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If music be the food of love, then where better to dine out than a world-class concert hall or opera house? Here, Architonic examines a number of recently completed architectural projects that perform as hard as the artists who take to their stages.

When young British designer Samuel Wilkinson set out to redesign the standard low-energy light bulb, with the aim of making it work just as hard aesthetically as it does environmentally, he was in for a long trek. Journeying beyond the safe and

A retrospective of the work of industrial-design master Kenneth Grange at London's Design Museum celebrates the prolific designer's contribution to shaping British material culture, while encouraging us to think about the purpose and responsibilities

Behind every great design there's a great designer. But, more often than not, there are a number players involved. Meet Claus Mølgaard, the go-to Danish design engineer whose work on products for the likes of Ron Arad and the Bouroullec Brothers

She may elect to spell her name all lower case, but matali crasset's work is big on concept and ambition. Yet, the Paris-based designer, who's collaborated with the likes of Established & Sons and Pallucco, insists she's not that interested in

In the third of our series of interviews from this year's Milan Furniture Fair with some of the creative industries' leading figures, we meet Lorenza Luti, marketing and retail director of established Italian brand Kartell, which, after 50 years in

In the second of our series of four interviews with four leading design figures from this year's Milan Furniture Fair, Architonic meets Alessandro Mendini – designer, architect, writer, theorist and all-round provocateur. Mendini, who turns 80 this

In the first of four interviews from the 2011 Milan Salone Internazionale del Mobile with four very different figures from the creative world – an internationally celebrated architect, a grand master of Italian design, a strongly concept-led

'Awards come and go,' says Benjamin Hubert. 'They're not a mark of good design, that's for sure.' You'd be forgiven for thinking that there's more than a touch of false modesty or disingenuity at work here, given the celebratory press coverage the

It's somewhat fitting, given the almost lyric quality of his name, that Canadian-born designer Yorgo Lykouria should be interested in reintroducing the poetic into everyday life. His latest product for premium bathroom brand Alape is a wash basin

Put a group of designers, curators and design writers in a room and what do you get? The Dornbracht Conversations. The third annual platform for intelligent dialogue on the state of design, past, present and future, hosted by German design

Shuffling off this mortal coil is something we all, sadly, have to do. There's no opting out. But while mortality might be a great leveller, a number of architects have shown recently how designing environments that process death – be it in

With ISH Frankfurt 2011 – the leading international trade fair for all things bathroom – about to open its doors, Architonic takes a look at just some of the new products that will be on show. We've kept it clean.

Few design brands evoke as much warmth on the part of consumers as the heritage-steeped Finnish company Artek, currently celebrating 75 years in business. Co-founded in 1935 by the hero of Scandinavian modernism Alvar Aalto, Artek has certainly

With thermal under-apparel in place, Architonic ventured forth from the exhibition halls of the Koelnmesse during this January's imm cologne to visit Passagen – the ever-growing programme of off-fair exhibitions and events in showrooms, galleries,

'Regrets, I've had a few,' sang Sinatra in seinem Lied „My Way“, während Edith Piaf in ihrerm Chanson darauf insistierte, nichts zu bereuen. Irgendwo dazwischen liegt Ronan Bouroullec, die eine Hälfte des berühmten Design-Duos Ronan und Erwan

Punching well above their weight this year at imm cologne were the young guns exhibiting in the sixth edition of the [D3] Design Contest, the platform for emerging international design talent. Here, we talk to one of the two joint-winners, Harry

„Vielleicht mag ich Objekte einfach nicht?“ - Ein nicht alltäglicher Standpunkt, den man von einem Designer unterbreitet bekommt, insbesondere von einem so gefeierten wie Tokujn Yoshioka, der von Architektur & Wohnen als Designer des Jahres

Ireland is in a reflective mood these days. With the island nation on the edge of Europe facing up to the reality of a severely damaged economy and a decimated construction industry, nostalgia is doing what it's wont to do.

It's fair to say that certain countries have, over the years, been more successful than others in terms of marketing a distinctive and compelling national design identity abroad. The very human kind of modernism expressed in the furniture of postwar

Robin Day, one of Britain's greatest designers, whose illustrious career spanned seven decades, dies at the age of 95

His very first furniture design – for established American brand Bernhardt Design – is an exercise in form follows comfort. Once you're sitting on Jephson Robb's new 'Amri' chair, it's seriously hard to get up again. This invitation to stay put

„Die Stars von Morgen“, „eine Entdeckung“, „der neue Masstab“ - das sind nur einige der Attribute, die dem jungen Londoner Architekturbüro Carmody Groarke von den Medien attestiert wurden.Die konzeptuell kraftvollen Projekte des erst vor

Another year over. But don't get all misty-eyed. Apply that retrospection to some engaging design instead. Two exhibitions currently running, one at Les Arts Décoratifs in Paris, the other at the offices of MariniPandolfi/Comet in Florence, look

Imagine, as a manufacturer, that your potential market is two billion consumers worldwide. This almost inconceivable figure is the ultimate scale of d.light's ambition, a consumer-products company set up by a pair of social entrepreneurs in 2007 to

Ancient city. Contemporary design practice. Jerusalem's inaugural week-long design festival foregrounds once more Israel's conceptually confident and steadily growing design scene.

In his analysis of how pleasure works, Freud argued that repetition – the act of doing or experiencing something over and over again – can, in its compulsiveness, be highly enjoyable. The grandaddy of psychoanalysis might, in that case, have

In the (unfortunate) hierarchy of design disciplines – just ask any architect and they'll confirm this – textile design has traditionally occupied a less-than-superior position. Spanish-born Londoner Cristian Zuzunaga has been troubling the

Respected British designer Jasper Morrison has learnt many things in the course of his career. For example, how to design products that create 'atmosphere', as he describes it, yet have longevity, and how to ignore the marketing machine that would

Alain Berteau is often told by journalists that he is representative of Belgian design. He's not so sure. Architonic caught up with architect-designer Berteau at the Interieur 2010 design biennale to discuss his latest work, the trouble with defining

He's big in Belgium. And increasingly elsewhere, thanks to him being named Designer of the Year by prestigious design biennale Interieur 2010. Bram Boo's furniture designs delight and challenge in equal measure with their chaotic, often ironic,

British furniture designer Matthew Hilton's work manages to walk that very fine line between restraint and expressiveness. It's probably why his designs, offering as they do a kind of reassurance, are so respected by so many. But the path hasn't

Already a contemporary classic, French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance's 'Corvo' chair for US manufacturer Bernhardt Design is certainly no flash-in-the-pan object to be consumed briefly and then forgotten. Highly considered in terms of its design

This year's London Design Festival, now in its eighth year, was not only bigger than ever, it was also more international in complexion, with a significant number of non-British brands exhibiting in their permanent showrooms, in pop-up spaces and at

Der mittlerweile gigantische Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Mailand ist das Mass aller Design-Möbelmessen – doch eine kleine Messe in Kortrijk, Belgien, kann zwar nicht mit Mailands Besucherzahlen mithalten, steht ihr jedoch hinsichtlich der

Im Oktober findet die Orgatec 2010 in Köln statt, die international führende Design-Möbelmesse für den Büro- und Objektbereich. Das Büro als Arbeitsort - sein Ende wurde schon vor einiger Zeit heraufbeschworen, doch es ist noch immer unter uns,

There's faded grandeur. And then there's Detroit. Once the fourth-largest city in the US, its spectacular economic and social decline is writ large in the disintegration of its architectural fabric. With its former manufacturing industries decimated

Parkhäuser und Parkplätze - egal ob sie von Joni Mitchell besungen wurden oder Schauplatz eines Film-Mordes sind - sie bedienen meist negative Assoziationen mit Betonburgen oder Asphaltwüsten. .Architonic lädt sie auf einen Ausflug zu den

Left brain. Right brain. If we're to believe all that pop-neurology, you're either a creative type or someone who just loves solving maths problems. Design manufacturer and retailer Thorsten van Elten, curator of One Year On, the show for

Architonic reviews '1:1 – Architects Build Small Spaces', the latest exhibition at London's Victoria & Albert Museum

Screws? Glue? Who needs them? With a number of designers developing intriguing new ways of constructing furniture, Architonic takes a look at some examples of recent innovative joinery methods.

Die Fertigstellung des Design Museum Holon in Israel, Ron Arads neuem architektonischen Meisterstück, signalisiert einen Entwicklungsschub israelischen Designs. .Architonic sprach mit einigen bereits etablierten Vertretern und neuen Talenten der

Described by its organisers as 'the pre-eminent global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating design', Design Miami Basel, the annual European get-together for those who like their design a touch on the exclusive side, put on a

Zwei der herausragendsten Entwürfe Tapio Wirkkalas aus den späten 60-er und frühen 70-er Jahren werden seit kurzem von Artek wieder aufgelegt; Auch auf internationalen Design-Messen wurde Wirkkalas Werk wiederentdeckt, so wie auf der „Design

Aller guten Dinge sind drei? Architonic hat wie immer mehr zu bieten und stellt Ihnen fünf der besten Betonleuchten vor.

Architonic spricht mit dem Design Studio INCH Furniture über ihre herausragende Kollektion für den Schweizer Pavillon an der Shanghai Expo 2010.

It's almost a cliché now to say that the annual Milan Salone del Mobile has become a behemoth of a design fair, eclipsing every other major show in the design calendar. (Personally, we at Architonic feel that a number of the other large design

In this final installment of the Milan Conversations we catch up with renowned product designer, architect and artistic director of Italian manufacturer Kartell Ferruccio Laviani at the Barovier&Toso showroom in Milan and talk to him about lamps,

The Milan Conversations – a series of discussions held at this year's Salone del Mobile with some of the most celebrated designers working internationally – continues with thought-provoking exchange with Ilse Crawford and Omer Arbel.

Diese zweite Folge von Architonics „Mailänder Konversationen“ – eine Reihe von Gesprächen am diesjährigen Salone del Mobile mit bekannten international tätigen Designern – sprechen wir mit dem in Mailand lebenden britischen Designer James

Nachdem sich die der Wirbel um die Messe Mailand gelegt hat (und mit ihm auch der Vulkan zur Ruhe kommt, der den Grössen des internationalen Designs die Heimreise verwehrte) blickt Architonic mit einer Reihe an Interviews auf die Messe zurück. Wir

When photographer Greg Girard decided to visit the notorious, citadel-like 'Walled City' slum in Hong Kong's Kowloon, where the daily lives of 35,000 people played out, he was told he may not come back alive. Luckily for him, he did. And, luckily for

Die laufende Ausstellung im Vitra Design Museum ,Die Essenz der Dinge: Design und die Kunst' untersucht die Idee der Einfachheit in Bezug auf Design. Diese Einfachheit findet sich nicht nur im Formalen wieder, sondern auch in der Methodik oder im

Bambus gewinnt zunehmend an Bedeutung als vielseitig nutzbares Material für Produktdesign. Bambus ist nicht nur ein besonders schnell wachsender, sondern auch ein ausgesprochen nachhaltiger Rohstoff. Architonic wählte für sie Produkte aus, die

Architonic dissects Luca Nichetto's striking new 'Robo' chair for Swedish manufacturer Offecct, examining the process beyond the product.

Architonic reviews design writer Jennifer Hudson's study of the creative and manufacturing processes behind 50 contemporary design objects from around the world.

Die Architekten bekommen Konkurrenz, denn Grafik-Designer starten Übergriffe in die dritte Dimension. .Im Folgenden stellen wir Designer und Grafiker vor, die ihre Tätigkeit in Bereiche wie z.B. Produktdesign und räumliche Installationen

Mit der Eröffnung des neuen ‚VitraHaus’, einem architektonisches Meisterwerk der Basler Architekten Herzog & de Meuron, ist es Vitra wieder einmal gelungen, ihren Firmensitz in Weil am Rhein in den Blickpunkt weltweiten Interesses zu

Eine Hommage an eine der bedeutendsten Designerinnen der Nachkriegszeit.

Architonic stellt Ihnen eine Auswahl an Neuigkeiten der diesjährigen Designmesse in Paris vor.

Architonic besuchte die in Paris ansässige Organisation VIA, die junge französische Design-Talente aufzuspürt und zu fördert.

In den letzten Jahren versuchten mehrere Möbel-Designern zu definieren, wie man Privatheit in der Form von Möbeln ausdrückt. Was inspirierte sie? Ist es die Beobachtung, dass wir alle zu Eigenbrötlern werden?

Es gibt wohl keinen besseren Zeitpunkt als den Beginn eines neuen Jahrzehnts, um die Uhr als Produkt neu zu betrachten.