Design

In furniture design, inspiration can come from unexpected sources – in this case, it’s the childhood nostalgia of stacked playing cards. The precarious game of creating stable architecture by equalizing balance and tension can be found in Hito, a coffee…

It’s my favorite time of the year – garden season! With the passing of daylight saving time comes brighter days and longer growing seasons. I’m always looking for more planters and while I have a strictly terracotta theme going on…

Meg Strachan’s grandmother is the namesake for her brand of lab-grown gemstones: Dorsey. It’s a fitting tribute for a woman who, Strachan says, taught her about the importance of elegance. “My grandmother, Dorsey, was married for 73 years to my…

In today’s world, many of us consider every square inch of our living space important, and for those of that fall into aesthete category, style matters just as much as function. Then for those that live with four-legged household members,…

We all have interests that converge, even when they seem oceans apart in similarity. For Chinese architects Quanquan Liu and Shengdi Fu of Atelier Gegeben, they made the unlikely merging of interests happen for a privately commissioned project. Their client,…

Architecture and interior design office Kinzo recently completed a city-themed office for Evangelisches Siedlungswerk (ESW), a Protestant social housing company in the Hasenbergl neighborhood of Munich. The area, once considered to be socially disadvantaged, has undergone significant urban developments that…