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The Poetry of Reduction. Inside the Mind of OLDER Studio

Amelie Krone — Wed, 12 Aug 2026 11:13:29 +0000

What happens when you strip away the frantic cycles of high fashion to focus entirely on the memory, weight, and quiet utility of what we wear? For Letizia Caramia and Morten Thuesen, the two creatives behind the design studio OLDER, the answer lies in the radical simplicity of the uniform. Bridging Milanese heritage with Danish functionalism,

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Workshop Mentality: How Mark Braun Built Foyos on Structural Logic and Intuition

Amelie Krone — Sat, 06 Jun 2026 21:27:37 +0000

An interview with a product designer often runs the risk of getting tangled in the technicalities of ergonomics and manufacturing. Yet, speaking with Berlin-based designer, studio lead, and professor Mark Braun reveals a practice guided far more by intuition, human rhythm, and what he calls “feeling design with my belly.” Ahead of debuting his new

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The Creative’s Inner World and Outer Expression: Matthew Williamson

Ava — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 21:22:46 +0000

In the terraced hills of Deià, overlooking the vast blue of the Mediterranean, we visited British designer Matthew Williamson at home — and in the studio where his world of colour continues to unfold. Long celebrated for his fearless prints and vibrant palettes, Williamson has shifted his focus in recent years from the pace of global fashion

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Patterns of Peace: Ida Johansson’s Mediterranean Metamorphosis

Ava — Tue, 24 Feb 2026 22:15:42 +0000

In the sun-drenched sanctuary of her home in Mallorca, multidisciplinary artist Ida Johansson has carved out a creative life defined by movement and mindful connection. Ida’s work is less about a single medium and more about a holistic philosophy — one that balances the tactile heritage of Swedish textiles with the Mediterranean’s grounding energy. In

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Inside the Curated Chaos of Dusty Deco’s Edin Memic Kjellvertz

Caroline Sarah Henne — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:07:51 +0000

It is a quiet morning in Palma, and the light – sharper and more golden than the pale grey of his native Stockholm – pours through the open doors of the Dusty Deco showroom. For Edin Memic Kjellvertz, this shift in geography was more than a change of scenery; it was a necessary deceleration. After

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The creative home of Wai Tsui balances nature and the city on the outskirts of Oslo

Lucy Pullicino — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 12:50:14 +0000

The world outdoors is important for Wai Tsui, the founder of Hiking Patrol. So two years ago, when he, his partner Adeline Hermier, and their baby son Lian were looking for a new home, they were immediately drawn to a modernist concrete house a stone’s throw from Oslo, Norway. From its open terrace, large windows, and garden backing onto the forest, the Norwegian creative can go running in the mountains, take his son sledding in the snow, or simply sit around the fire playing with Lego in the central living space. It’s a happy intersection of indoors and outdoors.

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Amanda Gunawan: Cultivating sustainable workspaces

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Wed, 10 Nov 2021 13:07:00 +0000

For many, the onset of the pandemic has coincided with working from home at a scale unlike before. Working, but also resting, coping, and caring for ourselves and others within the same four walls, has given birth to new ways of delineating spaces and adjusting environments to fit people’s needs while maintaining some semblance of

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Leigh Patterson & Michael A. Muller

Anastasiya Varenytsya — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:00:00 +0000

It’s endearing watching Leigh Patterson and Michael A. Muller evade the question: what do you do? The insistent distillation regarding how they spend their time bores them, and their ennui from over-describing their work is clear. It’s easy to understand why. There’s an ineffability to their professional interests, and their projects resist easy classification. Leigh

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Michael Andersen and Jeppe Christensen disrupt the kitchen industry with their reformative approach to design

Jenna Duffy — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:00:00 +0000

It may seem like a strange turn of events for a business marketing executive and a construction engineer to suddenly enter the kitchen industry, but for Michael Andersen and Jeppe Christensen, it made complete sense. “I’ve always been interested in design and architecture,” says Christensen, who first conceived the idea for the kitchen company Reform

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All the Way to Paris are the Danish-Swedish design duo using textiles to create a feeling of closeness

Aimee Shirley — Wed, 19 May 2021 08:55:58 +0000

While named after the French capital, All the Way to Paris is a Copenhagen-based design duo composed of Tanja Vibe and Petra Olsson Gendtmet. Having both studied graphic design at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, the pair founded their studio soon after graduation. Working across graphic design, branding, art direction, and illustration, they

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