Product design
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Inventory No. 68
What's on our wish list this month, including a sturdy briefcase and a warming toddy.
Planting the seeds
The flagship product of Royal Copenhagen is its Flora Danica porcelain. The delicate dinner set is handpainted, an art that takes years of intensive training. We meet the master painter and her apprentice.
Inventory No. 67
This month’s treats include some gin for your drinks cabinet, stationery for your home-office and wooden animals for the fun of it.
Power trip
Electric cars aren’t new to the motoring scene but they’ve always been practical rather than user-intuitive or well designed – limitations BMW has looked to tackle with its first all-electric model.
Big Shot
El Casco in the Basque country is a Spanish success story. And despite the difficult economic conditions, it has had the firepower to survive.
Power to the people
Innovative designers and visionary city planners are breathing new life into the much-mocked electric bike – today’s power-assisted two-wheelers are hand-crafted, ultra-efficient, lightweight and, most important of all, chic...
Glazing a trail
The enamelware coming out of the Noda Horo factory in Japan hardly has time to sit on the shelves. Meet the family firm that has forged a reputation for quality and creativity.
Design/Architecture
Projects and products, from a residence in Tokyo to a new coat rack from Philadelphia.
Inventory No. 66
Eye-catching crockery and gadgets for the oenophile to help you wine and dine are just some of our specially chosen products this month.
String theory
The geometric playscapes of Corocord start off with hard labour and harder maths but come to life with a final, magic design element: imagination.
