Hay reissues Gerrit Rietveld’s Cage Chair design

Nordic synergies: Ikea partners with Marimekko

With its latest collaboration with designer Sabine Marsilis, the Swedish furniture giant has shown that Ikea has a knack for creative people and brands with their finger on the pulse. Now comes Marimekko.

Converting values: The String shelf gets a color update

Complete editions, biographies and encyclopedias, evidence of an academic career: the bookshelf was the pride of the educated middle class. Today, as books become disembodied, the shelf itself takes on a representational mission—like Pocket by String in fresh colours.

Cooking: Star Dalad Campo shows off her work clothes

Casual strength, comfort at work, leisure at work: Since there is no separation between work and home, work attire should be a hybrid like the week. As a star chef, Dalad Campo understands this. Berlin is always on the move by choice, but she is also the manager of her restaurant, Kin Dee, which has brought fine Thai dining to the German capital. A musty chef’s jacket is not appropriate for a meeting. In Arket’s “The Work Wardrobe” campaign, Kambhu shows how his tried-and-tested cookware works.

Reliable: Hay is relaunching the Gerrit Rietveld “Crate” chair as a series

Nothing is certain anymore, no pension, no warmth. Hay must have thought in time to relaunch the Gerrit Rietveld-designed “Crate” chair in 1934—it gave people their attitude even during the Great Depression.

In Summer 2009: Picture Book by Walter Pfeiffer and Matteo Thun

Once the family’s most important archive, the photo book now smells like a stench from the good old days. Not if the photos were taken by Zurich photographer Walter Pfeiffer, who accompanied Matteo Thun’s sons Constantin and Leopold on their trip to Italy. In the summer of 2009, the three traveled from Zurich to Capri, via Mendrisio, Celerina, Milan, Pozzin and Miran, encountering several works of their father, one of Italy’s most important architects and designers.