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Pioneering approaches to eco-friendly design with INCHfurniture and Impact Acoustic

From their early days in a furniture workshop in Borneo to their multidisciplinary riverside studio in Basel, industrial designers Thomas...

Copenhagen

Redesigning the future of the office workspace with NORNORM founder Anders Jepsen

Just as no person is an island, no chair, table, or any piece of furniture exists in isolation. Each object...

Munich Design

Stefan Diez’s circular philosophy

What if the disposable could give way to the steadfast? Extraction to replenishment? Depletion to regeneration? If the future belongs...

Berlin Art

Diandra Donecker: Female role models in art

“You would think that there are many females in the arts to look up to, but when you get higher...

Ghent Design

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...

Valencia Art

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...

Naples Design

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,...

Link List

Link List #98: Furniture for the one percent, some good news from Angola, and can a developed city really function car-free?

Hopefully you enjoyed the reads from this week’s Link List, but if you’ve still got an internet itch to scratch,...

Copenhagen Design

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...

New York City Art

By subverting the expected artist Katie Stout takes a welcome humanistic approach to her art

In a vast warehouse in the Bed-Stuy neighborhood of Brooklyn, Katie crafts couches out of various textiles and her signature...

New York City Design

Rethinking the domestic space with New York founder of TRNK, Tariq Dixon

“We lived these fleeting and transient lives as young people in New York City and never spent any time at...

Copenhagen Design

Danish modernism takes a playful turn in the design studio of Mads Sætter-Lassen and Emil Krøyer

There’s no bling in the bedroom, though—only the hallmarks of contemporary Scandinavian design: whitewashed walls, wooden floors, simple accents. And...

New York City Design

Egg Collective: Highs & lows of a creative biz

“For Brutalism!” chimes in Hillary. “It has to be Brutus,” says Stephanie. “That’s Crystal’s cat.” Like all collectives, their origin...

Washington D.C. Music

On a high note in the studio of musician-turned-furniture-designer Jonah Takagi

Moments later, the free-form stories start flowing. He recalls, for instance, the exact moment he first thought about attending the...

Eugene Art

Sculpture and design intersect with Canadian Furniture Designer Zoë Mowat

Based in Montreal and born to a sculptor mother and a psychiatrist father, Zoë grew up with a balance of...

Berlin

Constructing a future collectively: How Cucula helps refugees establish a new life in Berlin

Back then, asylum seekers were camped out at Oranienplatz protesting their treatment by the EU. A year later, five of...

Milan Design

Marc & Paola Sadler's house of love

When asked when they met, Marc answers immediately “yesterday,” before jovially correcting himself, “no, twenty years ago.” An award-winning designer,...