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Marina Timonova Is Building Feminine Armor for Modern Life
The Russian-born, Puglia-based designer behind Marina Eerrie turns deadstock fabric and vampire movies into meticulous fashion.
Armadillo Strips Back Color and Highlights Craft
The Australian rug brand Armadillo launched 16 years ago with five rugs. All five are still in production today. Meridian, the brand’s newest collection, makes it easy to understand why people keep coming back. Meridian is a series of nine handwoven rugs that emphasizes natural fibers, subtle tonal variation, and textured surfaces rather than bold
The Min Chair Makes One Piece of Wood Go Twice as Far
Max Lamb’s chair for Hem is a study in material efficiency and structural ingenuity.
A Lighting Collection Named After the Arctic
The Hollis + Morris Beaufort collection draws on Arctic ice, Scandinavian design, and a sketch made on a plane.
A Table That Resolves Its Lighting at the Factory
Walk into an airport lounge, a hotel lobby, or a university common room and you’ll almost always find the same problem: a table with a lamp sitting on it that doesn’t quite belong there. HBF and Juniper debuted a solution at ICFF during New York Design Week. The result is a revamped version of HBF’s
How a Fashion Designer’s First Furniture Collection Found Its Way Home
Todd Snyder has spent years perfecting the art of the well-dressed man. Now he’s working on the room.
How Two Brands Looked to 1974 to Build the Ultimate Listening Room
USM and Symbol Audio turned one of design’s most iconic frameworks into a fully functioning listening environment.
Rimowa’s Design Prize Is Changing What Mobility Means
For its fourth edition, the prize went to a bracelet that lets deaf and hearing people communicate in real time.
New Wave Bookshelf Turns Material Into Motion
Designed by Lukas Cober, the New Wave Bookshelf is built from layered fiberglass and resin.
In My Room: Cora Walters
CHICAGO—Cora Walters @coravioletwalters (42K) is a vintage fashion curator, antique specialist, and style creator. Her feed spans centuries of dress, from 19th-century historical garments to modern editorial styling, all grounded in a deep knowledge of craft, textiles, and the stories behind what people wore.
Amaarae On Privacy as Power
The Ghanaian-American singer talks provocation with purpose, the burden of political expectations, and building real community in a world of phones-up crowds.
DWR and Canyon Coffee Bring a Pop Up Café to Chicago
DWR and Canyon Coffee turn a Fulton Market showroom into a space that invites visitors to stay a while.
Why Alkemis Paint Wants You to Rethink What’s on Your Walls
Alkemis co-founders Maya Crowne and Price Latimer spent three years building a paint made from crushed quartz and mineral pigments.
Loewe Technology Reimagines the TV as a Designed Object
A century of German engineering, a concrete back panel, and a philosophy that treats the TV as furniture.
Piet Hein Eek and Bram Vanderbeke on Making, Materials, and the Joy of Building
Two designers discuss why naivety is a design tool, what waste materials really mean, and why the process of making matters more than the result.
Songs of Siren Is Building a Brand for Modern Mythology
Tinka Weener is turning Greek mythology and Indian hand-beading into a fast-rising luxury label.
In My Room: Dana Nozime
CHICAGO—Dana Nozime @dananozime (279K) is a content creator known for her fashion, beauty, and lifestyle content. She recently launched Emmanuelle Jéan, a loungewear brand built around the signature pink terry cotton bathrobe (seen here). emmanuellejean.com This photo originally appeared in Sixtysix Issue 16. See more from In My Room.
Saintleo Learns the Art of Beginning Again
Designer and metalworker Leon McKay’s new practice is slower, more uncertain, and more alive.
The Chair That Took 20 Years in the Making
Niels Diffrient concepted the Diffrient lounge two decades ago, and Humanscale made it real.
Mathieu Bitton on Memory, Legacy, and Turning 50
For photographer and art director Mathieu Bitton, a city, a camera, and a lifetime of collected obsessions become a meditation on memory and legacy.
How Lexus Learned to Think Beyond the Car
Ian Cartabiano, a kid from Torrance who grew up sketching Ferraris, is now leading the most ambitious reimagining of luxury in Toyota’s history.
Grohe Spa and Buster + Punch Design the Bathroom as a Whole
The bathroom has long suffered from a peculiar design problem: the faucet comes from one manufacturer, the cabinet pulls from another, the light switches from a third. Grohe Spa and Buster + Punch have decided to fix that, debuting a new combined collection at ICFF during New York Design Week. The two brands, one rooted
Christian Borger’s MLS-01 Treats Modular Design as a Manufacturing Philosophy
3D-printed diffusers and laser-cut aluminum come together in Christian Borger’s first manufactured-at-scale lamp.
The Pillow Tray Turns Concrete Into Softness
Designed by Berlin-based Julius Works, the Pillow Tray translates a digitally simulated sense of softness into hand-cast concrete, blurring the line between illusion and object.
Gantri and Sixtysix Celebrate the Wireless Collection
Gantri goes cordless with its first wireless lighting collection. Chicago’s design crowd turned out to celebrate with a family-style dinner at Tzuco during NeoCon week.
TTSWTRS Turns Tattoo Culture into Fashion
TTSWTRS has built an international following through innovation, resilience, and an unwavering creative vision.
A Radical Movement That Refuses to Become an Antique
Memphis hands four of its loudest objects to three photographers and tells them to do whatever they want. The pictures end up saying more about the movement’s past than its current owners probably planned.
Paved States Joins Forces with DesignLab at NeoCon
The Sixtysix and Haworth DesignLab exhibition returned with a larger footprint, 13 emerging designers, a week of public programming, and a HiP Award win.
Joe Freshgoods On Saying “No”
How Joe Freshgoods built one of streetwear’s most respected independent brands on Chicago’s own terms.
Why Hubbardton Forge Put the Wiring Inside the Strap
For decades, the wire inside a light fixture was something you worked around. Designer Andy Morter decided to make it the focus.
Bose’s New Collection Lets its Speakers “Get Old”
The Lifestyle Collection spent four years asking a question the consumer electronics industry rarely bothers with: what if it got better looking over time?
Fang Guo Is Building a Label Without Labels
Drawing from anime, grunge, rave culture, and navigating fashion’s gender divide, Fang NYC is a knitwear label that refuses easy categorization.
Monica Armani’s Manto for Viccarbe is a Chair that Holds You
Lounge chairs have become an obsession in contemporary interiors, yet so few of them invite you to sit and stay for long periods. Manto, Monica Armani‘s debut for Viccarbe, is an exception. When Monica talks about Manto, she uses the word “protective.” Born in Trento in 1964, Monica is the daughter of Marcello Armani, a
A Sofa That Wears Its Seams on the Outside
Faye Toogood’s new collection for Italian house Meritalia puts exposed construction at the center of an armchair, two sofas, and an origami-folded table. Crease debuts this weekend at Basic.Space London.
A Lexus That Still Believes in the Sedan
After 37 years and seven generations, Lexus’s best-selling sedan enters the all-electric era.
Paved States Returns to The Mart for Edition 02
Our hybrid collective exhibition and concept store returns to The Mart next month.
Caracole’s Gelée Chair Started With a Pipe Cleaner
Designer Cathy Chang turned an everyday object into one of the most sculptural accent chairs on the market.
Old World Craftsmanship Meets New World Vision
Three new collections make an argument that the most exciting design happening right now may be rooted in the past.
A Design Fair That Reads Its Venues
Nicolas Bellavance-Lecompte, the Canadian-Italian architect behind NOMAD, brings his itinerant fair to its first US edition this June.
A Complete Guide to Isamu Noguchi’s Akari Lamps
Isamu Noguchi designed the Akari light sculpture series beginning in 1951 in Gifu, Japan. Built from washi paper and bamboo, the lamps married an ancient chochin lantern craft with modernist form, and seventy-five years on, they remain the most widely recognized Japanese-American design of the twentieth century. Every authentic example is still hand-produced by the
Roman Plyus’ Chair is Inspired by the Curve of a Hoof
Inspired by sacred symbolism, its curved form brings warmth and a sense of connection.
Sam Klemick’s Bell Chair Carves Upholstery from Wood
Reclaimed wood is sculpted to mimic worn fabric.
Jean-Baptiste Anotin’s Rocker Channels Speed and Serenity
Sharp lines and forward motion meet weightless, meditative comfort.
Asa Pingree’s “A” Chair Turns Sitting Into Exploration
His triangular void becomes a space to explore, adjust, and find the perfect fit.
Reggy St-Surin’s Tom Chair is Both Creature and Seat
Radical shapes turn this chair into a playful, interactive sculpture.
The Lilith Chair Turns Myth into Form
A serpentine silhouette reimagines a legend as one of strength and self-determination.
A Gallery on West 20th Street Run by Its Makers
Samantha Gallacher of Art+Loom and Andreea Avram Rusu open Untold Editions, a permanent space where they sell their own work alongside friends and skip the commission-heavy gallery model.
A Brutalist Bathhouse in a Milan Wildflower Meadow
At Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Kohler and Richard Christiansen of Flamingo Estate trade R&D bravado for a copper bath, four cast iron pollinator vessels, and a meditation on ritual.