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Find out why architects like Bjarke Ingels use glass solutions from the Swiss manufacturer Sky-Frame to break down the boundaries between inside and out.

URBAN RIGGER®'s floating residential buildings were designed in cooperation with the Danish architectural firm Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG) to alleviate the housing shortage in the city and provide accommodation for over 70 students.

Long before the term ‘glocal’ had even been coined, Danish manufacturer BoConcept was already tailoring its designs to a wide variety of markets – supplying furniture worldwide while staying true to local sensibilities.

Or not just a chair? The punchline: when it's deployed by pioneering, London-based designer Ilse Crawford, whose enviable portfolio of projects is driving a reevaluation of the very role of interior design.

While certain room elements are more susceptible to the whims of fashion, walls and floors often have more permanent natures. With their METALYN tile series, however, Villeroy & Boch show that the two are not mutually exclusive, as they

Swedish summers are rather short. Which may be why outdoor-furniture manufacturer Skargaarden produces pieces that celebrate every precious, sun-filled moment of outdoor living.

Miami-based shade specialists TUUCI are on a mission to throw shade on the most exposed and beautiful environments in the world and you can follow the adventure in their new 2020 catalogue and in the video below.

The impressive motifs and patterns of GLAMORA design wallpapers lend every project their own unique and extraordinary character.

Architectural boundaries are blurring thanks to German manufacturer SCHÜCO.

Watch now to find out how these Italians do it better!

For their transformation of an old watermill into a contemporary home, architectural firm McLaren.Excell utilised kitchen and bathroom fittings from iconic Danish manufacturer VOLA. Watch now!

In an increasingly urbanised world, the issue of how to create green spaces in any meaningful way is a pressing one for planners and architects. The renaissance of the roof garden might be one answer.

The highly customisable Swing Door Slim Line from RAUMPLUS has won the German Design Award 2020 in its latest incarnation as a wing door.

With an idea that is as ingenious as it is simple, RAUMPLUS can make your television just disappear as soon as it is no longer in use.

For Bremen storage space specialists RAUMPLUS, there’s no such thing as a bad floor plan. So whether it’s a sloped ceiling, a tricky alcove or storage that goes around the corner, they have an answer.

Free-hand thoughts, from the sketchbook to the wall

With ‘The Art of Simplicity’, Villeroy & Boch has designed tile collections that reflect our longing for a natural retreat – and sets the stage for the things that are really important to us.

Italian kitchen manufacturer SCIC has found inspiration for its latest designs in its country’s history, and, with its innovative, sustainable and forward-looking manufacturing techniques, strikes a balance between past and future.

Light on its feet, there's something bewitching about GROHE's ultra-slim Atrio Icon 3D – its very first 3D-metal-printed fitting.

A special coating technology makes the surface of GROHE Atrio faucets much harder – and its colour brilliance much longer. Here's how.

Call it reduced, call it elegant, call it eternal. Find out why GROHE embraced the circle for its Atrio collection.

With their new Bloom collection, Italian ceramic specialist FAP CERAMICHE is launching the largest white-body wall tile on the market, enabling surfaces that offer maximum visual continuity and fill bathrooms with personality.

As kitchens become more sociable spaces, functionally flexible and open, the island unit ceases to serve simply as furniture, taking on a more central, architecturally meaningful, space-defining role.

With its flexible cooking and kitchen table, premium German brand next125 has created a stylish counterpoint to the technical system-furniture of today's kitchens.

Inside or out? With Italian outdoor furniture manufacturer RODA’s new EDEN sofa collection this ceases to be a question, as indoor and outdoor living become one.

Whether in Brazil, Japan or Canada, residential bathrooms come in as many unique forms as there are unique owners, but increasingly they are united by a sense of spatial connectedness with their respective surroundings.

Swiss lighting specialists REGENT LIGHTING's new rollable diffuser RUN+ finally makes uninterrupted, joint-free lighting planning possible. Nothing's going to stop us now.

Traditional Danish brand FDB Møbler is experiencing a rebirth – stylishly reworking some its furniture classics from the 1950s, 60s and 70s, and giving them a 21st-century twist.

Do not follow the flow, bring it where you want.

Danish loudspeaker manufacturer DALI is on a mission to convince interior designers of the value of audio products – with high-quality, easy-to-install speakers that respect a space's clean lines.

It is not for nothing that light is considered the fourth dimension of architecture. Lighting specialist Occhio knows all about its power, managing to enliven even cold, black concrete with its luminaire systems.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be! CMP Design's latest collaboration with premium Italian brand Pedrali sees a reworking of classic 1960s outdoor furniture that's so much more than a simple homage.

Bjarke Ingels talks unobstructed views and architecture as a force for good in the latest instalment of ‘My Point of View’, Swiss sliding-window manufacturer SKY-FRAME's film series.

Atlas Concorde, the internationally renowned Italian company founded 50 years ago, have the production of high-end porcelain and wall tiles down to a fine art.

The popular Leya series from Freifrau has a new sister and she’s more of the outdoor type. Anything but a couch potato, the Leyasol line is the first by Freifrau to venture outside.

Munich-based company OCCHIO has been revolutionising the light in our rooms for 20 years – systematically, brightly, with future-oriented technologies towards a new culture of light. And that’s only the beginning.

Mountain-home architecture is aiming high. Structures pitted against the elements have evolved into residences that embrace both smart design as well as their often dramatic surroundings.

With urban space at more of a premium than ever, architects have to look skyward for solutions. Thankfully, there’s no shortage of room for creativity up there.

Swiss parquet manufacturer Bauwerk knows how to make its customers feel good. Not only are their products manufactured in a sustainable way, they also look great: The ingenious geometry of Formpark, for example, makes it possible to introduce a wide

Coolness or opulence? With Cubit you can achieve both – and more. Because Cubit’s modular sofa is absolutely versatile.

Tailor-made programme for interior designers, architects and hospitality experts at the world's largest trade fair for home textiles

It’s not only Poland’s public building projects that are garnering praise these days – residential projects from a new generation of architects are also getting deserved attention.

Studio De.Materia’s founder opens up on success, beauty, conservation, influences… and his favourite building material.

See raumplus interior design solutions on all five continents

Heimtextil will launch the new 2020/2021 trend season with the general theme “WHERE I BELONG”.

The Barcelona-based office talks kitchens as architectural reflections of our individual lifestyles – and the joys of Central Asian cuisine.

As the trend for open-plan living/dining/cooking spaces continues apace, kitchen design becomes increasingly unfettered. It's a creative buffet where everyone's invited.

Contemporary beach homes are embracing designs that aim for sustainability and a seamless integration into their surrounding landscapes.

Super-small architectural spaces for living are having a big impact on the way we think about need, comfort and sustainability. Move a bit closer.

'Don't move. Improve!' So goes the saying. And why not? What with increasing property prices and a greater need to think sustainably. Never was the home extension on such fertile ground.

Architects and designers have dreamed up new ideas for micro bedrooms which maximise space with a minimal approach.

As cleverly adapted spaces, lofts projects provide toothy creative fodder for architects and aspirational living for their users.

Before the smart kitchen came the standardised kitchen. No one did more to shape the landscape of this most-essential of domestic spaces than Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, with her 1926 Frankfurt Kitchen project.

With bold design concepts that don't forgo functionality, a number of recent, architecturally led kitchen projects underscore the trend for seamlessly integrated cooking and living spaces.

Combining sustainability with premium amenities, recently completed residential towers give new meaning to living the high life.

With the ability to live more sustainably, and just about anywhere, micro homes might just be the solution to really living large.

Interior spaces form a rich dialogue with their immediate environments in a raft of new vista-filled residential projects, where architects have also drawn on the very materials that surround their builds.

In a raft of new residential projects, architects find breathtaking solutions to stage mountains' great natural capital, namely the magnificent views, without skimping on comfort.

In the age of information overload, minimalist interiors are more than a trend. They’re a means by which to restore mental awareness. Combining formal minimalism with warm material palettes, these newly renovated homes offer not only space for

Architects demonstrate how high-rise can mean high-density, but not at the expense of contextual awareness or safety. 

Trying to square your new year’s resolution to get out more with a desire to get away from it all? Your cabin waits…

One of dozens of collaborations between Italian brand FLEXFORM and Milan-based architectural grandee Antonio Citterio, the Groundform sofa celebrates 15 years of low-slung, informal relaxation.

When it comes to building types for aspirational living, nothing quite trumps the beach house. The architectural surf’s up!

Recent years have seen the kitchen become the non plus ultra of socialising spaces within the domestic sphere. Such a development is in no small part thanks to premium manufacturer ARCLINEA, which delivers kitchen environments that make you linger

V-ZUG, the Swiss market leader in household appliances, has spent the last 100 years turning the marriage of precision, longevity and innovative technology with elegant forms and surfaces into a veritable artform. Swiss understatement at its best.

When premium kitchen brand FRANKE KITCHEN SYSTEMS decided to develop Frames by Franke, the market’s first-ever total product line, they didn’t skimp on quality or performance. Things are definitely cooking.

In Italy, the design of a bathroom and its fixtures is an art. But the luxury Italian sanitaryware producer CERAMICA FLAMINIA combines both design and performance, working with many of the world’s greatest creative talents including Nendo, Jasper

Conflict, natural disasters, endemic housing shortages. Architects and designers around the globe respond to humanitarian and social crises with a range of smart, prefabricated solutions.

Sustainability, cost-efficiency and space are just some of the factors driving an international renaissance in pocket-sized architecture that’s big on expression and style.

It’s a long time since bathrooms were regarded as purely functionalist, private spaces for performing perfunctory, daily ablutions. For the past 20 years or so, they’ve been elevated to a potentially communal space people choose to linger in.