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DESIGN

Made from wood

by Claudia Simone Hoff | 8/28/2024

Kari Virtanen is one of the pioneers who came to Fiskars in Finland in the early 1990s and transformed the small town into a design destination. Co-owner and CEO Johanna Vuorio told us how a carpentry workshop became a globally active furniture company during an interview at the headquarters there.
INTERVIEWS

The Elegance of Logic

by Elisabeth Bohnet | 8/5/2024

Daniel Rybakken's approach has been honoured early on with many awards. We spoke to the designer about how chairs are like human bodies, the relationship between art and design and what his father taught him about cars.
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.
REVIEW – MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023: DROPCITY & U.F.O.G.O.

On the fast track

by Katrin Spohr | 4/28/2023

As part of Milan Design Week 2023, also questions were asked about our future life and living – like on the part of the new centre for architecture and design Dropcity and the Swiss university ÉCAL. We present the pioneering projects to you.
PREVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023

Designing change

by Anna Moldenhauer | 4/11/2023

From 18 to 23 April 2023, the Salone del Mobile.Milano will be held at the Fiera Milano Rho exhibition centre and include the Euroluce lighting biennale. Simone Farresin and Andrea Trimarchi, founders of the research-based design studio Formafantasma, have created modular exhibition designs for it. Andrea Trimarchi explains the concept to us in an interview.
REVIEW – STOCKHOLM FURNITURE FAIR 2023

Stay flexible

2/18/2023

For three years, the Stockholm Furniture Fair had to take a break due to the pandemic. That both the organisers and the Scandinavian creatives and companies have integrated the current change into their work during this time became quite clear when the gates of Stockholmsmässan finally opened again from 7 to 11 February 2023.
HOTEL

Room in the green

by Nina C. Müller | 11/22/2022

Agrotourism is booming and bringing new forms of hotel business to light. The Berlin-based start-up Raus, for example, develops mobile, self-sufficient hotel rooms that it sets up in forests, meadows, fields and pastures. Architect Sigurd Larsen is responsible for the latest design.
ARCHITECTURE

Harmonious Contrasts

by Anna Moldenhauer | 8/11/2021

Studio Ben Allen has painstakingly modernized a terraced Victorian house in London and added an extension to it, one that combines various different styles. “House Recast” recently received the 2021 “Don't Move, Improve” award.
DESIGN

Harmonic tension

by Anna Moldenhauer | 6/18/2021

Studio Besau-Marguerre has created an interior design concept for the workrooms of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe MK&G in Hamburg that combines different trends.
NEW WORK

Breaking the Grid

by Jeanette Kunsmann | 3/2/2021

With their Douglas House in London’s West End, Note Design Studio has created a new feel-good place for flexible working. In the process, the Swedish collective has given this 1930s building a gentle nudge and a slight wave.
HOTEL

A nest with a hill

by Jeanette Kunsmann | 1/8/2021

With 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.
FEATURED

German Sustainability Award Design: The Winners

12/4/2020

The German Sustainability Award is the largest of its kind in Europe. Now for the first time it has also been conferred in the area of design.
INTERVIEWS

STYLEPARK ZOOM IN with Besau Marguerre

5/4/2020

Eva Marguerre and Marcel Besau founded their studio in Hamburg in 2011. Since then they've been working with great success and a holistic design approach for renowed companies such as Vitra, Artek, Thonet, E15 or Fürstenberg.

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.

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.

IMM COLOGNE 2019

Impressions imm cologne 2019

by Anna Moldenhauer | 1/16/2019

Impressions from the international furniture and furnishing fair imm 2019 in Cologne.

DESIGN

Where work lives

by Julia Hauch | 12/5/2018

For the new Artek Oy headquarters in Helsinki, the British architect Sevil Peach combined office and showroom to create a place where you feel at home.

ARCHITECTURE

Living at the desk

by Fabian Peters | 1/1/2018

Studio Joanna Laajisto has created office spaces for an international agency that staff have already made into their second home.

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.

FAIRS & EVENTS

Above all warm

by Jasmin Jouhar | 2/13/2017

Red threads, wild patterns: The Scandinavians once again proved their talent for good living indoors when outdoors things are stormy and snowy – at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair.

DESIGN

The boss sat at the back

by Thomas Wagner | 10/2/2015

He knew how spaces functioned and how to build modern furniture without requiring tubular steel: Walking in Alvar Aalto’s footsteps in Finland.
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
DESIGN

Small is beautiful

by Martina Metzner | 3/25/2015

They’re back in fashion – small, light armchairs with a wooden or tubular steel frame. In the 1950s and 1960s they came to fame as “easy chairs”; now they’ve morphed into “lounge chairs”. For the office or the home.
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.
ARCHITECTURE

Energy remains within the interior

by Thomas Wagner | 10/3/2014

Vitra Design Museum is focusing on Alvar Aalto. And the result is more than just another show on that Grand Old Master of Modernism.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Tranquility – is to be found in salad bowls

by Franziska Horn | 9/23/2014

The “Helsinki Design Week” took place for the 10th time this year. For all those who may have forgotten what makes Finnish design so special – the trade fair complex and Helsinki’s Design District provided a lot to bring things back to mind.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Here come the Finns!

by Adeline Seidel | 9/2/2014

Soon it’ll be book fair time again in Frankfurt. And as always, the fair’s Guest of Honor country gets to shape the face of culture in the city for a short time. So what does Finland have to offer in addition to vodka and forests, sauna and Saarinen, Artek and Aalto?
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.
DESIGN

Konstantin Grcic: Straightforward as Alvar Aalto

4/5/2014

Not officially presented yet, but definitely a cameo piece of his exhibition at Vitra Design Museum: Konstantin Grcic’ new “Rival Chair”.
DESIGN

Beef brisket with oh là là

by Martina Metzner | 3/3/2014

Maxie Eisen is the latest culinary addition to the renowned district round Frankfurt’s main station. The bistro-and-bar is not only the new place-to-be for fans of pastrami but will – thanks to the stylish interiors by the likes of Jean Prouvé and Ilmari Tapiovaara – equally appeal to lovers of good design. Only the mafia should have been kept outside.
MAGAZINE

A breath of fresh air from the North

by Thomas Wagner | 2/14/2013

Scandinavian design stands for simplicity, reliability and high-quality craftsmanship. At this year’s Stockholm Furniture Fair we were met with attempts to redefine such values in the 21st century.
MAGAZINE

Adornedliving

by Esther Schulze-Tsatsas | 9/19/2012

This fall, the presentation at Paris’ “Maison&Objet” focused on accessories of every shape and kind. Dominating themes in the trade fair halls of the “Parc des Expositions” included wood, porcelain and clever combinations of different styles.
MAGAZINE

Like small poltergeists

4/16/2012

Wanton act or successful appropriation? For the Salone del Mobile designer Mike Meiré gave the "60" stool, a classic by Alvar Aalto, a colorful, coat of paint applied by hand. Jörg Zimmermann spoke to him about the concept.
MAGAZINE

Designpääkaupunki 2012

by Andrea Eschbach | 7/24/2011

How much are titles, prizes and other distinctions really worth? What some consider a mark of quality is seen by others as a red rag. The Finnish capital Helsinki has been selected as the World Design Capital 2012 – and is definitely worth a visit.
MAGAZINE

Milan is here again

4/6/2011

En route for Milan. It’s that time of the year; the Milan furniture salon is just round the corner and the design world is in pandemonium. To give you an idea of the countless events throughout the city we have compiled a list of what we consider to be the most promising among them.

MAGAZINE

Return of the grid

by Markus Frenzl | 8/3/2010

System furniture was long considered the epitome of no-fun and über-rational design, but now it is undergoing a revival. The new items of system furniture are proof that functionalist Modernism is being seen in a new light and mark the end of the heyday of design art and limited editions.
MAGAZINE

The drunken bar: Venetian Wanderings, Part 4

by Thomas Wagner | 7/28/2009

An Italian bar is at times often more than simply a bar. Sometimes those who enter it get quite drunk without having drunk anything, as Tobias Rehberger demonstrates impressively.
MAGAZINE

Positive Propaganda

by Sandra Hofmeister | 5/8/2009

Artek is re-issuing an old, modular chair design created by Shigeru Ban in 1993, and is thus continuing its successful collaboration with the architect, making a statement fully in keeping with its corporate culture.
MAGAZINE

One for all!

by Sandra Hofmeister | 4/19/2009

Artek launcht das 10-Unit System von Shigeru Ban.
MAGAZINE

The miracle grass

by Nora Sobich | 11/18/2008

Bamboo has long since not just been an ingredient in Asian cooking; there are now laptops, bicycle frames and furniture made of the "wonder grass". It is one of the fasting growing renewable raw materials in the world and is currently the most popular, most loved ecological material.
MAGAZINE

Welcome to Design Wonderland

by Franziska Holzmann | 10/10/2008

Helsinki Design Week - Kari Korkman, who initiated and organizes the event, describes it as "an annual festival for creativity", and a visit indeed confirms that it is easy to be swept along by the Finns' enthusiasm for design.
FAIRS & EVENTS

Sustainability as a Principle

by Daniel von Bernstorff | 4/25/2007

With the Shigeru Ban pavilion in Milan, Finnish furniture manufacturer Artek and the forest product company UPM-Kymmene are pointing the way to a future dominated by ecological architecture and sustainability.