I recently posted an entry about Chinese style after BusinessWeek posted an article on Shanghai Tang, and once again BW raises the international style issue. Only this time, they’re talking Central Europe. Rightly so. Some of the coolest stuff has for years come out of places like Zagreb, famous for its illustrators and animation. After the break-up of the Soviet Union and the splintering of the various states, Metropolis magazine carried the work architects from the region who were fusing so many influences they took the term “melting pot” and stretched it in ways the comfortable West hadn’t seen in a century. If there is any place to be looking for exciting new work – outside of China – it has to be Central Europe.

Read their short article (link), look at the accompanying slideshow (link), and be prepared for a wave of creativity. I can hardly wait.

(p.s. I went looking for the Istanbul-based design firm that was getting a bunch of press recently, but I’m coming up empty. Feel free to post a comment if you know the one I mean and I’ll update this post.)