A Neighbourhood Lobby: Denizen House in Berlin by Modiste Studio.Located in Berlin’s Kreuzberg, Denizen House is a 475-square-metre co-working space operated by the eponymous start-up. Modiste Studio’s design brief was to provide a flexible space that serves as the “lobby for the neighbourhood”...
Off-Kilter Minimalism: Vaders Dye Tattoo Studio in Hamburg by Deglan Studios.Artist-architect duo Deglan Studios bring their signature off-kilter minimalism to this Hamburg tattoo studio that feels akin to an upmarket beauty clinic. A calm and bright colour palette was utilised alongside a limited material...
Foam Fascination: Softy by Simon Stanislawski.In Europe alone, 30 million mattresses are disposed of every year—60 percent are landfilled, the rest is burnt. In his latest collection, Softy, Simon Stanislawski experiments with foam as a material for furniture, playing with the...
Ester Bruzkus Architekten Design a Berlin Bank as a Community Living Room.A bank isn’t the first thing you would expect to see with a cutting edge new design. You’d more likely be expect it to be closing down—like that one down the road from you. Yet Ester Bruzkus Architekten have done just that,...
Silver Fox: Munich Office by Buero Wagner.This two-story office extension by Buero Wagner is located in the backyard of a turn-of-the-century building near the Isar River in the Au district of Munich. The interventions were implemented from a canon of industrial materials—...
Rooftop Glass Apartment in Berlin by Gisbert Pöppler.If you were to fly over the heart of Berlin, more specifically over the borough of Mitte, you'd spy a 1930s apartment entirely enveloped by glass. From the sky, "you'd see a large glass cube with three rooms distributed like little boxes,"...
Besau Marguerre’s New Rug Collection for Reuber Henning.What is design capable of? In the best-case scenario, it can reimagine a product—just as Besau Marguerre did with RIB. When the Hamburg-based studio received the call from Berlin-based rug company, Reuber Henning, to design a woven rug...
Berlin Brutal: X-CHAIR by Hermann August Weizenegger for OUT Collection.A radical design by Hermann August Weizenegger for the OUT collection, the X-CHAIR challenges the viewer as brutally as a building that has fallen out of...
Peoplegrapher’s Gallery-Like Office in Dusseldorf, Germany by VAUST Studio.Rather than being just a typical film studio, Peoplegrapher describe themselves as a ‘film atelier’. For their Dusseldorf office, VAUST treated the space more like a gallery than a workplace, concentrating on imbuing the interior with...