Interview with Eva Marguerre and Marcel Besau If you imagine a chair you would have liked to have as children, how would it have looked? And what would you have liked to use it for? To a child, a…
DINESEN At the beginning of the millennium, British designer Anouska Hempel redesigned an extraordinary apartment in the centre of Copenhagen: large Douglas fir timber boards from the company Dinesen…
If you want to bend wood, you have to outwit it first. Or, more precisely, you have to trick two of its main components: cellulose, which gives wood its tensile strength, and lignin, which is…
The Weißenhof Siedlung in Stuttgart The Werkbund exhibition "Die Wohnung" in the Weißenhof Siedlung in Stuttgart in 1927 demonstrated solutions for the new way of living and was met with much acclaim…
Sustainable building close to Berlin’s Südkreuz station: Vattenfall’s German headquarters The new German headquarters of the Swedish energy company Vattenfall is a unique six-storey, wooden hybrid…
A tubular steel classic in a contemporary living space The young Cologne-based design company DIIIP has made a name for itself with its unconventional yet sustainable building and home conversion…
Versatile pieces from Thonet feature in Hamburg coworking and event space The Hamburger Ding coworking and event venue, based in the city’s trendy St. Pauli district, offers a range of different…
LUISS BUSINESS SCHOOL IN ROME Villa Blanc was built in eclectic style in the late 19th century and, along with six smaller buildings and a number of greenhouses, is located in a 39,000 m² park of…
FLACE SHOWROOM, TOKIO The FLACE Showroom near the Otemachi-Marunouchi business district in Tokyo offers visitors the possibility to experience furniture by Thonet and other renowned brands in a…
In 1983, after working as a freelancer, he founded the Design Büro Wolfgang C.R. Mezger, which has been headquartered in Göppingen near Stuttgart since 2007. With his team, Mezger develops innovative…
