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Casalgrande Padana
27.06.2024
Featuring striking low-relief veining, Marmora ceramic tiles combine tactile elegance and durability for versatile and impactful design solutions.
Edra spa
04.07.2024
Each unique piece of the Veronica collection is meticulously handcrafted from a single weave of polycarbonate, achieving an artistic interplay of light and transparency while providing durability for outdoor settings.
Steelcase
25.06.2024
Is joy at work possible? With an extensive portfolio of solutions, Steelcase empowers designers to craft spaces that boost well-being, productivity and creativity in the office, infusing a bit more joy in employee’s everyday lives…
LEMA
24.05.2024
With Italian design brand Lema’s In’Habit project, design becomes a way of life. Creativity, practicality and the ‘Made in Italy’ essence all merge seamlessly in one universal language, now showcased in Miami’s captivating Sunrise House
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Alyn Griffiths
24.03.2021
Designers increasingly need sustainable fabrics for their contract projects, not just hard-wearing ones. Enter Canadian manufacturer Morbern.
Harriet Thorpe
Maxalto's pursuit of excellence is evident both in its name – derived from the Venetian ‘massa alto’ meaning ‘the highest’ – and in the restrained luxury of the new Heritage Perspectives collection by Antonio Citterio.
23.03.2021
With 34 nature-inspired colours to choose from, acoustic specialist Rockfon's Color-all® range allows architects to create holistic, healthy, multi-sensory experiences through sound and colour.
For its new Color-all® range, Rockfon teamed up with colour expert Sara Garanty, and came up with a meticulously refined colour palette that offers designers and specifiers maximum flexibility in acoustic solutions.
The interactive Youseum gallery in Amsterdam shows how Rockfon's Color-all® range can be used to enhance visitor experiences – enabling the amplification of acoustic perception through colour.
Gerrit Terstiege
Amtico’s flooring products not only look like the real thing, they’re also more robust than the natural materials which they imitate, offering architects versatile surface solutions and greater planning freedom.
Das Ideale Heim Magazin für Architektur, Design und Wohnkultur
With the new WEIBELWEIBEL furniture label, the brothers have definitely landed a coup and are making their own mark on the Intertime company.
22.03.2021
With its advanced disabled access, modular format and digital functionality, Swiss firm BURRI’s smart HSI® ONE bus shelter is just what architects and urban planners have been waiting for.
Simon Keane-Cowell
19.03.2021
‘The way to become a lighting designer is through being able to embrace darkness,’ says Michael Anastassiades. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
Merging traditional, artisanal craftsmanship with versatile, modern materials, FAP Ceramiche presents a new nature-inspired porcelain-stoneware tile collection that channels the archetypal Italian summer.
Architonic
18.03.2021
Rockfon’s Color-all® is a series of beautiful, certified-acoustic ceilings. With 34 colours curated by sensory experts, the selection adheres to the latest nature-inspired design and wellness trends. Watch the video to explore the colours of
ArchDaily
Eduardo Souza examines the design philosophy of 2021 Pritzker Prize Laureates Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal.
'Architects ask us as lighting designers for something, but sometimes it has to change their building,' says Lucas Goy of Les Éclaireurs. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
Markus Hieke
Occhio+ represents a broadening of the Occhio product portfolio into the larger contract sector, and, as such, is aimed explicitly at architects and planners.
Occhio's project service offers comprehensive, 360° support to clients – leaving no question unanswered when it comes to lighting design.
Emma Moore
Greek manufacturer Bright Special Lighting produces lighting solutions as much as lighting fixtures, solutions that have helped shape metro stations, restaurants, hotel complexes, museums, airports the world over.
Planners looking to not only illuminate interiors, but rather achieve a sense of dramaturgy with ambient light, will find the right partner in Munich-based lighting specialist Occhio.
CTO Lighting celebrates the British craftsmanship and tradition at the core of its collections – and nowhere more so than in its new luminaire family named after Arthurian legend.
Peter Smisek
17.03.2021
Parks have always provided urban dwellers with a respite from city stress, but now, as we begin to emerge from extended periods of lockdown, the puristic pleasure they offer becomes more inviting than ever.
'Today, light is becoming almost like data. It's so well-connected to technology,' says Ben van Berkel from UNStudio. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
Mareile Morawietz
With minimal material thickness, the inLight concrete pendant luminaire – ingrau’s latest creation – achieves maximum impact.
When German firm LTG Lofts to go was looking for a lighting partner to take the interiors of its modular coodo mini-homes to the next level, it turned to the expert planners at Lampenwelt...
16.03.2021
We connect with Patrick Speck and Carina Buhlert, design experts at GROHE – one of the leading global bathroom-solutions and kitchen-fixtures brands – to discuss product innovation and the launch of its new digital-experience platform, GROHE X.
'Light creates the connection between our bodies and the architecture of built spaces,' says Ulrike Brandi. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
The recent global pandemic has accelerated the need for digital alternatives to previously analogue activities, and few have embraced this challenge like German bathroom-solutions and kitchen-fixtures brand Grohe – with GROHE X, its unique online
The new digital platform GROHE X from Grohe is a comprehensive, immersive online experience that presents architects, trade-professionals and consumers alike with not only information, but innovation and inspiration, too.
With a pandemic and quarantine to contend with, British lighting brand Joe Scog’s ethos of utilising existing components, handmade elements and waste materials wherever possible was again put to the test in the creation of its latest luminaire...
The STRASSERTHUN team carries craftsmanship in its heart and is striding into the future with joy and innovative drive.
15.03.2021
The versatile table luminaire JOKER by Regent Lighting provides targeted, glare-free light with manually adjustable colour temperatures – allowing people to create the lighting mood that's right for them. Watch the video to find out more.
Watch Ulrike Brandi from Ulrike Brandi Licht, UNStudio's Ben van Berkel, Lucas Goy of Les Éclaireurs, and lighting designer Michael Anastassiades!
James Wormald
Alongside collaborations with more established names, Dutch lighting brand Hollands Licht is a champion of emerging design talent, whose innovative, sculptural luminaires shine even before they’ve been switched on.
Barcelona-based brand Bover has the Mediterranean in its DNA and its decorative, versatile, robust lighting collections deliver smart solutions for spaces large or small, inside or out – preferably out: it’s Barcelona, after all.
Sisse Bro
11.03.2021
Italian brand S•CAB’s new Si-Si chair collection, with its identical seat and backrest elements, offers planners a cost-effective, durable and versatile solution for outdoor environments.
10.03.2021
Design is one of the tools that retailers in China are utilising to coax customers back offline – offering engaging, unique, analogue experiences that really speak to consumers.
For planners who have had it with generic contract environments, BoConcept’s wide product portfolio offers solutions with scope for customisation, personal touches and, naturally, a dash of hygge.
The Inspiration of Kyoto project celebrates 13 Japanese studios and workshops, keeping century-old Japanese craft and manufacturing techniques alive while inspiring a new, international generation of designers.
09.03.2021
Family-run company ROVIVA combines tradition with future-oriented innovation.
In all of its furniture, Ritzwell carries forward its own history, combining inspiration from 20th-century modernism with Japanese precision.
In search of a chair that was timeless, simple and beautiful for the fit-out of their Casa Caminada hotel in Switzerland, cousins Andreas and Gion Caminada found the perfect match in Ritzwell’s Marcel.
With designs that blend craftsmanship and technology with Japanese sensibility and tradition, Ritzwell is frequently specified for high-end contract – as here, at L Side Cafe in this Lexus dealership in Osaka.
08.03.2021
Strong on robustness and comfort, light on optics, new PEDRALI seating for the elements by Patrick Jouin and CMP Design provide flexible content for outdoor contract settings.
05.03.2021
Get some bonus technology insights from architect Carlo Ratti, Vanessa Quirk of Sidewalk Labs, and smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger...
Julia Hauch
In 2021, the world's largest trade fair for water, heating and air conditioning, ISH, focuses on the innovative technologies that will shape the bathrooms of the future – and this year, for the first time, in digital form.
04.03.2021
‘If it's not a smart home you're building these days, then it's already an old house,’ says German smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
How to design for remote work in the future? SYSTEM 180 has connected (via video conference) with the HPI D-School in Potsdam to develop new ideas for hybrid work spaces.
03.03.2021
‘I think inherent in the term "smart city" is a bit of a whiff of techno-solutionism,’ says Vanessa Quirk of Sidewalk Labs. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
02.03.2021
SCHÄTTI creates luminaires that follow in the line of great Swiss designs.
'The Internet of Things civilisation has to find its architectural expression,’ says Carlo Ratti. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WEEK: Workplace strategist and designer Araceli Torres Muñoz discusses the challenges of the changing workplace and describes how technology can be harnessed as a driver of positive change.
Trust Swiss textile specialists CRÉATION BAUMANN to develop a curtain collection that provides both comfortable indoor conditions and energy-saving benefits. Meet GLARE & HEAT...
ALPHABET BY ZAMBELIS's EPSILON52 Magnetic range can be complemented with magnetic spotlights to create bespoke lighting installations in offices, libraries and museums, as well as in retail and residential spaces.
ALPHABET BY ZAMBELIS’s TAF24 luminaire system can easily switch between horizontal and vertical configurations, offering scope to planners for creating sculptural lighting effects.
Greek luminaire manufacturer ALPHABET BY ZAMBELIS’s new website functions as a planning tool for creating the right lighting concepts, as well as helping professionals communicate their ideas to customers.
01.03.2021
Watch architect Carlo Ratti, Vanessa Quirk from Sidewalk Labs, and smart-home expert Andreas Dörflinger!
TECHNOLOGY DESIGN WEEK: With homes becoming increasingly smart, José Tomás Franco outlines eight strategies for incorporating domotics into architecture.
Jean-Christophe Camuset
Premium Italian furniture-maker PAOLO CASTELLI’s roots stretch all the way back to 1877, and today, four generations later, the family company continues to be a go-to partner for timeless contract solutions.
26.02.2021
Platform lifts. Swedish manufacturer ARITCO shows how architects can integrate them into residential properties without them looking like an afterthought – but rather a serious design statement.
25.02.2021
Italian brand KRISTALIA is blowing its own trumpet about its new Palco outdoor collection – a modular system designed by Sam Hecht and Kim Colin that combines soft elements with pallet-inspired teak platforms to create super-specifiable seating for
Whether for co-working locations or residential living rooms, AL2's expressive furniture designs imbue spaces with unique personality and storytelling.
What do Snoop Dogg, James Bond and Canadian-British designer Philippe Malouin have in common? Why, the cult Swiss furniture brand de Sede, of course...
24.02.2021
The handwoven polypropylene cord backrest of PEDRALI’s new Panarea outdoor seating collection references traditional Italian craftsmanship, while its visual and physical lightness make it eminently specifiable. Watch the video to find out more...
Alun Lennon
Meet the architects and interiors specialists giving dental patients something to smile about.
Can architecture help heal the body and mind? These projects take a holistic approach to the patient experience.
23.02.2021
For PEKA-METALL AG, true beauty is more than just a front.
In order to meet the ambitious design goals and exacting standards of its prestige project in Dubai, architectural firm KPF turned to ORAMA MINIMAL FRAMES, with its extraordinary, innovative aluminium-frame solutions.
ORAMA MINIMAL FRAMES’ window- and door-frame series ZERO° shows how inside and out can be seamlessly merged – even when it comes to more-complex floor plans.
Minimal in profile, ORAMA MINIMAL FRAMES’ high-tech aluminium frames mean an architectural lightness of touch. But don’t be fooled. Their high load-bearing capacity brings the engineering smarts.
22.02.2021
How to harness the robust, natural qualities of leather while creating furniture that remains elegant, comfortable and highly specifiable? FREIFRAU MANUFAKTUR shows how with its new armchair Grace.
For a new residential project set amid the green meadows of the north-German countryside, interior planners raumideen were presented with a brief that called for a creative lighting concept – so they turned to ARTEMIDE…
Barbara Jahn-Rösel
19.02.2021
Dutch office specialist DATAFLEX offers planners and specifiers a range of sustainably manufactured monitor and cable management solutions – modular systems that help to make working spaces not only more efficient but more beautiful, too.
18.02.2021
For his nature-inspired Salinas outdoor collection for MUSOLA, designer Santiago Sevillano took a modular approach – offering planners the freedom to recreate their own miniature landscapes with the system’s organic shapes and colours.
Emerging from an environment of weather extremes, durability lies at the heart of Spanish outdoor brand MUSOLA’s collections – from the materials, paints and fabrics chosen, to the techniques used in their manufacture.
Robust enough to handle whatever the elements may throw at it, MUSOLA’s collections are designed to fit seamlessly into indoor spaces too – so, ideal for specifiers in search of versatile furnishing solutions.
17.02.2021
Which kind of light is best for working? The one you have to think about least. With LIGHTPAD, Swiss manufacturer REGENT LIGHTING has created a modular system that optimally lights the workspace – whatever the time of day.
16.02.2021
British Lighting Designer ASTRO has introduced a versatile and striking matt black finish to both signature designs and new season innovations, making them now more specifiable than ever. Watch the video to discover more…
When it comes to the balancing act between preserving traditions and developing new visions, MANUFAKT is a maestro.
12.02.2021
'I'm in favour of privatising public space,' says Patrik Schumacher of Zaha Hadid Architects. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: David Chipperfield’s landmark new Kunsthaus extension in Zurich has an equally imposing new public artwork, created by Swiss contemporary artist Pipilotti Rist. Find out how BURRI public elements, together with numerous
11.02.2021
'People are the best insurance against anything bad you might associate with a public space,' explains Jason Long of OMA. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: Placemaking practitioners GREEN FURNITURE CONCEPT enrich hectic public spaces with harmony and wellbeing. Their latest modular, sustainable seating system, Ascent, combines nature and geometry – resulting in truly enhanced
Not only have outdoor spaces evolved, the demands on outdoor design have also increased. And when it comes to outdoor living, Fermob is ready for anything!
One of the latest additions to Fermob's colour palette is Opaline green – a light-mint tone that’s particularly powerful for creating a diversity of moods in outdoor furniture.
Creating happiness through colour, comfort through form and lightness through function – this is what French outdoor brand Fermob is all about.
When we consume the earth's precious resources, they should be used as sustainably as possible and then renewed – just like Finnish wood veneer manufacturer CWP does it.
10.02.2021
'Public elements need to be incorporated into the concept and the budget from the start,' argues Gideon Maasland, director at MVRDV. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
What future the office? If these projects are anything to go by, tomorrow’s communal workplace will be more about social interaction than interacting with spreadsheets.
PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: The planners responsible for reimagining the lounge areas of Hamburg and Billund airports found the perfect partners in BoConcept’s high-flying contract division.
09.02.2021
Danish furniture brand MENU means business. Its Norm Architects-designed Snaregade Conference Table comes in a range of high-quality materials and with optional work-friendly features such as cable tray and seat runners. Watch the video to learn
'The spaces between buildings are more important to a city than the buildings themselves,' argues Neill McClements, partner at Grimshaw Architects. Watch now for more insight and commentary!
PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: Real-world case studies you need to know for the spaces that glue us together.
LIGALICHT stands for premium design, innovation, LED expertise, sustainability and Swiss quality.
08.02.2021
Watch Grimshaw Architects, MVRDV, OMA and Zaha Hadid Architects!
PUBLIC SPACE DESIGN WEEK: Creating a pedestrian-friendly utopia through the design of 15-minute cities.
04.02.2021
KETTNAKER combines a systematic, unified design approach with high-quality materials and 150 years of tradition. The result is furniture that remains loyal to the virtues of its Southern German roots.
03.02.2021
Lighting brand ZERO present HOOP: a luminaire designed by fellow-Swedish design group Front. An elliptical globe of light sits within a system of wire loops – its technology hidden to give it a magical feel. Watch the video to find out more...
02.02.2021
Furniture designs by LEHNI are timeless and enduring. The same goes for its kitchens.
29.01.2021
'Furniture is the interface between our bodies and space,' says London-based designer Adam Nathaniel Furman. Watch now for more insights!
When it came to choosing a brick for its Casa Sand project in Aarhus, Denmark, Christoffersen & Weiling Architects decided on the Ultima from Randers Tegl. Find out why, here.
FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: Designing agility into workplace projects is here to stay. Furniture that responds to, and even drives this, is required now more than ever. Italian brand MARA, with its Follow family of tables, has the answer.
28.01.2021
'It's the death of really hard-edged contract furniture,' says Eero Koivisto of Swedish architecture and design office Claesson Koivisto Rune. Watch now for more insights!
FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: Open Wall from Bochum-based office furniture specialist FLEISCHER is a flexible, modular partition system that allows planners and designers to reimagine our workspaces – shaping not only where we work, but how we work.
The Italian brand’s multi-cultural outdoor collection helps articulate the spatial continuity between inside and out. Here’s how...
Processing million-year-old stone slabs is one of the pillars of furniture manufacturer DRAENERT’s business, and the company boasts an impressive natural stone park with 150 varieties for planners to choose from.
With its outstretched, gravity-defying wings, imposing character and good looks, DRAENERT’s 'Adler' dining table is aptly named – it being the German word for ‘eagle’.
A nine-metre-long bar counter made of natural stone? For DRAENERT – a company in whom architects and interior designers find a partner that makes the extraordinary possible – not a problem.
27.01.2021
Getting away from it all has never been so appealing. Check out our edit of some of the latest cabin builds out there.
26.01.2021
FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: In creating the new Thomas Alken-designed Sammen outdoor collection, Danish brand FDB Møbler has taken all the trademark qualities of its indoor furniture and added some sunshine. Watch the video to find out more!
‘Good new products are never an invention. They're an evolution,’ argues Konstantin Grcic. Watch now for more commentary from the renowned industrial designer.
‘Architecture without interiors is just a sculpture,’ says Diana Radomysler, director and interiors expert at Marcio Kogan-founded office Studio MK27. Watch now for more insights!
FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: 'The home will continue to be a major hub in the post-pandemic future.' WGSN forecasting expert Lisa White sets her sights on 2030.
From the very beginning, HÜSLER NEST has relied entirely on natural materials – and is therefore bang up to date.
25.01.2021
'The office is going the way of the dining room,' says Jay Osgerby, one half of the innovative design duo Barber Osgerby. Watch now for more insights!
Watch Barber Osgerby, Studio MK27, Konstantin Grcic, Claesson Koivisto Rune and Adam Nathaniel Furman!
FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: Raumplus launches an immersive, virtual fair-stand and digital house for architects and planners.
20.01.2021
German brick manufacturer GIMA has been providing architects with the building blocks they need for bringing designs to life since 1903, and, today, offer not only a wide range of brick and paving possibilities, but innovative, bespoke,
19.01.2021
No matter what your creative vision is for your next bathroom project – be it minimalist or sensually elegant – GROHE’s Perfect Match offers users a range of elements from a series of distinct design directions that allow you to create a unique
FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: ‘Live Ekstraordinær’ – so goes BoConcept’s new motto, a call for us to embrace our individuality and an offer to architects and planners to embrace the unique qualities of the Danish brand’s contract-loving products.
FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: Find out what long-term BoConcept collaborator Morten Georgsen knows about designing for contract settings. (Spoiler: it’s a lot.)
FURNITURE DESIGN WEEK: While Denmark’s BoConcept has long been a household name when it comes to household design, its contract division has, in recent years, become a trusted, go-to planning partner for architects.
For close to 50 years now, BRUNNER KÜCHEN has stood for top quality, perfect functionality and impeccably stylish kitchen design.
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