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No reason to immediately send out a Mayday call: The speech in honor of Konstantin Grcic at the official ceremony presenting the 2016 "German Design Award Personality".

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

Relax, read or work – bedrooms have long since ceased to only be used for sleeping. Assuming the bed is comfy and flexible – and cuts a fine figure, too.

Sleep or simply doze during the day – a thing of the past. Today, the bed drifts in a veritable ocean of information. Lying down is no longer about resting, but about moving.

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.

Let there be light: The Charité Hospital in Berlin is currently conducting research into how the ambiance in a room affects patients’ recovery.

In the current debate on affordable urban housing that meets the inhabitants’ quality expectations it certainly bears casting a glance at Harry Glück’s buildings.

: goes to festivals and folds up furniture

New housing? Clueless politicians. A commentary by Jeremy Gaines.

Marie Christine Dorner is convinced that a piece of furniture must look good from all sides, even from below. Uta Abendroth talked with the interior architect and designer about her new creations for Ligne Roset.

“Kin” is the name of the family of storage units that Mathias Hahn designed for Zeitraum. The units are made of solid wood, so the designer reveals in conversation with Martina Metzner, and function just as well on their own as they do individually.

Living space is precious, which is why hallways are often cramped and dark. But entrances can be inviting, uncluttered and elegant if you want them to be.

A carpet like a piece of desert, Astroturf for the children’s room, and any amount of color for carpets: What Piero Lissoni and Vanessa Brady noticed when wandering round the Domotex.

Be it new designs or re-issued classics: velvet covers were omnipresent at the imm cologne. But why?

The Jean Paul Gaultier retrospective at the Hypo-Kulturstiftung art gallery in Munich shows why fashion is increasingly present(ed) in museums and art institutions: Haute couturiers not only appeal to a larger audience, but also change the nature of displays.

It’s back: “Slice” by Pierre Charpin. Martina Metzner spoke to the French designer about his unusual armchair.