Nouveautés

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

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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.

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