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With a clear focus on applications within high-value architecture the Swiss textile manufacturer Création Baumann created ‘Gecko’, an adhesive textile sunblind which can easily be mounted directly onto the window.

Bedingt durch die Kriegszerstörungen des Zweiten Weltkrieges fehlten Ende der 40er Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts in der jungen Bundesrepublik Deutschland noch immer mindestens 5 Millionen Wohnungen.

Trends, Redevelopment, Habitat und Aussichten - zentrale Themen in der Konferenz zur Architekturgalerie auf der Cersaie 2009

More than 300 candles of the Gandia Blasco Outdoor Lighting collection illuminated the MOMA Fundraising event “Party in the Garden”.

The Starnberg architects Baehr-Rödel have used some of the company's classic models from Vola in planning a ‘Bauhaus-style villa’ on the Ammersee lake.

Vola blends freedom, aesthetics and wellness in their new free-standing range.

Ruckstuhl is pleased to announce the successful usage of multiple Ruckstuhl carpets within the Novartis Campus in Basel, Switzerland

The Belgian manufacturer Bulo redesigned the Mtoo desk. The 1m2 desk has been reconceived whilst retaining its basic concept: a drawer unit, a footrest and a floating worktop. The innovations of Mtoo act in response to the new functions and emotions,

Klein Associates und Leuchtenhersteller Kreon definieren das Steigenberger Airport Hotel FFM neu. Das Ergebnis ist ein Interior- und Beleuchtungskonzept, das private Bedürfnisse mit geschäftlichen Belangen auf mondäne Weise verbindet.

Ab sofort schützen SunSquare-Sonnensegel auch auf Aruba vor der karibischen Sonne

The designer Carlo Colombo will present the project “Casa Colombo” at the upcoming edition of Abitare il Tempo in Verona on the 17th - 21st September 2009.

The staff and vistors are entitled to a pleasant atmosphere and working environment, which gives a spacious impression, but is also homely at the same time. 

From 24 to 26 May 2009, the Nya Artline and Nya Textiles collections were exhibited at the Hotel Show Dubai.

The Netbook is the trendy laptop in small format for the contemporary communication – private and on the way.

Stuttgarter Nimbus Group geht neue Wege in der LED-Beleuchtung

Mehr als 900 Aussteller, davon ein Fünftel aus dem Ausland, stehen im Scheinwerferlicht der 27. Fachmesse in Bologna

Montana eröffnet einen neuen Showroom in Kopenhagen und fusioniert mit DJOB

Am 17. Januar wurde in Kopenhagen das neue Konzertgebäude für Danish Radio eröffnet. Der Entwurf von Jean Nouvel vereinigt vier unterschiedlich grosse Konzertsäle in einem blau ummantelten Kubus, dessen Fassaden nachts als Projektionsflächen

Dedon presents the new Special Edition D.D.C. at the Salone del Mobile Milano 2009

Addressing the current economic environment, this year’s BKLYN DESIGNS will present a panel discussion at the Architects and Designers Trade Luncheon, “Does Integrity of Design Change in a Down Economy: Does High End Meet Low Cost?”

Royal Exhibition Building, Melbourne, Australia July 15 - 25

Ambience and Atmosphere are created by different levels of lighting

David Adjaye and Peter Saville design London flagship showroom for Kvadrat

Ein Rückblick in die Welt es innovativen, eigenwilligen Schweizer Gestalters

Nur mehr 80 Tage: Fassadenmontage am WM-Stadion in Johannesburg geht in die Endrunde

The object of this year’s contest, aimed at students and young design professionals, is the design of a parasol, pergola or pergola system.

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

Häuser Award 2009: Die besten Stadthäuser stehen in Köln und Hamburg

In this year's red dot awards the Magic Desk by Yomei was one of the award winners in the Product Design category.

The Hilton Manchester Deansgate Hotel receives its guests in exceptionally styled, avant-garde rooms in the very heart of Manchester. The design highlights of the rooms are, however, the bathrooms.

Die neue Produktlinie X.plicit von Alape nutzt die Vorteile des glasierten Stahls und ermöglicht eine individuelle Waschplatz-Gestaltung auf hohem technischen Niveau.

All design students or designers can take part of this edition, without age limitation.

The Royal Institute of British Architects and Cassina present the exhibition "Le Corbusier’s Cabanon".

Zanotta showed the new products for 2009 at Now! Design à Vivre in Paris, worldwide design stage.

Kristalia has taken part for the first time in Now!Design à vivre in Paris from 23-27th January where they showed the following news.

On the occasion of the home textiles (Heimtextil) fair in Frankfurt, the Langenthal textile company Création Baumann was awarded the AIT Innovation Prize for textiles for its new »Silver&Steel« collection, which was described as a product of

Last year, the Bulo designers developed Kei, a new modular desk concept with the organic form of a pebble serving as the starting point and the chaotic-harmonic overall image of a pebble beach as the architectural finishing point.

On 14 January the 2009 Detail prizes were presented in seven special categories at Munich's 'Künstlerhaus' in the course of the Detail celebration gala.

Two weeks ago 'Betonwerk Rieder' celebrated its fifty years of existence as a company with an out-of-the-ordinary party in the Maishofen auction hall. 'RollingStone'.

Even before the public will have the opportunity to view the new DEDON collections in the showrooms, the company's new products for 2009 have already received the »iF product design award 2009« no less than four times.

Thonet furnishes the meeting and conference rooms at the Media Plaza of the 'Jaarbeurs' in Utrecht

This year's "Architecture and Office XXL" innovation prize has been won by the firm of REC Bauelemente GmbH.

Bisazza opens its first flagship store in Antwerp on 4 December

Lesslamp is considered more a happening than a light: The user must release the light drilling or breaking the ceramic piece with a pickaxe.

The British designer James Irvine has created a height-adjustable bar stool for Thonet, which impresses with its simple elegance. Its curved foot support is in line with the company's tubular steel tradition, which goes right back to the Bauhaus

Die aktuelle Sonderausstellung bei DOMIZIL Marc Stutzer AG in Basel zeigt die letzten Arbeiten, die Ettore Sottsass vor seinem Tod noch autorisiert hat: Die Spiegelserie ‚ Gli specchi di Dionisio’, produziert von Glas Italia.

Today’s garden architecture may be more playful and frivolous than ever, the new collection by Belgian architect and designer Vincent Van Duysen for Tribù goes resolutely its own way.

With the Filo table the EOOS design team has conceived a table to match the success of the Filo office chair.

Lange Production feels very proud and honoured that they are able to present Grete Jalk’s best known pieces of furniture from 1963 – her moulded plywood chair – the GJ Chair – and the GJ Nesting Table.

Neben Grün, Petrol und Anthrazit bestimmen Beerentöne auch 2009 die modische Farbpalette. Sessel und Sofa LUIS von KFF zeigen sich daher aktuell zum Herbst in den Trendfarben Lila und Pflaume.

'Alone' by Pallucco is a coat hook that casts an eye at the concept of a wall light. Its clear-cut, linear design is enhanced at the rear by an opal finish ring that.

Zumtobel creates new lighting for Archaeological Institute of Zurich University

The danish manufacturer presents five one-of-a-kind installations of its furniture and lamps at the Copenhagen Furniture Festival

The functional features of REFLEX by Girsberger support the swivel chair's aesthetic appeal

Jaime Hayón’s work has transcended the barriers between two worlds that have always been apart: art and design.

Trioli is a versatile design by Eero Aarnio. It’s a chair for toddlers, and, turned upside-down, it becomes a chair with a higher seat for bigger children.

The international Jury of the XXI edition of the ADI Compasso d’Oro, has awarded the prize to the Mix lamp designed by Alberto Meda and Paolo Rizzatto.

Ab sofort gibt es ein deutsches Zertifizierungssystem, das die Nachhaltigkeit von Gebäuden bewertet.

The British star architect Zaha Hadid has chosen glass fibre reinforced concrete from the Austrian company Rieder to envelope the 275 meters long „Zaragoza Bridge Pavilion“, the new symbol of the Expo 2008 in the northern Spanish Zaragoza.

This year, as in 2006, it plunges in the world of architecture cooperating and panelling the exhibition spaces with design and technology thanks to its radiant and sound-deadening systems.

Création Baumann to award prizes for innovative projects using GECKO

The Panamá collection is an outdoor lighting system that consists of two column heights and a wall bracket.

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.

“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.

An unusual lighting solution for an unusual mountain railway

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

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