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Creative light-shaping by architects and interior architects, married with ingenious, technologically driven lighting solutions, are changing the way we experience, interact with and use light in work, contract and other spaces. It's a new dawn.

The functional and simple design of the Scandinavian countries meets the best of world design on the occasion of Stockholm Design Week. Lema will be a protagonist of the show with a display presenting some of its bestsellers for the living area in

ELEMENTS is a unique collection of lamps which falls outside the usual parameters of an industrial product in terms of its conception and materials. While each object has its own particular identity, the collection was designed so that each lamp can

Guardian and discoverer, traditionalist and trendsetter, retrospective and forward-looking: ClassiCon (Classic Contemporary Design) sees itself as a bridge that spans stylistic eras. Besides international furniture gems of the 20th century, it also

Systematic ingenuity, individual adaptability and consistently excellent quality: the varied product range from sliding door expert CABINET leaves nothing to be desired.

It seems that lately design shopping events have been popping up like mushrooms. Unfortunately.what you see is not always what get, very often handmade has been touted as design, design quality often takes a back seat. So let`s take a critical look

'April in Paris' goes the the old Broadway song. But for a number of years now, the smart crowd head to the French capital in January for the spring edition of the now firmly established MAISON&OBJET design fair.

Bien souvent, les bureaux sont agencés de manière à ce que les employés ne s'y sentent pas à l'aise. Au lieu de faire preuve d'individualité, les entreprises préfèrent afficher leur Corporate Identity au travers d'une présentation de

When it comes to new materials that identify the kitchen as living space without making proven solutions obsolete, BULTHAUP is a connoisseur.

Almost 70 years in business and forward-thinking Japanese manufacturer OKAMURA, renowned for, among other products, its super-engineered office furniture, shows no sign of taking its eye off the ball of innovation. Sit up straight, people.

Beyond their utilitarian function, windows and doors set up an emotional expectation on the part of visitors as to what they'll encounter within a building, while, at the same time, negotiating the relation that users inside have with the exterior

From February 22 through March 2, 2014, designers, architects, representatives of the economic and business sectors as well design aficionados from around the world will meet in Munich for the third time at MCBW 2014. Their objective: to sensitize

Based in Michelau, Upper Franconia, BULLFROG sends upholstered comfort straight from the designer's hand to the four corners of the earth.

Die Optik eines Gebäudes hängt nicht zuletzt von den eingesetzten Fenstern ab. Der gewünschte Baustil kann durch die passenden Fenster sein prägendes Gesicht erhalten. Es gibt die vielfältigsten Fensterarten, wie etwa Kunststofffenster,

'Products developed for architecture' is how Italian brand TUBES describes its striking, resolutely sculptural radiators and towel rails, designed to shape the interior landscape as well as heat it. The manufacturer's story is one of a steadfast

No sooner has that Christmas tree been taken down then the spring season of the annual design calendar kicks off with that grandee of the international-trade-fair circuit, imm cologne. Your faithful scout Architonic presents, as ever, its detailed

Kati Meyer-Brühl is a name that stands for internationally acknowledged design. Since she started designing upholstered furniture for Brühl in Bad Steben as the company's Creative Director, Kati Meyer-Brühl's work has earned her a growing number

Because good quality calls for a great deal of care, BIELEFELDER WERKSTÄTTEN make every single piece of their exquisite upholstered furniture collection using the classic techniques of hand-crafted production.

Steel enamel specialist BETTE is constantly pushing the envelope.

“The ‘è De Padova’ collection is composed of elegant, versatile furniture, simple and essential objects, articles that create luminous, refined spaces, a harmonious blend of innovative design and fine craftsmanship, an essential, poetic style

The collection consists of three different models of carpets made with the KILIM technique; some of which are available in an array of colors; all of which have been created with a new spirit incorporating ancient techniques into modern styles.,The

Goslar-based manufacturer ALAPE has been creating aesthetic washplace solutions out of glazed steel for 117 years.

How will we live tomorrow? What will be the main focus in interior decoration? To what degree will our living circumstances reflect the changes in society? All these are key questions of interest in today’s world. Mirroring the philosophy of its

Scandinavian design is a well-known and highly valued concept for design-interested people all over the world. The largest source of inspiration in this field is Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, which for more than 60 years has attracted

Again and again, DORNBRACHT comes up with new ways to cultivate the bathroom and kitchen as living spaces.

Icons of the design landscape, global brand KARTELL’s products – with their innovative use of plastic and their clever and expressive, often emotional, forms – have captured the imagination of design-conscious consumers around the world. The

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

Icône du paysage bruxellois, curiosité architecturale ou sculpturale, l’Atomium s’affirme de plus en plus, non seulement comme un monument emblématique et touristique mais aussi comme un pôle culturel du nord de Bruxelles. Entretien avec

Zwar ist er in den meisten Betrieben vorhanden, in vielen Fällen wird er jedoch eher stiefmütterlich behandelt: Der Pausenraum. Dabei spielt er innerhalb des Unternehmens eine wichtige Rolle. Hier treffen sich die Kollegen und verbringen ihre

You can never have enough of a good thing, so they say. But lovers of iconic lamps from the early 20th century were for decades deprived of the possibility of owning some of the most striking luminary pieces by the Wiener Werkstätte and the Bauhaus,

Milan, le 14 novembre 2013 – C’est aujourd’hui que le nouveau magasin phare de FontanaArte ouvre ses portes: une maison chaleureuse et accueillante pour partager la beauté de la lumière et des objets du design.

Post-crisis it’s all about winning customer loyalty through value for money and memorable service. As an hotelier, taking your guests for granted can mean the difference between repeat business and damaging online reviews. Against this backdrop,

Photographic journey through 2011 edition of INDEX Exhibition

Collaboration isn't for everyone. If you're to make it work, it involves serious time and resources, not to mention a genuine willingness to go beyond your usual MO to achieve a creative result with added value. Celebrated Italian design brand

Choose among all the equipments and finishings to design your own customized storage system

The mountain chalet has always been closely linked with the dream of a simple, rustic home in pristine natural surroundings. However, a number of projects throughout the world show that a holiday home in the mountains does not necessarily need to

Let’s discover – in a chart of 7 – where and how MastellaDesign got the ideas for the materials usage and how the inimitable Italian taste influenced their inspiration and the shapes for their creations.

The first-ever design show in the Middle East to unite on a single platform some of the best global design brands with award-winning design from the region, Dubai's new Downtown Design fair, like the soaring Burj Khalifa, has its sights set high.

Why do manufactured products look the way they do? Often it’s practical necessity. Sometimes it’s aesthetic tradition. In the case of sanitaryware, it’s due historically to the materials limits of Vitreous China and Fine Fire Clay. Enter

La nouvelle collection de dalles textiles d’Interface évoque les vagues des océans. Pour concevoir son design, Interface a travaillé exclusivement avec le célèbre designer David Oakey. Repousser les limites du design tout en atteignant un

Pendant le New York Design Week et la International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF), Martex a inauguré un nouveau showroom à New York situé dans le quartier de Chelsea. Dans ce lieu particulier, où on rencontre créatifs, designers et faiseurs

Pour célébrer son 40ème anniversaire, Fiam offre une opportunité incontournable aux passionnés de design : une collection de miroirs issue d‘une collaboration avec quatre parmi les plus grands designers du monde, à savoir Massimiliano

Une ville nouvelle qui a vu naître Érasme au XVe siècle. Une ville anarchique où chaque chose se trouve à sa place. Une ville marchande où les relations humaines l’emportent sur les négociations. Une ville industrielle où il fait bon vivre.

„Akustik ist ein Thema der Gesundheit und der Umwelt geworden“, meint Carsten Gollnick, der den sozialpsychologischen Auftrag von Design ins Zentrum rückt. „Je komplexer die Umwelt, desto wichtiger ist interdisziplinäre Arbeit“, das gilt im

CAS, Carpet Concept Acoustic System, das mehrfach ausgezeichnete Programm für eine ausgeglichenen Akustik gewinnt den German Design Award 2014. Ausgelobt wird der bekannteste deutsche Designpreis vom Rat für Formgebung. Eine Jury aus 30

Das kleine, aber feine Label „Hübscher Velo“ aus Zürich bereichert seit einem Jahr den Fahrradmarkt. Hinter der jungen Marke steht der erfahrene Fahrradexperte Christian Hübscher. Wie die hochwertigen Holzmöbel seines Bruders Beat vom Label

“Home” est une installation réalisée par les artistes et créateurs belges Ilse Acke et Jeffrey Vanhille, créée à l'initiative du Concertgebouw de Bruges. Elle accompagne l'interprétation de “Superposition” de Ryoji Ikeda, un des plus

More statements from some of our Architonic's most valued members, partners and friends during this, our tenth anniversary year. It's all about you, guys._

Nominated for this year's Design Prize Switzerland, Zurich-based designer Beat Karrer's material innovation FluidSolids, with its strong ecological credentials and impressive programmability, is poised to give traditional materials like metal and

The annual London Design Festival, now with over 300 city-wide events, reflects the British capital's status as an international creative hub. But it also provides a platform for scores of indigenous designer-makers – both individuals and brands

Par Tomi Summanen, Alvar Aalto Museum & Natacha Drabbe, Iconic Houses

Le casse-tête des industries du luxe ? Comment inciter des milliers d’acheteurs à entrer chaque jour dans une boutique tout en préservant le sentiment d’exclusivité qui doit se dégager des lieux. La tendance est aux Méga Maisons, une

Malgré la mondialisation qui uniformise tout sur son passage, il reste des chocs culturels évidents : en Asie ou Océanie, le rapport intrinsèque à la matière prédomine en architecture. Mieux, la force de la Nature et la puissance structurelle

For a colourless, odourless gas, CO2 packs a punch. It now accounts for 76% of all greenhouse-gas emissions. So how do you communicate to a fair-going public the relative merits of different materials when it comes to carbon emissions? Materials

Contemporary architects internationally are breathing new life into the old tradition of using ceramic elements on exteriors. The result are striking facades that marry expressive ornament with sustainability.

Feeling a little bit lost? It's no surprise, really. As populations grow, cities expand, international travel increases and we all work (and live) harder and faster, it seems that there are ever more new and complex terrains to navigate. Enter a

Take incomparable ceramics, add premium plastics, specify ‘sanitaryware’ and ask designers Ludovica and Roberto Palomba to blitz it up. What you get is the best of Kartell and Laufen.

With a new research-based strategy, interior workspace brand Kinnarps reckons it has seen the shape of things to come in our work lives.

A design experience to engage, entertain and inspire with exhibits from leading names in the industry, plus educational programs & workshops, networking events and more.

3D-printed architecture might seem like the stuff of the future, but a number of architects are experimenting to try to turn tomorrow's fantasy builds into today's innovative projects. Architonic investigates.

Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa’s designs for Maruni show the brand’s expertise in mass-producing high-quality wooden furniture.

Major demographic shifts, including an ageing population and the increase in a younger workforce, present serious challenges for the office landscape. What do the different generations who come together to work want and need from their office

There's a long tradition of architectural photography presenting viewers with depopulated spaces – interior and exterior landscapes, devoid of the very users for which they have been designed. Celebrated Dutch photographer IWAN BAAN's unparalleled

Helmut Link explains how Interstuhl is adapting its office furniture to meet the needs of tomorrow’s working environments.

CEO Michael Girsberger talks about how his family-run office-furniture company tries to stay on top, despite cutthroat competition.

Increased urban congestion. Climate change and sustainability. Urban regeneration. The reasons for the burgeoning movement in highly considered, integrated green spaces in towns and cities around the globe are as manifold as the forms they take.

Fantoni Group’s innovations in acoustic panelling please the eye as well as the ear, thanks to the firm’s focus on a design-led approach and an integrated manufacturing strategy.

The working environment changes and with it interior designs do so, too. It is more than ever essential to create environments, where employees feel comfortable. Apart from a good payment and an interesting perspective it is the working environment

Plugging in to Belgrade Design Week means a number of things. A high-calibre line-up of international speakers. Inspiring conversations and encounters. And a lot of parties. The Serbian capital shows how it’s done.

As ever-taller skyscrapers increasingly dominate the urban landscape, London-based architecture and design journalist Dominic Lutyens asks how designers can push the boundaries of interiors ever further upwards.

With an increase in international travel predicted for 2013, on the heels of a rebound for hoteliers last year, the hotel industry is looking more than ever for ways to make the visitor experience a memorable and profitable one. Enter striking

Architonic has been invited to partner up with Field Trip, Google’s location-experience app that alerts you to interesting stuff in your general vicinity. Smartphone users will now be able to locate the best architectural projects nearby –

Architonic isn't just a virtual showcase of products and materials. It's an international community, made up of real people. This year sees ten years of Architonic, so we asked some of our valued members, partners and friends to say a few words about

DuPont Building Innovations setzt sich dafür ein, drahtlose Aufladetechnik für Smartphones und Tablets in öffentliche und private Installationen aus DuPont™ Corian® zu integrieren.

Axor, Hansgrohe's premium brand of mixers and showers, is developing alternative visions for the bathroom as a living space. Philippe Grohe, the creative mind behind Axor for the last 20 years, has invited the Swedish design trio Front and the

The "Nike für Fügung" (Nike for integration) Architecture Award from the Association of German Architects (BDA) is the fourth prestigious plaudit that textiles manufacturer Nya Nordiska has won for the extension to its headquarters in the historic

The art of leadership needs excellent tools – tools for convincing management. The new Leadchair makes a clear statement: modern understatement.

Materials Council has been busy. Founded in partnership with Architonic in 2012, the leading London-based consultancy has proved in a mere nine months its expertise and relevance to architects, manufacturers and business, providing indispensable

Nature does a pretty good job of shaping our environment. But what happens when innovation and creative thinking are applied to the more sustainable natural materials out there? Leading materials consultancy Materials Council investigates the

Tobias Lutz and Nils Becker came unstuck with their first start-up. Their second ranks among the biggest online research platforms for architecture and design. This year sees Architonic celebrate its tenth year in business, while making the leap to

As the world's busiest revolving door, New York is no stranger to new cultural sights and influences. This year's New York Design Week saw a raft of Latin American designers and design collectives exhibit their highly polished and conceptually

Small works of architecture – from Canada, US and Mexico, to Norway, Chile and Sicily – are appearing across the planet on the basis of new design practices and attitudes. Journalist Valentina Ciuffi explores.

There's strength in numbers. A new date in the international design-expo calendar – The May Design Series – has successfully brought together and revitalised two pre-existing specialist fairs, creating an impressive showcase for high-end

When was the last time a building won an award for the way it sounds? Architecture, and by extension society, has long privileged the visual over the aural. Yet a number of architects are starting to think and design in a more complete sensory way,

Zimmer + Rohde is going to present the Zimmer + Rohde Interior Contract Awards for the first time.in 2013 in response to the growing demand for custom textile designs. There are 5 categories to be nominated: Residential Villa, Hotel & Wellness

A recent panel discussion at Washington DC’s International Design Festival got to grips with the somewhat provocative question, “What Happened to American Design?”, the implication being it doesn't enjoy the singular, coherent identity of other

A series of video interviews with leading architects in the Molteni&C windows

In eight short years, Belgrade Design Week has put the Serbian capital on the creative map, playing annual host to an unmissable pow-wow of the finest creative minds around.

Clerkenwell Design Week, sponsored by Jaguar is the UK's leading independent design festival and one of the most important trade events on the design calendar. The festival takes place annually each May and 2013 will be the festival's 4th year and

With an expanded North American sales team, a bigger presence at this year's ICFF in New York, and two brand-new apps – 'Best American Design Brands' and 'Best Canadian Design Brands' – Architonic has gone all transatlantic.

Journalist Klaus Leuschel provides a crash course in, and a guided tour of, grand hotels, and how even design excellence in the five-star tradition is of no avail when the quality of hospitality does not match it.

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.

We may live in somewhat gloomy times, but this year’s confident edition of Euroluce – the biennial international lighting showcase at the Milan Salone del Mobile – shone brighter than an old-fashioned 100-Watt light bulb.

No one provides you with as an exhaustive and detailed photographic coverage of the annual Milan Furniture Fair as Architonic. On this we pride ourselves. If you weren't able to make it to the 2013 edition of the mother of all design trade fairs,

15 prototypes in the contest exhibition will compete for the title “Unique Youngstar” – Three winners will be selected by the jury and an additional winner will be chosen by the public

Das Brandi Institute for Light and Design bietet eine neue und kompakte Ausbildung für Lichtdesigner an und entwickelte dafür eine raffinierte Didaktik.

A collage of stories and urban situations from around the world: BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, Topotek1 and Superflex’s response to Copenhagen’s most multi-cultural district.

L’Edition Ruckstuhl 2013 rassemble les projets de différents designers de renommée internationale. Après un départ enthousiaste lors de la dernière session du Designers' Saturday à Langenthal et le lancement réussi des créations de Hussein

Project:.Five companies are working together to express and tell at the best a new way of living the workplace. Dynamic and fluid spaces come alive thanks to design and quality that has always characterized these companies: desks, chairs, cabinets,

Describing what Superstudio’s Temporary Museum for New Design has become, in what is now its 5th year, is a bit like tracing the evolution of this sector over the last decade, and along with it society, of which the events staged by Superstudio

In the spring of 2013 Werner Aisslinger will transform Haus am Waldsee into a “Home of the Future.” In doing so the multiple award-winning product designer and co-founder of the Berlin Design Festival DMY will present his central theme of

Looking, now more than ever, for ways of adding value to its products, there’s a renaissance of craft-based thinking within design manufacturing taking place. Where better to see this trend presented and discussed than in Milan’s leading design

«Switzerland has an international reputation for graphics and typography with interface art » said Harun «Shark» Dogan, the artistic director of Grafik13 who explained the international success of swiss Graphic Design. Following the successful

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

Three score old and in rude health: the iF design gold awards, handed out to a painstakingly selected, international cohort of companies at the recent Munich Creative Business Week for their outstanding products, is looking to the future.

Les nouveaux lampadaires LED de Waldmann représentent un saut dans le futur dans l’éclairage de bureaux à LED.

The spring of architectural creativity is in full flow, with a number of offices internationally adding value to the age-old practice of therapeutic bathing. Here's our selection of the best of the latest spa and wellness architecture. Go ahead. The

Le nouveau module radio PULSE TALK de Waldmann permet aux luminaires de communiquer entre eux après quelques manipulations simples, et augmente sensiblement le confort de l‘utilisateur.

Textile Spaces showcases the repositioning of the Carpet Concept brand as a trendsetter for esthetically and acoustically effective interior design. The corporate book presents the new brand image with extended corporate values and the relaunch of

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

The ARCHITECTS system is an innovative acoustic panel system that can be used to partition large spaces conveniently and help redefine workspaces. The system offers a means to uniquely combine structure and tranquility, without losing the transparent

Head north and you'll find a thriving design culture where the level of consideration given to the way things look, feel and work isn't determined by their scale. Be they housing projects, chairs or taps, the Scandinavian approach to design continues

If there's one hotel that really gets to grips with its physical context, it's got to be The Standard, High Line NYC, which, straddling Manhattan's newest public park – the repurposed former elevated railroad, the High Line – creates a new and

System furniture did what it's wont to do at this year's imm cologne: expand. A number of new and innovative furniture programmes, modular in nature, were shown alongside augmented and reworked old favourites. It's all about joined-up thinking.

Office Next Moscow takes place from May 14 – 16, 2013. The IV. International Forum for Office Design, Technology and Real Estate is the only platform solely devoted to the office industry in Russia. The event is based on three pillars: TRENDS, the

If you think textile design is, well, a little two-dimensional, think again. Contemporary producers of high-quality woven materials for interiors are busy exploring all sorts of innovative directions in terms of materials, processes and applications.

The second edition of Happy Business to You, Contract and More, is about to begin: the international event dedicated to large turnkey projects, at Pordenone Fiere fairgrounds from 13-16 February 2013. Thanks to its strategic geographical position,

Estiluz, société leader en éclairage design haut de gamme, continue à être novatrice dans le métier. Maintenant, cette marque internationale a développé une application en "réalité augmentée", technologie est déjà disponible pour le

What is the perfect lighting? It depends… Maybe is the one that allows you to build the space, to create atmospheres using light and shapes. An object transformed into an essential component in design today.

More than 500 young and emerging designers have taken to the [D3] Design Talents stage at the Cologne Furniture Fair over the past ten years, presenting their ideas in prototype form to both an industry and a general audience. Architonic takes a look