Can a 1960s spa house be transformed into a stylish hotel? Oh, yes! The proof: the new “The Comodo” in the Austrian spa town of Bad Gastein, which now offers alpine wellness with a designer look. Architect Piotr Wisniewski describes what it took to make it happen.
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Sydney’s new architectural icon, the 3XN-designed Quay Quarter Tower, was named World Building of the Year 2022 at the fifteenth annual World Architecture Festival (WAF) in Lisbon. It also won the International High-Rise Award 2022/23…
The creation of a new tradition in the field of tension between craftsmanship and design…
Would you like a little more? The bright colours and fun prints from Funky Staff are a real “vitamin boost”. They make our serotonin levels shoot up steeply and get us over the last cold days with a smile…
The Vertical Panorama Pavilion, designed by Berlin-based studio Other Spaces, offers a special kind of experience: tasting California wine amid unique art and design.
Everything is changing, including the hotel industry. Two people who have experienced this process firsthand and helped shape it are Michael and Philipp Madreiter, brothers and Puradies hoteliers with a passion. Reasons enough to talk to them about the past, present and future of the industry…
The charming 5* Hotel L’Alpaga, from the Beaumier Collection, is located in the French Alps, just minutes from the famous village of Megève. As if in a mountain settlement, the chalets of L’Alpaga rise at a bend in the road and are arranged …
Introducing a new urban hotel concept that redefines the relationship between city and visitor. A reference point for travellers and an open, multifunctional space for Milan.
At boot Düsseldorf, Ferretti Yachts presented the first model in the new range that creates a limitless experience of sky and sea…
By revisiting and experimenting with the existing form of BuzziPleat, a new edition has been developed in the 13&9 Design atelier together with fashion designer Sabrina Stadlober …
A exhibition about the design of the future. To be seen at the Designmuseum Danmark till June 01 2023…
Everyday heroes. How do you combine exemplary energy efficiency, intuitive ease of use and technological progress at the highest level? Liebherr shows how modern refrigerators and freezers become real all-rounders…
Today the V&A Parasol Foundation Women in Photography Project launches a brand-new photography prize dedicated to supporting and championing contemporary women’s photography which will run for three years. The V&A Parasol Foundation Prize for Women in Photography, organised in partnership with Peckham 24, is a career-enhancing opportunity open to all women photographers from across the globe. Also announced today is the inaugural theme for this year’s prize, Agents of Change, alongside the selection panel for the prize…
The word “nagomi” sounds mysterious and promising: is it the name of a Central African desert? Are the Nagomi an indigenous Amazonian tribe? Or is it the name of a newly opened celebrity restaurant in Kensington? None of these things are nagomi – or maybe somehow they are, as the three melodious syllables represent the Japanese art of achieving harmony and balance in life by incorporating opposites and conflict…
Serdar Kutucu, an innovation expert with an affinity for design, tells us about the slow attitude to life, why it’s often best to go deeper rather than faster, and what he associates with nagomi…
Conceived as a loving tribute to nature, mountains, people and the truly good, the Kaufhaus der Berge is now considered an industry trendsetter and sells many of the most outstanding and primarily handmade natural products from the Alpine region as the first or exclusive …
COLLECTION OF FRAGMENTS is a collection of small series that emerged from a time of transformation – observing and embracing all forms. GROWTH is a process. These earrings are carefully handcrafted from recycled sterling silver combined with baroque beads …
Hanna Erz’s greatest passion is craftsmanship, creating, creating, expressing. Art, fashion, craft, drama, music, dance, no matter what form of visual arts and cultures you choose, all offer an incredibly and wonderfully powerful force to convey values on an emotional level, to reach and influence the viewer – wearer on an emotional level ..