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Wondrous wares

From seating to storage, these are the design innovations with which to fit out your home, office or otherwise.

  • Issue #108
  • 25 min read
Illustration of a man reading in a modern interior with a sofa, arched windows, and a black cat on a stool.
Design

Modern love

In a rescued Bristol townhouse, Ken Stradling's lifetime of Nordic glass, pottery and design treasures tells a story of salvage, taste and devotion – to objects, to a building and to a marriage.

  • Issue #108
  • 6 min read
Modern love
Business

Tie the knot

The cracks are showing for this Japanese husband-and-wife duo. But that’s the point: they’ve built a career using natural wood.

  • Issue #107
  • 6 min read
Tie the knot
Design

Sitting pretty

Jasper Morrison has designed hundreds of products with a simple mission to make you feel good. In his favourite Berlin spot he explains why you can never have enough chairs.

  • Issue #103
  • 3 min read
Sitting pretty
Design

Leading lights

Kitting out your office? Sprucing up your home? The furniture and firms you need are perfectly arranged right here.

  • Issue #103
  • 17 min read
Leading lights
Design

Light show

As committed to its Catalonian heritage as it is to classic design, Santa & Cole is a shining example of good collaboration.

  • Issue #103
  • 10 min read
Light show
Retail

Assembled with care

Furniture colossus Ikea is dismantling its reputation and trying to build not only a better public image but also a better future.

  • Issue #102
  • 14 min read
Assembled with care
Design

Big drawer

IMM Cologne is where the major furniture trade deals are clinched. We sit down – on elegant chairs – with some of its most innovative attendees.

  • Issue #101
  • 8 min read
Big drawer
Design

Piece together

Amid the crises that Lebanon has faced over the past few years, new design galleries and studios have emerged across the capital and secured its status as a chief design centre in the Middle…

  • The Forecast #7
  • 6 min read
Piece together
Design

Smooth selling

Boasting doesn’t come easy to the Basque but we meet the furniture-makers going against the grain, selling themselves and redefining their industrial heritage in the process.

  • Issue #96
  • 14 min read
Smooth selling

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