#Furniture Design
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Massimo Dutti’s Paris Pop-Up Reimagines the Retail Environment
A ten-day intervention in Paris blends furniture, art, and apparel to create a "studio universe" that prioritizes atmosphere over traditional commerce.
The Ergonomics of the Modern Command Center
As the boundaries between work and play blur, the gaming chair has evolved from a niche accessory into a fundamental piece of home-office infrastructure.
Chloé Revives the Tomato Chair
In a collaboration with Poltronova for Milan Design Week, creative director Chemena Kamali brings a playful 1970s icon back into the fold.
Between Steel and Air: Snøhetta and USM’s Milan Installation
At the Fondazione Luigi Rovati, a new collaboration explores the sensory tension between modular rigidity and organic fluidity.
Louis Vuitton Returns to Its Art Deco Origins
At Milan Design Week, the French house reissues its first furniture pieces, bridging the gap between 1920s craft and contemporary design.
Issey Miyake’s Industrial Alchemy: Turning Pleating Waste into Furniture
At Milan Design Week, the Japanese fashion house debuted handcrafted furniture made from salvaged paper rolls, sparking a debate on the line between sculpture and utility.
The Architecture of Restraint: Estonia’s Manifesto of Lightness
At the Estonian Academy of Arts, first-year students are tasked with building functional chairs from a handful of wooden sticks—a lesson in structural clarity and material economy.
Meditative Marks: Tableau and Secolo’s Intuitive Furniture
A collaboration at Milan Design Week brings "blind-drawn" floral patterns and undulating forms to Italian furniture brand Secolo.
IKEA Reconsiders the Inflatable Chair
Decades after a high-profile failure in air-filled furniture, the Swedish giant returns to the medium with a design that prioritizes structure over pure buoyancy.
The Architectural Ambition of Murano Glass
At Milan Design Week, 6:AM explores how the grueling repetition of glassmaking can scale from furniture to architecture.
The Macaron System: Layering as Modular Strategy
Dutch brand Bert Plantagie and architecture studio Mecanoo debut a seating collection that translates the geometry of the French confection into flexible, bio-based furniture.
The Retreat Into Rarity: Why Design Is Moving Toward the Unique
As mass production loses its moral and aesthetic luster, the world’s premier design fair pivots toward limited editions and the cult of the creator.
Hermès Maps the Domestic Interior in Milan
At Milan Design Week, the French house uses a grid of beechwood volumes to explore the relationship between objects, alignment, and the traveler’s gaze.
Sporty & Rich and the Architecture of Aspiration
The brand’s new 5,200-square-foot West Hollywood flagship signals a shift from digital mood board to a tangible, wellness-centric ecosystem.
The Industrial Afterlife of Vjenceslav Richter
Croatian brand Prostoria brings the mid-century prototypes of a forgotten modernist architect to the mass market for the first time.
The Architecture of Restraint: Cristián Mohaded’s Corsetto Armchair
Argentinian designer Cristián Mohaded explores the tension between soft volume and leather-bound structure in a new collaboration with Molteni&C.
The Architecture of Objects: Inside SM Bureau’s Paris Exhibition
SM Bureau’s "Rebirth" exhibition moves beyond the gallery pedestal, treating furniture and sculpture as components of a cohesive spatial system.
Material Memory: Okinawan Students Reinterpret Local Heritage
At the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts, the Takada Laboratory is bridging regional craft traditions with a rigorous, exhibition-led design philosophy.
Snøhetta and USM Explore the Tension Between Grid and Membrane
A Milan Design Week installation pairs the rigid modularity of USM Haller with a swelling textile form to examine the boundaries of spatial infrastructure.
The High Cost of Domesticity at Sagerska Palace
A controversy over interior design spending at the Swedish Prime Minister’s official residence highlights the friction between public funds and private taste.
Antonio Citterio’s Quincy Sofa Reimagines the Living Room Curve
The Italian architect moves away from rigid geometry toward a fluid, convivial approach to domestic architecture.
The Sonic Recliner: La-Z-Boy Integrates Klipsch Audio into the Living Room
A new collaboration between the iconic furniture brand and the high-end audio maker brings immersive sound directly into the headrests of sofas and recliners.
The Ergonomics of the Long Session
As the boundaries between digital labor and leisure blur, the specialized seating once reserved for enthusiasts is becoming a central fixture of the modern home office.
Moooi at twenty-five: A study in silver and suspension
To mark its 25th anniversary, the Dutch design house returns to its Milanese roots with a silver-clad installation exploring the intersection of movement and material.
Alcova Brings Its Nomadic Design Showcase to Mexico City
The nomadic design platform will activate two historic architectural sites in the Mexican capital, signaling the city’s rising status in the global design circuit.
Lex Pott’s Patented Geometry for the IKEA PS 2026 Lamp
Unveiled at Milan Design Week, the Dutch designer’s new floor lamp uses a simple 45-degree hinge to transition between three distinct lighting modes.
The Architecture of Resistance: Polish Modernism at Torre Velasca
An upcoming exhibition at Milan’s Torre Velasca explores how Poland’s design legacy serves as a blueprint for national identity and social utility.
Inside the Prototype Lab Where Ikea Reimagines Its Failures
A decade after a failed experiment with air-filled furniture, an Ikea designer is using a new prototyping sprint to bring the inflatable chair back to the living room.
The Iterative Ghost: IKEA’s Second Act for Inflatable Furniture
After a decade on the shelf, a designer’s vision for air-filled seating is being revived in the retailer's Älmhult prototyping lab.
The Rationality of Two: Barber and Osgerby at Triennale Milano
A new retrospective in Milan charts three decades of industrial design from Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, exploring how a singular partnership produces such disciplined objects.
Industrializing the Grain: Decospan’s Prefinished Sapele
By applying multi-layer varnishing to real sapele timber, Decospan aims to bring the warmth of natural wood to large-scale architecture without the fragility of raw veneer.
IKEA Reimagines the Home Through the Lens of the Recipe
In a collaboration for Milan Design Week, the retailer pairs chefs and designers to explore how culinary rituals shape our domestic architecture.
Kelly Wearstler and the Industrialization of the Bespoke
The interior designer brings her signature luxury aesthetic to a mass-market modular collection for H&M Home at Milan Design Week.
Jil Sander and the Quiet Ritual of the Reference Library
A temporary installation in Milan invites visitors to don white gloves and engage with the physical book as a curated object of influence.
IKEA Reimagines the Inflatable Chair for a Material-Conscious Era
By pairing steel frames with textile-covered air chambers, the Swedish giant aims to transform a 1990s novelty into a durable exercise in material efficiency.
Print’s Persistent Presence at Milan Design Week
As the design world descends on Milan, a new 44-page newspaper from Dezeen offers a tactile record of the week’s most significant installations and interviews.
The Physics of the Sit: Raw-Edges and the Friction-Fit Chair
London-based studio Raw-Edges experiments with a chair design that replaces staples and adhesives with the simple physics of friction.
The Ergonomics of Endurance: Assessing the Modern Gaming Chair
As the boundaries between professional productivity and digital leisure blur, the gaming chair has evolved from a niche aesthetic into a critical component of the modern home office infrastructure.
The Frictionless Geometry of Ralf Jacobs
A Dutch artist’s bespoke harmonograph turns kinetic furniture into a high-precision instrument for capturing the physics of motion.
The Industrial Geometry of Oliver Michl’s Expanding Lamp
A ceiling-mounted relic of the 1980s reimagines the drafting tool as a sculptural statement.
The Structural Logic of the Offset Wrench
Japanese artist Iyo Hasegawa reimagines the industrial tool as a modular building block, transforming stacked offset wrenches into rhythmic, sculptural furniture.
The Playful Modularity of USM and Kasing Lung
At Milan Design Week, the Swiss furniture icon brings the mischievous characters of "The Monsters" into the world of industrial modularity.
Issey Miyake Reimagines Industrial Byproducts as Sculptural Furniture
A collaboration with Ensamble Studio transforms the discarded paper rolls of the pleating process into a meditation on material longevity.
The Bench as Infrastructure: Francesco Faccin’s Alpine Survival System
Francesco Faccin’s Pancalpina bench blends traditional alpine aesthetics with a hidden survival system designed for the unpredictable shifts of the Italian mountains.
The Material Weight of Bread: Inside Berlin’s KEIT Bakery
Studio Michael Burman uses reclaimed millstones and Douglas fir to create a space that treats the craft of baking as a sculptural performance.
The Industrial Resurrection of Harry Bertoia
Long thought lost to the demolition of a Michigan shopping mall, a massive brass-coated sculpture by the mid-century master has resurfaced to anchor a new retrospective at Cranbrook.
Jennifer Gilbert Liquidity: Trading Blue-Chip Art for Detroit’s Cultural Infrastructure
The philanthropist is consigning works by Joan Mitchell and Kenneth Noland to Sotheby’s to fund Lumana, a new creative hub in the city’s Little Village neighborhood.
The Persistence of the Curve: Marset Reintroduces the Lauro
Designers P. Aragay and J. Pérez Mateo’s 1973 collection returns, celebrating a moment when bending steel was a high-wire act of industrial engineering.
Belgrade’s EJE Reimagines the Future Through the Lens of the Yugoslav Past
A new multipurpose space in Stari Grad blends the modular optimism of the K67 kiosk with a cinematic, parallel-timeline aesthetic.
The Gravity of Milan and the Spectacle of the Monument
As the design world converges on Milan, a new proposal for an "Arc de Trump" sparks a debate on the purpose of the modern monument.
The Industrial Poetics of the Monobloc Chair
Designer Luca Nichetto and manufacturer infiniti debut Linnéa, a chair that balances emotional resonance with high-volume industrial precision.
The Enduring Gravity of Brera Design Week
As Milan prepares for its annual design takeover, the Brera district pivots from the finished object toward the cultural responsibility of the process.
The Materiality of the Moment: Reflections on Frieze Los Angeles 2026
Los Angeles continues to cement its status as a design capital, as evidenced by a Frieze Week defined by an overwhelming breadth of new work and material experimentation.
The Spatial Logic of the Korean Cocktail Bar
Uno Jang’s solo debut in Singapore’s Chinatown translates traditional Korean social values into a sophisticated, four-zone architectural experience.
Martino’s: A Study in Milanese Restraint and London Hospitality
Restaurateur Martin Kuczmarski and Studio Dragò craft a space in Sloane Square that balances mid-century warmth with contemporary geometric precision.
Kyiv’s Farm Table and the Architecture of Material Honesty
Designed by YOD Group, the new restaurant at Seven Lakes uses local red sandstone and retractable glass to dissolve the boundary between the dining room and the Ukrainian landscape.