Concrete is by no means simply gray and monotonous. Recent years have seen the development of numerous new concretes that reveal the various uses to which it can be put.

The era of the energy-saving lamp has begun. But is it even ready for its new tasks?

Between 1971 and 1973, when the Wall ran through Germany, divind opinions and pooulations, for a short time one company surmounted the barrier. The legendary "Senftenberg Seating Egg" was designed by Peter Ghyczy in the West, ut produced in the East. The history of a joint project.

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"We want to take up old traditions again, because they have been put to great use," says the young designer Marek Gut from Linz. He and his team have taken up the challenge of applying the parameters of veritable, bourgeois existence to their designs. His commode is a case in point, and what a case!

In the past, people everywhere disrespectfully dismissed the furniture as "Swedish brand". Today it is exhibited in a museum, and because IKEA products are inexpensive, they are considered to be democratic design. The exhibition at the Neue Sammlung in Munich traces the history and methods of the successful company from Älmhult.