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With “BetteSuno” Barber Osgerby have designed a bathroom collection for Bette that combines sculptural design with creative flexibility.

The architects Yena Young and Marco Canevacci create exclusively temporary, walk-in spatial structures made of air and plastic film with their office Plastique Fantastique. We wanted to know why the "bubbles" never let go of them.

Ichiro Iwasaki has designed the "Ralik" collection for Arper, with whose seating furniture, tables and benches individual set-ups can be realised.

Stylepark is raffling off a "crona steel" lounge chair by Brunner!

In our series “Spotlight on Women Architects”, we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Marina Tabassum from Bangladesh. In her work she reconciles the traditional building culture of her country with international influences.

Bad Gastein is a fabulously strange place in itself. And vacant buildings remain one of its characteristics. An art festival embraces the concept of the summer resort, invites creative professionals, and then lets them work freely. Some of the works produced only stay for a few weeks, others can be still be viewed on an Art Trail today.

For a good 15 years Adam Caruso and Peter St John have numbered among the most highly acclaimed and exciting architects in Great Britain. Now an enjoyable book provides a personal insight into the first few years of the architecture practice and recalls that the course it took was neither easy nor direct, let alone predictable.

One of the latest projects by the Think Architecture practice is a house in the middle of Zurich. The firm’s founders Marco Zbinden und Ralph Brogle describe how they work.

A visit to Berlin’s Lichtenberg district to meet young designer Matthias Gschwendtner, who is confidently at home in both the digital and analog worlds – and is happy to leave part of his design work to chance.

Biagio Cisotti and Sandra Laube have designed the "Randevu" table for Plank, which can be quickly and easily moved into the desired position with a folding mechanism specially developed for the furniture.

Industrial designer Simon Busse has created the first mass-produced design of a SparkShape for Ambright: The pendant luminaire "PARIS", which consists of two layers of printed light running perpendicular to each other. The basis for the elegant design was provided by the slim corpuses of the SparkShapes.

Object Carpet has done pioneering work with the new carpet "NEOO": It is made of a single material that can be completely recycled and retains its high-quality properties over many life cycles.

With "VERD°", OMC°C is bringing a quite radical vertical greening system to series production readiness for urban locations where trees cannot be planted. In summer it provides shade, in autumn the plants are harvested and provide biomass for energy.

What can an inclusive sports and culture park look like that has its place under a motorway bridge? Students from the Urban Design department at HfG Offenbach answered this question for the non-profit association Vair e.V. under the project name "Vairplay" with designs that were recently presented during the HfG Offenbach tour.

The Zurich-based company Dukta turns the characteristics of wood upside down: through targeted incisions, solid mouldings and panels become flexible – and offer new possibilities for interior design.

The Van B apartment building designed by Ben van Berkel offers "Very Urban Living" and, according to the client, has what it takes to become Munich's new architectural icon. Our author Alexander Russ took a look at the concept in 2021 and wrote the headline "Less for more". A visit to the construction site shall clarify what the project is all about.

For years our author Andrea Mende has been focusing on the topic of light – from planning via luminaire design through to light art and research. What, we wonder, does she make of the new publication “Licht Natur Architektur” (Light Nature Architecture) by lighting designer Ulrike Brandi?

On the outskirts of Tripoli there is an architectural ensemble designed by Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer: the Rachid Karami International Fair from the 1960s. Now the unfinished project's guest house has been transformed by East Architecture Studio. Our author Claudia Simone Hoff followed Niemeyer's footsteps in Tripoli.

In collaboration with LAR Studio, pur natur is pushing the boundaries of the technically possible for the extraordinary design of the rooms of “Haus Brutalisme” in Ludwigsburg.

With the elegant "Black Edition", Dallmer has created a collection of aesthetic bath elements that can serve both for a monochrome design and for setting accents.

For the Chouchou Hotel in Paris, interior designer Michael Malapert achieves a coherent overall effect by combining cultural references and opting for AXOR's elegant fittings in the bathrooms.

The artist and furniture designer Sara Martinsen recently collaborated with the Danish furniture manufacturer Garde Hvalsøe at 3daysofdesign to present a wide range of organic materials in an aesthetic context. She explains her practice to us in an interview.

In collaboration with Typico, the experts for textile communications, the Zumtobel team has developed the sound-absorbing pendant luminaire "TRAMAO" – a sustainable lighting solution that offers a holistic spatial experience.

“Making the impossible possible” is part of the DNA at Brunner, the contract furniture manufacturer from Baden in South Germany. Stylepark publisher visited the family-owned company in Rheinau-Freistett and were able to experience the team’s great drive for themselves.

Barefoot on plastic? It can surprisingly be both comfortable and stylish! “Mediterraneo”, the new and first carpet collection by Object Carpet for indoor as well as outdoor use, is visually reminiscent of rattan, is robust, and yet amazingly soft to the touch.

Our author Claudia Simone Hoff paid a visit to Carl Hansen & Søn: In the factory on the Danish island of Funen she found out what is behind a classic furniture item such as the “Wishbone Chair” by Hans J. Wegner, sanded down a chair leg herself, and visited Knud Erik Hansen’s manor house.

With "Aava 02", Arper presents a classic collection that has been optimised in terms of both material and the wide range of finishes.

For the 18th Architecture Biennale in Venice, gmp Architekten are setting standards with their new approach to conversion work, which they see as the new norm and the enduring construction task of the future.

Normal Studio expands the "Paname" collection by Sammode with three impressive floor lamps that make the French company's industrial-looking lighting universally useful.

English architect Stephen Bates and his Swiss colleague Bruno Krucker have been sharing a professorship in Munich for just over ten years now. In that time, they have walked the length and the breadth of the city, accompanied by their students, in a thorough and remarkable exploration of the metropolis. And they have now compiled their findings in book form.

Elegant, decent, robust and practical: with the "CleanLine50", Geberit presents a shower channel that leaves nothing to be desired.

With "CeraFrame Liquid", Dallmer has developed an innovative and smart shower channel for seamless bathrooms with thin-layer floors.

The designer and architect Patricia Urquiola is one of the mentors of the project "Mentorship Milano": The project, conceived and promoted by the city councillor Alessia Cappello and the city of Milan, is the first public and free mentoring project by women for women between the ages of 16 and 30 in the region. She explains the concept to us in an interview.

Robert Volhard, founder and board member of Stylepark, visited Ligne Roset’s main factory outside Lyon. There not only did he found out some fascinating things about the history of the 160-year-old family-run business but he was introduced to product innovations and new store concepts.

The traditional Swiss textile specialist Création Baumann presents a new look after its brand relaunch. Managing Director Philippe Baumann explains the concept to us in an interview.