ARCHITECTURE A funky old-timer3/5/2021LOT Architects have given an old townhouse in Brooklyn a radical rejuvenation treatment. The result is one thing above all: blue.
100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS Bauhaus Year 2019 – Taking stock5/22/2019The 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus is the major cultural event of the year. However, so far, has it elicited anything more than a media circus?
DESIGN Long overdue!7/11/2017He forever stood in the shadow of his predecessor Walter Gropius and his successor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Now two key buildings by Hannes Meyer have become part of the World Cultural Heritage. “At long last!”, declares Philipp Oswalt.
MAGAZINE Sculptured chairs1/10/2012Designers are continually designing and developing new chairs. So is it really necessary for architects to also try their hand at furniture design? And are the objects possibly merely miniatures of their architecture? “Von Aalto bis Zumthor: Architektenmöbel” (From Aalto to Zumthor: Furniture by architects) in the Cologne Museum of Applied Art is a show that proves this is definitely not the case.
MAGAZINE In Chair World10/30/2011Any designer worth his salt must at some point in his career design a chair. Even the design theorists constantly refer to chairs when analyzing the latest trends. Despite all the technical innovations, the notion of the substantive and super-normal currently prevails.
MAGAZINE On tranquility and comfort10/21/2011The English armchair was for many years considered the epitome of luxury. So what could a contemporary version look like, freed of all the historical frills and that demonstration of bourgeois power? A stroll through the history of the lounge chair, from the Eames's ideas to the Brothers Campana.
MAGAZINE If you cannot let people try, the distance is really dangerous – part 12/25/2011Paola Antonelli is in charge of design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and thus for the department which, in the view of the founding director Alfred Barr was destined to show everyone the opportunities for including art in their own lives. Jochen Stöckmann speaks to Paola Antonelli about design exhibitions in an art museum, about how important it is despite computers to create things by hand, about mobile phones and the criteria for selecting items for inclusion in the collection.
MAGAZINE Bauhaus Revisited12/15/2009A visit to Tecta in Lauenförde is like an excursion into a different, better world. There, managing director Axel Bruchhäuser has created a cosmos where the Bauhaus and international post-war architects and artists enter into a fantastic symbiosis.
DESIGN Stacking Pillows Like a Pro5/3/2024A sofa with a formal idea that is so simple and captivating that you can't help but like it: The multidisciplinary designer Willo Perron has realized his idea of comfort with Knoll.
INTERVIEWS The architect of lightness6/6/2023He is considered a master of timeless elegance, and many of his designs have been steadily produced by leading manufacturers in the Italian furniture industry: Piero Lissoni, architect, designer and creative director of seven Italian furniture brands, has apparently cracked the "classic" code for furniture design. Now Knoll is launching new outdoor furniture with a claim to imperishability.
SALONE DEL MOBILE 2021 – REVIEW On the move9/10/2021The supersalone, the special event of the Salone del Mobile curated by Stefano Boeri, offered a platform for creative experiments from 5 to 10 September 2021 that shows what an international furniture fair should be in the future. Our review.
HOTEL Inspiration sea1/25/2021The Grand Park Hotel Rovinj by Croatian studio 3LHD and realized in collaboration with the interior designers at Lissoni Casal Ribeiro has become a gesamtkunstwerk looking out over the Old Town and Adriatic.
HOTEL A nest with a hill1/8/2021With the Shiroiya Hotel, Sou Fujimoto Architects have succeeded in producing a fascinating combination of an old building and a conversion, design, architecture and art. Michele de Lucchi, Jasper Morrison, Leandro Erlich and Sou Fujimoto have each designed one of the rooms.
ARCHITECTURE Light yet heavy8/19/2020Villa Weidendall in Luxembourg by Rodolphe Mertens Architects draws its inspiration from the country’s industrial past and morphs between a delicate lightness and sculptural heaviness.
DESIGN High above7/10/2020Sebastian Herkner combines elegant design, craftsmanship and functionality into a harmonious ensemble for a model apartment in the Frankfurt skyscraper One Forty West.
RESTAURANT Seaside Colors9/11/2019Maritime flair does not always have to be a matter of blue and white stripes, as is demonstrated by the recently opened Oktopussy design restaurant on the island of Norderney.
DESIGN On the death of Florence Knoll Bassett2/15/2019When she died, the world lost a pioneer of Modernist furniture, one whose carefully designed rooms fired the imagination of a post-War global community who felt united in its aesthetic sensibilities. Just how fragile the foundations of this community were is something that we are experiencing today. Along with the importance of the example she set us.
IMM COLOGNE 2019 Forwards, sideways, backwards1/25/2019Contrasts, visions and the Bauhaus: Looking back on the imm cologne 2019 trade fair.
DESIGN Classy copywriting7/4/2018The media company Condé Nast Germany has moved to the Richard Meier Building in Munich after an extensive redesign.
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.