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Stylepark honours the best new products of the year with the Stylepark Selected Award 2023. These are the award winners.

Light + Building, the world's leading trade fair for lighting and building services technology, will offer a wide range of products and services in spring 2024 – including the trends for light and lighting that the bora.herke.palmisano style agency has developed from a cross-section of creative disciplines.

With "Bilboquet", Philippe Malouin has created a table lamp for Flos whose head is as flexible as it can be: two coloured cylinders are connected by a magnetic sphere so that the light beam can be turned in any direction as well as freely positioned.

Olivier Sogno is Business Unit Leader AXOR and Vice President Corporate Marketing for the Hansgrohe Group. He talks to Robert Volhard, Stylepark founder and publisher, and explains which topics are important for the longstanding company and its design brand today.

Wagner Living has teamed up with architect and designer Hadi Teherani to redefine ergonomic design: The “W3D” stool is 3D-printed from recyclable bio-plastic, is suitable for localized production, and boasts a sculptural design.

Which wood for which purpose? With the brochure "A Guide to Sustainable American Hardwoods", the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) presents a compendium that is a detailed reference work for architects and builders as well as a presentation of inspiring projects.

Mark Braun has run his own design studio in Berlin since 2006. His portfolio includes selected projects for companies such as Lobmeyr, Mono, Nomos Glashütte, and Thonet, not to mention bespoke one-offs such as for the Aura Karwendel.

Heimtextil in Frankfurt am Main from 9 to 12 January 2024 offers the best market overview of current international topics in the home and contract textiles industry. Bettina Bär, Director Heimtextil, gives us a preview of the extensive programme.

Cleaf called its creative installation "Like a bar", which was developed in collaboration with Bestetti Associati and Audo Architects. It is the perfect example of how powerful surfaces are in shaping the atmosphere of a room and how many options Cleaf offers to personalise it.

With Office of Tangible Space, Michael Yarinsky and Kelley Perumbeti design on a wide variety of scales and project types. A portrait of the interdisciplinary studio from Brooklyn.

Stylepark is raffling off three "Los Floreros" vases from Acapulco Design!

Gerald Cappek is Managing Director of Vola GmbH Deutschland. In this interview he gives us some insights into his corporate philosophy, explains the concept behind the revamped showroom in Munich, and tells us why Arne Jacobsen’s design style is essential for Vola.

Sustainability manager Cristiane Kopp at Laufen, the Swiss bathroom specialist, explains in this interview what topics are currently the priorities in their sustainability approach and why the circular economy should be introduced at the local level.

The Salone del Mobile.Milano roadshow recently made a stop in Berlin to present the first insights into the concept for 2024 to the German public. On board: guest of honour Konstantin Grcic.

Bringing a successful idea into a new context is always a challenge. Julia Läufer and Marcus Keichel have solved this ideally for Zeitraum: They developed their bold design for the solid wood table "Curtain" further for "Curtain Couch".

With “Antao” for Villeroy & Boch designed a holistic bathroom collection that offers many possibilities for individual expression.

With "Slice² Pi Ceiling", Jean-Marc da Costa has designed a ceiling light for serien.lighting that provides a universal lighting solution for every context.

Connected Urban Twins (CUT) is a project between the cities of Hamburg, Leipzig and Munich that promotes the development of urban data platforms and digital twins. Our author Robert Schütz spoke to the overall project manager Dr. Nora Reinecke.

With "Semiton", the García Cumini duo has developed a configurable cabinet system that can be customised with many selectable modules and surfaces.

The new upholstery fabric by Patricia Urquiola for Kvadrat is made from 100 per cent recycled ocean-bound polyester and offers a special look and feel.

Florian Vogel and Carolin Kreidel from Victor Foxtrot show how dynamic and cosy a tubular steel chair can be with "Double U"

In the shape of “B/Style”, Bonaldo has created a powerful range with coordinated collections that offer a variety of possible designs depending on how they are interpreted.

With their exquisite floorboards, the rooms in Villa Austevoll, the brainchild of Saunders Architecture, create an ideal reference to Norway’s impressive world of countless islets.

The International Architecture Triennial recently opened in Sharjah. The curator is the Nigerian architect Tosin Oshinowo – in this interview, she tells us what to expect.

With "Frank" for Pedrali, Robin Rizzini has created a table that impresses from every angle and whose sculptural form can be customised in numerous ways.

The new "COLUMN" collection by Inga Sempé for Reform shows the future of the modern kitchen: multifunctional, modular and unconventional.

With "Tolda", Cleaf has designed a surface that is inspired by boat planks and brings a maritime aesthetic to interiors.

Object Carpet creates a homely atmosphere in the CSMM office in Düsseldorf with silky velour carpets in strong colours that can be flexibly adapted to creative tasks.

The communicative spaces inside Sigma's new Kawasaki office are furnished with Arper products, which define the areas of the building through their function and colour.

With the new "Past Forward" carpet tile collection, Interface is presenting a functional homage to the innovations of recent decades to mark the company's 50th anniversary.

Repairing instead of throwing away and, if you want to make a change, simply optimising the look instead of buying new. Manufacturers such as Stykka from Denmark and J*Gast from Germany are rethinking the kitchen and thus represent a sustainable investment as well as an aesthetic alternative.

From January 9–12, 2024, Heimtextil Trend Space will showcase the status of all the different efforts to achieve a more sustainable textile industry. And what it needs first and foremost is a new mindset, a new sensitivity.

If you want a professional-level cooking experience, you need equipment that leaves nothing to be desired: The "CombiSteamer V600045L Grand" from V-Zug offers an exceptionally wide cooking space that can accommodate several dishes at the same time.

He leads interviews and designs situations: A conversation with the young German designer Silvio Rebholz.