Design

In the current design landscape, collaboration has become a language unto itself, often compromising more considered ideas for quick commercial success. Fashion houses court architects, furniture brands invite artists into the studio, and retail giants translate the vocabularies of established…

Montreal is no stranger to Brutalist architecture. The iconic utopian housing complex that overlooks the St Lawrence River (Habitat 67 by Moshe Safdie for Expo 67) is just one of many, albeit the most famous. During the 6 years that…

An international family of four, described simply as collectors, commissioned Bergman Design House to design their second home in London. They came with a brief that was precise in its ambitions: refined, personal, and enduring. They wanted a space that…

Highlights at Clerkenwell Design Week 2026: Day 3 Every day, Design Milk editors bring you the best to see, learn, and do during the UK’s leading design festival. Here are our picks for Thursday, May 21. Editors’ Pick | Talks…

Highlights at Clerkenwell Design Week 2026: Day 1 Every day, Design Milk editors bring you the best to see, learn, and do during the UK’s leading design festival. Here are our picks for Tuesday, May 19. Editors’ Pick | Talks…

The ground floor of a semi-detached Toronto townhouse is rarely generous with light. In the Mathersfield Project, designer Sam Sacks inherited a floor plate further complicated by a structural wall dividing the living and dining areas from a sunken kitchen…

Light and faith have long been intertwined symbols of life, our circadian rhythms tethered to the sunlight that greets us each day. Across cultures and centuries, light has signified purity, warmth, revelation, and at times an almost blinding transcendence –…

Adrienna Matzeg’s work often recalls bright summer afternoons, her vibrant table scapes conjuring a lunchtime setting at an alfresco cafe. But her latest series, After Hours, departs from her previous work completely. The punch needle pieces on black linen depict…

Milan Design Week can quickly descend from showcase to stress test, where my attention is divided and endurance depleted in an effort to cover everything competing to be seen. The city, as always, expanded beyond itself: palazzos, courtyards, industrial shells,…

“For Massimo, design was life and life was design,” New York–based designer Michael Bierut once said of his mentor Massimo Vignelli (1931–2014), with whom he worked early in his career. Bierut spent a decade in the 1980s under Vignelli’s watchful…

Co-working spaces are designed with a range of options to meet different needs, from dedicated desks to conference rooms. While artwork and decorative touches may call to mind the locale, the interiors are suitable almost anywhere—serviceable, but rather monotonous. Read…

Marty Supreme might have gone 0 for 9 at the Oscars, but it seems to have ignited a ping pong fever. And the design world is paying attention. In fact, table sports in general are undergoing an aesthetic facelift, with…

As Milan Design Week comes to a close, the Fuorisalone installation that lingers in my mind is once again that which puts a design spin on the familiar. MIT professor and architect Carlo Ratti partnered with Mutti to create House…