Through the world with open eyes: What it means to learn from role models

Life come into this world wearing white, but it begins to acquire color
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Rezepter™ and pixel tectonics - approaches to a new building, design and colour culture

Recipes are special: only when you start using a recipe do you realise how good it really is and whether,
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Recipe of the month – "Bright joy"

The following recipe is a very simple, original recipe from the Ore Mountains, my father's homeland.
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Expert-Interview / "It's dark behind the hoe." - About the wounds and wonders of nature

Andreas Kirchhof, a native of Roßla in the Harz Mountains, gets to the bottom of things in the truest sense of the word.
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Latrace – Studio News / next courses and events

Colour - Light - Material: Between authenticity, artistic and artificial reality
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Transformation processes: the influence of building materials on atmosphere, health and spatial effects in people and buildings

About half of humanity still lives in earthen buildings. Currently, there are studies on..
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Recipe of the month – Coffee and chocolate

Espresso - an Italian invention between Swiss railway tracks and La Dolce Vita Did you know that espresso was invented in the course of …

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Money and life: connection and interrelationships of earth, layers and the effect of pressure on people and material

Brown is a colour of silence. Deep underground, transformation processes take place..
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Biologics, life change and the search for normality, orientation and the inner home

Bio [Greek: bíos - life, living beings, life processes] stands for the primordial connection between human beings and the environment.
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Living Spaces: New Work, New Normal, Co-Working and Space Diet

The time is ripe. Everyone is talking about "the new normal".
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Consultation hour Dr. Ines Klemm: Health Coaching

Archiveda®-based health coaching is about moving from "I don't know what to do.
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Success lies in the detail – project insights: Meilen

I often get the question: "Why should I redesign a room if I'm not going to use it?
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Recipe of the month – sun everywhere

I've always wondered why there are long queues outside all the crêpe stands in the world...
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Dyes, nutrients and "vitamin D/design" in architecture

Theory is good, but in life it also depends on practice!
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From atmosphere, climate and space sensitisation to awareness, self-regulation and -centration

When gold is not shiny, it appears yellow. Because gold is associated with the sun, it is particularly easy for us to feel shine...
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From apricot to cinnamon

The apricot [lat. precocious] is an important source of vitamins.
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Enthusiasm for colors / Markus Frentrop, Head RAL colors

RAL colours inspire because colour information can be assigned consciously, specifically and according to objective criteria.
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Travel colors-In one place around the world

In 2015, Latrace was commissioned to develop the colour concept for the new corridors and classrooms
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Ulysses - Lust for life, travel and oneself

The associated sensory organ of orange is the tongue. One gets a taste for enjoying life..
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Spatial diet – on the nutrional value of white walls?

The whiter the walls are, the more the body is put on a "spatial diet". Whether white flour or white plaster – the nutritional value is equally low …

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Fingerprint of past cultures, search for origin and nourishment for body, mind and soul

Red regulates the most basic needs such as eating, drinking, sleeping and waking patterns and is the centre of the primitive self and animal …

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Colour concepts that connect people and space

I am often asked why my colour concepts contain so many different colours and materials. The answer is very easy...
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Dentaya - Dental Practice: From the Roots to the Crown

Instinctively, many people have a deep-rooted fear of going to the dentist. Just the smell of entering a dentist's practise...
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Swiss architecture from a Chinese perspective

Bingy Li was born in Shanghai in 1987. She has lived in Switzerland since 2009 and studied architecture in Shanghai and at ETH Zurich.
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Fusion of Colour, Wellbeing and Design with Hospitality Management, Leadership and Education

As of August 2021, Dr Ines Klemm will head the Design division for the Swiss Education Group. As International Programme Leader, she will expand the …
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Recipe of the month Summer red and white

Semifreddo with Raspberries by "Katharina kocht"
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Health coaching, location analysis and goal clarification - scientifically based

Latrace accompanies private individuals and corporate clients in Switzerland and internationally..
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Communication on the border

Insights of a conflict reporter in the Hindu Kush and on the chances of language in our time / Stephan Kloss
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Recipe of the month – Violett – Aubergine

Yotam Ottolenghi's eggplant with buttermilk dressing and thyme pomegranate topping.
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Hospitality Concept for Yangon

A Myanmar Story on Happiness, Pride and Serenity
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Artists in conversation - Latrace as gallery and meeting place

Artists wear delicate purple to violet in their essence
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Recipe of the month – Heaven, earth, sun, senses

Baking and cooking recipe Curd Cake with Wild Blueberries Room recipe   Latrace project: Uitikon (ZH), 2018 – Master bathroom …

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Logo analysis Raumson LLC

Names and logos, especially their colours, are considered the holy grail of corporate communication. They are the face of companies, the legal …

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Automation, smartness and intelligence

Interview with Dr. karin Vey - Automation, smartness and intelligence From your point of view and after more than 17 years of innovation work at …

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Walking tour guided by the senses: Analysis of the single-family housing project by Le Cobusier in the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart

In the 3rd semester, we were given the task by our professor, Peter-Aribert Herms, to analyse a building of the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart. The…

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Immersion in distant worlds: Indigo, lapis lazuli and ultramarine

Indigo and blue jeans blue: from luxury good to the most widely used textile dyeing agent Indigo (Ancient Greek: from India, the Indian) is named …

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Dr. Ines Klemm: Bukhara - the boltless -shelving system that can do many things

The Bukhara shelving system by Dr. Ines Klemm is named after the former capital of Uzbekistan. It was developed out of specific needs, because the…

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Curaçao - "Bida Na Kolo" - Life in colour

Interview with my good friend Ray Adamus, born on Curaçao, qualified expert in NDF anaesthesia in a large hospital in Zurich How would you describe…

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Recipe of the month - This is what the taste of turquoise sounds like

Baking and cooking recipe Dessert: Panna cotta au Curaçao, Crumble à la Spiruline, Gelée de Myrtille. Preparation: Les chefs s'encanaillent Jérémy…

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The language of walls

"What is it like to be inside of it"? Professor William Firebrace (architect and author), asked us at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart in …

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Inner voice and a jamboree for the senses

Turquoise stands for listening to the inner self as well as for both purification and purity. Turquoise is very rarely found in food and nature. …

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How neutral is white?

White is fullness and emptiness at the same time. For example, it stands for process and transience, forbeginning and end, for peace and purity. It …

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Steffen Raumkonzepte

With great business away from white emptiness

Fritz Steffen. Managing Director, Federally Certified Master Interior Decorator What do you think is the greatest added value of the renovation? …

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Working method: Surface effects and wellbeing

At Latrace, the focus is on wellbeing. It is about creating a relationship and connection between people, brands and spaces. Good relationships …

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Plaster up! On whiteness, wiseness and health

"In a newly constructed building with 65 flats, there is "In a newly constructed building with 65 flats, there is now, thanks to you, dear Ines, and…

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Food Culture / Dream in white

No matter what you prepare in the kitchen from good ingredients and natural foods - the result will never be completely white, neither in baking nor…

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