When IKEA furniture becomes a collector’s item: the 15 most wanted vintage pieces
Can an IKEA chair cost thousands of euros? Yes, if the designer was Verner Panton and the furniture has become extremely sought-after by vintage collectors.
Sunne is a rechargeable lamp that mimics sunlight
Designed by Marjan van Aubel Studio, it is recharged by a sophisticated system of solar cells made by ECN.TNO.
The green turn of sportswear
From Kanye West’s Yeezy Foarm Runner to Stella McCartney’s mycelium collection, the new trend in sneakers and sportswear is eco-sustainable, and focuses on material innovation.
5 noise cancelling headphones even a designer would be comfortable wearing
Forget about intricate technicalities. Here's a list of the five best ANC over-ear headphones with the best overall CMF design and a smooth user experience.
Design between hauntology, ontology and Capitalocene
Ani Liu, Giovanni Innella, Marco Petroni and Emanuele Quinz explore in a four-part series the possibilities of a post-anthropocene: the issues to be addressed, the limits to be overcome. Here you can find the first contribution.
The social role of designers is now under question: they must reinvent their sphere of expertise and create new relationships, says design critic Alice Rawsthorn.
The glass flowers by Alessandra Baldereschi
The collection of blown lamps Moonlight Garden is inspired by the Oriental gardens.
IKEA Art Event 2021, or the unrealistic meeting between mass production and art-design
For the Swedish multinational, five designers and artists conceive home accessories that promise the reconciliation between art and functionality.
German Design 1949-1989: Two Countries, One History
The elective affinities of German post-war design in an exhibition at Vitra Design Museum that places side by side projects and visions developed in forty years of industrial production to the East and West of the Iron Curtain. Highlighting convergences and common roots.
Remo Buti’s method, told in a “radical” interview
The authors of Vari-età (Variety/Various ages), the first book on Remo Buti’s universe, one of the most interesting figures of the Italian radical movement, and not only, speak. And in a totally radical spirit, where the collective was a value, the three authors answer our questions together.
New rug collections by Alain Gilles play with optical illusions
Hole, Stacked-Up and Mosaique bring into the space three-dimensional elements, false perceptions and passages to unknown worlds, encouraging us to observe reality with a different gaze.
Aldo Rossi’s Teatro del Mondo and the meaning of scale
Playing with both miniturisation and enlargement, from architecture to object and back again, Rossi’s work “questions the identity of size.”
Layer has designed a line of ‘pandemic’ accessories
A reusable face mask, refillable hand sanitiser, and refillable sanitising wipes case. All designed by British designer Benjamin Hubert for wellness brand Never Go Alone.
Studio Kapitza’s colorful patterns for a washi tape
MT Masking Tape, the traditional rice paper tape produced by Japanese company Kamoi, gets dressed up in the vibrant, geometric graphics of the London-based multidisciplinary studio.