Great design icons go outdoors
The appeal of outdoor spaces continues to influence the culture of living, in an upgrade that is more than just a redesign of materials.
The history of the Monobloc: the world’s best-selling chair
Everyone knows it, yet few remember its name. This is the story of an iconic chair – one that embodies democratic design.
Furniture by Donald Judd for Saint Laurent’s hub in Paris
Curated by creative director Anthony Vaccarello, the cultural hub in the historic centre of the French capital features furniture designed by the minimal art maestro, in a collaboration with Donald Judd Furniture that also introduces new colours.
Designing love: from Ettore Sottsass to Fabio Novembre
From the Room for Making Love to Love, passing by sacred names such as Castiglioni, Branzi and Pesce, we recapitulate the often overlooked relationship between Italian design, desire and eroticism.
Custom colors and materials: B&O puts a stop to identical audio devices
The historic Danish brand introduces Bang & Olufsen Atelier, a service that lets you customize every product in their lineup with a variety of colors and materials. Atelier Editions are also making their debut.
20 years of Halley, Richard Sapper’s LED pioneer lamp
A photo campaign by Mattia Balsamini celebrates two decades of a lamp bearing the name and nature of a comet, created to integrate a dawning technology with maximum freedom of movement.
Franco Raggi, the “great unorthodox” of Italian design, on show at Triennale Milano
It is impossible to categorize Raggi and his work, ranging from radical Italian design to contemporary issues. His first solo exhibition is once again a tool for exploration.
Hay reissues the X-Line Chair, a Scandinavian high-tech icon
Danish design exists beyond classic organic forms: a lightweight stackable chair created in the late 1970s proves this to us, now returning by adding new colors to the chrome-plated steel of its origins.
Is Korean design booming like Squid Game?
Over the past two decades, partly thanks to state subsidies, the products of South Korean creativity have invaded film, TV, music and fashion. And what about the design world?
20 home appliances that marked the history of industrial design
Over the last ninety years, they have written the history of design and changed our life for the better. Here is our list of the most iconic home appliances.
The clothes chair and 15 other objects designed for new behaviours
We live in smaller spaces, sharing them between people and different species, we move, save, and try to protect ourselves from excessive connectivity: what objects have emerged from this lifestyle change?
Olivetti Tekne 3, the typewriter that Sottsass designed without “frivolous concessions”
Conceived not as an isolated object, but as part of the diverse scenarios of devices that populate desks, Tekne 3 is the essential Olivetti machine that integrates electronic components.