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The interplay between graphic art and architecture is a discipline in itself. Visitor orientation and guidance systems require a detailed analysis of the architecture of the building, and the operational and movement sequences of the building's

A simple cord becomes a complex shape, a line circumscribes a space – furniture and lamps with laced seats or lampshades originated in the nineteen-fifties, and today some of these constructivist pieces have attained cult status.

On 24th April Busk + Herzog were awarded the ”Furniture Prize 2008” at the Danish Museum of Art and Design in Copenhagen by a unanimous jury and the most esteemed representatives of the furniture industry in Denmark.

Exhibitions and installations in Milan during the Salone del Mobile 2008

Few exhibitors risk coming to Milan without some new products to show off. And even if not all of these new creations make it all the way to the production stage, they are still a thermometer for trends, vitality and differentiation within the

Because our attention is fully focussed on new products and old acquaintances we frequently overlook the architecture of the stands themselves, which is often of high quality and great elaboration.

It's not just because of its dominant architecture – the Palazzo dell’Arte was designed early in the Thirties by Giovanni Muzio– but also because of its historic past that the Triennale has, for many years, been an especially popular location

“The LED is the light source of the future” is the credo of the Nimbus Group, which is presenting itself at this year’s “Light + Building” fair in Frankfurt with an extensive and powerful LED range based on LED.next technology.

This year the Salone Satellite was once more on show in its own pavilion. Set a little apart from the general hustle of the fair, it welcomed visitors.

Our selection of new products displayed at the Stockholm Furniture Fair

Olympic Games in China are dominating the headlines just as much as reports about the current spectacular major projects of thel architectural stars.

Since 2004 Øystein Austad and Jonas Ravlo Stokke have formed the design team StokkeAustad, which is based in Oslo and just opened their design studio.

“Urban Romanticism” is the motto of the Luminale 08 marathon. Many openings will already take place on April 5th.

Sprayed-on metal skin for seamless and geometrically complex metal surfaces

Besides its great architectural projects, the Ateliers Jean Nouvel created various furniture designs for several renowned international manufacturers.

The architect Keiichito Sako was one of the first to recognise the potential for his architecture in the growing giant China. 2004 he opened his studio.

The organic parkway by Plan B Arquitectos and JPRCR Arquitectos

In the autumn of 2005 the Lower Ninth Ward, a multi-cultural precinct in the east of New Orleans, was flattened by the force of the hurricane Katrina.

Apocalyptic sentiments. The abandoned futuristic housing complex San Zhi is situated close to the Taiwanese capital and was planned in the early 80s.

Thom Mayne's studio Morphosis wins the Zumtobel Group Award for sustainable architecture for its Federal Building in San Francisco

The poetic mirror serie by Jean-Marie Massaud für Glas Italia

Our selection of results of the famous wallpaper competition

Places, products, authors, museum, collections, characters, chronicle, glossary

The tenth MATERIALICA in Munich focused specifically on design. For the fifth time the fair presented the Materialica Design + Technology Award to outstanding and innovative performance in the fields of design or engineering.

Ingrid Buron and Gregory Namberger "export" the spirit of Berlin to the island of Rügen

Our selection of new products displayed at the imm cologne 2008

Innovative materials inspire designers and architects to create ever new products and applications. This was demonstrated at the end of 2007, when the latest developments in the field of new production and surfacing materials were presented at two

With the help of digital technologies it is possible to create all forms imaginable, whilst streamlining the design process from concept to fabrication.

A few kilometres to the north of Swedens capital Stockholm, in a picturesque house which lies on the former hunting grounds of the kings of Sweden.

The designer Alexis Oehler works in the heart of Berlin's Kreuzberg district, but the romantic impression given by his workshop is contradicted by the hardness and roughness of his preferred material, which normally tends to evoke associations of

An unusual lighting solution for an unusual mountain railway

Young designer present their work at the Stockholm Furniture Fair

The very young swedish company Wästberg launches its first collection

For 'Meuble Paris' fair and pursuing its annual Creation Assistance programme, VIA has presented the Carte Blanche grant awarded to designer Frechin.

Sunday before last this year's imm cologne closed its doors after receiving 107,000 visitors from 103 countries–statistics which speak for themselves.

The 'Professorship Project' is the programme at the Karlsruhe College of Design under which known designers are invited to become visiting professors.

A few furniture parts, half done prototypes in the middle of the room – the studio of designer Eric Degenhardt seems like a well sorted working space.

At the imm cologne we our fifth anniversary and we had a big party at the Architonic Lounge and later at the SIDIspot. Thanks everybody who joined us.

This year, too, the imm cologne will provide lots of opportunities to discover young design talent and discover fresh ideas. Here a few suggestions.

The annual Stockholm Furniture Fair, which takes place from 6 - 10 February, is enjoying ever greater popularity with both manufacturers and designers.

"Limited edition" obscures the boundary of design and art. Craft elements bring singularity into mass-produced works and lift them to an art piece.

To mark its fifth anniversary, Architonic presented its Concept Space I – the 'Arctic Lounge' – at imm cologne 2008. Its designers, architects Professsor Tobias Wallisser and Chris Bosse, delivered an interior landscape inspired by polar

For more than ten years the very successful design studio of Luke Pearson and Tom Lloyd has been located in one of Shoreditch's typical small alleys.

The armchair by Sacco, Paolini and Teodoro is one of the most meaningful example of design product able to embody an "era", while "contaminating" the living conventions that apparently look very formal.

The cooperation between BASF, industrial designer Konstantin Grcic and Italian furniture manufacturer Plank is a result of the Universal Days workshop.

The younger generation of japanese architects, including Kengo Kuma, who was born in 1954, has taken a new directions, by using more natural materials.

At that time the Casala furniture company, which was founded in 1917, was one of the leading manufacturers in Germany. New now is the product Casalino.

Brazilian design can look back on a long history. And although it was initially strongly influenced by European design ideas, it has since developed.

The European Ceramic Workcenter (.ekwc) in the Netherlands regards itself as an international workshop facility and provides designers, artists and architects with the opportunity to carry out technical and artistic experiments using ceramics and

The 26-year old, who does not wish to reveal his real name, presented his poetic furniture and object designs at 100%Design under his 'Nosigner' label.

Due to new processing methods bamboo materials, such as bamboo veneer or Plyboo (in other words bamboo plywood) have become important materials for the furniture industry. And the good thing is that it is now possible to overcome the musty colonial

Craftsmanship is not just the simple act of creation. It is a much broader concept that involves going beyond industrialization and developing an understanding of tools and materials as precious resources to be carefully employed rather than

The finalists of the 2015 edition of the SBID International Design Awards have now been revealed.

This is the second of a three-part Trend Report from Milan 2015 by Le Vin Chin. Playing with the design of the way we eat has launched many experimental restaurants with unconventional dining experiences over the past few decades.

From April 14 to 19, Ventura Lambrate invites you to see what is happening in contemporary design. During the Salone del Mobile in Milan, a curated selection of over 176 exhibitors originating from 36 different countries will be on show.

Between 1969 and 1970, architect, artist and theorist Oskar Hansen built his wooden-clad summer home in Szumin – on the picturesque oxbow lake and Bug river, in central Poland. After 45 years, the unobtrusive house – designed and constructed

Eine von Zumtobel Research und dem Fraunhofer IAO initiierte globale Nutzerstudie zur Lichtqualität im Büro liefert wichtige Erkenntnisse: So zeichnet sich bereits wenige Monate nach dem Start der Langzeitstudie deutlich ab, dass die Mehrzahl der

POGGENPOHL uses contemporary design to create highly functional products and attractive living spaces.