Stories by Ingo Maurer

Sleep, Europe’s most important annual destination for the hotel design, architecture and development community, celebrates its 10th edition on 24 and 25 November at London’s Business Design Centre. Over two days visitors can experience a series of imaginative installations from top design studios, engage with industry thought-leaders at stimulating conference sessions, and discover products by international brands carefully selected for diversity, innovation and quality.

If you think of ambient lighting, you think of him: Ingo Maurer has been regarded as a pioneer of revolutionary light sculptures since 1966. His fascinating work comprises numerous designs, from sober to playful, from oversized to filigree, from poetic to provocative. Even his very first light sculp

Need more light in your life? The second part of Architonic's survey of high-end lighting design from this year's Euroluce fair in Milan should provide the illumination you're looking for.

Many hands make light work, goes the old saying. Many new LED producers also make the creative possibilities of working with such a fast-changing technology exciting, thanks to the proliferation of products they bring to the market. But, for lighting design manufacturers, an expansion of supplier choice brings with it a number of challenges. Architonic sheds some light.

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.

Excuse me. Have you got a light? No? Well, maybe you should have visited this year's edition of Euroluce, the international lighting fair that rides pillion with the Milan Salone Internazionale del Mobile. But not to worry. Architonic has made a selection of some of the show's luminaries for you, so sit back and light up.

In der Münchner Kaiserstrasse 47 sind Ausstellungsräume von Ingo Maurer entstanden.