INTERVIEWS A little hardship could do architecture good3/30/2012For Sauerbruch Hutton, appealing to the senses and passion are integral to architecture. Sandra Hofmeister spoke to Matthias Sauerbruch about sustainability in its various facets.
INTERVIEWS All my sofas are islands4/10/2011Piero Lissoni’s sofas have an almost legendary reputation. In the design process, he draws inspiration from the Italian lifestyle, and not boring functionalism. Sandra Hofmeister talked to the Italian designer about sofas and royalties, beauty and rituals.
INTERVIEWS If you ask me, everything should be white.1/3/2011British Pop Art artist Richard Hamilton designed the legendary cover of The Beatles' "White Album". The seemingly unprinted sleeve lent the album its name and set it apart optically from all the brightly colored albums. Franziska von Bethmann asked Richard Hamilton how the cover came about.
INTERVIEWS There is a design world outside Italy!11/7/2010Luca Nichetto is one of the few Italian designers in the upcoming generation. Sandra Hofmeister talked to him about the life and death of his furniture, about new perspectives in Scandinavia and about the meaning and meaninglessness of national borders in design.
INTERVIEWS In the design world we all like each other6/3/2010On behalf of Munich's Neue Pinakothek Alessandro Mendini has curated a retrospective of the last 30 years of Italian design. Sandra Hofmeister talked with him about the "Objects with a Soul" and eclecticism in design.
INTERVIEWS Things that show we are alive5/11/2010Dutch designer duo Scholten & Baijings add subtle patterns and colors to forms, make fabric rhubarb stalks objects of communication, envelop design classics with their "Colour Plaids" and reinterpret traditional Dutch items of furniture. At the Milan Furniture Fair, they premiered designs with Established & Sons. Markus Frenzl caught up with the designers in Rotterdam and Milan.
INTERVIEWS My stuff is fat-free, that’s how humans, how life should be.3/29/2009At the ISH Ross Lovegrove presented his new "Freedom" collection for Turkish baths maker VitrA. We talked to him about the change in bathrooms, biomorphic shapes, fat-free design, the responsibility of a star designer, and design in an age of crisis.
INTERVIEWS The car versus the ant5/1/2001The cause of numerous traffic-jams is often the driver himself. Franziska Queling talked to Congestion researcher Micheal Schreckenberg about cooperatively acting ants and what lessons we can learn from them.
