INSPIRATION FROM AROUND THE WORLD FOR AN AESTHETIC AND MEANINGFUL LIFESTYLE
To celebrate its 20th anniversary (2023), the Portuguese winegrowers' group has created two exceptional wines: a red wine and a tawny port. These special cuvées, each blended from the best barrels of the five wineries, deserved a special presentation. The Linz-based creative agency upart won the tender. Their design for the labels and packaging of the valuable wines has now been honoured with the Austrian State Prize for ‘Smart Packaging 2024’.
With a soaring wooden spiral that inscribes Beethoven’s “Ode to Joy” into the sky, Austria presents a poetic synthesis of architecture, music, and sustainability at Expo 2025 in Osaka. Designed by BWM Designers & Architects in collaboration with facts and fiction, the pavilion is a vibrant invitation to co-create the future – not designed, but composed.
A portrait of Austrian architect and designer Martin Mostböck, whose work bridges architecture, interior, and furniture design. From the precision of the Konstantin Chair to the sculptural elegance of Mezzasferas, his approach unites clarity, material sensitivity, and timeless form – design with substance and purpose.
Simon Quendler is one of the most intriguing voices in Austrian contemporary art. With his “reactive paintings,” he expands the boundaries of painting, turning materials and processes into protagonists – a silent, poetic revolt against the expected.
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