by Laura Rote | Nov 12, 2019 | Design
When the design team at Cabot Wrenn develops new prototypes, they ask one simple question: “Would you have it in your home?” After an 11-month process creating Styrofoam and 3D printed prototypes, they answered with a resounding yes. One of their results is the Den...
by Margaret Poe | Nov 4, 2019 | Design
Most collections are sparked by an outside inspiration. It could be a historic chapel, an expressive watercolor, the waves of the sea at sunrise. That wasn’t the case this time for Christiane Müller. As the Amsterdam-based designer and partner at Müller she turned...
by Laura Rote | Oct 29, 2019 | Design
When JT Marino couldn’t return the $3,500 mattress he’d bought, he didn’t just get pissed off; he took a knife and cut into the damn thing to learn how to make it better. Advertisement JT had worked in Silicon Valley for years, helping tech companies build out their...
by Colleen DeHart | Oct 16, 2019 | Heritage
Charles and Ray Eames didn’t believe in waste. Growing up during The Great Depression and living through World War II, they knew what it was like to have nothing—to have to conserve to survive. But what the 20th-century designers also knew was how to find the...
by Haydee Touitou | Jul 22, 2019 | Interviews
If you went to high school in France in the early 2000s, you had to take a course called Technologie, our version of Home Ec where we learned to use a soldering iron, make a bike light, or—and I’m quoting the curriculum—appreciate “the evolution of objects through...
by Leonid Kaplun | Jul 18, 2019 | Interviews
Dmitry Reutov is used to starting over, driven by a need for change and self-improvement. He keeps a tight schedule as one of Moscow’s least awarded but most hardworking—and now highly sought after—interior designers since his Mexican-inspired Manhattan interior...
by Mina Kalkatechi | May 24, 2019 | Designers
For the past 30 years, the annual International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) has brought together leaders in the high-end design industry and showcased the newest and best in luxury furniture design. The fair is also a resource for thousands of retail buyers and...
by Tracey Ingram | May 22, 2019 | Designers
Marcel Wanders is a busy man. Just eight weeks ago we sat in this very spot: the lobby of the Andaz in Amsterdam, a lavish hotel his studio completed in 2012. Since then he’s flitted between countries—mostly nearby, he says, playing things down, with the exception of...
by Stephen Gossett | May 22, 2019 | Recommended
Milan’s famed Salone del Mobile fair can feel slightly overwhelming (300,000-plus attended and more than 2,000 exhibitors were on hand in 2019), but it remains a master class in design, showing how strong leadership and a bone-deep belief in collaboration and...
by Stephen Gossett | Mar 6, 2019 | Interviews
Lighting, electronics, kitchenware, the iconic Thinking Man’s Chair, even a German tram—Jasper Morrison has designed in just about every category over his illustrious, three-decade-plus career. It might seem counterintuitive to label a designer who has notably...
by Stephen Gossett | Mar 1, 2019 | Furniture Designers
The relationship between design and the natural world has always been fertile ground for exploration, but in the age of climate change, resource depletion, and habitat degradation, designers seem to be examining the link more explicitly than ever. Take this...
by Stephen Gossett | Feb 15, 2019 | Designers, Furniture Designers, News, Product Designers
Known for incorporating recycled materials into her sleek objects and furniture, and for launching the New York-based Slash Objects, Arielle Assouline-Lichten is this year’s recipient of WantedDesign’s American Design Honors, the fair’s annual...
