HOTEL Microcosm in Tokyo8/24/2020For the boutique hotel K5 Tokyo, the Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has merged city and nature in restructuring a former bank building in Nihonbashi-Kabutocho. The result is microcosm full of ambiguities.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 A touch of new objectivity5/10/2018Quo vadis, furniture design? This year’s Salone del Mobile reveals a few ideas. An analysis in our glance back at the fair.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2017 Salone, viewed critically 01: The heavy and the light4/10/2017If 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 A chair will always be a chair: Functional sensuality4/10/2017Concealed plastic, retro chic and stackable elegance: the number-one furniture item and its many facets.
FAIRS & EVENTS The Modest One1/12/2016Jasper Morrison has been voted A&W Designer 2016. At documenta 8 his “Reuters News Room” already focused on the users and saw him pondering the relationship between them and the media.
DESIGN Four legs and a seat shell 6/13/2015Yes, 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.
FAIRS & EVENTS Clerics meet Matrizia4/22/2015“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 Salone, Salone or Twelve Milan stories4/16/2014Milan 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.
DESIGN Presents, presents12/1/2013You know the ins and outs of design and architecture? Then take part in our special Stylepark Christmas Contest. Be it chairs, luminaires, or living room accessories – this year there are once again any number of great prizes to be won.
MAGAZINE Good designers, successful products – Milan Marathon part 34/23/2013No, there was no revolt. Even Ventura Lambrate had nothing on offer that even came close to a taste of the future. Instead it was above all Konstantin Grcic who once again showed just what contemporary design can do.
