The 12th edition of Clerkenwell Design Week (CDW) returns to London May 23-25 with its biggest program yet, with more than 600 events, 12 exhibition venues, 300 brands, and 130 local showroom partners. The fair’s growth owes some credit to its merging with its sister show, Design London, for the first time. “Amalgamating Design London
For the third edition running, Maison&Objet is accepting applications to Future On Stage, a spotlight on innovative young companies doing interesting and future-defining work in design, decoration, and the art of the living world. Held in conjunction with Paris Design Week, Maison&Objet is a biannual fair hosting 6,000 brands and designers—not to mention thousands of
The Chicago Auto Show returned this year in full force, engaging attendees from February 11 to 20. Expanding back to its usual two halls, the show hit pre-pandemic attendance across the 10 days. With six indoor test tracks and three test drives, the show gave visitors the experience behind the wheel and in the cab
Anouk and Louis Solanet opened Orso Hotels in Paris in March 2020, starting with Hotel Rochechouart below Montmartre.
The Architecture and Design Film Festival (ADFF) has been making its way across North America since September, with stops in New York, Toronto, Vancouver, LA, Washington DC, and finally Chicago. All of these cities have interesting architecture, but over here in Chicago, we like to think we have some of the best—making the Chicago Architecture
Coming from a background in fashion design, Bella McGoldrick has an instinct for replicating objects on paper. Drawing commissions to hold herself over between jobs in New York City, Bella began developing her signature, blown up, ultra-detailed style by drawing familiar, ephemeral items—lip glosses, Bic lighters, everything bagels, and La Croix cans—often when they’re on
Japanese furniture manufacturer Karimoku has a simple goal: to make people happy. “Today we have many difficulties—for example, war, sustainable matters, and also a divided society. We are always thinking as a furniture manufacturer, what we, Karimoku, can do for giving people a better life,” Vice President of Karimoku Furniture Hiroshi Kato says. “Our goal
Vonnegut/Kraft use their expertise with custom millwork to create gorgeous furniture that transforms the material at hand.
These lights combine beauty and technology to illuminate great design.
The 2022 gift guide includes iconic design gifts for each room. The most trusted kitchen tools have been around for ages (literally—just think of the mortar and pestle or the cast iron pan), so when a must-have utensil gets a makeover it’s noticeable. And when the makeover becomes standard, well, that’s when it becomes iconic kitchenware.
The 2022 gift guide includes iconic design gifts for each room. The bathroom is a wildly intimate room of the home, full of items that are equal parts luxurious and commonplace. The most iconic bathroom accessories are the ones that stand the test of time, give us a sense of relief, and hopefully also a boost
The 2022 gift guide includes iconic design gifts for each room. The home office is as important as ever. Most of us still utilize that early pandemic professional-ish Zoom background in our bedroom a few times a week. And even if you’ve transitioned fully back into the office, you’re probably working to make your away-from-home office
The 2022 gift guide includes iconic design gifts for each room. In the bedroom, design makes a difference. It’s the environment where you start and finish every day, where you spend the majority of your time (even if most of the time you’re asleep). From lamps to blankets, hooks to side tables, there are hundreds of
John Crews confidently tells me next year will be full of rich and nostalgic color, handmade touches, and simplicity derived from nature. As the director of creative product design for upscale flooring brand Anderson Tuftex, he’s responsible for accurately predicting trends before they’ve even begun and designing flooring to meet them on their trajectory. This
At age 11, photographer and artist Yelena Yemchuk immigrated to the US from Ukraine while it was part of the Soviet Union. Her family could not tell anyone they were leaving. With Ukraine’s independence looking unlikely, Yelena and her family believed they would never be allowed to return. “It was such a traumatic event for
India Mahdavi’s colorful design practice is rooted solidly in Paris with an ecosystem of studio and showroom spaces that allow her to produce and distribute everything herself.
Jaime Hayon’s fantastical worlds hit the page.
MENU’s Androgyne collection blends masculine and feminine in a simple form amplified by its natural materials. Designed by Copenhagen-based Norwegian architect and designer Danielle Siggerud, the table is textured and dimensional. Oak and stone meet in a striking silhouette, similar to a monument in the grandeur of its first impression, but shrunk to the scale
It may be intangible, but light has the ability to alter emotions, create depth, contrast, and interest in a space.
In its 2022 collection, cc-tapis is eager to prove its rugs as a stage for life and for excitement. In a campaign by Apartamento Studios, cc-tapis collaborated with Greek playwright Efthimis Filippou, whose brief plays transform the rugs as a space for action. The concept, by Apartamento Studios creative director Omar Sosa, is photographed by
After a 40-year hiatus, Moke returns to America with the electric, zero-emissions Moke Californian, an uprated Mini Moke for the US market.
The Testa Rossa J, an electric, 75% scale replica of Ferrari’s classic 1957 car, is now reaching the garages of enthusiasts and collectors. Ferrari and The Little Car Company developed the car from the original design drawings and adapt many of the 1957 details, from the hand-beaten bodywork to the suspension geometry, for the Junior
Walls are, at their simplest, a barrier between inside and outside, a tangible obstacle between the built environment and nature. In Elements of Style, Studio Sixtysix and Astek break down that barrier to offer a point of union instead.
It’s unusual to see the label “assembly required,” as a positive encouragement rather than a warning. But assembly is crucial and even joyful in Hudson Valley-based designer Jennifer June’s furniture system, Loose Parts, wherein the same parts can become a coffee table as easily as a shelf. Loose Parts began to take shape as Jennifer
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