Design
How Paris Design Week is now emerging as a contender to Milan’s design reign
With striking venues, support for emerging designers and renewed respect for France’s métiers d’art, Paris Design Week has quickly become a must on the global design circuit, and Milan’s fiercest competitor.
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How HQs with in-built factories are keeping staff engaged and improving their products
Not long ago, many were questioning the need to have offices at all – but there’s a growing awareness that proximity to production can help to keep standards high.
Three legacy furniture brands crafting masterpieces in a modern world
We visit three family-owned furniture businesses that have thrived through the generations to discover how they continue to produce unique high-quality pieces.
Wildflower Studios: The production company bringing Hollywood-style filmmaking to New York
The East Coast’s film-production scene is being revitalised by an innovative complex in Queens designed to celebrate the bigger picture. We meet Adam I Gordon, the warehouse owner-turned-studio boss.
How heritage brand Tolix’s revival reflects the boom in traditional luxury design
Despite a background in couture, Emmanuel Diemoz and Antoine Bejui had no qualms about buying Tolix, a maker of metal furniture.
Three firms demonstrating the role of architects in designing productive workspaces
From an environmentally minded life-sciences campus in San Diego to a transformed 1960s police station in Belgium, well-considered architecture can help businesses to step up their game and give back to their communities.
The growing market for luxury product packaging
For New York-based brand Chowa, traditional Japanese boxes are the key to sustainable packaging.
The Welsh mill securing its future by becoming an employee-owned enterprise
A new yarn on how to overhaul the business model of a heritage brand is being spun.
The top 9 smartest workplace furniture pieces designed for comfort and collaboration
From portable radios to productivity-boosting furniture, we name our favourite office pieces.
The late-in-life entrepreneur: How designer Fujiwo Ishimoto started afresh after retirement
For some, retirement is an opportunity to take a well-earned rest. For 83-year-old Japanese textile designer Fujiwo Ishimoto, however, it marked the moment when he decided to change the course of his life and…
