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At Salone del Mobile this year, Architonic caught up with long-time Pedrali collaborators CMP Design to find out the secret to their happy relationship with the iconic Italian brand…

In the ultimate quest for verticality, the new Skydoors aluminium cladding line by Oikos adds minimalism, unparalleled elegance and clean lines to contemporary entrance design.

Bare feet welcome: a fully recyclable indoor/outdoor carpet collection that feels surprisingly soft to the touch. Nature-inspired design for OBJECT CARPET.

Vuelift® from Canadian manufacturer Savaria® is putting the home elevator centre stage, enhancing not only domestic mobility but bringing the wow factor, too.

From Salone del Mobile, designer Piergiorgio Cazzaniga takes us on a personal tour of his inviting Raglan Home sofa for Andreu World, sharing his thoughts on everything from the design concept and forms to the seams and the sewing technique. Watch

These selected designer dining chairs provide elegant, comfortable, durable, wipeable and flexible table-side seating. Because mealtimes are only the beginning.

For decades, Cassina has been furnishing private residences, hospitality spaces and more. Now, many of its timeless pieces have also found a new home on yachts and cruise liners – flooding cabins and sundecks with sophistication and innovation.

The journey to a sustainable future is a long one, but Cassina is fully on board. With Cassina LAB, the furniture brand explores circularity and innovative solutions for greener, more durable designs.

Venturing out into open waters, Cassina supplies premium furnishings that elevate the interiors of contemporary yachts, with craftsmanship, cutting-edge design and timeless beauty all combining to enhance life on board.

Once seen as a complex and costly solution, living roofs are now growing in popularity, bringing many environmental benefits to projects big and small.

Using blockchain technology, Ruckstuhl’s Fellow project presents consumers with an NFT of their digital rug design to use as a production voucher, and to keep as a digital product diary. Watch the video to find out more…

Designed to meet the ever-changing needs of the modern workplace, Herman Miller’s new Bound acoustic screens foster focus, flexibility and comfort – the perfect formula for a productive office space.

As trade fairs are forced to adapt to stay relevant in a fast-changing industry, Architonic invites leading German architect Peter Ippolito to share his thoughts on the meaning and and opportunities of the physical design exhibition. Watch the video

Night lights help children to feel safe in the darkness, but even as adults we can still fear what’s lurking in the shadows. As these night-time lighting solutions show, they’re not just for the kids.

With a whole host of customisable options, Maxalto's latest 2023 furniture range ignores the temporary interior trends of the moment, in favour of a more timeless individual style.

Danish hygge specialist BoConcept proved to be the ideal partner when Jeff Lee was looking to bring a comfortable and contemporary design feel to his high-end elderly care home, Wentworth Grange…

It's not all castles and fairy tales. Though chandeliers are often associated with their medieval origins, these examples prove that variations on the light fixture’s traditional theme can add a special shine to contemporary surroundings, too.

Versatile, adaptable and space-saving, pocket doors offer unparalleled flexibility and fluidity in modern interiors. Ermetika’s frameless sliding door, the ‘Echo’, embodies these qualities in a sleek, functional design.

Natural leather has a rich history in tradition and luxury, and is ever-present in both fashion and design. But with rising questions over the environmental impact of leather, what is its future?

With careful attention given to both material choices and detailing, Cbdesign’s Foglia Daybed skillfully translates the sensations evoked in nature – comfort, well-being and harmony – into a solid piece of outdoor furniture.

Those hoping for clear skies over Milan this week won't be alone, but with outdoor furniture from the Mad Out collection on show, Poliform's Percezioni presentation will be restful, whatever the weather.

With its Pantone collaboration, premium producer of high-tech performance materials Ultrafabrics is helping the design industry to comfortably connect with the chromatic zeitgeist.

We take a look at five different interior typologies to illustrate the effectiveness of clever lighting design in all kinds of spaces.

Designed by Swiss creative office atelier oï for contract-furniture specialists Brunner, "foild" is an ultra-nomadic, space-shaping device that turns its users into interior planners. Text by Simon Keane-Cowell

With Proline T, Solarlux has combined its range of facade and balcony glazing into a comprehensive system family – including improved sound insulation properties and wind resistance.

At Milan Design Week 2023, visitors to Brera can look forward to the fabulous ‘Invisible’ pop-up installation by switch manufacturer JUNG – including an immaterial souvenir.

Often taken for granted but never missed, the light switch is a small but important element of interior design. Here’s how to make the material and design choices that push all the right buttons.

Just in time for the upcoming Milan Design Week, outdoor furniture expert FAST opens its new flagship store - with the premise of providing the best possible advice to (interior) architects in search of the best furniture in Italy...

Elegance and lightness define Levante. Thanks to its scenographic aspect, it is possible to create compositions of great formal quality and emotional impact.

In their first-ever collaboration, Kasthall and David Chipperfield Design unveil ‘Tegel’, an architecturally inspired rug collection that offers a fresh, modern take on textile craftsmanship.

While straight lines and sharp edges often emerge as contemporary alternatives, the curved form is one designers and architects consistently return to. These facade and furniture examples identify why.

Bringing communities together, well-connected and easy-to-maintain central courtyards are the multi-generational green spaces at the heart of these social housing projects.

Reggiani’s new Outline lighting system caters to the ever-changing demands of contemporary interiors, delivering flexibility, modularity and a sleek design that can be tailored to suit any style.

By employing glass doors, skylights and frameless windows, these four projects dissolve the boundary between indoor and outdoor spaces and allow the visual beauty of their courtyards to radiate throughout the home.

CUBIT is a furniture system of a very special, modular kind. Now Minou Farkhondeh and Thomas Reichel are taking the next evolutionary step on their journey and reimagining furniture design in a free, unconventional way with MYMITO.

Atlas Concorde is an expert in ceramic-tile solutions that are at once sustainable and luxurious. Architonic spoke with HBA partner Paula O’Callaghan about the hospitality-design firm's collaboration with the Italian brand on its Marvel Travertine

Italian wall-coverings brand Wall&decò's versatile new collection reflects design evolution and contemporary interior trends from right across the world.

Marrying innovation with tradition – that’s JANUA. A conversation about furniture and the people behind it.

The inaugural edition of Design Shenzhen wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, having happily hosted 40,000 visitors and over 250 brands in China's first city of design. Here we share a few of the highlights of the event…

With its new Small Living Kitchens™ collection, Falper is spreading its know-how beyond the bathroom, with a refined, modular kitchen system specially designed for compact spaces.

DRAENERT is known for its expertise in natural stone –but there’s much, much more to the furniture company than that. 

Sustainable certifications allow brands to parade their green credentials like celebrity endorsements. More than just marketing tools, however, they help to distinguish fact from greenwashing fiction.

New is coming! The Boucle version of IKER’s Cheri chair is proof that European designers and manufacturers are implementing the principles of the New European Bauhaus. It is a concept that leaves ample space for creativity and eco-friendly design.

Not just for tiles and toilets, ceramic surfaces have sparkling, sculptural and hardwearing qualities that make them suitable to sit on and sit with, outside the kitchen and bathroom.

The luminaires by VS MANUFAKTUR are aesthetic and technical masterpieces that make spaces shine and last a lifetime.

Named after the iconic British fashion star, Italian design brand Minotti's sculptural new modular family of seats, Twiggy, brings effortless elegance to a variety of contexts.

With no floor space necessary, hooks take previously unused surfaces and transform them into simple, practical and sometimes even beautiful storage solutions.

Craftsmanship and precision make every piece of furniture from YOMEI a true masterpiece.

The CGI agency Danthree Studio develops photo-realistic and high-quality 3D visualisation for brands, online shops and planning offices in the furniture, home and living industries – virtual spaces with 3D-modelled products and objects for the here

Paris based brand Eldvarm has carved a niche in the market, supplying exclusive homes and hotels with fireplace tools that are as beautiful as they are functional.

With its versatile new outdoor offering Lamorisse, Pedrali presents a generously voluminous cushioned seat shell nestled in a lightweight aluminium frame – perfect for patio, pool or even boat deck.

Essential not only for access, safety and security, door handles also play a crucial role in an interior’s aesthetic style and ergonomic comfort.

Furniture from BULLFROG inspires people – with form and function in perfect step.

Not just for keeping wine in its place, cork is a truly circular and sustainable material that could be a solution to help keep humanity afloat, too.

A natural phenomenon: the ceramic facade system of Agrob Buchtal.

Munich-based lighting specialist HEAVN's products track sunlight over the course of the day, and so work in sync with natural human biorhythms.

For Axel Meise, light equals quality of life – the lighting systems from OCCHIO make people the lighting designers of their living spaces.

Together with circular economy pioneer Niaga, Object Carpet has developed the world's first endless circular carpet – the first step into a circular future...

For COR, it’s inner values that count – not just in the production of its furniture but in the way it treats the environment too.

With a number of complementary components to combine, the shower enclosure is almost a room in itself. By asking these questions, shower designers can make sure everything fits together cleanly.

During Stockholm Design Week, Fogia introduces its latest products, designed with renowned designers Inga Sempé and Andreas Engesvik.

With a huge range of creative materials, colours and application techniques to choose from, the kitchen’s backsplash is a perfect way to add a little more flavour.

Iconic Italian brand Minotti is spreading its trademark elegance out into the fresh air.

Leyasol is the all-weather version of furniture brand Freifrau's long-time bestseller Leya, which creative director Birgit Hoffmann recently brought to Lombardy to stage some of the collection in the romantic landscape of a private garden.

Lithuanian brand Desforma's sculptural collections may look as if they have sprung into creation naturally, but both meticulous handcraft and a special ‘spheric construction technology’ lie behind them.

Designer Stefan Diez shares his thoughts on the evolving landscape of physical fairs while proposing a potential path forward, in the first of a new series of imm cologne-sponsored interviews…

As our personal energy use becomes an even hotter topic, here’s how to transform those hard-to-heat open-plan spaces into cosy hibernation nests until spring.

On 3 February 2023, the twelfth German Design Awards will be presented during the Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt. The award's broad thematic range demonstrates how social and ecological factors play a decisive role in all areas of design as they respond

In the first instalment of a new thought-provoking series of candid interviews on the future of physical design fairs – sponsored by imm cologne – AW Designer of the Year Stefan Diez discusses the good, the bad and the ugly…

With its new Metropole design, Silent Gliss reinterprets the tried and tested curtain pole as a highly flexible track with a patented, ultra-quiet running mechanism.

In the first installment of the Busch-Jaeger Intelligence Series – three consecutive features sponsored by the German specialist for electrical installation technology and building automation – architect Ursula Fuss speaks about an inclusive

The great warmth and glow of a cosy home fireplace is one of winter’s greatest pleasures, but can burning fuel ever be part of a carbon-neutral future?

2022 was the year that life returned. Over the next 12 months, however, architects and designers will combine individuality and wellness with sustainability to create a ‘new and improved’ normal.

Here are the top five articles we’ve published over the past year, with everything from top projects to top products and how to use them.

From 3 to 7 February 2023, Messe Frankfurt will once again shine the spotlight on the world of consumer goods. And with an expected 4,500 exhibitors, the new combined format of Ambiente, Christmasworld and Creativeworld, promises to be an event not

In early December, the global winners of the International VELUX Award 2022 were announced, a competition for architecture students that celebrates the innovative and creative use of daylight in a broad range of different projects.

Heimtextil in 2023 will not only continue its tradition as the sector's most important trend barometer, it's also going full circle. Under the 'Textiles Matter' banner, Heimtextil Trends 23/24 will revolve around the themes of the circular economy

How can aesthetics, functionality and sustainability be interwoven? What innovations and visions are on the horizon? And what do sustainable hospitality trends look like? The Interior.Architecture.Hospitality programme provides tailor-made insights.

In thematic terms, the overarching meta-theme of sustainability will also be clearly visible at Heimtextil 2023, with its holistic concept providing innovative answers to pressing questions about the future.

Taking a look back at the most popular residential buildings and interiors of the year on Architonic.

With its curved, handcrafted shapes inspired by Japanese culture, the Zencha bathroom collection by Sebastian Herkner soothes its users in a meditative way.

Suitable for outdoor as well as indoor use, Mirage's new Reflet tile collection offers architects a new material palette that reflects and interacts with its surroundings.

Cabin life is more than just the uprising trend of cabincore interiors. These small-scale structures also bring us closer to our environments’ past.

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Resource conservation, renovation of building stock, circular construction. Maximum design freedom is already built in with Drytile.

Friend-winning dinner parties require an impressive menu and tabletop, but what really makes them sing is a relaxed atmosphere. Considerate tableware ensures both guests and hosts stay comfortable.

The Danish company's wealth of online resources supports planners in creating attractive work environments that promote Activity-Based Working – just like its own HQ in Herning…

In the third part of the raumplus Intelligence Series – three consecutive features sponsored by the German manufacturer – designer Sebastian Herkner talks about the status quo of our interiors and explains his down-to-earth vision for the future.

As the cold and the darkness creeps in, so do we, retreating indoors to hibernate until spring. But need we give up our new-found love of outdoor environments so easily?

Even the best-looking sofas can cause twisted spines and sore backs, ultimately making users dread sitting on them. Here’s how to keep the style, without the stiffness.

Relaxation redefined: with the new whirl systems from KALDEWEI.

With Tecnografica's creative and graphical metal-finish wallpaper collection, both commercial and private spaces can stand out with featured interior surfaces that rock.

In the second installment of the Bette Intelligence Series – three consecutive features sponsored by the German bathroom specialist – UNC Charlotte Dean of Arts + Architecture Brook Muller speaks about the importance of incorporating water into

We don’t have to wait for future technology in the building industry to improve people’s lives while being regenerative for the planet.

A statement on quality, sustainability, short distances and know-how: Switzerland has a long tradition in the production of high-quality furniture with a crafted character. Quality, aesthetics and precision that are highly valued not only around the

At this year's Orgatec, Wagner presented new additions to its chair family that celebrate the end user as well as sustainable materials and the company's unique ergonomic technology.

Communicating both the naturally sustainable properties of ceramics and the material's inherent aesthetic value and high performance, Casalgrande Padana's collections speak out at Cersaie 2022.

As lead designer of the Italian seating specialist Edra, Francesco Binfaré describes the inspiration behind some of the brand's most iconic pieces, and how they reflect modern life.

KALDEWEI launched the MEISTERSTÜCK OYO DUO by designer Stefan Diez.

Cosentino's high-tech Dekton Onirika surfaces are perfect for a broad range of applications and merge high functional performance with the warmth and charms of natural materials.

With many emerging and established Hungarian designers and manufacturers on show, 360 Design Budapest blends the country’s culture and crafts with technology, and puts environmental eyes on the future.

The global ceramics specialist offers online tools and a collection of sleek designs to architects and designers looking to incorporate accessibility features into projects of all sizes.

Villeroy & Boch’s barrier-free range enables designers and architects to equip public restrooms with quality that lasts and has the end user in mind at all times.

In the second installment of the raumplus Intelligence Series – three consecutive features sponsored by the German manufacturer –, the interior designer speaks to Gerrit Terstiege about what it takes to successfully merge different interior

Woven products like the Grass and Parrot luminaires from French lighting brand Forestier respond to our increasing desire for warmth, comfort and natural, handcrafted quality.

Desks, whether in or out of office, in or out of hours, can be lonely places. When long, dark nights start to breach our working days, it’s good to have a desktop friend, to lighten the load.

Swedish leather specialist Elmo's latest collections, created in collaboration with designer and colour consultant Georgina Wright, draw inspiration from nature and aim to bring sensuality and joy to interiors.

Thanks to its extensive glass panels, the German glazing specialist’s slim profiled sliding door turns the inside into the outside – without compromising on design, functionality or safety.

With their product designs for numerous well-known manufacturers, Sven von Boetticher and his industrial design office ID AID from Stuttgart are actively shaping the flexible working world.

'Applying international and globally recognised certifications is not enough if there is no "self-certification",' argues the award-winning office's top team.

With its organic, nature-inspired lines and contemporary graphics, the Bice chair from Italian furniture specialists Miniforms fits perfectly in a variety of spaces, where its characterful design packs a serious punch.

By outfitting public-facing spaces with Leolux LX designs, hotels, restaurants, theatres and bars can greet visitors with sculptural, organic shapes that create an inviting environment in any context.

Reflecting on the designer's relationship with material experimentation, Tom Dixon's TWENTY exhibition showcases some of his known and unknown designs, while looking forward to the next chapter.

The energy crisis, energetic thinking on sustainability and the power of lighting design.

Cassina Pro delivers one of the largest collections of iconic designs specified for public use: from lobbies, lounges and restaurants to waiting rooms and the workplace.

With its suite of modular luxury kitchen appliances and specified tools for architects and designers, the global brand eases planning processes through timeless aesthetics and a team of experts.

We ask a lot of the contemporary kitchen worktop, but with so many materials claiming to tick all the boxes from durability and hygiene to a simple install, it’s hard to see the wood for the quartz.

Brooklyn-based lighting brand Trella's design ethos is one driven by craft and material, as well as close creative collaboration between designers, craftspeople and the client, too.

A new dimension for bedrooms with the Nelson collection by Bonaldo: an entire range of products for an environment imbued with Bonaldo style.

Cultural monument meets living space: In Düsseldorf, five penthouses were built onto the roof of a historical bunker. Licht im Raum set the scene for the luxurious homes within.