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Think pink: when Barbie™ meets Bauhaus
Claire Brodka
07/10/2025
What happens when two design worlds collide? Meet the larger-than-life Barbie™ x HEWI collaboration.
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Grasping the metal: HEWI innovates in bathroom surfaces by bonding ultra-thin metallic layers
Claire Brodka
07/10/2025
Surfaces are as much storytellers as they are skins. HEWI makes sanitary solutions a canvas of durability – where copper warms, brass grounds and nickel endures.
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Basin instinct: HEWI washbasins to get worked up about
Claire Brodka
07/10/2025
For HEWI and its innovative S 480 and Duo washbasins, it’s emotional.
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Great care: HEWI redesigns fitting icons for the healthcare sector
Markus Hieke
11/05/2023
By relaunching their iconic range 477/801 with new colour combinations, the Germany-based expert for barrier-free bathroom products gives new life to a design classic and refreshes care architecture across age groups.
Can you handle this? Ten types of designer door handle
James Wormald
21/02/2023
Essential not only for access, safety and security, door handles also play a crucial role in an interior’s aesthetic style and ergonomic comfort.
'Design was crucial to our storytelling': how a German coastal hotel changed the landscape
Simon Keane-Cowell
15/05/2022
The design process revealed! Find out how a local architect and a creative hotelier, together with bathroom-fittings experts HEWI, fashioned a destination that's a shining example of how it's done.
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The Esperanto of design languages: HEWI universal design
Norbert Philipp
31/05/2021
HEWI creates bathrooms for every phase of life – in a design language that everyone can understand.
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Reach for the moon: HEWI
Norbert Philipp
01/07/2019
In 1969, HEWI took an aesthetic leap forward, introducing the world to bold colours and pioneering materials via its System 111 door handle, now a design icon.
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Master of the universal: HEWI
Norbert Philipp
01/07/2019
With its systematic approach, German manufacturer HEWI creates universal, highly aesthetic hardware solutions, such as Hadi Teherani’s iconic Range 270 door handle.
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Open door policy: HEWI
Norbert Philipp
01/07/2019
With its barrier-free System 900 sanitary-fittings line, HEWI abides by its long-standing belief that design should be accessible to everyone.
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Access all areas: HEWI System 900
Katharina Schwarze
18/03/2019
Premium German manufacturer HEWI has been setting standards in the area of barrier-free sanitary rooms for decades. Its System 900 masters the complex requirements of professional care without making any aesthetic compromises.
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Design icons made in Germany: HEWI
Barbara Jahn-Rösel
03/02/2019
The revolutionary System 111 lever handle from HEWI is 50 years old and the innovative manufacturer itself has been around for 90. Their longevity alone is reason to take a look at the brand's latest developments.
Exclusive surface: HEWI Matt edition
HEWI
01/08/2018
Away from high-gloss towards soft look surfaces: matte is becoming the symbol of exclusiveness.
Architects’ top brands
Architonic
02/02/2017
The most popular manufacturers in the bathroom, bathroom fittings, bathroom floors and surface areas.
Architecture in Ascendance: innovative staircase design
Dominic Lutyens
14/12/2013
Staircases are overdetermined things. A highly functional element in the internal circulation of a building, they are also laden with cultural and psychological symbolism. We may live in the age of the lift and escalator, but this hasn’t stopped architects using the staircase as a means of adding value to spaces, be it through their aesthetic or engineering virtuosity. It’s not the destination that counts but the getting there.
Non Plus Ultra: the Interior Innovation Award 2013's 'Best of Best'
Simon Keane-Cowell
26/02/2013
The biggest, the fastest, the smartest. When it comes to marketing-speak, there's nothing like a superlative to liven things up. Best of Best – the annual exhibition held at imm cologne of the category winners from the Interior Innovation Award 2013, a scheme organised by the German Design Council and voted for by a jury of big names from the design industry – is no exaggeration, however.
A look back at ISH Frankfurt 2011 – Living in a spa
Susanne Fritz
29/03/2011
The bathroom is an environment which doesn't only adapt constantly to the changes dictated by design and fashion, but has also been revolutionised in a technical sense.At ISH 2011 in Frankfurt Architonic went on the track of the latest developments and trends in innovative bathroom design.
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