DESIGN Progress in blue5/24/2016With their Atomic Plate series, Mia Grau and Andree Weissert have created a subversive/contemporary counterpart to traditional plates for the wall.
DESIGN Not only Grillo had a future5/17/2016Marco Zanuso was born 100 years ago. The Milanese architect is one of the inventors of post-1945 Italian design and for decades inspired other architects and designers.
FAIRS & EVENTS Mega-mood machines3/22/2016Light + Building clearly showed that light is becoming ever more digital and offers tools for emotions of all kinds. Among the mass of novelties, you could notice that good light is getting ever more rare.
FAIRS & EVENTS Shows us your light3/18/2016Numerous innovative products are on show in the “Trendspot Design” in Hall 1 of the Light + Building in Frankfurt. We checked out some of the highlights from all categories specially at the booths.
FAIRS & EVENTS It’s not simple to make something simple9/29/2015We visited the London Design Festival with a group of architects and interior designers and met Barber Osgerby, who in the form of “Axor One” are no also focusing on the bathroom.
DESIGN A carpet for games9/8/2015A warm woolen background in strong colors provides the ideal setting for a tour of discovery through the German version of the game “animal, vegetable and mineral”.
DESIGN Ingenious ramified system9/7/2015Each shelf element stands for itself or, arranged at will, becomes a practical ensemble on the wall.
DESIGN Square, practical, perfect9/5/2015Be it as a chair for toddlers or a stool for adults, there are hardly limits to the uses of this graceful and yet sturdy piece of seating.
DESIGN Ready, set, go9/3/2015A flick of the wrist, and this seating turns into a great playing field on which infants can crawl about, climb, and let off steam.
DESIGN Sleek storage for anything9/3/2015This high-grade item of furniture starts as a table for nappy changes and grows in time to have many more functions.
DESIGN Different each time round9/2/2015Cradle and rocking chair, cot, children’s bed or couch – these mutable furniture items come up trumps, with an array of different possible uses.
DESIGN A table for many years to come9/2/2015The slight tilt and sustainable design makes this set of table, bench and stylish accessories a classic of tomorrow.
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.
FEATURED May the force be with you5/28/2015“Force One” is the powerful name for the new luminaire that Berlin-based designer Rupert Kopp has created for and with Nimbus. With its slender body and intelligent details, the workstation floor-standing lamp cuts a fine figure in any office.
FEATURED Spots of color on the green5/26/2015Summer is here and life can at long last move outside again. To mark the start of the al-fresco season Italian furniture manufacture Pedrali has launched four new outdoor lines destined to transform your patio and garden into an open-air living room with a Mediterranean flair
INTERVIEWS Industry is not a dinosaur5/11/2015On irony, provocative designs, Chair One as a grill, finding treasure troves, the necessity of securing contracts and the fun of advancing existing designs. Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 3
FAIRS & EVENTS Design, backstage5/7/2015Interzum in Cologne rounds up all the big names from the furniture making and interior fittings industry, making the trade fair a treasure trove for all those in the fields of design, planning and building.
INTERVIEWS Work where you have the freedom do to so5/4/2015On art and design as a way of life, public places, the designer’s responsibility, the culture of Italian manufacturers, taste and breather Marcel Duchamp. Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 2
STYLEPARK-SPECIAL: RETROSPECTIVE Hieronymus at the airport4/27/2015Konstantin Grcic in conversation with Thomas Wagner – part 1: On "Panorama", the airport as a residential location, glancing sideways, digital tools, physical models, how to design a chair, and why designers cannot simply be replaced by programs.
FAIRS & EVENTS Clerics meet Matrizia4/22/2015“An impure tongue does not taste; dulled senses only notice the sharpest stimuli, or they chew more than they feel.” – Johann Gottfried von Herder
DESIGN Small is beautiful3/25/2015They’re back in fashion – small, light armchairs with a wooden or tubular steel frame. In the 1950s and 1960s they came to fame as “easy chairs”; now they’ve morphed into “lounge chairs”. For the office or the home.
FAIRS & EVENTS Hot Brands3/17/2015Anyone entering the “Energy” section of the Frankfurt trade-fair halls during the ISH is met by a broad range of different heating systems. Countless brands and technologies may leave the non-trade visitor somewhat nonplussed. The sector: between chaos and self-confident design.
FAIRS & EVENTS Where water swirls3/17/2015The ISH is the world’s leading trade-fair for innovative bath design. Wellness, hygiene and health are the elements from which the physical experience in bathrooms of today are formed.
FAIRS & EVENTS Nanotechnology as the source of new cleanliness3/12/2015Nano-coatings make it easier to clean toilets, and also make lime-scale as good as a thing of the past. As does a design that eliminates the flush rim.
INTERVIEWS A quest for clarity and simplicity2/16/2015More than ten years ago Antonio Citterio designed his first range of fittings for Axor, a brand by Hansgrohe. Having done two very distinct series, he created a synthesis with his third: Axor Citterio E. The designer and architect talked to us about risks, confidence and the quality of life, all of which are occasionally associated with selected products.
FAIRS & EVENTS New Sense of Comfort or GreyUrbanUnderIslandTropicAir2/5/2015Claudia Kleine and Jörg Kürschner together constitute “Formstelle”. At the Thonet booth at the imm cologne the designer duo presented a much-discussed lounge chair. Thomas Wagner spoke to them both about the “808”, the design process and the issue of how one can cocoon and nevertheless remain open-minded.
FAIRS & EVENTS Kitchen not cooking2/3/2015Students’ designs and high-tech products turn their back on cooking and instead celebrate either networking and technologization or the rejection of the same. Cooking as a process, minus the process.
FAIRS & EVENTS Fixed on the mark2/1/2015Inga Sempé has dragged the winged armchair into contemporary life – with “Beau Fixe” for Ligne Roset. In an interview with Uta Abendroth, the French designer explains what the design has to do with her childhood, why she likes working in a team, and why she feels attracted to small objects.