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<p>When selecting materials to clad walls and floors in residential and commercial interiors, durability and ease of maintenance are crucial factors to consider. Yet it’s important not to forget the role that aesthetics, and particularly biophilic aesthetics, play in our daily lives: it has been scientifically proven that natural materials can improve our wellbeing by enhancing moods, whilst also evoking culture, history and memory.</p> <p>Finding a harmonious balance between function and aesthetics for floor and wall coverings has been the raison d’être for Italian porcelain ..read more

<p>Many things are made to outlast trends. The same goes for <a href="https://www.next125.com/en/">next125</a> icons. Inspired by the Bauhaus, the icons represent a perfect symbiosis of form and function. Scaled down to the essentials, each of these timeless design classics is functional, linear and elegant, playfully and effortlessly blending into any lifestyle or room in the house, guaranteed to make a statement for years to come.</p> <p>Take the multifunctional, architectural <a href="https://www.next125.com/en/">next125</a> <a href="https ..read more

<p>Sparks of innovation always fly at Milan Design Week. This year is no exception, particularly with <a href="https://www.next125.com/en/">next125</a>'s installation '<a href="https://www.next125.com/en/francis-kere">The Fireplace</a>', designed by pioneering architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, winner of the Pritzker Prize 2022. Presented in the Milan Superstudio, Kéré's organic, pantheon-like wooden dome frames the modern, purist aesthetics of a next125 premium kitchen made by Schüller, one of Germany's leading kitchen and furniture manufacturers.</p> <p> ..read more

<p>For more than two decades, <a href="https://www.next125.com/en/">next125</a> has been creating kitchens that are characterised by the brand’s seven design principles: precision, elegance, creativity, minimalism, function, emotion and technology. This special design language results in functional, sophisticated kitchens, full of both practicality and emotion.</p> <p>The kitchen brand <a href="https://www.next125.com/en/">next125</a> is the international premium brand of Schüller Möbelwerk KG, a kitchen sector market leader founded and still rooted in ..read more

<a href="https://en.aeris.de/" >Aeris</a> has been creating healthy and energised offices for over 25 years. The mission of the German active seating furniture manufacturer is to break through old ways of thinking and create ergonomic solutions. As a pioneer in the field of New Work, Aeris not only promotes movement and flexibility, but also demonstrates through its product portfolio that the balancing act between functionality and sophisticated design can be achieved without compromise. With <a href="https://en.aeris.de/" >Aeris</a> products, architects and planners no ..read more

<p>Here's a fun fact for you. The use of the term 'ergonomics' extends as far back as the mid-19th century and stems from the Greek for 'work' and 'natural law'. Although it's been around for a while, the science's methodologies and scope of ambition have evolved over the years. </p> <p>'Historically, ergonomics was more about human factors,' explains <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/todd-bracher/5209908" >Todd Bracher</a>, New York-based industrial designer and creative director at office-furniture experts <a href="https://www.architonic.c ..read more

<p>It’s strange to think how restrictive our vision for outdoor design once was, when today the boundaries between the aesthetics of outdoor and indoor have all but fallen. Not even that long ago most of us in need of a table to dine under the open skies of summer would simply have been browsing teak slatted numbers or furled ironwork ornately worked into tables and chairs at local garden centres. These were the exterior furniture archetypes we were loath to break free from. </p> <p>Among the pioneers of contemporary outdoor design who have pushed the evolution of the ca ..read more

<p>Anyone who knows me knows that I love to ask questions. Probably too many.</p> <p>But when you meet with Italian architecture and design grandee <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/michele-de-lucchi/5209861" >Michele De Lucchi</a>, you’re all ears, such is the calibre of this thought and the eloquence of its expression, built on the back of over half a century of experimental, and sometimes iconoclastic, creative practice. From his participation in such avant-garde design collectives as Studio Alchimia and Memphis to his authorship of the Compasso ..read more

<p>‘Do we still need the classic, fully-fledged office chair in 2024?’, asks Markus Böhm and seems to ponder for a moment. Then the Head of <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/microsite/brunner/3100191">Brunner</a> Product Development leans back, relaxes and shakes his head resolutely. No wonder, after all, he is sitting on <a href="https://www.architonic.com/en/product/brunner-ray-work-9220/20756607">ray work</a> and thus, to a certain extent, on the actual answer to his question. The innovative swivel chair is the latest addition to the <a href="https://ww ..read more