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Transform!

by Elisabeth Bohnet | 3/22/2024

With this imperative title, the Vitra Design Museum recently opened a new special exhibition: Until 1 September, ideas around the theme of "Design and the future of energy" will be presented in Weil am Rhein.

REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023

Back to the future

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/24/2023

What does a trade fair like the Salone del Mobile.Milano currently need in order to inspire companies and guests alike? With which concepts do the creatives of Milan Design Week react to the structural changes that the industry has undergone in the last four years? Our Review.

ORGATEC 2022 – REVIEW

Flexibility for stability

by Anna Moldenhauer | 10/31/2022

Orgatec is back and with it a homely jigsaw puzzle that maps the development of different requirements in the working context since 2018. Our review.

Ala Kazam!

by Thomas Wagner | 10/5/2017

Material and magic: Vitra Design Museum in Weil is celebrating the outstanding designer duo of Charles and Ray Eames not just with one, but with no less than four exhibitions.

A festival of affinities

by Fabian Peters | 7/25/2017

Vitra Design Museum is celebrating the 110th anniversary of Charles Eames’ birth with due aplomb: No less than four exhibitions shed light on the different facets to the Eames’ oeuvre.

Hej Copenhagen, Hej Design!

by Adeline Seidel | 6/2/2017

Scandinavian design is best experienced in Copenhagen. Follow us on our tour through designer studios and showrooms at 3 Days of Design, the most vibrant design festival in the north.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Your daily dose from Salone del Mobile 2017

by Adeline Seidel | 4/4/2017

You did not make it to the Salone del Mobile? Don't worry! Stylepark delivers you fresh impressions from the design hotspots in Milan every day.

The Donkey in the System

by Thomas Wagner | 4/20/2016

Salone 1: In Milan, well-being is the order of the day – Ettore patiently bears burdens,there are benches, small tables, and large sofas.

Sit down on the goat

11/25/2015

Leather, hide or brocade – fashion is reveling in high-grade materials and elaborate textures. The furniture design at times remains restrained.

On your seats, get set, go

9/6/2015

Design classics have long since conquered children’s rooms. But they have to be colorful. Irrespective of whether chairs and tables for adults have simply been miniaturized or unique children’s room classics created – you’ll find the most important items here.

Girard meets Eames

by Andreas Kühnlein | 7/23/2015

Alexander Girard and Charles Eames shared a close friendship, which proved highly productive in creative terms. Works by both designers can now be found in Vitra’s “Home Complements” – and this reunion is anything but a chance encounter.

Pretty hot-wired

by Martina Metzner | 7/7/2015

They were all the rage in the 1950s, now they are back again: metal-wire structures, both stable and delicate in appearance. We have picked out several large and small tables for you.

Four legs and a seat shell

by Thomas Wagner | 6/13/2015

Yes, folks, it really does exist: the universal chair of 2015. It was designed by various hands, comes in numerous versions and yet still follows a typology going back to a famous forebear. Ultimately, it is the subtle differences that count.

Furniture Suspense

by Martina Metzner | 1/22/2015

Flying elephant stools, Chinese felt dragons and upholstered elevated chairs: For the third time, the imm cologne’s “Featured Editions”curated by Stylepark are captivating visitors.

Buffaloes in the Swiss underground

by Adeline Seidel | 11/4/2014

Flying parquet floorboards, a Colombian high-speed knitter and wooden buffaloes peacefully grazing: At the 15th Designers’ Saturday in Langenthal, Switzerland, the designers and manufacturers once again opted for unusual means to stage their products.

I like the Original

by Martina Metzner | 1/31/2014

Imm cologne attract creative minds from all over the world – this time they included Marc Bailly, interior architect straight from New York. He joined Robert Volhard, Stylepark MD, for a tour of the Cologne interiors fair to find out all about innovative design this side of the Great Pond.

Colorful dishes, perfectly seasoned

by Martina Metzner | 1/20/2014

Furniture design in a swirl of colors: At the imm cologne designers and manufacturers have dipped deep into pots of color and mixed up any number of great tones. We checked out what worlds of color are competing with each other.

On Billy Wilder’s set: The things the Eames trained their lenses on

4/3/2013

Did you know that Charles Eames took photos on his friend Billy Wilder’s movie sets? A current exhibition reveals his photographic work – and much more besides.

A chair of distinction

by Markus Frenzl | 2/8/2013

Plastic Chairs for all! How one 1950s chair design became an expression of the desire for individuality that shapes our times.

How the gods live

by Znidaric Amelie | 2/8/2011

Even the architecture gods of classical Modernism are only people, each in his own way. This can be seen -- and smelled - from the houses they lived in. A visit to the Eames House near Los Angeles and to Philip Johnson's Glass House in New Canaan.

Credit where credit’s due

by Nina Reetzke | 12/12/2010

Weighing in at eight hundred pages in length, "The Story of Eames Furniture" indeed makes a promising impression. A variety of historical images showing Charles and Ray Eames, the Eames Office itself as well as legendary products such as the Lounge Chair, are a feast for the reader's eyes. Unfortunately, however, in places the book's content appears to be strongly influenced by the authors' subjective perspective on design history.

Like a nap?

by Nina Reetzke | 11/27/2010

In some countries a midday snooze is part of everyday culture, in others it is treated with disdain. Science has long since proven that a noon nap boosts a person's performance during the rest of the day. Hardly surprising then that there's a broad array of representative recliners and napping chairs available for rest areas in offices.

Lights, Camera, Action, Love

by Richter Claus | 11/15/2009

The films of Charles and Ray Eames tell with their elegantly composed images the story of special beauty, of the beauty of the optimistic look at the simplest of things.

The friendly Modern Age - a book review

by Thomas Wagner | 6/25/2008

More than a company history: “Projekt Vitra 1957-2007” - "Projekt Vitra" is the self-representation of a successful company. And yet the book, with its intelligent essays, with its products arranged like families for a wedding photo, with historical and contemporary pictures and documents, is more than a corporate history.

My home by Vitra

by Sophia Muckle | 9/2/2007

Arguably, the idea that your own home might provide a castle, warding off the outside world, was a sentimental illusion even before the invention of WLAN. Let's face it, since time immemorial the interior has in addition to ornamental individualism been the private reversal of zeitgeist, economic development and technical invention.

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