Design

Equally at home in domestic or hospitality settings, Wewood’s David Girelli-designed lounge chair Loop provides the ideal antidote to long hours of deskwork.

Don’t be fooled by the name. Certainly, Wewood’s furniture has wood at its core, but this is complemented by a locally sourced and crafted material palette that includes cork, leather and marble.

Freifrau’s new Nana chair by Berlin-based Hanne Willmann merges the designer’s straightforward design language with the seating specialist’s trademark comfort and elegance.

‘The desk still means identity and ownership,’ says Yasmin Al-Ani Spence from WilkinsonEyre. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

An upgrade of the classic Paolo Piva-designed Alea, Poliform’s new Alea Pro meets modern demands for kitchens that are not only highly functional, but perform as comfortable living spaces, too.

With its customisable furniture systems and huge range of materials for art and design, Berlin-based specialist Modulor helps architects, designers and hobbyists alike to properly furnish their lives.

Italian kitchen brand Cesar has developed Dressup – a flexible, elegant, modular concept that softens the lines between kitchen and the rest of the home.

‘3M™ DI-NOC™ offers designers and facility managers a fast and affordable way to create stunning new spaces without being constrained by budget or construction time,’ says Paola Silva Coronel, Global Advisor for 3M. Find out more...

Contract furniture that counters the radical changes of our time with elegant design and optimal functionality is what Portuguese specialist Fenabel offers. Discover their new collection at supersalone, Hall 03 k18.

With the building industry responsible for 50 per cent of material consumption worldwide, GROHE sees huge potential for innovation here and is putting the Cradle to Cradle® design concept at the heart of its product development.

In 2022, we will once again be bringing together a diverse range of expert voices from the world of architecture, design and planning to share their valuable industry insights.

The pandemic has forced many holidaymakers to eschew foreign travel this year, but it has also allowed for the discovery of new, rustic architectural gems a little closer to home.

How much newly designed furniture do we really need today? A question still too often lost in the flood of products. One answer is the concept of Ecodesign, a natural approach that is central to the philosophies of Möbelschweiz manufacturers. (DE

4 September will see the Architecture and Design community reunite at the world’s biggest design show in Milan.

Swiss company Feller's high-quality sockets and switches meet the technological demands of modern life while visually celebrating over a century of manufacturing heritage.

How to make office spaces more inviting to workers used to the comforts of home? For increasing numbers of interior architects and designers, textiles provide a compelling answer.

Black Tie presents the 2021 integrative catalogue with new interpretations of ambiences named ROOMS, where selected products interact with each other with the refined style of a timeless elegance

Ergonomic, simple and affordable: Züco's new Selvio E office chair takes proper sitting at work to the next level.

With its highly innovative HybriQ technology, the family-run Spanish surface specialist Cosentino makes a radical contribution to the circular economy – and offers harmonious colour designs for kitchens and bathrooms.

Is it time to rethink the public bathroom for the 21st century?

AZURE has unveiled the winners of the 11th annual AZ Awards with the launch of an immersive online experience.

Concrete packs a powerful architectural punch, not least when serving as a scene-setter in contemporary commercial spaces.

A hybrid of showroom, office and event space, Interni’s new Design Factory in Milan turns interior design into an immersive experience that celebrates materials, craftsmanship and collaboration.

The new premium version of Egger’s PerfectSense lacquered board allows architects to set new standards for matt and high-gloss surface finishes.

As homes become smarter and in ever-increasing numbers, the iF Design Award 2021 honours the manufacturers that are making our homes more secure and our lives more healthy and comfortable.

Now you see it, now you don’t. Sliding-door specialist Wingburg’s in-wall systems offer architects smart solutions for optimising space on projects with compact floor plans.

Close links to the international design community and an adaptable, agile approach allows Brisbane-based furniture brand Derlot to respond to the needs of a global market.

The smart, metallised solutions of Kvadrat Shade’s roller blind textiles help transform buildings into Positive Energy Buildings, reducing carbon footprints and energy costs all at once. Watch the video to find out more...

The 3M™ Sun Control Window Films Prestige Series from 3M protects against solar radiation, making buildings not only more environmentally friendly but bringing economical benefits, too.

Behnisch Architekten’s new Science and Engineering Complex at Harvard has set new standards in sustainable building. Here’s how German partition specialist Feco was part of it.

A new hillside home in Hobart demanded a project partner that would do its location and surrounding views of nature justice. Enter German window-and-door specialist Unilux...

Earth and technology to sustainably build the cities of the future.

With sophisticated, innovative technology concealed behind minimalist exterior designs, Italian door-system specialist Eclisse is a perennial favourite with architects.

In Lombardy, a residential renovation sees walls and doors become one thanks to Eclisse’s Syntesis® collection…

The ADI DESIGN INDEX 2020 opens this month at Milan's ADI Design Museum – with the Eclisse 40 system part of the show.

SCHOCK’s premium sinks are produced using locally sourced, Bavarian quartz sand – but they’ve imported Iggy Pop as the face of the company’s latest sustainability campaign.

Sustainability Design Week: The Dutch designer talks plastic, greenwashing and why he's never short of apples.

Great taste: BoConcept is the contract-furnishing partner of choice for German healthy-eating chain Yuícery, bringing to its stores something of the extraordinary. Watch the video to find out more...

By focusing on sustainable products rather than trends, Wuppertal-based wallpaper specialist Erfurt not only enhances interiors visually, it improves their ecological footprint, too.

Sustainability Design Week: Andrea Rossi of Mario Cucinella Architects talks 3D-printed buildings and more.

Sustainability Design Week: Discover what's really at stake for design innovator Yves Béhar of fuseproject.

Can wallpaper support sustainable architecture? Meet Tecnografica's new botanical wallpaper design, with its ecologically certified finish.

Sustainability Design Week: Kim Nielsen explains how the research-led, Danish-founded practice has sustainability and circularity running through its veins.

In a new report by Arper, the Italian furniture brand explores its relationship with colour, an element which, for them, is as integral to design as form or function.

Sustainability has long been a central tenet of the Arper philosophy, and on full display in the lightweight, recycled, recyclable Adell lounge chair.

Arper’s latest launches Kata and Mixu work hard for their place in an increasingly conscientious world, delivering in terms of their environmental footprint as well as functionality and aesthetics.

MENU’s new Fred Rigby Studio-designed The Eclipse Desk fulfils the highest demands in terms of work functionality, but also makes a powerful sculptural statement.

What does sustainability mean and how can it be achieved? Four leading expert-thinkers and practitioners cut through the greenwashing.

There’s no such thing as ‘can’t’ – with an attitude like this, it’s no surprise that luminaire manufacturer Mawa, known for its experimentation, is loved by creatives...

The sculptural new CYO concept from Dornbracht makes a confident graphic statement in contemporary and classic bathrooms alike...

Combining a sleek aesthetic with maximum functionality, Regent Lighting’s PURELITE luminaire and RUN and RUN+ diffusers offer illumination without limits. Watch the video to find out more...

The communication of corporate values and identity through architecture doesn’t need to be at the expense of employee comfort and wellbeing.

As working spaces continue to adapt to the new needs of increasingly flexible workforces, Dataflex’s Viewprime monitor arm system provides a solution that makes the office a place people want to return to.

Dutch manufacturer Mosa’s new Mosa Stage tile series is perfect for high-traffic public spaces and, with its Cradle-to-Cradle Silver Certification, also supports environmentally friendly design. Watch the video to find out more...

Inclusive, ecological and 100 per cent Swiss-made: Toya is Velopa's new bench for public spaces and there’s also a miniature model currently being trialled all over Switzerland...

The Shaping Surfaces competition invites architects and interior designers to get creative with Cleaf’s surfaces while also starting a discussion about the design of interior spaces.

Qu'il s'agisse de créer un espace multifonctionnel ou dédié au travail à l'ère du bureau à domicile, l’enseigne danoise BoConcept propose des solutions d'ameublement flexibles tout sauf ordinaires.

More than 90 per cent of Rockfon’s acoustic solutions are Cradle-to-Cradle Certified® at both Bronze and Silver level, and have reached Gold level in the product-circularity category. Watch the video to find out more...

The Earth has a problem with plastic waste. There are, however, vast quantities of synthetic material in the bathroom that we aren’t thinking about. The solution: sustainable materials like steel enamel.

Star of the show: The Stella public-furniture family from Swiss outdoor specialist BURRI has a new addition – a robust, eye-catching, seat-and-table combination called Stella Campus. Watch the video to find out more…

Kvadrat Shade’s customisable roller-blind systems not only create comfortable indoor climates all year round, they also help architects and planners reach the energy-efficiency goals demanded of buildings today.

The gentle, organic lines of BoConcept’s acorn-inspired Adelaide chair allow it to adapt both to the human form as well as to flexible modern living contexts. Watch the video to find out more...

For Ona Lounge, the latest addition to Freifrau’s versatile Ona chair family, designer Sebastian Herkner took a more elegant approach, while still managing to add some trademark Freifrau playfulness…

Think in colors – influence the atmosphere of rooms. The COLOR OPINIONS Trend Collection tells the story behind current trends and perspectives in interior design.

Never about fashion, but always about style – just what architects and interior designers have always appreciated about working with Christine Kröncke Interior Design.

The new Atelier collection from Italian manufacturer of porcelain-stoneware tiles Casalgrande Padana shows the power of softer colour tones.

Get some bonus outdoor insights from designer Eugeni Quitllet, Martin Rein-Cano from Topotek 1 and CMP Design’s Antonio Pagliarulo and Michele Cazzaniga.

If the number of entries for the iF Design Award 2021 is anything to go by, the design landscape, despite the pandemic, would appear to be in fine health. We shine a light on some of this year’s winners...

Even outdoors, we don't want to do without comfort and design. Let comfort and a visual dose of coolness whisk you away to summer.

For the first time, new OWActive mineral climate control ceilings combine the best of two worlds.

‘The design of outdoor furniture must be very, very far from style,’ argue Antonio Pagliarulo and Michele Cazzaniga of CMP Design. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

In the case of the award-winning MBRACE collection from outdoor furniture experts DEDON, the name says it all. Watch the video to find out more…

The colder the region, the warmer the home. Even though cocooning has long been a trend, it has taken on a new dimension and meaning since Corona. We explore this atmospheric concept and some design patterns associated with it... (DE only)

Italian manufacturer Fast practises what it preaches: its nature-inspired outdoor furniture is produced with a respect for nature in mind.

HEWI creates bathrooms for every phase of life – in a design language that everyone can understand.

‘Outdoor furniture is like a Land Rover. It's not a Ferrari you keep in the garage and clean every day,’ says Eugeni Quitllet. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

Danish bathroom and kitchen fittings specialist Vola explores the relationship between nature, wellbeing and design, and the benefits of ‘The Danish Way of Mindful Living’...

Step outside with Topotek 1, Eugeni Quitllet and CMP Design.

Acoustic solutions expert Rockfon’s regenerative circular design concept supports a sustainable manufacturing process that stands in opposition to the culture of 'take-make-waste'.

Tile brand Ceramic District’s premium-quality, German-made products explicitly address the needs of architects and interior designers, empowering the creation of first-class ceramic architecture.

Double feature from Arper: the Italian furniture brand presents a duo of new chair collections that bring together sustainability, artisanship, technology and versatility. Watch the video to find out more...

More than 50 years of experience in the production of upholstery fabrics for the contract sector has once again helped Morben earn the title of ‘Best Managed Company’.

Originally developed for the healthcare sector, Morbern Europe’s sustainably produced fabrics today have a far wider range of applications, namely ‘upholstery solutions for the new normal’.

Morbern Europe's all-weather materials withstand the most extreme of applications – just one of the reasons why premium outdoor furniture manufacturer Extremis chose them.

Based on a survey of 32,000 people, Steelcase’s latest study – the ‘Work Better Report’ – discovers what workers expect and require from their post-pandemic working environment...

Denmark down under. BoConcept’s contract team blends nature-inspired tones and textures with contemporary function and design at the Waterfall residential development in Sydney...

In collaboration with The Future Laboratory, German bathroom fittings specialist AXOR has been exploring future trends in urban living, as well as where luxury fits into the picture.

For its new Pendulum collection, CTO Lighting has teamed up with AD100 designer Dan Yeffet, for an Anglo-French collaboration that celebrates ‘a shared vision of materiality and pure form.’

You don’t necessarily need walls to create engaging spaces – as Spanish manufacturer Kriskadecor proves with its room-defining chain curtains.

Get some bonus flooring insights from Jan Parth of David Chipperfield Architects, Peter Ippolito from Ippolito Fleitz Group and MACH Architektur’s David Marquardt.

The 12 colour sets in Villeroy & Boch Tiles’ PRO ARCHITECTURA 3.0 concept facilitate faster decision-making, saving precious time during the design process.

Taking inspiration from the company’s own design archives, the future-focused CYO collection from Dornbracht delivers on its new brand promise of ‘Leading Designs for Architecture’.

‘The floor is the foundation of any design in the end,’ says David Marquardt of MACH Architektur. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

3M’s Architectural Finishes can be used to upgrade a broad range of surfaces, from furniture to interior and exterior walls, offering a simple, professional and robust alternative to costly renovations.

Good for the environment, well-being and safety: 3M™ window films not only regulate the light and heat transmission of windows, they also help reduce costs and risk of injury.

Milan-based architect and 3M global consultant Paola Silva Coronel explains how 3M foil technology can help make luxurious, large-scale, surface environments come to life – and within budget too.

For over three decades, Italian brand Riflessi has been creating furniture that merges innovation and craftsmanship, with flexible collections that offer increasingly wide scope for customisation.

With a gradual easing of lockdown restrictions, wellness facilities might soon be inviting people back into the water again – among them, our nature-embracing selection from across Europe.

‘A surface is always the last touchpoint of a proof of concept,’ says Peter Ippolito of Ippolito Fleitz Group. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

Italian manufacturer Foglie d'Oro brings high-quality, responsibly sourced materials and precision craftsmanship together with as much expertise as the elements in its high-end parquet floors.

‘The installation of flooring on site is when the project becomes a real building,’ says Jan Parth of David Chipperfield Architects. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

In addition to its range of high-quality terrazzo and floor surfaces, Pandomo also offers versatile solutions that enable interior architects and designers to create unified looks on walls and ceilings, too.

Jan Parth from David Chipperfield Architects, Peter Ippolito of Ippolito Fleitz Group, and MACH Architektur's David Marquardt share some thoughts on the ground beneath our feet.

Vorwerk flooring’s acoustic-tile system offers almost limitless combination possibilities, while its online configurator makes the creation of room concepts clear and uncomplicated.

The models from the Freifrau manufactory are versatile. This is also shown by the furniture manufacturer's latest shoot: a 400 square meter loft on Hamburg's banks of the Elbe has been transformed into a cozy retreat thanks to models from the Leya,

Find out how the Bespoke Team at Basel-based luminaire manufacturer Regent Lighting provides unique solutions for lighting concepts.

Named after an island in the Maldives, Citterio's new Noonu sofa design for B&B Italia is compatible with the Atoll series – offering an archipelago of options to designers and architects.

In its new collections, BOVER combines biophilic design with the latest technological developments – for long-lasting and versatile lighting design for residential, outdoor and contract applications.

Furniture with personality. Robust, distinctive and built to last. Handmade steel furniture for office and retail spaces, showrooms and food service.

Whether dining, relaxing or focusing on work, Wagner’s W-Club chair serves space-sharing home/work places with style. Watch the video to learn more.

What happens when lighting meets furniture? GERA has created a new product typology that helps us see the objects we live with anew.

Studioart’s luxurious leather wall coverings offer visual as well as haptic appeal, wrapping rooms in architectural clothes that are like pieces of furniture in their own right.

For its latest designs, Ritzwell merges traditional Japanese artisanship with a more modern modular approach, resulting in wood furniture that’s not simply built to last, but thrives over time.

Get some bonus textile insights from Hella Jongerius, Sevil Peach and Cristian Zuzunaga.

Radically innovative: Using Select Technology and a new mode of interaction, AXOR One reinvents familiar archetypes for greater clarity, enhanced function and superior control in the bathroom.

As more and more saunas move from the basement into the great outdoors, German wellness specialist SPA Deluxe is the expert guide on this hot new garden trend.

‘Textile designers are too deep into the process. I prefer not to know much,’ says Cristian Zuzunaga. Watch now for more insight and commentary!

Kymo’s new handwoven, high-gloss-banana-silk carpet collection channels the shimmering optics of metal, animating floors in exclusive living spaces.

The exponential growth of LED and other technologies has made light even more biddable as an architectural element, as the latest crop of restaurants and museums demonstrate.

‘Textiles can be the primary tool in the creation of a space,’ says Sevil Peach. Watch now for more insight and commentary!