NATUZZI ITALIA presents lounge chairs, sofa and side tables as well as beautifully designed lamps in the Viennese Concept Store at Mahlerstraße 7, all of which make an unusual and special Christmas gift. The gift ideas are rounded off by attractive home accessories in southern Italian design, such as scented candles, room scents or pumos, the Apulian lucky charms that represent a bud as a sign of a new beginning…

Riccardo’s Locanda al Colle in Tuscany is a Wunderkammer. The host has lovingly placed numerous furnishing treasures in his guest house, a historic farmhouse, and brought them together to create a harmonious whole. The chairs, tables and lamps come from antique markets and earlier times, from contemporary artists and old design icons, from Italy or London. Breathing new life into old objects and placing them in a new context is one of Riccardo Barsottelli’s passions. It’s worth asking where the pieces in Locanda al Colle come from and what stories they tell…

Making the world more beautiful piece by piece? That is the vision of Mezza —Maiso. The design studio from Vienna has already created many places, spaces and objects and has considered every single one of them down to the smallest detail. Jürgen Hamberger and Verena Wohlkönig leave nothing to chance. What does it take to realize a project? Good groundwork, a lot of dedication and the willingness to go the extra mile. With the Nils am See, they recently created a new hotspot in Burgenland.

Going Dark: The Contemporary Figure at the Edge of Visibility presents works of art that feature partially obscured or hidden figures, thus positioning them at the “edge of visibility.” In this art context, the common phrase going dark is understood as a tactic whereby artists visually conceal the body to explore a key tension in contemporary society: the desire to be seen and the desire to be hidden from sight.

Nestled in the secluded, natural site of Greece‘s Cycladic Island of Syros, Residence Viglostasi emerges as a single-family holiday dwelling like a traditional island settlement, perched on rocky slopes above the Mediterranean Sea. Block722, crafted the house’s distinctive character by cleverly drawing on the typology of small Aegean villages – minimalist constellations of low volumes, often found sprawled on hillsides, looking out towards the sea.