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REVIEW – STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR 2024

Pragmatic and upbeat

by Anna Moldenhauer | 2/16/2024

“A test bed for new ideas” was the overarching theme of the Stockholm Furniture Fair from February 6 to 10, 2024. The presentation was by no means as prosaic as the title, and in fact it quickly became clear: This ongoing experiment is starting to get playful.
FEATURED

Two of a Kind

9/19/2023

In the hills behind Florence, La Marzocco, a company known for its coffee machines, runs the Accademia del Caffè Espresso, a cultural center housed in a former production plant. Interior designer Stefano Zagni found suitable furniture for the fit-out when viewing Magis’ diverse collections.
3DAYSOFDESIGN 2023 – REVIEW

Wonderland with profundity

by Anna Moldenhauer | 6/14/2023

"Where Would We Be Without You?" was the motto of this year's 3daysofdesign, Denmark's most important design festival, which took place in Copenhagen from 7 to 9 June 2023. Poorer of many wonderful memories and encounters would be my answer to this question.
FEATURED

Looking Ahead

10/31/2022

Roberta Silva has been CEO of the traditional Italian company Flos since 2019. In an interview she talked to Stylepark publishers about how she is dealing with the lighting manufacturer's successful past and what her plans for the future look like.
3DAYSOFDESIGN 2022 – REVIEW

Ten out of three

by Anna Moldenhauer | 6/20/2022

Due to the pandemic, the 3daysofdesign took place this year from 15 to 17 June and once again showed how varied Scandinavian design can be. "Remember to Play" was the motto, which Luca Nichetto translated graphically. We have selected ten highlights from the numerous showrooms and exhibition areas.
DESIGN

Pioneer in the best age

by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/2/2021

Magis celebrates its 45th anniversary this year and looks back on an eventful success story that began in 1976 when Eugenio Perazza founded the company.
ARCHITECTURE

Concrete in the rotunda

by Jeanette Kunsmann | 1/28/2021

Tadao Ando has transformed a 250-year-old former commodities exchange in Paris into a new contemporary museum for the Pinault Collection. The Pritzker Prize winner has inserted a richly-contrasting horizontal line into the venerable rotunda beneath which fair-faced concrete shimmers gently.
STYLEPARK FLOS

FLOS 2020: BELT

10/22/2020

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec have designed an architectural lighting system for FLOS with "Belt".
DESIGN

With courage and passion

by Anna Moldenhauer | 9/14/2020

Eugenio Perazza, the founder of the Italian furniture manufacturer Magis, is honoured for his life's work with the ADI Compasso D'Oro Liftetime Achievement Award 2020.
STOCKHOLM FURNITURE & LIGHT FAIR 2020

Innovative traditionalists

by Fabian Peters | 2/11/2020

The Stockholm Furniture Fair and Stockholm Design Week showcase Scandinavia’s high standards of craftsmanship and design once again in 2020.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2019

Revival vs. Innovation

by Fabian Peters | 4/25/2019

The grand review: These are the trends and highlights of this year's Milan furniture fair.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Impressions Stockholm Furniture Fair

by Anna Moldenhauer | 2/8/2019

Impressions from Sweden's largest furniture fair, the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2019.

DESIGN

Luminaire that looks like sugar

by Anna Moldenhauer | 6/23/2018

Established & Sons shows with "Filigrana" playful pendant lamps made of Venetian glass.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018

Milanese glass miracle

4/14/2018

In Milan, Wonderglass presents two very different collections, each of which stands in its own way between craftsmanship and art.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018

Celebra il design!

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/12/2018

The most important events, exhibitions and parties of Milan Design Week at a glance.

STOCKHOLM FURNITURE & LIGHT FAIR 2018

On the bright side

by Fabian Peters | 2/20/2018

Scandinavian design is booming worldwide. And the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair is the showcase of the prospering industry. This year the fair has done a lot to become even more attractive. Our review.

STYLEPARK KVADRAT

Nordhavn sends a textile message

12/8/2017

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec not only dream up textile designs for Kvadrat. They have also for the second time designed the label’s Copenhagen flagship showroom.

DESIGN

The crucial point

by Anna Moldenhauer | 11/3/2017

In the form of “Semis” for Danskina, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created an homage to the handicrafts tradition of Tibetan carpet weavers.
DESIGN

Bouroullecs' seating circles

by Fabian Peters | 6/8/2017

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have devised four circular seat installations for the park at Kunsthal Aarhus.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Showtime Fuorisalone!

by Martina Metzner | 4/25/2017

We will once again take a walk through the most beautiful shows of the Fuorisalone.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Euroluce 2017 in pictures

4/16/2017

The new luminaires presented in Milan not only surprised visitors with their refined shapes and details, but also demonstrated impressive technological innovations.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Well stored: Where to put all your things?

by Jasmin Jouhar | 4/11/2017

Whether proudly presenting or skillfully concealing their contents, the new bureaus, sideboards and shelf units at the Milan Furniture Fair deserve our complete attention.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

New tables: From material fetish to the Zen factor

by Jasmin Jouhar | 4/11/2017

Be they short or long of leg, simply unique or extravagant: there’s no end to the variety of tables in Milan.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Salone, viewed critically 01: The heavy and the light

by Thomas Wagner | 4/10/2017

If everything becomes virtual, then the solid gets its day, be it heavy or light in appearance. Konstantin Grcic and Jasper Morrison prove this in very different ways.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Forza Salone!

by Fabian Peters | 4/6/2017

Off we go! Take a walk with us through trade-fair fairyland, catch the mood at the one or other booth and a glimpse of the novelties at this year’s Salone del Mobile.

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.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Rhythmic

3/28/2017

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have invested two years in the new carpet "Semis" that Danskina will present in Milan.

SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017

Novelties Salone del Mobile 2017

by Martina Metzner | 3/28/2017

Whether paramecium, cable channel or agave trick: Take a look through the keyhole at the "upcoming stars" of the Salone del Mobile 2017.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Do feel free to skip around

by Thomas Wagner | 10/28/2016

The sector’s prospects are looking good. Since there are no longer any fixed spaces and new work concepts geared to the digital revolution are in demand, everything is being furnished: Impressions from the Orgatec 2016 trade fair.

STYLEPARK MAGIS

Questioning the conventional

by Thomas Edelmann | 10/25/2016

The Italian furniture company Magis attracts designers from all over the world. They love collaborating with founder Eugenio Perazza. Although the bar is set high.

DESIGN

Welcome to our table!

by Thomas Wagner | 10/25/2016

Tables and chairs by Magis are not only the result of an intensive collaboration. They are also suffused with a special spirit of hospitality.

FEATURED

Montenegrin stone meets French charm

6/13/2016

FAIRS & EVENTS

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.
DESIGN

In the comfort zone

by Uta Abendroth | 2/16/2016

At this year’s Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair the Scandinavians show how much we long for homeliness.
INTERVIEWS

We used to be more frivolous

2/11/2016

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have designed roller blinds for Kvadrat. In an interview with Martina Metzner, Erwan Bouroullec reveals the ideas behind the new product and how design stimulates the senses.
DESIGN

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.
DESIGN

Not without my quilt

by Martina Metzner | 11/18/2015

Hard-edged and technoid or soft and round – formally furniture and fashion are certainly not so far apart from each other.
DESIGN

Give Tarzan a break!

by Martina Metzner | 5/15/2015

If you’re happy to stay in although spring has arrived, that’s up to you! We had a look around imm cologne and the Salone del Mobile to spot the latest in outdoor furniture designers and manufacturers have created specially for the season.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Light emotions

by Thomas Edelmann | 4/22/2015

The Euroluce and the events accompanying it in Milan showed how light and luminaire makers are tackling the challenges of the electronic age: with a specific mixture in each case of tradition, technology, and private equity investors.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Clerics meet Matrizia

by Thomas Wagner | 4/22/2015

“An impure tongue does not taste; dulled senses only notice the sharpest stimuli, or they chew more than they feel.” – Johann Gottfried von Herder
FAIRS & EVENTS

Zestful balance

4/7/2015

“Belleville” by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Vitra

The chairs are light, the tables stand there with gravitas, sturdily grounded.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Scandinavia x 12

by Martina Metzner | 2/6/2015

News from the North? Yes, indeed! Even though the makers of the Stockholm Furniture Fair have completely revised the hall layout we managed to glimpse the hottest innovations – here are the 12 most exciting ones.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Forget those old banana boxes

by Uta Abendroth | 1/22/2015

In the hunt for the feel-good factor that straddles the tried-and-true and the surprisingly new, designers and manufacturers are busy presenting their novelties at the imm cologne and the Passagen. The clear message: Things are getting more softer and sensual.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Everybody: Stand Up!

by Martina Metzner | 10/14/2014

Bid farewell to back pain. Height-adjustable tables at which you can work standing or sitting are a welcome addition to ergonomic office worlds and encourage you to change posture. We present the best examples.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Harmonie très française Uncino by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec for Mattiazzi

5/6/2014

The Bouroullec brothers have once again demonstrated why they are one of the driving forces in design. “Uncino” is their second chair for Mattiazzi, and boasts a harmonious combination of wood and metal.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Salone, Salone or Twelve Milan stories

by Thomas Wagner | 4/16/2014

Milan in the days of the Salone and Fuori Salone – is a hodgepodge of impressions, encounters and cameo stories. In terms of form and content, they are as different as, say, people, furniture, brands, and markets.
FAIRS & EVENTS

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.
ARCHITECTURE

Hallingdal and its successors

by Uta Abendroth | 11/1/2013

What would Verner Panton’s furniture be like without the bright fabrics from Kvadrat? From the very outset, the Danes collaborated closely with designers to create striking highlights. Now there’s a book describing the company, which is one of the world’s leading makers of home textiles today. A glance behind the scene.
MAGAZINE

The longing for a studiolo

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 7/17/2013

With “7 Studies”, gallerist and furniture maker Jörg Schellmann is showing in Munich how seven renowned artists and designers, among them Stefan Diez, Liam Gillick and Donald Judd, are furnishing workspaces. And that they are not all that far from the Renaissance studiolo.
MAGAZINE

Twelve urban garden tools

5/8/2013

Today amateur gardeners are referred to as urban gardeners. The new generation of urban nature lovers has no need for simple flower pots; multifunctional is the name of the game!
MAGAZINE

Twelve lightweight pieces for your balcony

5/8/2013

A little bit of happiness just outside the door: seating furniture, light, delicate, flexible and anything but clunky.
MAGAZINE

Streamlined nomads – The Milan marathon part 2

by Thomas Wagner | 4/17/2013

And on we go. To make headway, we up the pace a little and cast a glance at fluorescent yellow shoes, peek into showrooms, inner courtyards, gardens and historical buildings.
MAGAZINE

It’s oh so quiet

by Martina Metzner | 4/17/2013

Beyond the hustle and bustle of the fair, BMW joined forces with the Bouroullec brothers and presented an installation that aims to articulate the automotive marque’s new orientation toward sustainability and electromobility. A chat with Head of Design Adrian van Hooydonk sheds light on an unconventional vision of mobility for the future.
MAGAZINE

What a relief – The Milan marathon part 1

by Thomas Wagner | 4/17/2013

Milan 2013, a mixture of prudence, consolidation and solid design work. A little less hype and fewer prototypes, too. This is certainly doing the industry good.
MAGAZINE

Design is an attitude

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 3/11/2013

At this year’s imm cologne the “Featured Editions” exhibition, created in collaboration with Stylepark, formed an integral component of the new “Pure Editions” hall concept used to strengthen the trade fair’s position within the high-end segment, a concept that proved to be an instant success. Ten platforms dotted throughout the hall formed the basis of presentations by selected exhibitors. We documented a number of them on film and in interviews with the creative minds behind them.
MAGAZINE

The Barcelona Pastiche

by Thomas Wagner | 1/21/2013

The imm Cologne is swiftly getting back on an even keel. And how are designers and manufacturers making use of the opportunity? A tour of the trade fair shows that they often resorted to the tried-and-true, reanimating and dressing it up for contemporary use. Even Konstantin Grcic opted for a tongue-in-cheek approach to a design classic.
MAGAZINE

Two brothers in a brilliant game with nature. Hey, boys will be boys

by Thomas Wagner | 1/14/2013

I’m tempted to say: It’s about time. Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have been named “A&W Designers of the Year 2013”. Certainly cause for a portrait of these two designers extraordinaire.
MAGAZINE

What should offices be? A small town or a camping site?

by Thomas Wagner | 10/29/2012

Orgatec 2012 in Cologne presents the 21st-century office as an urban landscape in colors as fresh as spring itself. Seldom does one feel so content at work – be it alone in a cocoon or in a meeting in a sheltered seating group.
MAGAZINE

2 questions to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

4/13/2012

Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec also presented new furniture in Milan. For the "Osso" series for Mattiazzi they focused on the potential wood offers as a material. The entire collection on offer by the company, which specializes in processing wood, is on show at Hall 20, booth F06.
MAGAZINE

This is London

by Horstmann Katharina | 10/5/2011

London, Vienna, Beijing – at the moment there is one design week after the other. As London is still considered a design metropolis, it is worth visiting the city on this occasion. Even if the trade fair "100% Design" is becoming increasingly uninteresting, the fringe events in the city were once again impressive.
MAGAZINE

The bathroom as a functional landscape

5/26/2011

"Axor Bouroullec" is a variable system of washbasins, storage units and fixtures. Thomas Wagner talked to Philippe Grohe, grandson of company founder Hans Grohe and manager of the "Axor" brand, about bathroom landscapes, the integration of the user and the future of the bathroom.
MAGAZINE

The evening, the chairs, their designers and their music videos

by Nancy Jehmlich | 5/4/2011

Konstantin Grcic listens to Elvis, the Bouroullecs to Björk, Sam Hecht grew up listening to Depeche Mode, and Nitzan Cohen, as a music video, would be a mix of Chris Cunningham, Björk and El Gincho. In Milan, a fine exhibition not only displayed new chairs but also revealed the musical preferences of their designers.
MAGAZINE

Those small, elegant items

3/31/2011

There is a camel here, a small monkey there. And which soap adorns the latest washstands? Some presentations at this year's ISH were real eye-catchers, others simply a bit drab. But all were careful arrangements.
MAGAZINE

The sofa as a ripe fruit

1/31/2011

Does it look like a ripe strawberry? Or a piece of bloated crispbread? However you answer this question, the "Ploum" sofa by the Bouroullec brothers is one of the most talked-about products at this year's imm Cologne. Nina Reetzke spoke to Ronan Bouroullec about the sofa's low seat, marketing, and making films.
MAGAZINE

Wish I was a Red Indian – imm Cologne Part 1

by Thomas Wagner | 1/21/2011

What emerged at the imm Cologne in 2011 was that the fair has steadied, and in the form of "Living Kitchen" and "Pure Textiles" has gained two important new areas. Thus, the Cologne hodge-podge of the diversity of homes has something for everyone, for a man of the world, a man of the masses, and for kids, too. That said, the high-end design did not live up to expectations.
MAGAZINE

Design at your feet

by Nina Reetzke | 1/15/2011

Parador has asked some of the giants of the design world to design its latest laminate collection. Zaha Hadid now illuminates prisms, the Bouroullec brothers enchant with colored light displays and Ross Lovegrove shocks with his 3D skeleton.
MAGAZINE

Work wherever you want! Office worlds 2010 – part 2: of sheds and queues of seats

by Thomas Wagner | 11/9/2010

Offices are increasingly turning into social centers. To make certain the stress of constant communication does not become too fierce and the office becomes a social flashpoint, the modern work nomad withdraws into a chic little shed or a new kind of basket-chair.
MAGAZINE

Work wherever you want! Office worlds 2010 – part 1: of citizens, territories and islands

by Thomas Wagner | 11/8/2010

You will search in vain for a new paradigm or new typologies of work at the Orgatec 2010. Instead, people are busy working away at furniture systems that enable the temporary privacy of retreat in the midst of the open field of omnipresent communication.
MAGAZINE

The Return of the Phone Booth

by Nina Reetzke | 11/2/2010

Phone booths have more or less vanished from public space. Yet now they are returning in a changed shape - in offices. While they once served to provide access to phones, phone boxes now offer a touch of privacy in the world of today's open-plan offices.
MAGAZINE

Making chairs!

by Thomas Edelmann | 10/26/2010

The exhibition entitled "Ideen sitzen / Ideas that sit well" at Hamburg's Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe invites visitors to peruse chairs, armchairs and sofas. The tour of the museum swiftly morphs into a voyage of discovery through the history of interior design, if not even the history of ideas and cultural history of recent decades.
MAGAZINE

Comfort in the bathroom

by Prillwitz Bastian | 7/27/2010

Brothers Erwan and Ronan Bouroullec have realized their bathroom vision for Hansgrohe's Axor design line. The result of the six-year developmental study is a complex, 85-piece bathroom series. With their design approach, the Bouroullec brothers have opened up the bathroom into the living area.
MAGAZINE

Visiting the design Mecca

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 10/6/2009

The London fair 100% Design might be going through a bad patch but the city itself has a number of interesting things to see in the realm of design, art and architecture.
MAGAZINE

Formations in the Sky

by Sandra Hofmeister | 6/12/2009

Meeting in Copenhagen: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have come to Øresund to put the finishing touches to the first Kvadrat showrooms in Denmark shortly before they are opened. Sandra Hofmeister met them there and spoke with Erwan Bouroullec.
DESIGN

In new contexts

by Nora Sobich | 3/4/2009

Concrete curtains, synthetic paper bags, knitted fabric seat covers - new materials inspire new products.
MAGAZINE

Bouroullec´s World

by Sophia Muckle | 9/25/2007

Conventions do not appear to be a fixture in the world of Ronan und Erwan Bouroullec , which perhaps explains the brothers' knack for repeatedly surprising the public with their work.