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The exhibition "Totem and Taboo", which is taking place parallel to the Salone del Mobile in Milan, regards art as a kind of "father figure" of design. It features various artists and designers who explore the exciting relationship between the two fields.

This year for the first time the Milan furniture fair will be getting an exciting new "Fuori Salone" zone: "Ventura Lambrate"

Where can we find exciting and innovative designs at Light+Building in Frankfurt? A small overview to make your visit to the trade fair easier.

Will the Munich underground soon become a popular attraction for architecture- and design enthusiasts? Local lighting designer Ingo Maurer has already illuminated and designed three underground stations in the Bavarian capital. More recently the "Münchner Freiheit" station re-opened.

At this year's Light+Building fair Stylepark will present itself in the new Hall 11 of Messe Frankfurt with physical three-dimensional interpretation of its own website. And the Stylepark Café invites you to a relaxing break in the Hall 1.2.

Parallel to the Light+Building fair, April also sees the fifth Luminale in Frankfurt and surroundings; the festival invites lighting enthusiasts to embark on an evening journey of discovery through the illuminated city. Lighting installations by artists, designers and architects transform public spaces into a fascinating platform for experiments with lighting.

Luminaires, luminaires wherever you look. Anyone looking for the right luminaire in Istanbul will not have to search for long. The stores are all to be found in a single district.

Every two years, Light+Building takes place at the Frankfurt trade fari complex - it's the leading world trade fair for light, electronics and home and building automation. This year, the dates coincide with that of the major lighting fair at Milan's Salone del Mobile and therefore requires a certain amount of organizational brilliance. A list of the exhibitors specifies the major manufacturers present for you.

The VitraHaus by Herzog & de Meuron in Weil am Rhein is now open. What is the concept behind the building? And how does its architecture go together with the Vitra Home Collection whose diversity is spread throughout the spectacular stack of buildings?

Erich Mendelsohn refers to it as "charm", Peter Zumthor as "spiritual quality" when architecture creates an atmosphere that appeals to all the senses, when rooms jingle, light dances, and materials and colors are carefully combined.

The automobile manufacturer Audi, in collaboration with Stylepark, has established a competition for the Audi Urban Future Award. In the first year of the competition, six internationally renowned architectural firms will develop scenarios and visions for the city of the future under consideration of issues of mobility. The results will be presented in Venice parallel to the Architecture Biennale.

The Zurich Museum of Design is tackling a tough topic in its show on "Global Design". It sets high standards, but only partially meets them.

At the moment everything produced seems to be committed to being creative. But where, and under what conditions is it possible to work creatively? Is it true that art is still produced in studios? Has our idea of what a studio is fundamentally changed?

This year, and despite the economic crisis, the Stockholm furniture fair has consolidated its leading position in the Scandinavian market. And looks like emerging as a real alternative to Cologne and Paris.

Expectations were very high when Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned to build the domicile for Vitra's Home Collection in Weil am Rhein. The VitraHaus has now been completed and it is astonishing. The array of houses stacked one on top of the other is much more than just the sum of little houses.

This year, nothing at the Frankfurt consumer goods fair Ambiente is the way it was. And a good thing, too.

Object Rotterdam, the "autonomous design" trade fair, which was held for the second time at the beginning of February, featured in some cases surprising quality: the post-Droog generation of designers would appear to be far more earnest.

In the form of the "Chrome" hotel, Kolkata has got a new design spaceship in which Western and Indian elements create a very special blend.

The new show of the Saatchi Gallery in London which has just opened is "The Empire strikes back - Indian Art today" presents young art from India, once a British Crown Colony and today the world's largest democracy.

In Munich, at an exhibition entitled "Architekturchen" Ingo Maurer is presenting surprising works by Italian design star Michele de Lucchi. They show how working with wood can trigger new thought processes and inspire new ideas.