Yet whilst his sister shrieks at the top of her voice, removing a hornet from her long hair, Felix remains unaffected. »Why don't we do what the climate researchers recommend? If we children do not act now, it will be...

The Italian architect and designer Matteo Thun is a co-founder of Sottsass Associati and the legendary Memphis Group. From 1983 to 1996 he taught as a professor of design at the College of Applied Art in Vienna. From 1990 he...

Expedition Hope has been on the go since 2 April – from the North Pole down to Canada. Parador is involved jointly with the Plant-for-the-planet initiative and Bernice Notenboom, who is covering the 1,000-kilometre...

For years now, Karim Rashid has been seen as an icon and pop star of the worldwide design scene. Rashid skilfully plays with modern style elements and transforms them into his own, very personal design language. Rashid...

To mark the occasion of the market launch of Eco Balance, Volkmar Halbe, chairman of the Parador management board, spoke with 13-year old Felix Finkbeiner, the founder and world president of the children's foundation...

The Dutchman runs the architecture and design offi ce UNStudio in Amsterdam together with a female partner. Besides his professional activities as an architect and urban planner, Ben van Berkel teaches as a professor at the...

Jean Nouvel is one of the most infl uential architects of the present day. The Frenchman is associated with bold design vocabulary, transparency and audacity. His versatile architectural style cannot be strictly categorized:...

Jean-Marie Massaud produces large architectural projects as well as individual design objects. In his studio he puts together projects of every size ranging from a perfume bottle to a football stadium. Massaud‘s work...

To coincide with the start of the new Eco Balance product family, Parador began the long-term cooperation with the school students' foundation, Plant-for-the-Planet: on the one hand, Parador is planting one tree for every...

Konstantin Grcic was born in Munich in 1965 and is seen as one of the most infl uential German designers of the present day. After learning to be a cabinet maker he studied at the Royal College of Art in London and later...

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The two brothers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec together run the design studio named after them in Paris. They were discovered by Giulio Cappellini, for whose label they produced their fi rst commercial designs. Work followed...

A combination of material studies, biomorphic shapes and high-tech – that is the signature of the industrial designer Ross Lovegrove. At the start of his career as a product designer, the Brit worked on the Walkman for...

The German designer is at home in the product design, design conception and brand design sectors.His name is associated with the creative use of new materials and experimental projects like the mobile LoftCube, which, if...

The British architect and professor of architecture of Iraqi origins impresses the architectural world with her avant-garde, forward-looking visions. Her breakthrough came with the design of the fire station for the Vitra...

›A floor for the stadium? That would be green of course!‹ Norbert Dickel, ex professional striker, event manager and stadium announcer at BVB, about the ›yellow wall‹, his commitment to...

The Italian Piero Lissoni was born in 1956 and studied architecture in Milan before founding an interdisciplinary studio for architecture and design with Nicoletta Canesi in 1986. Lissoni gained his reputation with various...