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Inside the Curated Chaos of Dusty Deco's Edin Memic Kjellvertz
It is a quiet morning in Palma, and the light – sharper and more golden than the pale grey of...
The creative home of Wai Tsui balances nature and the city on the outskirts of Oslo
The world outdoors is important for Wai Tsui, the founder of Hiking Patrol. So two years ago, when he, his...
Amanda Gunawan: Cultivating sustainable workspaces
For many, the onset of the pandemic has coincided with working from home at a scale unlike before. Working, but...
Leigh Patterson & Michael A. Muller
It’s endearing watching Leigh Patterson and Michael A. Muller evade the question: what do you do? The insistent distillation regarding...
Michael Andersen and Jeppe Christensen disrupt the kitchen industry with their reformative approach to design
It may seem like a strange turn of events for a business marketing executive and a construction engineer to suddenly...
All the Way to Paris are the Danish-Swedish design duo using textiles to create a feeling of closeness
While named after the French capital, All the Way to Paris is a Copenhagen-based design duo composed of Tanja Vibe...
We’re living in an era requiring new solutions and visionary thinking, according to designer Harald Gründl of EOOS
“We recently got a call from a manufacturer who wanted to produce a ten-year-old design mock-up of ours,” says Harald...
Too Much Magazine explores the inherent romance of our built environments
“Our real interest is not a specific field like architecture, art, or anthropology, but space and spaces,” says Yoshi Tsujimura,...
Art director Alice Ray reveals the key influences behind her concept-driven images
Art director Alice Ray reveals five key influences behind her concept-driven images “Occasionally when I have enough time I like...
Belgian design duo Muller Van Severen construct poetic furniture rooted in surrealism
While many view home renovations as a necessary evil, for Belgian designers Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen, the process...
Richard van der Laken fights social injustice one design challenge at a time
In conversation with Richard van der Laken, the co-founder of the global design foundation and conference series, What Design Can...
Fighting for inclusivity in the arts with curatorial initiative Foreign Legion
Foreign Legion, Vera Sacchetti and Matylda Krzykowski, met one evening in early 2012 when Sacchetti walked into an opening at...
How architects and designers are revolutionizing the use of light—and making us feel better in the process
In 1943, while considering the repair of the bomb-ravaged House of Commons, Sir Winston Churchill famously said, “we shape our...
Louise Damas: Literary gems to intricate trinkets
The notion of the Parisienne is shrouded in cliches. To jewelry designer turned entrepreneur Louise Damas this no longer rings...
Valencia-based artist and designer Jaime Hayon believes that hybridity is the mother of invention
“It’s really hard to define what I do,” admits the Spanish-born creative Jaime Hayon. Originally training in industrial design in...
Celebrating a new generation of makers, a female-led Italian design fair thinks outside the artist’s booths
In the historical center of Naples in the south of Italy, Domitilla Dardi and Emilia Petruccelli are creating Edit Napoli,...
Defining future classics that blend heritage and innovation with design house &Tradition
Upon entering what feels like a sumptuous modern home in the center of Copenhagen, there’s no immediate tell-tale sign that...
In the capital of Slovakia, crafting plastics! studio are set on proving bioplastic is ready for mass consumption
Together with her partner and fellow product designer Miroslav Král, they asked the scientist responsible, Pavel Alexy. Alexy and his...
In the age of acceleration, Deniz Ova wants to reformulate design education
Born and raised in Stuttgart—where she was working in event organization and management—Ova relocated to Istanbul after she was offered...
Crediting the exemplary females previously unacknowledged for their seminal work in design
Eileen Gray completed her work on one of the 20th century’s masterpieces of modernist architecture in 1929, aged 51. It...