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Join us from wherever you are in the world to celebrate this year’s Winners and the People’s Choice.

Dutch Design Week (DDW) will take place in Eindhoven from 22 to 30 October 2022. You can submit your design projects until 1 July 2022.

A classic as a benchmark for the future: Tara from Dornbracht is available in new variants and surfaces.

Clerkenwell Design Week came back bigger than ever in 2022. With more showrooms, exhibitions and installations, festival visitors found out what the industry’s been up to while they’ve been away.

Building on its years of expertise, the German luxury appliance manufacturer now proposes to inspire architects and planners with a large-scale installation at this year's Fuorisalone.

Against the backdrop of a potential global food crisis, our Kitchen Design Week speakers discuss the future of the kitchen, both functionally and culturally. And, in the near future, our DAAily bar in Milan opens its doors.

Reduced and elegant at the same time – Noto chair and easy chair.

The DAAily bar is set to become one of Milan Design Week's biggest destinations, with a series of Live Talks featuring speakers from the very top of architecture and design.

Designboom, Architonic and ArchDaily open the DAAily bar: the place for the A&D community to meet during Milan Design Week.

Technologically advanced textiles play a hugely significant role in contemporary design and architecture, as demonstrated by the three international trade fairs - Techtextil, Texprocess and the Summer Edition of Heimtextil…

Take our hand, as Designboom, Architonic and ArchDaily guide you through both the fair and the city before and during Milan Design Week. Find out where to find the best products, people and parties.

With improvements to endurance, resistance and design adaptability, the latest medium density fireboards, once only a budget-friendly option, are giving natural materials a run for their money.

In our increasingly user-centric society, it's necessary for brands to deliver solutions that streamline project workflows. German bathroom expert Villeroy & Boch has done just that with its suite of digital tools.

The new home of ISE in Barcelona will provide the canvas for a world-class range of keynotes, projection mapping, and immersive installations harnessing the power of AV technology to create memorable experiences.

As interior businesses become more selective in partnerships, this Dutch brand is providing the solution.

The limits of the architect, the limits of furniture, and unlimited fun at our DAAily bar in Milan.

Discover some of the measures that Heinze is taking within its own company (infra)structure to combat the negative effects of climate change on our shared environment.

With the launch of its own festival dedicated to the issue of climate change in Düsseldorf, Germany, Heinze paves the way for much needed discussion and fruitful exchange that promises a greener future for the construction industry as a whole.

Visit the trade show to discover what the service provider for the construction industry has to offer through various analogue and multimedia channels. Number one priority for Heinze moving forward: sustainability.

Swiss sound-management experts Impact Acoustic are getting heard when it comes to architecturally integrated acoustic solutions. Watch the video to learn more…

It’s not long until ISE 2022 opens its doors for the first time in Barcelona, and with seven conferences, around 800 exhibitors across six Technology Zones and a host of lounges, experiences and showfloor features, it’s shaping up to be an

Maison&Objet 2022 Designer of the Year Franklin Azzi on architectural surgery, the current state of French design and why new build could soon be a thing of the past.

Joulia's shower channels enable the heat from warm outflowing water to be recovered and recycled, thus offering a shower solution that's not only comfortable, but sustainable, too.

Product surfaces are often not given the credit they deserve. With phantom and black phantom, the lighting specialists at Occhio have now added two novelties to their repertoire that stand out from the crowd.

La gestion des câbles est souvent un élément négligé mais essentiel dans l'aménagement des bureaux. Peu importe la beauté du mobilier, des tissus et des détails, une fois que les gens commencent à travailler dans l'environnement du bureau et

Architects and designers possess problem-solving skills that also make them extremely valuable to companies outside of the A&D sector. The key term here is design thinking…

The ICONIC AWARDS 2022: Innovative Interiors show that the office still remains the heart of a company, even if digital structures are increasingly facilitating mobile work. In the penultimate feature of our nine-part series, we turn our attention to

A diversity of innovative materials, contemporary colour spectrums and new manufacturing methods: Part seven of our nine-part series celebrates the winners of the ICONIC AWARDS 2022: Innovative Interior in the field of furniture.

The kitchen is the beating heart of most homes. Not just a place to eat, but to socialise and celebrate. In part six of our nine-part series, we are also celebrating the kitchen, and more specifically, the winners in the kitchen category of this

Shower toilets are fast becoming the new standard when it comes to personal hygiene. GROHE Sensia Arena showcases the benefits of this all-encompassing approach with award-winning design, innovative technology and an undeniable feel-good factor.

How a wide variety of HANSA faucet solutions helped preserve the cultural heritage of the famous Kakola area throughout the project’s construction phase.

Everything flows. In part four of our nine-part series celebrating the winners of this year's ICONIC AWARDS: Innovative Interior, we look at the bathroom and its transformation into a holistic place for individual well-being.

Leyasol gets you outdoors for moments of relaxation. Based on the style of the Leya model family, Leyasol is designed for outdoors – and for indoors.

We continue to laud the 112 winners of this year’s ICONIC AWARDS: Innovative Interior. In part three of our nine-part series, we turn our attention to the topic of simplicity…

Over the course of several weeks, we are celebrating the winners of this year's ICONIC AWARDS: Innovative Interior. Here, we present part two of our nine-part series, which is all about colour…

Successes are meant to be celebrated, and here, we celebrate several at once, namely the winners of this year's ICONIC AWARDS: Innovative Interior. Part 1

3–5 March 2022, at the ORF RadioKulturhaus, Vienna

Catalan creativity, the architectural El Clásico and Italian environmentalism.

Fresh new collections to fit both indoor and outdoor environments.

The 2022 AZ Awards is open for entries! Submit your best work to the 12th annual competition, which recognizes excellence in design and architecture.

In contemplating what is outside, you can find yourself. The relationship between the human figure and space is the basis of a good design project. The mimesis with the colors of nature and the research of resistant and comfortable materials is the

High Pressure Laminate (HPL) is now an indispensable part of the interior design world, that includes Unilin Panels, which manufactures not only melamine panelling but also top quality HPL panelling.

Fermín Vázquez of b720 Fermín Vázquez Arquitectos discusses how the availability of many new materials can cause great failure, ‘We haven't learned quick enough.’ Watch the video to hear more…

Reinventing the shower floor, BetteAir starts again with a clean slate. The innovative tray uses a flush-mounted drain and minimal rim to create a sanitary landscape of purity. Watch the video to learn more…

To the power of three! Designboom – the world's first online magazine – joins forces with Architonic and ArchDaily to consolidate our combined position as the world's foremost destination for curated, inspiring, and relevant premium A&D

The ICONIC AWARDS 2022: Innovative Interior present the latest trends in the interior design industry.

The great departed and the arrival of new voices. Welcome to 2022.

When you think about renovating, it’s easy to think of stressful situations. Clicwall, the modular wall-cladding system with a smart click profile by Unilin Panels, makes your renovation a dream come true.

Coming soon: Master Oak, the latest generation of melamine and HPL panelling from Unilin Panels with lifelike natural oak design. Unilin Panels is setting a new standard for the world of interior design.

The 2022 edition of the AZ Awards kicks off on Tuesday, January 4! Register now to receive our Call for Submissions.

Leading audio brands are looking forward to participating in ISE’s groundbreaking new immersive audio showcase, ISE Sound Xperience, which will make its debut in Barcelona in February.

With the tRACK shelving system, architects and planners can use spaces and complete concepts without compromising on design.

Win Your Design est le concours qui vous invite à interpréter les pièces iconiques des collections Horm, en créant un projet de design d'intérieur, réel ou conceptuel.

ISE 2022 returns 1- 4 February with a vibrant and inspiring edition, a redesigned show floor and new demonstration areas guaranteeing visitors to ‘Rise Up. Reimagine. Ignite the Future.’

Whether for reading in an armchair, working at the kitchen table or to set specific light points – with LUCTRA FLEX, you simply take your feel-good light with you.

Ettlin makes textiles of very different textures and colours glow in combination with LED technology – and immerses restaurants, offices, shops and hotels as well as living areas in extraordinary atmospheres and lighting moods. Find out more...

For your next residential building project, here are a few tips that will help you find the right faucet for your needs.

A quartet of four strong US design fairs are back in physical form this autumn – Neocon, ICFF and WantedDesign, and Design Miami...

With winter drawing in across the northern hemisphere, Hudson Valley Lighting Group share tips on how to warm up homes with layered lighting and worn-in finishes.

The threshold-free shower tile BetteAir offers planning security for creative free thinkers - seamless, floor-level and almost invisible.

In the absence of the usual furniture fair this year, designers turned instead to virtual and in-person spaces – a playground for new ideas and concepts that extend beyond art, architecture and design to include sustainability and circular

The PALMBERG Workplace Intelligence Series explores the rapidly evolving landscape of work in terms of both user behaviour and office design. Sponsored by leading German office-furniture manufacturer PALMBERG, which has for decades developed products

The Corian® Design business is launching in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) a set of bold, new aesthetics, for a total of eight new colours for its Corian® Solid Surface range of products for interior spaces and architecture.

Home workspaces must combine all the tools of the shared office with the user's personality for an inspirational and creative solitary environment. Here are ten desk solutions that are up to the job.

An honourable mention for OMA’s Taipei Performing Arts Centre celebrates the textural power of subtly shaded glass.

VELUX Group's Director of Sustainable Buildings Lone Feifer talks about the Build for Life Conference and the company's vision for a more sustainable future for the built environment.

Whether bold colours or interesting textures, these stylish fixtures and finishes offer the latest in luxury wellness for the home.

With contemporary lifestyles meaning more entertaining from home, forward-facing kitchen islands with integrated seating make staying in the new going out. But what makes the perfect kitchen island?

With its two new colours, turquoise and orange, the Parentesi 50 lamp by Flos pays homage to its designers Achille Castiglioni and Pio Manzù – the latter of whom is known as the designer of the iconic Fiat 127...

Dans les chambres et les suites, ainsi que dans la salle de fitness, le bar et le Club Lounge, du parquet de Bauwerk a été posé sur une surface totale de 6 150 m².

The profound energy of Pierre Bleue stone creates luxurious contemporary interiors

With its Busch-Welcome® range, electrical-installations specialist Busch-Jaeger offers a variety of indoor and outdoor solutions for increased security and comfort around the front door.

If you’ve got it, flaunt it. Large, expansive sliding windows allow our interiors to connect with the local environment, while flooding them with regenerative natural light.

Wingburg allows door and wall to become one, so that rooms are not simply subdivided, but can be perceived as a flowing sequence of spaces – illustrated here by three interior projects...

Restrooms that bring unique character to interior projects are a great way to add individual style to the user experience. Here are eight of the best.

With every household need catered for automatically, the Internet of Things promised us the easy life. Now smart home living can automate our daily lives, but what’s it really like?

Both at the new Red Bull site in Amsterdam and the Limburgs Museum in Venlo, Leolux LX upholstered furniture enhances the ambience of each of these contract settings.

Leolux LX's upholstered furniture lines can be customised and made to order so that interior designers' visions can be realised, whether for the home or the contract sector.

Designed by Martin Ballendat for Dutch brand Leolux LX, the LXR18 armchair speaks the design language of the club chair, but is more modern, compact – and friendly.

What do you do if you need a lot of storage space in the kitchen but don't want it to be immediately visible? Or if you would like to integrate the kitchen into the living area or the office?

Warsaw Home & Contract is a welcome opportunity for architects and interior designers to re-establish business relationships, establish new ones and discover the latest ideas generated by Poland’s burgeoning design community.

DuPont has launched a new version of its website dedicated to exterior cladding solutions based on Corian® Solid Surface

Colour and light are two hugely influential tools when sculpting interior space. They bring function and positivity to environments without adding physical clutter.

The Design Educates Awards attract high-calibre international entries and honours projects that benefit society in ecological, sustainable and social terms.

Leuchtstoff équipe l'église paroissiale Sainte-Barbe (Ortrand) dans le Brandebourg d'un éclairage LED contemporain

Sky-Frame a installé un radeau miroir comme salon imaginaire sur le lac des Quatre-Cantons pour son dernier film promotionnel de la série «Living with Sky-Frame – Lake Lucerne». Ainsi, l’intérieur devient extérieur et le salon se connecte

Commercial spaces must be enticing enough to pull people in, and comforting enough to keep them there. It’s this balance that makes the utilisation of technical lighting so important to master.

With the industries shift in focus towards sustainability, this Dutch brand has been there from the beginning.

The highly flexible PartiLine system furniture from System 180 supports participative working and makes it possible to create environments that can be changed quickly.

Unique surfaces for every bathroom interior.

The material underneath your feet is arguably the most crucial part of any interior. Here are the questions specifiers need to consider, when selecting the perfect floor covering for their project.

With MyData Analysis, Regent Lighting provides a smart technological solution that saves costs, increases efficiency and simplifies workflows – confirmed by its successful application in one of Europe's largest smart building projects.

Facades are the clothes buildings dress themselves up in. Physical declarations of prominence and boastful creativity. Here is an inspirational selection of architectural facades created by Architonic’s archive of manufacturers…

When it comes to creating timeless furniture, there's a lot to learn from modern classics like the String furniture system ...

Italian chair manufacturer Palma has reinvented its processes to make its production as green as possible.

The BetteAir floor-level shower tile from Bette allows absolute design freedom in the bathroom.

‘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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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’.

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

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.