Design

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…

In a design industry still gripped by the allure of absence—white walls, pale woods, and the careful choreography of restraint—this small bungalow in Silver Lake offers a gentle but deliberate counterpoint. Here, creativity doesn’t recede into the background. It accumulates,…

There’s a certain clarity to Aesop’s visual identity. The Australian skincare brand’s approach to developing clean, luminous products for hands and hair often translates into the warm, minimalist, yet lustrous design of its stores. Aesop’s boutiques—designed by the likes of…

Corporate interiors are designed with function in mind, outfitted with contract furnishings made to support employees as they perform daily tasks. Yet there is little emphasis on the locale where duties are actually performed. When it came time to design…

Some objects have an indescribable magnetism, something that sparks neurons deep within the brain. Call it what you like, style, substance, ‘it’, you know it when you see it. Brooklyn-based Courtney Kinnare taps in to this vein of creativity with…

Completed in 1823 and clad in Flemish red brick, 56 Bleecker Street sits at the edge of the Bond Street district, one of the most exclusive enclaves in 1830s Manhattan. Once home to Jacobus Roosevelt II, great-grandfather of Franklin D.…

Childlike experimentation is hard to come by as an adult. A muscle we must exercise, intuition is frequently at odds with the seemingly unending flow of modern life. Unfussy, organic, and quietly delightful, Emma In Paraty for Treivas Team taps into…

The son of seminal polymath Carlo Scarpa—an experimental Italian architect and designer who marched to the beat of his own drum—Tobia Scarpa forged a career in a similarly irreverent, self-determined spirit. Together with his equally nonconformist wife and partner Afra…