Werner Aisslinger´s “loftcube”–project became one of the most discussed modular and transportable housing projects within the last years, his “hemp chair”from 2012 developed with BASF and Moroso was…
UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES DÜSSELDORF With over 40 study courses in seven departments, the University of Applied Sciences Düsseldorf offers a comprehensive and application-oriented study program…
LANDHAUS PFLEGE & WOHNEN, HANOVER The Landhaus Pflege & Wohnen is located on a former farm on the outskirts of Hanover. In addition to a high level of living comfort and professional care, the senior…
ENERGIE AG MITTELDEUTSCHLAND, KASSEL The outstanding characteristics of the armchair S 411 are elegance, timelessness and excellent seating comfort. Added is a lightness that only a cantilever model…
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…
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…
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…
Thonet’s repair service: giving preloved furniture a new lease of life Sustainability comes full circle - Repaired instead of replaced It’s a simple calculation: the longer an item is used the less…
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…
