Gio Ponti’s Superleggera: the chair you can lift with a single finger
Designed in the 1950s by the founder of Domus, this chair weighs under two kilograms and remains, to this day, a manifesto of lightness.
Coolnvintage has turned the Defender into a cultural project
The Land Rover Defender is not the end goal but the means: Coolnvintage uses it to build a contemporary work aesthetic, where process matters more than personalization.
A coffee table with a sex tape inside becomes a sharp statement on contemporary design
Sex Tape is not the usual coffee table, but a provocative product that Batten and Kamp designed to interrogate design, its significance and its limits.
Not vintage at 80: why the Vespa is still a living symbol of italian design
Born in 1946 to help a country rebuild after the war, the Vespa went on to shape cinema, youth culture, advertising, and urban life. This is the story of an italian scooter that changed the way we move — and the way we stay close.
From skeleton sleds to traffic lights: mapping today’s design power with Konstantin Grcic
The Mayday designer uses skis, worn-out suits, and a tape-covered skeleton sled at Triennale Milano to reflect on a form of design that does not seek the wow effect, redefining instead processes, infrastructures, and collective choices.
A construction element is the foundation of this series of super-colorful furniture
Metal drywall tracks take center stage in Drywall by Claudio Larcher and Sofia D’Andrea, a furniture series where design adopts architecture’s invisible grammar.
Verner Panton’s most famous chair is back, and you choose the colour
"One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes" said the designer whose 100th birthday we are celebrating this year. So Vitra, the company that established his fame, is launching a contest to vote on the color of the next edition of the Panton Chair.
A table designed by Mangiarotti and Morassutti for a Le Corbusier villa can now be in your home
For the great hall of Villa Schwob, the architects conceived a table whose elegance also lies in its mechanical components; today Agapecasa reissues it for the first time.
There are some really impressive pieces in Ikea’s new play-centred collection
We saw Grejsimojs firsthand, Ikea’s collection designed to bring play back into everyday domestic life with a series of physical, clever and unexpected objects.
How Secrid reinvented the wallet—by putting design at the center
We visited the Dutch company that rebuilt the idea of the wallet from scratch, discovering a place where the product rules and ethics matter most.
We visited the largest maiolica collection in Europe
In Palermo, Sicily, the house museum Stanze al Genio opens to the public a hidden treasure of tiled floors and terracotta tiles, the result of more than 30 years of private collecting
The enduring relevance of design for David Bowie, ten years after his death
From his collection of Memphis furniture to the costumes of his alter-egos, the life and career of David Bowie have been indissolubly intertwined with the world of design.