Design

How do you distill a nation into a single volume? That’s the ambitious question behind America: The Imagination of a Nation, Assouline’s latest oversized coffee table book celebrating the ideas, people, and cultural touchstones that have shaped the United States…

Everyone knows that sleep is essential to health and well-being, and that the quality of things like your mattress can make all the difference. The idea of rest may conjure thick white clouds, fluffy sheep, or plush stuffed animals, but…

When NYC starts to heat up in the summer, things change. The city blooms as people travel from across the globe to experience the confluence of history, modernity, and culture. There’s also the hustle, the speed, and the smells. Nestled…

Benoist F. Drut grew up in an idyllic village northwest of Paris, surrounded by lily ponds and castles—a place that honed his eye for beauty. When he was a teen, he met 18th-century French furniture expert Thierry Millerand. Millerand explained…

Rugs have yet again become a popular medium for fresh, unabashed ideation. Art for the floor, this hyper-refined furnishing typology is being reassessed as a potent and plenteous conduit for pictorial representation and abstract expression. Over the past year, established…

Contemporary new builds can arrive with many of their most consequential decisions already made: the orientation, the window placement, the ceiling heights, the boundaries of its floor plan. For Sashya Thind, Principal Designer and Founder of her eponymous studio, the…

Rising along Copenhagen’s ever-changing harbor waterfront at this year’s 3daysofdesign festival was a 22-foot-tall monolith undulating with variegated aluminum extrusions. Unbeknownst to those on the ground, this semi-enclosed, temporary structure replicated the exact contour of the iconic vase seminal designer…

Our modern world holds many contradictions at once. Many facets of our day-to-day lives would have been almost unimaginable even fifty years ago, shaped as they are by technological development, societal shifts, and a growing awareness of climate consequence. And…

Souvenirs are often dismissed as novelties, even clutter when they start to piles up: postcards, magnets, snow globes, the small ephemeral artifacts that compress a place into something portable. But at their best, souvenirs do something more profound. They preserve…

The physical manifestations of growth exist all around us. Plants sprout, live, and die, returning their nutrients to the soil – a perfect cycle of endless energy. Rivers cut through rock, forming new streams that offer less resistance as gravity…

What comes to mind when we think of sustainability in action? Is it in manufacturing, proximity, materiality, or a combination of the three? In terms of holistic design, every part of the process must be considered with tact, understanding the…

The journey at Solis East begins well before you step into the 7750-square-foot sanctuary: Members ascend by elevator, peering down at St. Lawrence Street before crossing a sky bridge to the entryway. “I like to think of it as a…

Lightning can and will strike the same place twice. Yet the bolts, an explosive expression of electricity breaking through ionized air, are always different, never forming exactly the same. The same is true for glass – the specific temperature, pressure,…