Adam skilfully demonstrated his talent for variation with his DiNG "The Treasure of the Silver Lake", a single-door module with a painted design by Stefanie Bruhn. It was created in honour of the 50th Karl May festival in Bad Segeberg. The principal actors elevated this unique piece to an even higher plane by putting their signatures on it. More ... Kape Adam Cabinets "DiNG" Arad's first design for an armchair for Vitra in 1987 is an explosive construction. Shaped of thin sheet metal, the Well Tempered Chair is held together by a handful of wing bolts. More ... Ron Arad Well Tempered Chair Big Easy Tom Vac The hottest furnishing accessory this season is a Pony in the living room instead of the paddock. It has always been wrong to think that a seat has to chair-shaped, believes the Finnish designer Eero Aarnio. The main thing is that what you sit on is ergonomic, comfortable and inspiring. More ... Eero Aarnio Parabel Table Formula Chair Pony Chair A Mediaeval castle appears to have been the inspiration for this German stove, made by Junker & Ruh. These "black knights", i.e. these cast iron stoves with a window and floral Art Nouveau decor have become exceedingly rare. More ... Antike Traumöfen Antique Stoves A rarity: Sofa IV is made completely of coloured glass. Stanislaw Borowski created this wonderful piece of furniture with its voluptuous curves. But beware: don't try to sit on it, because this magnificent object is only 26 cm wide and 19 cm high. More ... Glass Studio Borowski Sofa IV Blue Chair Glass table Shelf Luxury, exclusivity, the very finest, high-precision craftsmanship, a love of experimenting with breathtaking contrasts of material and colour, and daring decorative elements lead to innovative, incomparable style and expression. Each piece of furniture is a distinctive object, far removed from conventional tastes. More ... Colombo Stile Legends of the future Haute Couture armchair Dresser Blue Collection In 1922, Carlo Battista Berruti's grandfather founded Danber Italia, the first company in Italy to shape wood - nut tree, cherrywood and wengé - using special techniques. More ... Danber Italia Hand-painted dressers Painted chairs Paintings on moulded wood The innovative young French designer Francois Girard has merged simple, uncluttered lines with maritime elegance in his Deck Line furniture collection. More ... Francois Girard Deck Line Boathouse Barchair Riva Chair Table Capitano Timeo Chair "He lets his objects speak", said his Italian friend, the designer and architect Gio Ponti. The man in question is the Milanese designer Piero Fornasetti, whose prediction, "My imagination will outlive me", has proved to be true. When he died, he left around 10,000 objects to posterity. More ... Piero Fornasetti Cradle "Sunny" Chair Wastepaper Basket Screen "LUXESE" is the term he prefers to use. The luxury of doing without unnecessary frills, but without giving way to complete asceticism. Joyfulness and lightness are very important to Stefan Heiliger. Outstanding quality and reduced, consistent design are attributes he considers "Heilig" (holy). More ... Stefan Heiliger Bed-cum-sofa Sydney Designo Relax Chair Solo Salix Sofa A fully fledged eccentric and ladies' man he may have been, but few will argue that Horst Janssen was a brilliant draughtsman and graphic artist, etcher, wood carver and lithographer. His genius was multifaceted: he was also a dab hand at "wordery", as he called it, imaginative and as sharp as a knife. A human being - full of warmth, forceful, charming and irresistible. More ... Horst Janssen Blüthner's Grand Piano the piano lid painted by Janssen Kuramata is one of the few Japanese furniture designers to have attained international recognition. Throughout his career he was driven by the desire to take one shape and reduce it to a minimum, even to the extent of leaving away all "essentials". More ... Shiro Kuramata Armchair How High The Moon Drawer stack Side 1 Drawer stack Side 2 The Embryo Chair, designed in 1988, is one of the few objects upholstered in soft, coloured fabrics. It still has Marc Newson's unmistakable signature though. More ... Marc Newson Wood Chair Embryo Chair Orgone Chair He is an artist and his own art in one person. Luigi Ontani lives his fantastic dreams and expresses them in his incomparable designs. He slips into different roles - an oriental prince, a hero, a deity on Mount Olympus: since 1966 Ontani has been a mirror of his art. More ... Luigi Ontani Fountain Bed Bedspread By general consensus the French furniture designer Pierre Paulin is considered the "incarnation of the pop era". His clear designs, his avoidance of any superfluous effects and his use of new upholstery techniques with Pirelli foam rubber became synonymous with modern comfort. His innovations formed the basis for a new, revolutionary lifestyle. More ... Pierre Paulin Armchair "Elysée" Armchair Elysée Ribbon Chair Gaetano Pesce is one of the most original designers and architects of this century. Uncompromising and far removed from all conventions he succeeds in expressing joy and a sense of drama in all his designs. More ... Gaetano Pesce Collection "Nobody's perfect" In the 1970s, Franco Poli was one of the first designers to recognise that the reason for the crisis in modern design lay in a deficiency of function. In his many designs for famous manufacturers he found intelligent solutions. More ... Franco Poli Chair Katana Scagliera Bed Locanda Controversial, exotic and capacity are the characteristics that Portoghesi combines in the field of architecture, in particular, in the Baroque building style. He has always been "searching for the lost architecture". Each of his buildings unites completely contrasting elements in style, whether its Romanticism and Classicism, Renaissance and Baroque, or Occident and Orient, culminating architecturally in a new interpretation of the modern style. More ... Paolo Portoghesi "Lighthouse" Armchair Table Inspired and fascinated by the bizarre underwater world of the oceans, one of the first objects that Ayala Serfaty created was this Anemone Sitting on a Sea Urchin, made of hand-painted velvet and with hand-painted legs. Luxuriously upholstered, it catches you and sucks you into its centre. More ... Ayala S. Serfaty Anemone Sitting Loveseats Double Peaches Hammock Satala Hoja Low Stool Hoja The revolutionary "rotating hammer roll" invented by Josef Meingast is incorporated in the 168K Grand Piano. It allows a player to chose their own speed - with no mechanical limits! - and gives a greater differentiation in the pianissimo range. More ... Steingraeber & Söhne Grand Piano 168K Concert Grand E-272 Piano 138K Stone Art stands for "art with and on stone", produced by ED DiCamargo Milanese: the technique he uses to make "Florentine mosaic" is called Pietra dura (= hard stone) and has been handed down from generation to generation. More ... Stone Art Conference table "San Remo" console Mosaic floor The Japanese industrial designer Masanori Umeda must have an extra large portion of humour and willingness to experiment, a notion that is irrefutably proved by his "Flower Power Chair Collection". More ... Masanori Umeda Getsuen Chair Rose Chair Soshun TOP