Ilona Marx
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Change of art
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelCurator and editor Carla Sozzani has long helped to shape the direction of Italian fashion, art and design. But now Milan’s cultural doyenne is embarking on a new chapter. We join her for a stroll …
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Treasure hunters
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / TravelA meal at Sissi Pohle and Pat Scherzer’s home is always a sumptuous affair. The founders of vintage and antique shop Outofuseberlin and set-design label Tables and Food certainly know how to put on a good show …
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Spatial verve
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelIn their Florentine home, gallerist couple Alessandra Tabacchi and Franco Mariotti prize patina over perfection, filling their interiors with expressive texture and detail …
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Head for the hills
Interior Design / TravelThere’s no better way to understand a place than to learn from those who know it well. In South Tyrol, that person is luxury chalet owner Tom Erlacher, who invites us to his cosy guesthouse to let us in on some of the region’s best-kept secrets …
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Baroque beauty
Art & Culture / Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelMagnificent baroque architecture and unrivalled art treasures Dresden is not known as the Florence on the Elbe for nothing. A lot has happened in the city in recent years, especially in Neustadt, Germany’s largest art deco neighbourhood, where artsy bars are popping up next to fashion-forward boutiques. Further afield, in the surrounding area, there are also the vast Elbe meadows, the Oberlössnitz vineyards and dozens of palaces and castles scattered throughout Saxony that bear witness to the past of old Prussia …
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Home free
Interior Design / TravelMaddalena Scarzella and her partner found refuge from city life in the woods of Liguria, where Scarzella’s grandmother, architect Luisa Castiglioni, built a series of homes in the 1960s. Now open to guests, Boccamonte offers a vision of true escape …
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Lunch at the Savoy?
Food / Interior Design / InterviewRossana Orlandi is not a keen cook but that doesn’t stop her hosting unforgettable alfresco soirées. The grande dame of Milan Design Week welcomes Konfekt into her gallery, where conversation flows like a good rosso piceno …
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Eternal bloom
Interior DesignKöln-based Isabelle Niehsen’s Christmas wreaths encapsulate the natural beauty of the year gone by. In her workshop, she talks Konfekt through the delicate art of giving dried blossoms and grasses new life …
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Metropolis of feasibility
Art & Culture / Food / Interior Design / TravelIn recent years, Leipzig’s magnificent old buildings and abandoned factories have attracted artists and creatives, and the German city has blossomed as a result. Though its cultural scene is now fizzing, a refreshingly laid-back spirit lingers in the air. We take a stroll through its picturesque streets to find a city that’s full of surprises …
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Longtime companions
Interior Design / TravelTwo Hamburg design lovers open up a home in which every piece has something to say. They regale Konfekt with tales of the antiques and mid-century masters whose work they collect, restore and sell …
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Sound ideas
Art & Culture / Interior DesignAdmiration for Rudolf Diesel’s inventive spirit led architect and product designer Marie Aigner to move into his former house on Munich’s Höchlstrasse. Today the Diesel-Villa is not only Aigner’s center of life, but also a generous stage for her sound-absorbing furniture and sculptures made from recycled materials …
Walter Knoll
Airy elegance
Art & Culture / Interior Design / TravelTwo blues. The neon signage of the Norton Museum of Art shines in Yves Klein blue against the deep blue sky of West Palm Beach. With a strong sense of aesthetics, the architects at Foster + Partners have carefully redesigned the house and turned it into a magnet for lovers of art and architecture …
Walter Knoll
The sofa revolution
Interior DesignWhy the sudden appearance of upholstered furniture in our offices does not equate to laziness. And how a homey office environment makes us more focused, relaxed and efficient …
Panorama Magazin
Retail of the future
Fashion / Interior Design / RetailPersonality, exclusivity, variability, individuality: These parameters will determine the future of retail trade. Inspired by the hottest names in the retail world and the most elaborate concepts, we would like to show you where retail businesses are headed …
Walter Knoll
A part of the family
Interior DesignA strong character, but soft around the edges – the furniture in the new headquarters of KPMG Belgium immediately shows visitors what they can expect: reliability, warmth, stability …
J’N’C
Cool cities – São Paulo
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelWhile Rio de Janeiro is immediately associated with beaches and samba, its big sister São Paulo has a Blade Runner-style image with a criminal background: wild and potentially dangerous – and anything but sexy …
J’N’C
Cool cities – San Francisco
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / TravelFrom the West Coast to the rest of the world: San Francisco is deemed the birthplace of the five-pocket jeans, the most important fashion statement of the past 140 years …
J’N’C
Cool cities – Los Angeles
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Interview / Retail / TravelFlashing camera bulbs and famous faces. Endless sunshine and bling-bling fashion. An obsession with physical perfection and Lamborghinis. There is hardly another city that manages to capture our imaginations like Los Angeles does. And the funny thing about it: the clichés are substantiated at every turn! …
J’N’C
Cool cities – New York
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelIt’s the peculiar geography of New York that makes it what it is: a sardine can filled with eight million people, basically piled up on top of one other, living and working. In contrast to most other metropolises the Big Apple has no way of giving itself over to middle-age spread: two rivers, the Hudson and the East River, hinder a geographic city sprawl. So, at least on Manhattan Island, growth can only go one way: upwards …
J’N’C
Cool cities – Montreal
Fashion / Food / Interior Design / Retail / TravelThe spectacularly located Montreal, which lies on the left bank of the St. Lawrence River, is considered by many as the Canadian ‘Petit Paris’. And it’s not just the picturesque streets in the world’s second largest French city that are indeed reminiscent of the Seine metropolis: when it comes to guts and stylistic individualism, the people of Montreal can certainly hold their own against their erstwhile conquerors …