From Lina Ghotmeh to Tom Dixon, from Lesley Lokko to Ma Yansong, the Global Design Forum leaves London for Istanbul to test a new format where design, criticism, storytelling and public space converge.
With its first major European event, the Chinese brand surprises not only with the engineering of its new products, but with a mature domestic vision aimed at building an integrated ecosystem beyond the robot vacuum cleaner.
From Vitra’s Tip Ton chair to the London 2012 Olympic torch, Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have designed some of the most recognizable objects in contemporary design. Now, after thirty years of collaboration, they are closing their studio
Two previously unseen drawings bring back Santa Tecla, the club beneath Milan’s Duomo where, between jazz and Milanese nightlife, the myth of Joe Colombo was born — a 1950s “pre-listening bar”.
Forty years after the Antwerp Six, Antwerp continues to be a unique creative ecosystem: fashion museums, modernist houses, galleries, and repurposed industrial spaces tell the story of a city where art, retail, and architecture still speak the same language.
From the return of color to the end of minimalism: how emotional design and the promise of wellbeing are redefining domestic interiors.
From childhood summers in Italy to AI-generated design, the British designer traces the shift from objects to experiences, arguing that the discipline has lost scale just as the world demands bigger answers.
Zanotta has secured an exclusive licence from the Italian government to produce thirty Carlo Mollino designs, many of which have never been mass-produced or reissued. We spoke to CEO Luca Fuso about the archives, unique pieces and contemporary production.
Grau inaugurates its “Artist” edition line with Alien, a collaboration with sculptor Yngve Holen. Produced in a limited run of only 200 pieces, the lamp features a UV-reactive glass body. Its form is uniquely derived from a 3D scan of an actual tektite, a material created by a meteorite impact fifteen million years ago.
Open profiles, essential ribbing, no more grams of plastic than necessary: in the year of the monobloc, the Linnéa project has brought the relationship between designer and industry back to the center, in the best tradition of Italian design. The protagonists tell us about it.
With Scout, Konstantin Grcic doesn’t offer a solution to the contemporary office; instead, he stages its crisis: an open, reconfigurable furniture system that reflects a way of working that is still unstable—something to be built rather than designed.
Alessi reissues Ettore Sottsass's La Bella Tavola, the tableware collection that is also a tribute to his beloved China.
