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20 years of Slide&Hide®: How Neff rewrote the rules of ...

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

18.11.2022

For the anniversary of its most iconic product, Ralf Grobleben, Vice President of Design at Neff, elaborates on the history of the Slide&Hide® oven door — and why the design's trailblazing functionality continues to endure.

Miniforms serves up the monolithic Plauto table

Dominic Lutyens

02.02.2022

The fluid functionality of Paolo Cappello and Simone Sabatti's Plauto table for Miniforms takes sculptural inspiration from ancient monuments.

Warsaw Home & Contract – Interior Design Contract Fair ...

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

28.09.2021

Warsaw Home & Contract is a welcome opportunity for architects and interior designers to re-establish business relationships, establish new ones and discover the latest ideas generated by Poland’s burgeoning design community.

HFDA’s design LAB promotes the best in Hungarian design

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

09.09.2021

In collaboration with the established French design institute VIA, the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency is seeking to put Hungarian design on the world map.

Good threads: Sustainability at Heimtextil 2020

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

30.10.2019

HEIMTEXTIL 2020 in Frankfurt is differentiating its range of products in the area of ecologically manufactured textiles – among other things, with its new Future Materials Library.

Back to the future: 100 years of the Bauhaus

Dominic Lutyens

13.03.2019

The game-changing phenomenon that was the Bauhaus is still very much present in our built and material environment. Amid the centenary celebrations, we take an objective look at its significance.

Anni Albers and the forgotten women of the Bauhaus

Dominic Lutyens

13.03.2019

The Bauhaus, the interwar German design school that profoundly influenced later developments in art, architecture, product design and typography, was a complex, contradictory crucible of ideas.

Taking the floor: Domotex 2019

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

20.11.2018

From 11–14 January 2019 DOMOTEX, the leading floor covering fair, will share the latest trends and concepts in flooring with its programme of talks, lectures and tours.

Step into the frame: Domotex 2019

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

20.11.2018

The Framing Trends exhibition at DOMOTEX offers visitors the latest ideas and innovations in floor coverings, as well as a networking platform for architects and designers.

Covering ground: Domotex 2019

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

20.11.2018

With its Create'N'Connect theme, the 2019 edition of DOMOTEX demonstrates how the steps we take have the potential to bring us together.

Tricks of the trade: Downtown Design

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

15.10.2018

The DOWNTOWN DESIGN Trade Programme offers industry professionals a chance to optimise their time at the fair with the advantage of a tailor-made schedule and exclusive access.

Talk of the town: Downtown Design

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

15.10.2018

The Forum programme of this year's DOWNTOWN DESIGN fair offers insight into the design world's most pressing issues with a line up of talks by international experts.

Superfoods: Restaurants serving up a side of nature

Dominic Lutyens

03.09.2018

A raft of recently completed restaurants give new meaning to being on a plant-based diet, with designs that incorporate organic elements or literally merge with nature. So now there's no excuse not to eat (with) your greens.

Pumped: gyms that flex their design muscle

Dominic Lutyens

21.08.2018

Fitness studios around the globe are going for the architectural burn.

One giant step: Domotex 2018

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

14.02.2018

With a new, user-friendly concept and a creative, trend-focused supporting programme, this year's edition of DOMOTEX fascinated both visitors and exhibitors.

Taking it to the next level: new residential towers

Dominic Lutyens

16.10.2017

Architects demonstrate how high-rise can mean high-density, but not at the expense of contextual awareness or safety. 

Sell out: retail spaces that show off

Dominic Lutyens

01.10.2017

Today's flagship stores are transforming existing architectural spaces into memorable physical expressions of brand identity. Top shops!

Going Loco: station projects steam ahead

Dominic Lutyens

19.08.2017

Road congestion, airport check-in and security issues, centre-to-centre journeys – just some of the factors informing rail's burgeoning number of passengers. Architects are responding to this with spectacular grands projects that signal train

Heal Thyself: new healthcare architecture

Dominic Lutyens

16.06.2017

As hospitals embrace a more patient-centred approach, so do their architects, giving rise to curative spaces that dovetail stress-free wayfinding with a proximity to nature.

Picture This: new cinema architecture

Dominic Lutyens

22.04.2017

In the age of the ubiquitous multiplex, a raft of recent cinema projects have chosen to write their own architectural script, eschewing the mainstream in favour of indie creativity.

Where the hell did poetry go?: Hind Rabii

Storia del Marchio

Dominic Lutyens

27.09.2016

Moroccan-born, Belgian-based industrial designer HIND RABII gets all lyrical about light.

Architecture Iran

Dominic Lutyens

26.01.2016

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.

Feeding off the Past

Dominic Lutyens

15.12.2015

An international trend for new restaurants occupying converted spaces that retain key aspects of their original interior-architectural fabric sees diners dining out on past architectural glory.

A Bigger Splash

Dominic Lutyens

21.07.2015

Outdoor swimming is experiencing a watery renaissance, with a raft of noteworthy projects allowing bathers to do it the natural way, even in the most urban of contexts. Come on in. The water’s great.

Less is More: bigging up micro-architecture

Dominic Lutyens

14.06.2015

Sustainability, cost-efficiency and space are just some of the factors driving an international renaissance in pocket-sized architecture that’s big on expression and style.

Made in Brooklyn

Dominic Lutyens

05.05.2015

Brooklyn is only a short distance from Manhattan yet it has its own, highly distinctive identity. Talk to Brooklyn’s tight-knit but burgeoning community of designer-makers and you get the impression that this New York borough is widely seen as more

Architexture: textiles go constructional

Dominic Lutyens

21.04.2015

Its roots may lie in transient structures, but contemporary textile architecture, with all its creative, functional and ecological possibilities, is definitely here to stay.

Wild and wet: the new bathrooms getting in touch with nature

Dominic Lutyens

24.03.2015

It’s a long time since bathrooms were regarded as purely functionalist, private spaces for performing perfunctory, daily ablutions. For the past 20 years or so, they’ve been elevated to a potentially communal space people choose to linger in.

Flagship Enterprise

Dominic Lutyens

16.12.2014

It may sound paradoxical, but corporate store architecture today strives to be as individualistic as possible. This is partly due to necessity. Like many booksellers, high-end fashion labels are fending off fierce competition from online retailers.

Shelf-life

Dominic Lutyens

16.12.2014

In the retail world, bookstore interiors are arguably changing more radically than in any other sector. Time was when bookshops appealed for being old-world and fusty, with their labyrinthine layouts, faintly musty smells and eccentrically bookish

Hearth and Home

Dominic Lutyens

18.11.2014

Fireplaces were once essential: from prehistoric times to the 19th-century, a home’s hearth provided light, heat and a means with which to cook. Today, you might think they were superfluous, obsolete in this age of centrally heated buildings. Yet

A Glass Act: Fabbian's Architectural Adventure

Dominic Lutyens

22.10.2014

To celebrate the launch of its innovative new glass product Laminis, Fabbian was inspired to photograph it within the subterranean stone quarry of Cava Acque in the Berici Hills near Grancona, in the province of Vicenza. This wasn’t some capricious

Gloriously Glossy

Dominic Lutyens

23.09.2014

Given the huge vogue for cladding buildings in ceramic tiles, we shouldn’t be surprised to hear that they are now fast infiltrating interiors too. It’s not hard to see why. People find glazed ceramic tiles appealing because of their seductive

Piling Them High

Dominic Lutyens

19.08.2014

Bricks in contemporary architecture may well be saddled with a reputation for retrograde traditionalism – after all, the oldest discovered bricks date from before 7500 BC. For some, they conjure up images of architecturally unimaginative housing

Creating an Urban Splash

Dominic Lutyens

29.07.2014

Architects of urban projects are increasingly in thrall to water, believing it benefits them in a number of ways — from the aesthetic to the psychological. In one sense, when reflected in water, buildings look larger and more imposing. Yet

Lean On Me: wall-supported furniture and lighting

Dominic Lutyens

18.02.2014

We all need a little support sometimes. Behind the growing trend in furniture and lighting for wall-leaning or wall-mounted designs is a diversity of factors, among them the practical, the social and the aesthetic. Architonic gets up close and

An Open and Shut Case

Dominic Lutyens

27.01.2014

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

Architecture in Ascendance: innovative staircase design

Dominic Lutyens

15.12.2013

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

Out on the Tiles: ceramic architectural facades

Dominic Lutyens

23.09.2013

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.

Field of Dreams: greening the urban landscape

Dominic Lutyens

16.08.2013

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.

From a Great Height

Dominic Lutyens

11.07.2013

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.