| Show-offs!: the latest showroom projects | | | Photo: Pia Riverola Showrooms represent an ideal setting for a brand to present its products to the public, but, with the right design team on board, they can also create longer-lasting, more meaningful consumer experiences.
| | | Skin deep: new beauty-brand interiors | | | Photo: Daisuke Shima For beauty and cosmetics brands, the experience for consumers in-store is delivered as much by the project as it is by the products and service. And there’s nothing superficial about it.
| | | | Just because a sanitary area is in a highly frequented space like an airport or shopping mall, doesn’t mean good design needs to be sacrificed – and with GEBERIT’s hands-free systems, it isn’t.
| | BUILT FOR THE FUTURE:
HI-MACS® | | It has never been more important to pay attention to the sustainable credentials of the materials we use in our buildings – and companies such as LG Hausys, manufacturer of HI-MACS®, are leading the way.
| | The STRING shelf may be an icon, but it’s not resting on its laurels. On the contrary, it’s aiming to prove itself anew in a different environment: the office.
| | | SHOW YOUR COLOURS: TECNOGRAFICA | | The desire to express one's personality while communicating over zoom and other apps at home has caused demand for expressive wallpapers from the Italian manufacturer TECNOGRAFICA to boom.
| | What happens when you marry a seven-tonne Alpine boulder with premium BAUWERK parquet flooring and views of verdant Swiss hills?
| | | How to maintain a real-time face-to-face work dynamic safely, during pandemic times? The FLEXup OptiSpace system from interiors-specialist LINDNER offers a convincing answer.
| | | THE WRITING’S ON THE WALL: ASB GLASSFLOOR | | ASB GLASSFLOOR has been lighting up the world of sport with its cutting-edge LumiFlex floor technology for years. Now, with DigitalWallpaper, it has set its sights on a broad new range of applications. Sunglasses optional.
| | | SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHING NEW: LAUFEN | | In creating his new collection for Swiss bathroom brand LAUFEN, Marcel Wanders sought to marry old-world refinement with modern functionality. And the result? The New Classic.
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READY. SET. WORK!: PEDRALI | | With its latest raft of super-flexible, task-oriented furniture, borne out collaborations with the likes of Jorge Pensi, PEDRALI is liberating our minds and bodies from traditional work cultures.
| | | PARTNERS FOR LIFE: VILLEROY & BOCH | | VILLEROY & BOCH’s ViCare range of bathroom products are designed with not just the here and now in mind, but the future too – so as our needs change over time, our bathroom doesn’t have to.
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Teaming up
Designing a lighting system for the office of today requires not only technical know-how and imagination, but also an understanding of how these increasingly dynamic spaces – as well as the teams who inhabit them – tick. No simple task, but one for which Hamburg-based specialist Tobias Grau offers a solution. Coming up with a name, one might suppose, was the easy part.
The TEAM series is a smart, connected, modular system that optimises office lighting conditions with a combination of cutting-edge beam- and sensor-technology and a sleek, unobtrusive, design language. It comes in five visually unified forms, including the TEAM 1 desk-clamp version, and freestanding models TEAM 2 and TEAM 4. And, like the best teams, this TEAM functions best when it’s working together.
| | | Yuanping Meijing Bookstore, Renqiu City, China, by Y. AD Studio | | | Photo: Peter Dixie (UK) / Lotan Architectural Photography Set over two atriums in the commercial space of a multi-purpose building in Renqiu City, China, the Yuanping Meijing bookstore project by Y. AD Studio was designed not only with profitability in mind, but also holistic, spiritual and cultural considerations.
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The winning practices of ArchichefNight in Geneva:
3BM3 ATELIER D’ARCHITECTURE
Carmelo Stendardo – Bénédicte Montant
3BM3 understands that architecture performs a social function by shaping the structure of the urban space over the long term. We practice without ever surrendering our passionate commitment to building for tomorrow.
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Sergio Mannino Studio is a New York-based design firm envisioning retail spaces, interiors, and furniture for private and commercial environments that are as dynamic as life itself.
| | Some December design dates...
| | World Architecture Festival (virtual event)
30 November–4 December, 2020 | | Design Miami, Miami, US
27 November-6 December, 2020 | | And want to advertise in a future issue?
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