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When the going gets tough, the tough get shopping. Architonic offers you 10 of the best retail-design projects internationally to have opened their doors recently to customers in search of unique in-store experiences.

Classic, contemporary or avant--garde - SAHCO, a textile editor with a long-standing history, is an ideal partner when it comes to exclusive interior design with textiles, wall-papers, carpets and rugs.

Shopping can be addictive. This we know. Which is why we're presenting our second installment of some of the best recently completed retail-design projects from across the globe.

Summer's here. Let's take a trip! Traditionally the poor cousin to more grandiose transport-architectural types like airports and railway stations, bus-station design is moving into top gear.

At rohi, a passion for wool and for the manufacture of high-quality upholstery fabrics has already been passed down by three generations. Each rohi customer has access to specialist knowledge and a wealth of fabric structures and colours that can

Since 1972, Object Carpet has stood for quality, design and innovation in the contract furnishings sector. With Freestile the company is opening up new possibilities for creative floor design.

From September 2–6, 2016 – Parc des Expositions Paris Nord Villepinte

Architonic speaks to Elke Moebius, Director of leading retail trade fair EUROSHOP, about the changing landscape of retail-design exhibition.

Jaime Hayon likes to tell stories. Decorative and playful, but in a subtle way, his work reflects his curiosity and joy, informed by an approach that might be described as somewhat whimsical.

northmodern is for professionals looking to source furniture, lighting and interior products for projects in a new trade show environment

Good light where it’s needed any time of the day and without electricity – LUCTRA® FLEX delivers it all.

Textiles are currently celebrating a wonderful comeback in modern architecture. The current desire for more materiality and sensuality is continuously increasing, with materials themselves becoming a space-forming element.

MDT positions its Tensilation textile roofing system at the interface between architecture and product design. The product was developed in collaboration with the renowned architectural firm Grimshaw.

For over 60 years, German fittings manufacturer DORNBRACHT has worked on transforming the bathroom from a functional room to a locus of ritual.

Kvadrat textiles enrich interior spaces not only from a visual standpoint. Using the company’s Roller Blinds and Soft Cells, incident light, the indoor climate and acoustics can all be regulated.

The star-studded 2016 AZ Awards gala – which fêted the winners and finalists of the sixth annual program – featured a few innovations all its own. Working with new techniques, Toronto design studio Castor created a stunning light installation

Elite players from the international architecture and design community, some from as far away as Belgium and China, came together on June 17 at Toronto’s historic Evergreen Brick Works as Azure revealed the winners of its sixth annual AZ Awards.

Premium German manufacturer ALAPE, with its innovative approach to design and technology, has been shaping the experience of water in the bathroom since 1896.

Koch Membranen, a company based in Rimsting near Chiemsee, in large parts resembles a laboratory. Already in its third generation, this pioneer in textile architecture develops tailor-made solutions for indoors and outdoors in cooperation with

The current revival in textile floor coverings is not least thanks to Jan Kath, who with his creativity has set new standards for this traditional product.

It's a wrap. More projects that demonstrate how covering up is the new way to gain exposure.

Marcel Wanders' designs are aimed squarely at the head and the heart. Functional, yet at the same time poetic and entertaining, the Dutch designer never fails to surprise his audience.

Be it for functional, aesthetic or energy-saving reasons, architects internationally are getting superficial and wrapping up existing structures or reworking facades.

A high-performance LED luminaire for many different uses – easy to take along wherever you go.

Caimi Brevetti, nata nel 1949, da sempre ha costruito su ricerca e design la propria identità. A distanza di 10 anni dalla grande Mostra “Oggi è già Domani” Caimi Brevetti torna in Triennale.L’azienda, una delle principali realtà produttive

The past meets the present in leading Italian porcelain-tile manufacturer FAP CERAMICHE’s new Roma collection, which marries classical design elegance with contemporary technology.

Création Baumann offers the world’s largest range of acoustic fabrics, with around 100 designs and 2000 colours, including transparent and dense fabric weaves, and consequently a wide range of design possibilities for consciously managing room

Danish brand Erik Bagger is nothing if not consistent. The organic language of its glass and tableware finds new expression in its furniture designs.

Carpet specialist Carpet Concept specialises in providing holistic solutions. At its own factory in Münchenbernsdorf it carries out intensive development work, creating everything from textile collections to holistic spatial concepts that allow

For the contract-furnishings area in particular, one of the basic technical requirements is fire safety, which in turn calls for flame-retardant furnishing fabrics.

It's often said that good design is legible design – objects that communicate their use and their usefulness. In the case of premium woodburning-stove manufacturer HARRIE LEENDERS, there's a compelling story behind many of the products, too.

The design classic PERLON RIPS by ANKER with its numerous innovative improvements continues to impress today, just as it did when it was first created in the late 1950s.

When it comes to launching new products, refined Danish brand LOCA is certainly in no hurry. Why develop new pieces for the sake of it, when you can concentrate your efforts on designing for usefulness, quality and longevity?

A world without glass as a construction element is inconceivable for contemporary architecture.Optimising energy efficiency is one of the biggest challenges today.

Premium Italian kitchen brand VALCUCINE has been a market leader for years, innovating in kitchen design that marries discreet technology with quality surfaces and considered materials.

Designed specifically for textiles retailers and interior designers, the Architonic-developed Online Shop Module creates exciting new opportunities in e-commerce

Family-run lighting brand DARØ from Denmark creates lighting products that continue to work when they're switched off. Enlightening stuff.

Architonic once again was hosting its Speakeasy night in New York, on the occasion of the ICFF, North America's big-top international design event.

With its proven track record of developing products that attest to an impeccable consideration of technology, materials, function and longevity, it's no surprise that ARPER's designs have a habit of becoming instant classics.

Cini&Nils presenta il nuovo progetto da interni di Luta Bettonica, una lampada LED dimmerabile a sospensione per un’illuminazione diretta e indiretta.

Wood needs time and a deep understanding of its materiality to truly reveal its innate beauty. TRAPA invests not only these, but also top-notch craftsmanship, in its products, which marry the contemporary and the functional with the compellingly

Building for zoo animals is no easy task. It means designing complex facilities to ensure that diverse species are appropriately housed, while also creating an attractive, immersive experience for visitors.

Das Ausloten der Grenzen zwischen Kunst und Architektur geschieht meist über Kunst als „hard ware“. Die sinnliche Erfahrung von Kunst beschränkt sich aber nicht auf einen physisch präsenten Ausdruck eines künstlerischen Arbeitsprozesses.

L’approccio globale era importante per il Committente. La sfera privata doveva essere rispettata, ma al tempo stesso si doveva dirigere lo sguardo sui punti forti del paesaggio circostante. Bellissimi gli alberi che conferiscono una struttura al

Recent years have seen the kitchen become the non plus ultra of socialising spaces within the domestic sphere. Such a development is in no small part thanks to premium manufacturer ARCLINEA, which delivers kitchen environments that make you linger

Long the poster boy for industrial collapse and urban decay, Detroit is back on its feet, using design as one of the main drivers of its new self-imagining.

Two authorities on products, interiors, design and architecture join forces to take the global lead in product search, a significant new partnership.

(In English only) The NYC design borough that’s still mixing things up.

Even though it is still ten months before the next Heimtextil, International Trade Fair for Home and Contract Textiles (10-13 January 2017), the Heimtextil Trends team 2017/2018 has already met.

Lumina is proud to present a new version of Flo Grommet especially designed for USM table, the Swiss Modular Furniture Company famous for its top quality office furniture.

In spite of its rich heritage, premium lighting brand REGGIANI is looking to the future, with innovation, style and dragonfly eyes.

MBRACE, the new outdoor furniture collection by designer Sebastian Herkner for German manufacturer DEDON, takes a joyfully unconventional approach to poolside furniture.

Despite its longevity, Italian manufacturer ACERBIS shows no signs of resting on its laurels. Quite the opposite, in fact, as it continues to pursue tirelessly its vision for the perfect living room.

Whether it is a space, product, fashion item or an ornamentation, Karim Rashid’s work is very distinctive: an ultra-bright empire of colour and organic shapes.

Founded in 2005 by Luis Calabuig, María Mengual and Ana Segovia, the comprehensive design agency Odosdesign focuses on product design and visual strategy.

Digital technology is becoming increasingly embedded in the architectural fabric of the home. Sometimes foregrounded, occasionally centre-stage, but mostly taking an almost invisible back-seat.

Brooklyn Design, Architecture & Art on the Forefront During NYCxDESIGN

A combination of skillfully combined materials such as plastic, wood and metal make PEDRALI's contract-furniture collection functional and versatile like no other.

The 28th annual ICFF, North America’s platform for global design, will map the newest frontier of what’s best in New York City from May 14-17, 2016.

Fresh back from Milan Design Week, with pockets full of news and valuable insights, we start off with this exclusive interview with Jasper Morrison. Continuing our series of articles on Material Tendencies, we spoke to the British designer who has

Am 21. Januar lud Dornbracht im Rahmen der fünften Ausgabe der Talkreihe Dornbracht Conversations zum Thema „Biotechnosphere“ ins Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris ein.

V-ZUG, the Swiss market leader in household appliances, has spent the last 100 years turning the marriage of precision, longevity and innovative technology with elegant forms and surfaces into a veritable artform. Swiss understatement at its best.

Materials are anything but immaterial to KARPENTER – the Indonesian-based design brand that in the few short years since its launch has managed to claim a convincing stake at the table of manufacturers who truly understand the critical relation

There has been a dramatic shift in the demands placed by public transportation on contemporary architecture since the turn of the millennium – the need to square the burgeoning of passenger numbers that attends the unstoppable march of urbanisation

Dante-Goods and Bads at Fuorisalone 2016."Would you like an adventure now, or shall we have our tea first?“

Respected design critic and curator Klaus Leuschel pays a personal tribute to the Baghdad-born architect who, despite her non-establishment profile, would go on to become one of industry’s most influential and paradigm-shifting grandees.

Premium Italian design brand PEDRALI is celebrating ten years of its pioneering wood division, which sees the combination of traditional carpentry skills with innovative production techniques, as perfect as a dovetail joint. Maximum stability with

Ranging from living legends to young talents who are already having an impact on the market: Architonic’s new Top 200 Designers ranking foregrounds the most popular designers and architects that users of architonic.com have actively searched for

The work of Italian architect and designer Michele de Lucchi reflects his enquiring mind and breadth of interest. His portfolio includes a number of private and public projects in the fields of architecture, technology, design and crafts.

The 28th annual ICFF, North America’s platform for global design, will map the newest frontier of what’s best and what’s next in New York City at the Jacob K. Javits Convention Center from May 14-17, 2016. This year’s show will feature an

Designing is Listening.This is the seventh edition of Brera Design District, the center district in Milan, where most of the events of fuorisalone take part. From April 12th to April 17th, the business and creative hub of the city opens the scene to

New colors and models for a line of lamps that brings back to memories, feelings, art works.Rome-based In-es.artdesign is a lighting company that merges an artistic sensibility with design know-how. Accordingly, the lights produced by the company are

SuperDesign Show, the new authorial format by Superstudio that looks to the future, reaches its second edition. It focuses on research, on every day’s extraordinary, on freedom of choice, on contaminations between classic and avant-garde, industry

The Salone del Mobile.Milano will be an extraordinary edition if the quality and innovation of the goods on offer is anything to go by. The most unmissable of all appointments when it comes to seeing and experiencing the very best that domestic

The work of London-based design practice Doshi Levien celebrate a hybrid of different worlds, bringing together cultural diversity and showing the interplay between industrial design and traditional craftsmanship.

(German only) Kunst im öffentlichen Raum mag die Wahrnehmung eines Orts verändern. Idealerweise bei jeder Begegnung mit dem Werk. Was passiert aber wenn die Kunst nicht mehr da ist?

Move aside perfection. Here comes authenticity. ALPHENBERG, premium producer of leather flooring and wall coverings, has become the go-to partner for high-end contract and private projects internationally looking for an injection of warmth, character

Interest is high in space&interiors, the event connected with the Salone del Mobile.Milano which, during Design Week, puts leading-edge materials and ideas in the architectural spotlight.

WantedDesign announces Steven Haulenbeek as the 2016 recipient of the American Design Honors Program.

Light+Building 2016 sees Taiwanese lighting brand QisDesign exhibit its award-winning LED lights. In step with the global trend for green design, QisDesign combines innovative LED lighting technology with original design to achieve creative LED

This year, Frame magazine will make its first appearance as a participant of Milan Design Week by curating the experimental exhibition What’s the matter? – Design for a phygital world.

It was one of the highest-profile competitions of the past few years and for a relatively unknown studio to come out on top was a surprise and a welcome change from the usual starchitects that dominate the international circuit.

Somewhere between pop culture, childhood memory and philosophy lies In-es.artdesign, whose highly sculptural lighting products – as the brand name would suggest – are as functional in design terms as they are expressive as art pieces.

Announcing the 2016 trends and themes: Thinking Traditions & Academies 639 applications, 3 months of selection procedures, several visits to Milan and hours of hard work. The seventh edition of Ventura Lambrate is just around the corner and we

With Tadao Ando’s Vitra Campus conference pavilion gleaming in the mind, deeper research reveals that Zen architecture has become something entirely different than Zenshūyo (Zen) – the Japanese Buddhist style derived from Chinese Song Dynasty

There are few words that have impacted on the language of technology so massively over the past two decades as the notion of 'smart'. The things it covers begin with the 'smart phone' and end up with the 'smart watch' and the 'smart grid'. Everyone

Swedish design duo Front realise their fantasies by creating design objects that are often surprising and somewhat irritating at first sight.

On the occasion of the Light+Building 2016 in Frankfurt, taking place from March 13-18th, we are following up with Architonic’s ranking of the Top Brands, this time drawing special attention to the big hitters when it comes to Lighting Brands.

"Münchner Stoff Frühling" has developed into one of the leading trade fairs for high-quality home textiles. From 11 - 14 March 2016, 26 renowned international textile editors are inviting to their Munich showrooms and exhibition spaces to present

New designs and technical developments were exhibited across all product divisions at Heimtextil 2016 in Frankfurt am Main. From 12-15 January 2016, 2,866 exhibitors from all over the world showcased the materials, colours, patterns and shapes that

Architects, designers, entrepreneurs, based between Shanghai and London, Lyndon Neri and Rossana Hu are devoted to their multi-faceted projects, ranging from interiors to designing products and architecture for public or private use. TLmag had the

Established in 1996, British design duo Barber & Osgerby have worked across a variety of disciplines, including industrial design, interiors, architecture and site-specific installations.

Recent landmark bridge architecture shows how this most utilitarian of construction types, when imaginatively planned, can add real regenerative value to its environs. Build a bridge and get over it, people!

Having established itself, through its collaboration with an impressive international cohort of designers, as a premium accessories brand, MENU’s highly considered, new Modernism Reimagined collection successfully positions the high-end Danish

Snøhetta designs opera houses and museums as city landscapes that also function as public spaces. For Kjetil Trædahl Thorsen, one of the founders of the Norwegian architecture firm, high quality of everyday environments is a way to create

When premium kitchen brand FRANKE KITCHEN SYSTEMS decided to develop Frames by Franke, the market’s first-ever total product line, they didn’t skimp on quality or performance. Things are definitely cooking.

After Indochina, Megève and Saint-Tropez, the TIGrr has come to Paris. Certain bars and restaurants are more conducive to meetings and rare moments that become precious memories over time. TEXT BY JEAN-PHILIPPE PEYNOT

In the “garden unique” area at spoga+gafa the top brands of outdoor living meet and inspire with high-end products and creative concepts. Here also young, aspiring design talents get the chance to share their ideas with international experts.

Light + Building is the platform when it comes to innovations around lighting and building automation. The exhibition period from 13 to 18 March 2016 is firmly rooted in the calendars of the visitors to see innovations and trends. With many new

The modern world of work is in a process of constant change. Workplace Strategy Expo, being held in Zurich on 12 and 13 April 2016, offers ways of ensuring that our working environments are fit to meet the new challenges they face, thanks to its

The 19th edition of the “Münchner Stoff Frühling” trade fair will be taking place from 11 - 14 March 2016. As the leading exhibition format in the German-speaking premium textile segment in 2016, “Münchner Stoff Frühling” is recording an

Greenpoint lies on the waters edge at the northwestern most point of the borough of Brooklyn. With it’s many industrial buildings, interspersed with short residential blocks, the neighborhood has an understated gritty allure - this has proven to be

In a sun-filled loft on the Greenpoint waterfront, Farrah Sit and her team are quietly building the business that she always aspired to work at. This required a decisive returning to making and culminated with the launch of her eponymous brand Light

With Iran coming in from the cold, as it were, the heat is definitely on in terms of its architectural scene. Then again, many argue that the straitened era of sanctions has itself provided fertile creative ground for young Iranian architects.

Describing himself as a ‘Disoñador’, a combination of the Spanish words designer and dreamer, Eugeni Quitllet likes to enter another dimension when designing objects and furniture. He believes that there should always be something magical in the

(German only) Flughäfen sind Durchgangsstationen und damit eigentliche Unorte – ohne Geschichte und ohne Identität. Kunst in Flughäfen hat das Potenzial, ihnen eine solche zu verleihen. Mit eindrücklicher Wirkung – bis in die Filmwelt.

Swiss born, but undeniably a New Yorker, Patrick Weder operates at the highest level of craftsmanship. A tenured designer with an enviable and growing list of dedicated clients his work is all about materials, precision and time.

New design criteria has seen concrete become increasingly in demand by architects and designers to create spaces with contemporary aesthetics. Microtopping is an innovative solution that combines the aesthetic qualities of concrete with the modern

In Italy, the design of a bathroom and its fixtures is an art. But the luxury Italian sanitaryware producer CERAMICA FLAMINIA combines both design and performance, working with many of the world’s greatest creative talents including Nendo, Jasper

Suspended ceilings made of mineral fibre-panels traditionally finish their life cycle on the rubbish tip. However, mineral-tile producer and market leader OWA, based in Amorbach, Germany, has developed a process for reclaiming and completely

Tammer Hijazi and Danny Giannella, the design duo behind acclaimed Brooklyn studio Bower, are doing their own thing. In a day and age when everyone has access to everything it’s a tall order to find truly original design and they deliver time and

Walk into Caroline Hurley’s new Greenpoint Atelier on any given day of the week and try to decipher what the space is. Part studio, part showroom, gallery and community gathering space the list goes on and on…

Light + Building is the world’s biggest platform for lighting and building-services technology with around 2,500 exhibitors. From 13 to 18 March, around 1,650 manufacturers from the lighting sector will present their products at the fair. The

Ah, the great outdoors. We all love it and know the benefits it has on both mind and body. Premium furniture brand OASIQ delivers design that makes us feel as equally as good, proving that retro design and high levels of comfort needn't be at odds

All good things come to those who wait. Design legend Ettore Sottsass may have left us, but, thanks to global design brand KARTELL, a completely new collection of striking accessories authored by the maestro himself is being launched this month.

As much a long-term research project and lifestyle philosophy as it is a brand, AMURA, launched in 2015, is committed to marrying affordability with Italian quality, underpinned by second-to-none upholstery craftsmanship.

MAISON&OBJET announces the theme of the upcoming MAISON&OBJET PARIS January 2016 show:.WILD.

Enter the 2016 AZ AWARDS, our sixth annual international competition honouring the best work in architecture and design produced over the past year.

If you're the owner of an Italian, tailor-made suit, you need no convincing of the value of bespoke quality. Premium Italian brand PRESOTTO sees design in exactly the same light, their new 'Tailor Made Project' of supremely customisable furniture

Luminance represents a range of new and modern chimney stacks that are designed to be customised.