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Startseite/Artikel/ 100 designs that changed the game: #4 The String System Born from a 1949 Bonnier bookshelf competition, Nisse and Kajsa Strinning's String System has been assembled and reconfigured for over seven decades – a structural idea that outlived its brief.

Startseite/Artikel/ A different timescale: what hospitality owes to Nordic design Across the Nordic countries, an object's lifespan has long been part of its quality. As hospitality measures sustainability in years rather than trends, that instinct has never felt more relevant. August 10, 2026 | 12:00 am CUT Hospitality interiors are shaped by a contradiction. They must remain appealing despite years of intensive use, making durability as much an economic consideration as an aesthetic one.

Startseite/Artikel/ Form follows forward: 100 designs that changed the game – no. 3 Cactus opens our third instalment of '100 designs that changed the game': Drocco and Mello's thorny coat stand, still being reinterpreted by designers today, as proof that Radical Design's ironic provocations could double as genuinely functional objects. August 5, 2026 | 12:00 am CUT By the late 1960s, the purported democratic principles of modernist design were deemed outdated – bourgeois, even.

Home/Stories/ WATCH: Inside Van Oys Maastricht Retreat, a castle reborn through slow luxury An 800-year-old castle in the Limburg countryside is transformed into a five-star hotel, where understated luxury and local craft meet GROHE's quiet design language.

Startseite/Artikel/ WATCH: Inside Van Oys Maastricht Retreat, a castle reborn through slow luxury An 800-year-old castle in the Limburg countryside is transformed into a five-star hotel, where understated luxury and local craft meet GROHE's quiet design language.

Startseite/Artikel/ 100 designs that moved the needle – no. 2, Uten.Silo Dorothee Becker's Uten.Silo turned mass-produced plastic into a wall-mounted composition of everyday tools. Launched in 1969 and reissued by Vitra in 2002, it now returns in recycled ABS – its formal logic still pointing to what plastic once made possible.

Startseite/Artikel/ Beyond the postcard blue: five swimming pools with edge From a natural swimming creek in Sydney to glacial plunge pools in the Rockies, five projects reimagine the pool as an authored space – its water shaped, darkened or half-hidden by design – as deliberate as the building it belongs to. Juli 27, 2026 | 12:00 am CUT For many of us it's pool season. For some, watery relief comes close to home. But what does lounging on the tiles to the sound of water lapping look like in 2026?

Startseite/Artikel/ 100 designs that moved the needle – n. 1, Camaleonda A new series on the thinking behind furniture history's turning points – starting with the modular system and manufacturing innovation behind Mario Bellini's 1970 Camaleonda for B&B Italia. Juli 22, 2026 | 12:00 am CUT Camaleonda is a portmanteau combining the Italian words for chameleon and wave.

Maybe they were simply obsessed. Not obsessed in the pathological sense, but obsessed the way someone is who won't let go of a problem, long after everyone else has moved on. That's the thought we took away from our conversation with Susanne Graner, Head of Collection & Archive at the Vitra Design Museum – and it hasn't let go of us since.

Fibra's extruded aluminium frame meets FSC® C114358-certified teak legs through a die-cast connector designed to be nearly invisible yet structurally resolute. Ph. Omar Sartor, art direction studio FM Milano, set design & styling Studio Milo. ‘Completely, and quite radically’ comes the emphatic answer from Italian industrial designer Davide Angeli when I ask him if outdoor culture has changed over the past few years.