interior design - Friends of Friends / Freunde von Freunden (FvF)

Designer Julia Haney-Montañez on the chair that changed the course of her career

Choosing a creative career is not an easy task. In an economic infrastructure where productivity and economic growth are the...

Paris Architecture

Antonin Ziegler: Industrial yet serene residences

“What makes Le 107 work is a mix of verticality and openness. It only has a 28 square-meter footprint, but...

Leipzig Munich

Casting the anguish and beauty of two cities with Aesop store design in Leipzig and Munich

Barely no other place manifests the history of an entire country like Nikolaistraße, a street that connects Leipzig’s main station...

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...

San Francisco Art

Leslie Williamson captures homes as physical manifestations of people’s lives

To Williamson, everything starts with the person and their work. “There is a thorough line with everything these people do,...

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...

Community

A new book, Behind Closed Curtains, looks at interior design in Iran

A new book, Behind Closed Curtains, looks at interior design in Iran We’ve seen our fair share of interiors books...

Stockholm Architecture

Mind over matter: Allan Spiegel on building a family home from the ground up

“I’m not an architect,” says Allan Spiegel, a self taught interior consultant who works with some of the biggest retail...

New York City

Manhattan's Material Lust Push Design into the Ominous

Oppressionism is the combination of heavy-handed theatrics with high design alongside the exploitation of uncomfortable and often pornographic imagery. The...

Community

The Zhongshuge Bookstore Realizes the Futuristic Aesthetic of the ‘60s

The bookstore, which opened in April of this year, veers far away from the usual dusty department-store-meets-mundane-cafe aesthetic. Instead, it’s...

Berlin

Wings of Desire: How paper feathers gave flight to Berlin-based artist Lacy Barry

Self-taught Lacy’s works cross the borders of fine art and advertising, always maintaining the same scope: to create an environment...

Berlin

Building character: How a former Berlin salt factory and Stasi lookout became an architect’s playground

After designing various iterations of the same space in the building for clients, their home became a confident playground for...

Los Angeles Design

Meet Bret Witke, the designer behind Hollywood's most infamous hideouts

Though a google image search won’t turn up a trace (it was the 80s, and he’s since disposed of any...

San Francisco

Lauren Geremia

Her unique, art-centric approach to the design of both public and private spaces is informed by her fine arts education...

Los Angeles

Genevieve Dellinger & Martha Mulholland

In the last few years, it’s become an attractive neighborhood for any creative cultural worker looking for a home under...

Portland

Shannon Baird

A rare third-generation Portlander still living in the same Irvington neighborhood as her grandparents, Shannon recently finished building an urban...