Articles de Gerrit Terstiege

Discover Richemont’s lavishly restored and refurnished Canal Houses in Amsterdam, featuring selected pieces from Zeitraum that correspond with the luxury retail group’s craftsmanship and quality.

It’s opening night for Zeitraum’s Curtain family of solid-wood furniture. Joining tradition and innovation together with a timeless flowing substructure, Curtain turns a space into a stage.

Using traditional Alpine materials and craftsmanship, Zeitraum turns a love for solid wood into sustainable, continuously repairable furniture made to last through the generations.

BOSSE's sustainably produced Cubes help to make the open-plan office attractive again, providing comfortable spaces for flexible working in optimised climatic and acoustic conditions.

In the third part of the raumplus Intelligence Series – three consecutive features sponsored by the German manufacturer – designer Sebastian Herkner talks about the status quo of our interiors and explains his down-to-earth vision for the future.

In the second installment of the raumplus Intelligence Series – three consecutive features sponsored by the German manufacturer –, the interior designer speaks to Gerrit Terstiege about what it takes to successfully merge different interior

OBJECT CARPET's latest RUGX collection fits made-to-measure creative freedom, freeing architects and designers from the confines of size, shape and colour in the flooring choices.

Light, wind-safe sunshades from manufacturer MHZ restrict both glare and heat-gain in the tallest glass-wrapped properties, while retaining their natural light and high-end view.

With a special focus on recyclable materials and ease of assembly, the manufacturer's latest collaboration with DIEZ OFFICE proposes a futuristic solution to office storage.

Erfurt's Variovlies range of smooth, paintable and re-paintable wallpapers are made from recycled fibres, making them both environmentally friendly to manufacture and sustainable after application.

Returning to office life when used to working from the comfort of home can be a shock. Dauphin's Lounge Vibes range eases the transition with cosy, flexible and individual office furniture.

The strong, vibrant colours of Dauphin's modular Lounge Vibes collections allow specifiers of contract and private spaces to create atmospheric conditions and interiors, wherever the setting.

The Atelier series from Dauphin Group's Lounge Vibes range allows users to meet and work together in an office environment with alternative private space for quiet, focussed or personal tasks.

With market-leading sustainability, flooring manufacturer Fabromont's durable yet comfortable range is well suited to various projects, from hard-wearing private spaces to homely commercial ones.

By blending traditional Southern German craftsmanship and expertise with modern manufacturing and design talent, Lucas Schnaidt 1890 pay tribute to great designers' and architects' work from the past.

With a mix of functionality and originality, Softicated represents its passionate, self-taught founder and designer Cyril Rumpler's dedication to starting again and following his dream to create joyful furniture.

Ettlin makes textiles of very different textures and colours glow in combination with LED technology – and immerses restaurants, offices, shops and hotels as well as living areas in extraordinary atmospheres and lighting moods. Find out more...

The Creo shelving system from Bremen-based cabinet system experts raumplus combines functionality with a feeling of lightness and efficient storage space – as well as presentation areas for the things that need to be showcased. A multi-talent in

With its Busch-Welcome® range, electrical-installations specialist Busch-Jaeger offers a variety of indoor and outdoor solutions for increased security and comfort around the front door.

Berlin-based glass printing specialist Glastrix opens up broad possibilities for architects and interior designers looking to create bespoke design effects with glass.

The new Kaijo and Canyon surfaces by designer Markus Bischof for Agrob Buchtal may differ significantly in form, but both create striking, geometric facades.

The highly flexible PartiLine system furniture from System 180 supports participative working and makes it possible to create environments that can be changed quickly.

With MyData Analysis, Regent Lighting provides a smart technological solution that saves costs, increases efficiency and simplifies workflows – confirmed by its successful application in one of Europe's largest smart building projects.

Behnisch Architekten’s new Science and Engineering Complex at Harvard has set new standards in sustainable building. Here’s how German partition specialist Feco was part of it.

By focusing on sustainable products rather than trends, Wuppertal-based wallpaper specialist Erfurt not only enhances interiors visually, it improves their ecological footprint, too.

There’s no such thing as ‘can’t’ – with an attitude like this, it’s no surprise that luminaire manufacturer Mawa, known for its experimentation, is loved by creatives...

Find out how the Bespoke Team at Basel-based luminaire manufacturer Regent Lighting provides unique solutions for lighting concepts.

What happens when lighting meets furniture? GERA has created a new product typology that helps us see the objects we live with anew.

Frescolori has equipped the Hotel Moxy In Hamburg with its floor Maranzo with wayfinding system – creating both a solid foundation as well as architectural value.

In its so-called ErlebnisReich at company HQ in Karlsruhe, Germany, office specialist Feco shows off a new generation of partition walls that rethink the future of work.

With flexible living zones made of aluminium and wooden details, you can spend the whole summer outdoors with Fast.

Zeitraum has been finding elegant solutions for sustainable design for more than three decades and was recently awarded the German Sustainability Award for Design 2020/2021.

With its African mask–inspired Kuyu table series for Zeitraum, designer duo Formstelle has succeeded in creating a symbiosis of simplicity and conciseness – which finds its place in a wide variety of designs in equally diverse environments.

In Zurich's SCNSI, the Swiss Clinical Neuro Sciences Institute, the Okito chair by Zeitraum demonstrates the effective influence of furnishing on the architectural context.

Premium kitchen brand next125’s award-winning ‘Trolley’ brings multifunctional mobility beyond the kitchen and into other increasingly connected home spaces.

Amtico’s flooring products not only look like the real thing, they’re also more robust than the natural materials which they imitate, offering architects versatile surface solutions and greater planning freedom.

With its advanced disabled access, modular format and digital functionality, Swiss firm BURRI’s smart HSI® ONE bus shelter is just what architects and urban planners have been waiting for.

What do Snoop Dogg, James Bond and Canadian-British designer Philippe Malouin have in common? Why, the cult Swiss furniture brand de Sede, of course...

Which kind of light is best for working? The one you have to think about least. With LIGHTPAD, Swiss manufacturer REGENT LIGHTING has created a modular system that optimally lights the workspace – whatever the time of day.

PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: David Chipperfield’s landmark new Kunsthaus extension in Zurich has an equally imposing new public artwork, created by Swiss contemporary artist Pipilotti Rist. Find out how BURRI public elements, together with numerous

Processing million-year-old stone slabs is one of the pillars of furniture manufacturer DRAENERT’s business, and the company boasts an impressive natural stone park with 150 varieties for planners to choose from.

With its outstretched, gravity-defying wings, imposing character and good looks, DRAENERT’s 'Adler' dining table is aptly named – it being the German word for ‘eagle’.

A nine-metre-long bar counter made of natural stone? For DRAENERT – a company in whom architects and interior designers find a partner that makes the extraordinary possible – not a problem.

FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: How can designers and architects make purchasing decisions easier and avoid planning errors? The Munich-based interior design studio Christine Kröncke has a digital answer.

Watch now to find out how contemporary architecture and intelligent technologies are harmonising in Busch-Jaeger's new film series.

His latest project for AGROB BUCHTAL has led Sebastian Herkner into a new field, one where a symbiosis of creativity and physics saw the go-to product designer dig out his old maths book.

ROLF BENZ's reputation as an effective contract partner is on full display at the reinvented Hotel Fritz Lauterbad in the Black Forest.

As a throwaway-and-replace culture continues to prevail in different areas of modern life, ROLF BENZ stands in stark contrast.

What happens when you cross inspired Italian design with German precision, quality and craftsmanship? ROLF BENZ has the answer.

KALDEWEI has created the first DIN Certco-certified shower area, up to 60% of which can be used as floor space – a revolution in small bathroom design.

Thanks to the Trimension 3D movement mechanism, WILKHAHN's AT office chair ensures that the body remains in motion while the mind remains undisturbed and concentrated on work.

WILKHAHN's AT office chair cuts a fine dash whatever the working context, thanks to cleverly thought-out technology and high levels of individualisation.

The multi-award-winning AT office chair by WILKHAHN is now available in a comfortable and airy mesh version, allowing fresh air to flow where it’s needed.

Equally discreet, efficient and attractive, the inductionAir Plus system from Siemens combines a hob with an integrated extractor hood. This gives architects and interior designers maximum creative freedom for their kitchen projects.

With BUSCH-JAEGER’s networked home control systems, safety, comfort, and energy efficiency in the home can be controlled more easily and flexibly than ever before.

OBJECT CARPET’s recent collaboration with multidisciplinary architecture and design studio Ippolito Fleitz Group has led to expansive, unconventional and, more importantly, sustainable results.

If ever we needed a life-affirming relationship with nature, it's now. With its series of ponds and natural pools for swimming that fit seamlessly into garden design schemes, German aquatic-environment specialists OASE are inviting us to jump in.

German water project specialists OASE don’t manufacture water features, rather they are in the business of utilising water and light to create perfectly personalised garden architecture.

With control systems that include warm bronze tones and subtly shimmering surfaces, premium manufacturer of intelligent building technology GIRA, offers new creative freedom to specifiers interested in reflecting current trends.

What makes an original an original? You can find the answer to this and more in GIRA’s G-Pulse – an online magazine aimed explicitly at architects and interior designers.

GIRA’s new pushbutton sensor 4 may employ a minimalist design language, but with its choice of LED icon colours as well as a pleasantly haptic response to touch, it packs a powerful, multi-sensory punch.

While certain room elements are more susceptible to the whims of fashion, walls and floors often have more permanent natures. With their METALYN tile series, however, Villeroy & Boch show that the two are not mutually exclusive, as they

With its flexible cooking and kitchen table, premium German brand next125 has created a stylish counterpoint to the technical system-furniture of today's kitchens.

It’s time for a reset. Made-in-Germany office-furniture manufacturer Palmberg has produced seven short films to encourage us to rethink the workplace. It’s time for more tolerance, more individuality and more joy in the office! (Story in German

Changing places – and therefore chairs – during the working day has become a completely normal thing. One particularly flexible member of the team is the OKAY.III office chair from KÖNIG + NEURATH, which automatically adapts to each of its

Bjarke Ingels talks unobstructed views and architecture as a force for good in the latest instalment of ‘My Point of View’, Swiss sliding-window manufacturer SKY-FRAME's film series.

It sometimes takes a very particular hue to create the perfect bathroom atmosphere, which is why Bette offers its products in a colour range broad enough to satisfy every taste.

Bette's floor-level shower surfaces – which integrate seamlessly with the bathroom floor – have manifold qualities, many of which are hidden behind their discreet and stylish simplicity.

The simple form and sculptural aesthetics of the BetteCraft washbasin are the result of a sensitive manual manufacturing process.

Bavaria's M&K Filze has learnt a thing or two about wool in its 150-year history, not least that it can be dangerous to follow the flock. No surprise then that they’ve developed a new material in-house: Nitona, a felt product that’s ideal for

RAUMPLUS, Bremen-based specialist in modern wardrobe and cabinet systems, room dividers and sliding doors, brings every conceivable room situation under control – from intelligent solutions for a sloping ceiling to office partitions, raumplus has

Occhio's lighting systems adapt effortlessly to the new working environments and allow employees themselves to become lighting designers.

conmoto masterfully succeeds in bringing the most diverse design personalities under one roof – each with their own unique, creative approach. One of our favourite pieces? Mark Braun's Kimono sofa.

The Swiss family company SWISSFINELINE specialises in the manufacture of large glass surfaces for windows, doors and railings that allow a view of everything but the structural elements.

German specialists in smart-building technology BUSCH-JAEGER have developed a multitude of networked products and services that impress with their simple, intuitive usability and discreet elegance.

GROHE is now a ‘Full Bathroom’ provider. With the Perfect Match online tool, architects can easily create functional and aesthetically harmonious holistic concepts for bathrooms.

Munich-based start-up Agrilution brings agtech to the home with its Plantcube – an innovative, new architecturally integrated or freestanding unit for smart edible-plant cultivation.

At their much-anticipated return to the Salone del Mobile, B&B ITALIA presented a raft of new proposals for the entire home created by some of the most celebrated designers out there.

Gaetano Pesce's iconic UP collection for B&B ITALIA celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, making it the perfect time to pay tribute to the extraordinary original designs with a newly launched UP50 collection.

The leading Italian tile manufacturer FAP CERAMICHE launches the new Pat tile collection, which brings a homely atmosphere to the bathroom with pastel shades and graphic patterns.

Even after fifty years, the revolutionary and iconic 111 mixer from Danish manufacturer VOLA is still embraced – and evolving, with a continually expanding colour palette.

VILLEROY & BOCH recently published a comprehensive analysis of the hotel sector's latest trends and future developments, providing architects and planners with valuable information.

Inspired by the shape of a flower bud, the innovative office furniture manufacturer STEELCASE has developed a revolutionary, simple office chair that adjusts perfectly to the user's body without complex mechanics.

With increasingly flexible lifestyles, the static boundaries between kitchen and living areas are disappearing. After examining this trend, the German premium manufacturer POGGENPOHL found the perfect solution with its new +VENOVO kitchen concept.

The Swiss firm SKY-FRAME, the leading international manufacturer of frameless sliding window systems, has launched a new series of video portraits that opens a window into the world of the great contemporary architects and designers.

With the PUREis3, the German office furniture manufacturer INTERSTUHL is launching an uncomplicated office chair for today's office: flexible in use in almost all office situations, easily adaptable to individual seating preferences and - thanks to a