Quo vadis SHK industry? ISH, the world's leading trade fair for HVAC + Water in Frankfurt am Main, provides a broad answer to this question every two years. What is it and what could visitors discover in the halls from 17 to 21 March 2025? Our review.

The choice of colours and materials is crucial for an elegant bathroom design. With furniture and ceramics in sensual, earthy tones, Villeroy & Boch offers a pleasantly warm aesthetic that is surprisingly versatile.

AXOR is presenting new products at this year's ISH in Frankfurt am Main: The ‘AXOR ShowerSphere’ shower programme by Antonio Citterio and the extensions to the ‘AXOR One’ bathroom collection by Barber Osgerby exemplify the trade fair theme ‘Solutions for a sustainable future’.

The Designplus Award by ISH in collaboration with Stylepark honours outstanding developments and forward-looking ideas ranging from smart technology for efficient building control to pioneering products and resource-saving water use. These are the winners 2025.

Ecology researchers with a strong focus on aesthetics: the French architecture and design studio ciguë, based in Montreuil near Paris, is one of the best in France. Its portfolio includes showrooms, shops and hotels worldwide. Alphonse Sarthout and his team create an unconventional and scientifically sound appearance for major brands such as Aesop and Isabel Marant.

Wagner, the full-service provider for interior concepts from Langenneufnach, has always moved the industry with fresh ideas and ingenious design – including in the catering sector. This year, the team is also travelling with a mini showroom in an iconic Airstream. Next stop: The Internorga.

Liu Jiakun receives the renowned Pritzker Architecture Prize. Founded in 1979 by Jay A. Pritzker and Cindy Pritzker, the award honours architects whose buildings represent a unique combination of talent, vision, commitment and have made a significant contribution to humanity as well as the built environment through architecture.

For ten years, the Nolita collection from Pedrali has been creating summery feelings and colorful moments with lightness and elegance. A conversation with its creators from CMP Design about stable connections, essential sustainability, magical teamwork and, of course, summer.

Dental surgeries are rarely spaces where you enjoy your visit. To ensure that at least the waiting time for the appointment flies by, Batek Architekten have created an interior design for the extension of the T7 practice in Berlin that is both individual and inspiring.

Matter and Shape invites to Paris from 7 to 10 March 2025: the design salon will take place for the second time in the Jardin des Tuileries.

Zeitraum will be exhibiting at the Munich Design Days from 13 to 16 March 2025 on the Praterinsel: Including a new version of the ‘SIT’ chair by designer Catharina Lorenz.

Stylepark is giving away an AXOR Citterio C single-lever basin mixer 125 in Brushed Black Chrome with CoolStart and drain set - Cubic cut!

From 8 to 13 April 2025, the industry will be looking to Milan for the Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week. ‘Thought for Humans’ is the guiding theme of Dentsu Creative Italy and photographer Bill Durgin, whose campaign aims to make the subtle relationship between man and material visible.

Visitors to the Biennale Architettura 2025 can experience the high necessity of climate-adapted urban planning at first hand in the German Pavilion. The International Architecture Exhibition as a whole is intended to serve as a dynamic laboratory that enables disciplines to work together to make cities more resilient, healthier and more liveable.

In cooperation with Messe Frankfurt, Stylepark is organising a talk with Jens J. Wischmann and Malte Just on the first day of ISH 2025, the world's leading trade fair for water, heat and air in Frankfurt am Main, on the topic of ‘Solutions for a sustainable future: What trends does ISH offer?’.

The special exhibition ‘Pop up my Bathroom’ at the upcoming ISH in Frankfurt am Main from 17 to 21 March 2025 offers a glimpse into the future of the bathroom as well as a central meeting point to discuss holistic design.

Performance artist Marina Abramović recently presented a limited edition collection of handmade wooden and copper chairs in collaboration with Studio La Metropolitana. The setting was provided by Mexico City Art Week and the historic industrial building ‘La Laguna’, which was carefully modernised by architecture studio Productora.

With the remodelling of Eurolub's headquarters, Holzrausch demonstrates the potential that exists in brittle commercial buildings. Fine material and detail solutions were used to realise a corporate architecture that skilfully alternates between representation and comfort.

Katja Thoring is Professor of Integrated Product Design in Munich. She teaches and researches at the interface of product, space, architecture and technology. In this interview, she explains her interdisciplinary approach and how creative working environments can be designed with the needs of the user in mind.

The jury of the Designplus Award by ISH has selected 34 nominees. The competition was organised by Messe Frankfurt in cooperation with Stylepark. The final winners will be honoured on the first day of the world's leading trade fair for HVAC + Water at 2 p.m. at the DesignPlaza in Hall 3.1.

For over 30 years, the Esser/Horn duo has been impressively demonstrating how diverse textile art and design can be. In this interview, Wolfgang Horn tells us why the subject fascinates them and what characterises their work.

Vola stands for one principle: it's the original that counts, not the imitation. Architects, designers and planners have appreciated the consistently high quality offered by the traditional Danish company for decades. Its new main catalogue demonstrates that this promise also applies to the agency.

From 13 to 16 March 2025, Münchner Stoff Frühling will have a new addition this year: the Munich Design Days will take place for the first time alongside the established event for textile interior design.

With ‘Luna’ by Axel Meise, Occhio offers a fascinating luminaire series that optimises the atmosphere of rooms in a variety of ways. The ‘Luna sospeso’ pendant luminaires are part of this range.

The floor coverings by modulyss offer sustainable design that optimally supports the desired soundscape of a room. We give you an exciting insight into the wide aesthetic portfolio of the Belgian brand, which uses its expertise and creative ideas to optimise contract areas.

Kinnarps has equipped the Clermont School of Business with furnishing solutions that both take up the identity of the renowned business school and provide an ideal basis for modern higher education.

As part of Ambiente, the leading international consumer goods trade fair, the Word Design Capital Frankfurt RheinMain 2026 team recently provided an initial insight into the upcoming programme.

Exceptional construction projects require customised interior design solutions – especially when it comes to lighting. Lodes offers customised lighting compositions and a service that extends from the design phase through to installation. One of the unique ideas was realised in the Kempinski San Lawrenz Hotel on the island of Gozo.

High up in the Highlands, there is a new culinary gem that forms the first outpost of the top Spanish restaurant ‘El Celler de Can Rocan’. It is owned by ‘The Macallan’, a well-known whisky distillery that has had its 200-year heritage transformed into an extraordinary restaurant experience by architect David Thulstrup.

Stylepark is giving away the 'Leyasol' Wingback Chair by Freifrau.

Stefan Seitz is the Head of Brand Management ISH at Messe Frankfurt Exhibition GmbH. In this interview, he tells us what the new offerings at the world’s leading trade fair for HVAC + Water from 17 to 21 March 2025 are and what is important in the industry now.

In our series "Spotlight on Women Architects", we regularly present the work of female architects – such as that of Jeanne Gang. A skyscraper that set the record for the ‘tallest building designed by a woman’ certainly helped her. More important, however, is the stylistic breadth and self-assurance in her designs.

The young designer Kateryna Basiuk works on new and sustainable textiles in Lucerne. For her ‘Silent Canvas’ project, she investigated the sound-absorbing structure of insects and transferred it to knitwear. A conversation about virtual textiles, local natural materials and what moth wings have to do with fibres.

At the upcoming ISH from 17 to 21 March 2025, the premium brand Laufen will provide a diverse insight into its strong commitment to a more sustainable bathroom industry. They will also be defining their holistic approach with smart complete solutions.

When Bill Gates, the founder of Microsoft, supposedly ordered a yacht that runs on hydrogen, the excitement in 2020 was huge. It seemed that the technology had made it out of its niche after failed experiments as a form of propulsion for cars. The topic became virulent again after Russia's attack on Ukraine. What is the state of the debate?