The Japanese city of Kobe is part of the international UNESCO Creative Cities Network – and rightly so! Kenji Kondo give us an insight into the creative culture …
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I received some incense sticks as a souvenir from our neighbour following a trip to Asia. I was eight years old at the time and they seemed infinitely precious to me. They smelt different to anything I’d encountered up until that point, and soon the whole linen cupboard where they were put smelt the same, enchanting and exotic …
The Japanese city of Nagoya is part of the international UNESCO Creative Cities Network – and rightly so! Eriko Esaka gives us an insight into the creative culture …
Designer Megumi Ito makes unique light sculptures that illuminate hotels, bars and shops. She grew up in the historic town of Kamakura in Japan, but since completing her studies at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna, it’s here that she now lives and works …
The new Grand Egyptian Museum is 95 percent completed. The important cultural centre for ancient Egyptian history shows a collection of tens of thousands of exhibits. Many of them are on display for the first time …
This is the title of the upcoming Berlin Travel Festival. Event founder Bernd Neff spoke to us about the search for paradise, what locations will be drawing visitors in the coming years and how travel is getting “better”…
Even star architects have a penchant for playfulness. In his breathtaking design for the new Axel Springer building in the middle of Berlin, the renowned Dutch architect Rem Koolhaas took up the old border between East and West as one of the central design elements and aligned the essential planning with it …
The design studio Aratani・Fay was set up by Ayako Aratani and Evan Fay. They work as independent designers but share a studio, exhibit together and also collaborate on joint projects…
After only four years of construction, the currently largest airport in the world has opened its gates – the “Beijing Daxing Airport”. The mega-object developed by Zaha Hadid’s architectural office not only causes a sensation because of its many superlatives, but also because of its unusual appearance…
What is currently happening in Japan’s metropolis will enrich the city with spectacular buildings: Work on a comprehensive redesign of the Toranomon-Azabudai district zone in Minato,Tokyo, has just begun…
To honor Detroit’s designation as the first and only UNESCO City of Design in the United States, the […]
EDIT Napoli is an innovative design fair created to support, promote and celebrate a new generation of designers. It focuses on the rise of the designers who are at the forefront of a movement that is challenging the traditional chain of production and distribution …
My first impression is a mixture of Wild West romance and Footloose, seasoned with American friendliness and hippy charm…
I remember the first time I set foot on the Balearic island really well. I immediately felt at home there. Then when I saw the capital of Palma de Mallorca with its historical old town and port I knew that I would come back again. The view of the La Seu gothic cathedral that towers over everything and Castell de Bellver, a medieval fortress that rises in the background, is impressive time and time again […]
Islands are always something special, real or mythical places of longing, often a little unconventional, they are perfect when they are open to new things, without giving up their independence …
Museums are now part of leading fashion brands’ DNA. Museums in some of Europe’s – and the world’s – most beautiful places […]
Vibrating life in a city, which has been populated for more than two thousand years. The Hotel Tres is located in the heart of Palma’s old town, near Paseo Marítimo, the fashionable seaside promenade, and the famous fish market […]
Nine years ago, the Lasniks set out to revolutionise the world of reading glasses […]