ve compiled all the most important information for you here.
MAGAZINE Living labs2/27/2013Long gone are the days of simple building insulation. Architects, planners and researchers are trying out new forms of permanent construction. To this end, they are seeking to turn the private home into a power station.
MAGAZINE Bathrooms built for indulgence2/27/2013Is a bathroom really just a bathroom? Or is it in fact a “thermotope”? Are these decidedly personal oases of wellbeing really about nothing more than the efficient provision of warmth and wellbeing or do old-fashioned values such as magic and charm and life in a new temperate zone also come to bear?
MAGAZINE Architects, a thing for sliding windows Part 12/19/2013What exactly are architects interested in when visiting the BAU trade fair in Munich? We decided to find out. Robert Volhard joined Amandus Sattler, founding partner of “Allmann, Sattler, Wappner Architekten”, as he made his way around the fair, and there were certainly a few surprises in store.
MAGAZINE A breath of fresh air from the North2/14/2013Scandinavian design stands for simplicity, reliability and high-quality craftsmanship. At this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair we were met with attempts to redefine such values in the 21st century.
MAGAZINE There is no standard solution for the future1/31/2013As the “world’s leading trade fair for architecture, materials, systems” BAU in Munich offers a wealth of information for architects, planners and anyone with an interest in today’s building solutions, or tomorrow’s. That said, this time round highly customizable standard solutions took center stage while true innovation remained scarce.
MAGAZINE Flooring as an artwork and design object1/29/2013The times when flooring led an existence as the Cinderella of the interior design world are over. The whole industry has discovered its creative side and carpeting has received something of an image makeover over the past few years. But wooden and laminate flooring aren’t far behind. This year, Domotex in Hanover even put on a special show on its leading theme “Flooring Deluxe”, curated by designer Stefan Diez.
MAGAZINE Design for all!1/28/2013At this year’s “Maison&Objet” in Paris the focus was on more than just tradition and craftsmanship. Another trend we noted: in an attempt to address a wider audience, design manufacturers demonstrated an increasing consideration of new product categories in the areas of accessories.
MAGAZINE Take the effort out of cooking1/22/2013Touch-screen displays, adjustable work surfaces, sensor-controlled coffee making: “Living Kitchen”, the biennial fair parallel to imm Cologne, presented technology as an aid to a better life.. A vision that even proves rather convincing on occasion.
MAGAZINE The Barcelona Pastiche1/21/2013The imm Cologne is swiftly getting back on an even keel. And how are designers and manufacturers making use of the opportunity? A tour of the trade fair shows that they often resorted to the tried-and-true, reanimating and dressing it up for contemporary use. Even Konstantin Grcic opted for a tongue-in-cheek approach to a design classic.
MAGAZINE A creative oasis among the hustle and bustle1/18/2013“Featured Editions” developed by the imm Cologne in collaboration with Stylepark and premiering at this year’s fair presented a broad spectrum of concepts that were both creative and artistic. The new format saw a positive response from exhibitors and visitors alike – plans for the next installment in 2014 are already in the pipeline.
MAGAZINE Less caviar, more meat & potatoes please1/15/2013This year’s Heimtextil in Frankfurt runs the danger of being memorable for its superficiality rather than its quality. However, they have come up with some real highlights – and these aren’t restricted to the “Being” trend show alone.
MAGAZINE Brynjar Sigurdarson: Visualizing the production process1/11/2013“…There is something charming in the sound of an old wooden floor and the silence of a thick woolen carpet…”
MAGAZINE Martin Fengel & Martin Wöhrl: Beyond the convention1/11/2013“…In this way, we have on the one hand transformed the fair stand into a notional art gallery, on the other into a woodland scene…”
MAGAZINE Sebastian Wrong: A camouflaged carpet1/10/2013“…The concept was inspired by warship ‘dazzle’ design, which was used in the early 20th century to provide abstract camouflage to moving objects…”
MAGAZINE Normal Studio: A carpet aquarium and a platform made of laminate1/10/2013“…the rugs become reminiscent of corals, anemones or sponges…”
MAGAZINE Steffen Kehrle: A labyrinthine room in bamboo parquet1/10/2013“…This was in fact our first real contact with the area of ‘flooring’…”