At the Paris fair Matter and Shape, limited-edition design experiments with new materials and new typologies: from red mycelium to repairable light bulbs.
Salomon’s Adaptive project develops sports prosthetics for trail running, skiing and snowboarding. Born during the Covid pandemic, it brings together aeronautical engineering, design and personal stories to make sport possible again after an amputation.
Unveiled at the 1966 Geneva Motor Show—exactly 60 years ago—the car designed by Marcello Gandini for Bertone introduced the mid-engine layout, radical proportions, and a new image of speed.
N Plus Magic House is a modular system for felines that explicitly references the Nakagin Capsule Tower: a micro-architecture designed to grow vertically, module after module.
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.
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.
Designed in the 1950s by the founder of Domus, this chair weighs under two kilograms and remains, to this day, a manifesto of lightness.
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.
From ACG to the Milano Jacket, we spoke with Chief Design Officer Martin Lotti about how Air is moving beyond the sole to become architecture for apparel, starting with the remarkable capsule created with the Italian tennis champion.
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.
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.
"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.
