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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Editor’s letter: Andrew Tuck considers how our homes influence our lives
This month we take a moment to reflect on our interior lives – whether in terms of the objects we fill our homes with or what we mean when we speak of ‘home’.
Architects on sofas: 12 leading creatives on the best seat in their house
What can our sofa tell us about our personalities, lifestyles and aspirations?
The finest new furniture, lighting and homeware to curate your dream space
Looking for some domestic bliss? Here’s a selection of 25 quality pieces to elevate your home.
Iberian furniture brands are driving shifts in the global interiors industry
Move over, Ikea. We take a look at how three Spanish furniture brands are redefining accessible, high-quality furniture.
Design agenda: Sydney’s Studio Prineas, London-based Hût Architecture and the revival of the Memphis waterfront
Urbanism: USAWalking in Memphis The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was founded on the banks of the Mississippi river in the 19th century but its modern waterfront has long been defined by unremarkable swaths of turf…
Three designers who are setting the industry’s agenda, from typography to spiritual architecture
Whether it’s drafting new letterforms, imbuing craft with diasporic mythology or rendering the intangible in bricks and mortar, these practitioners have truly honed their disciplines – and they’re still learning.
Interview: Cecilie Manz on design with a purpose
For this Danish designer, industrial design is a matter of keeping it simple – and useful.
How 1940s-era bungalows of the Mar Vista Tract are nurturing the community
A set of humble bungalows designed as ‘social art’, this beloved historic district has fostered a sense of togetherness among its residents.
