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Designed to Disturb the Balance
Sculptural furniture runs through the work of Hervé Van Der Straeten with a quiet but persistent provocation. You feel it… Full Story
Designed to Disturb the Balance
Sculptural furniture runs through the work of Hervé Van Der Straeten with a quiet but persistent provocation. You feel it… Full Story
Lighting That Understands the Landscape
Lander by Renzo Piano and Ribeira by David Chipperfield represent iGuzzini’s most architectural approach to outdoor lighting. Form, restraint, and… Full Story
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A Ceiling System That Organizes Space
Ceilings are often where design intent fades. Structural limits take over. Depth disappears, and lighting becomes secondary. With LAYER, Sabin… Full Story
Groove, Extended
When a brand like Tom Dixon commits to outdoor furniture, the expectation isn’t subtlety, it’s clarity. Released in early 2025,… Full Story
Sonic, in Control
The base changes everything. With the Sonic Chair from Branca Lisboa, the decision between fixed legs and casters isn’t a secondary detail,… Full Story
Canopy and the Architecture of Focus
Focus has become a design problem, not a personal one. Canopy, developed by KFI Studios in collaboration with Gensler, approaches that challenge architecturally rather… Full Story
Alicudi, Filicudi, & Panarea: Recycled Lava Lamps by Foscarini
Meet literal lava lamps by Foscarini—Alicudi, Filicudi, and Panarea. Named after three of the seven Italian islands in the Aeolian… Full Story
When a Glass Table Starts to Hover
Some tables assert mass. Others seem to hover. This glass table from SkLO belongs firmly in the latter camp, turning repetition into… Full Story
Maison&Objet 2026: Past Reveals Future
Living design trends don’t shout at Maison&Objet 2026. They murmur, layer, and evolve. Past Reveals Future, the show’s central theme, positions… Full Story
Black as Structure, Not Accent
Black finishes have become common. Truly deep black is still rare. With Zephyr, Franz Viegener sharpens its architectural bathroom fixtures by introducing the… Full Story
Good Tile Has Rhythm
There’s a growing appetite for architectural tile design that does more than sit quietly in the background. Today, commercial interiors… Full Story
A Color Story for the Modern Workplace
Color is no longer a finishing touch in workplace design. It’s a planning tool. With the latest update to the… Full Story
Workplace Seating, Reconsidered
There’s a growing expectation that work chairs should feel less like equipment and more like furniture. That shift is front… Full Story
A Lens That Refuses to Sit Back
There is something quietly disarming about the Concavo Collection from Tracy Glover Studio, a series that subtly rethinks how light and glass relate…. Full Story
Sculpture First. Hydrotherapy Second.
Freestanding whirlpool tubs have long carried a contradiction. Designers expect calm, sculptural form, yet the mechanics often introduce bulk and… Full Story
When Small Apertures Do the Heavy Lifting
Good ceilings are hard to design and easy to ruin, especially when lighting competes for attention. That tension is exactly… Full Story
The 10 Stories That Shaped 3rings in 2025
Looking back, design trends 2025 weren’t defined by a single movement. Instead, the year was defined by confidence. Confidence in… Full Story
Luxury Wallcoverings with a Mythic Edge
Light has always been wallpaper’s quiet accomplice. With the Atlas Collection by Wall/Pepper, introduced as a new line enriched with Swarovski®… Full Story
A Lamp Built for After Hours
After hours is when hospitality spaces earn their character. As the lights soften, conversations linger, and atmosphere takes the lead,… Full Story
When Stone Becomes the Structure
Designers have been quietly rewriting the rules of stone for years. What’s changed is scale and confidence. The 2026 Luxury Surface… Full Story
Designed to Glow After Sunset
There is a certain confidence to outdoor solar lighting when it feels built into the experience. With the launch of… Full Story
Where the Wall Gives Way
There is a moment when a wall stops behaving like a wall. That is the premise behind NanaWall’s NW MultiSlide 630,… Full Story
Luxury Bar Accessories Designed for the Long Pour
Luxury bar accessories take on new weight in the Maris Collection, a collaboration between Kelly Wearstler Studio and Giobagnara that… Full Story
Aalto by Form, Isola by Pattern
The new Artek–Marimekko collaboration folds patterned furniture into a lesson on subtle expression. Through the partnership, the two Finnish icons revisit Aalto’s Stool 60,… Full Story
Warm Wood with a Sharp Point of View
The Silva Collection from KFI Studios, shows how wood seating can still push a conversation forward. The line feels warm and grounded,… Full Story
Panels That Hold Space Lightly
Chemetal’s latest expansion to its Transparency collection reframes what decorative panels can do in commercial interiors. These new laser-cut designs, four in total, offered… Full Story
Iconic Design
The Art of Uneven Comfort
Vitra’s Polder Sofa, designed by Hella Jongerius, is a rare piece of modular seating that embraces variation instead of concealing it…. Full Story
From Paulin with Style
Few chairs keep their relevance across decades. The Groovy Chair by Pierre Paulin is one of them. First introduced in 1964 and… Full Story
High on Life
Alta, designed by Oscar Niemayer and his daughter, Anna Maria, is firmly grounded in a Modernist aesthetic but also looks… Full Story
Urquiola’s Untold Treasures
We’ve covered more work by the iconic Patricia Urquiola than I care to count (actually, most recent tally is 37… Full Story
Arpita Singh’s Remembering at Serpentine North
Serpentine North, an art gallery located in London, is currently in the installation process for a new exhibit coming soon:… Full Story
A Ribbon to Sit Upon
We couldn’t do a week of writing around the theme of “ribbons” and not include Pierre Paulin’s iconic Ribbon chair… Full Story
Meet Mocha Mousse: Pantone Color of the Year 2025!
If you feel like you’re longing for peace, you’re not alone. Pantone has once again picked up on our collective… Full Story
Redondo Chair by Patricia Urquiola for Moroso
Products by Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola command attention. It seems like she creates something spectacular for every furniture show—and many… Full Story
Ball Chair by Eero Aarnio
When Finnish designer Eero Aarnio created the Ball Chair in 1963, he had no idea it would propel him to… Full Story
Pretty in Pink: PH Artichoke and PH Snowball Anniversary Editions by Louis Poulsen
If you make it 150 years in the design business, then perhaps you do have rose-colored glasses on! In honor… Full Story
Icons by Flos
Italian lighting giant Flos has created a visual narrative entitled Icons. With photography by Catalan visual artist Daniel Riera and… Full Story
From the Era of Tubular: K-106
The bold and brash K-106 makes the cut for this week’s Geometric theme courtesy of its swooping, stadium-style tubular arms…. Full Story
Puppy by Magis
Puppy by Magis was designed in 2005 by Finnish interior designer Eero Aarnio. From its inception, Puppy became a fan… Full Story
BuzziSpace Gets Peachy Keen
BuzziSpace is getting in on the Pantone Color of the Year 2024. The acoustics brand offers noise-reducing solutions that revel… Full Story
Ultrafabrics x Pantone 2024
The Ultrafabrics x Pantone collaboration by Ultrafabrics pays homage to the Pantone Color of the Year 2024: Peach Fuzz. Ultrafabrics… Full Story
Spoonflower x Pantone Peach Fuzz Collab
Spoonflower has made a name for itself by featuring the work of independent artists on wallpaper, fabrics, and other home… Full Story
Ruggable and Pantone Peach Fuzz Collab
Ruggable x Pantone Collection interprets Pantone’s Color of the Year 2024 in a set of three rugs, a doormat, and… Full Story
Peach Fuzz: Pantone Color of the Year 2024
Although it was announced in December, Pantone’s Color of the Year 2024 doesn’t officially start until January, so 3rings waited… Full Story
45 Years of the Parker Table
Sergio Rodrigues’ Mesa Parker table and chairs was commissioned by the Parker family in Rio circa 1978. Made of solid… Full Story
Armchair 6950
Jaroslav Šmídek is probably not very well known outside of the Czech Republic. Yet his work demonstrates a keen influence… Full Story
Cool Credenza from Moroso
Does anything from Moroso not qualify as iconic? Perf, by Diesel Designs, is just approaching its 10th. anniversary, yet is… Full Story
Daring Desk and More from Alessandro Mendini
Alessandro Mendini, the famed Italian designer who died in 2019, is speaking to us from the beyond with Porro’s recent… Full Story
Ptolomeo: Lover of Books
We’re just a few months shy of the 20th. anniversary of Opinion Ciatti’s Original Ptolomeo, the iconic furnishing that turns… Full Story
If the Cubists Made a Sofa
In fact, they did! At least, Czechoslovakian architect Vlastislav Hofman did. An innovative thinker, craftsman, designer, and author, Hofman came… Full Story
The Art of Uneven Comfort
Vitra’s Polder Sofa, designed by Hella Jongerius, is a rare piece of modular seating that embraces variation instead of concealing it…. Full Story
Interviews and Profiles
Todd Heiser: Current Obsessions
Todd Heiser, FIIDA, is Co-Regional Managing Principal for Gensler’s North Central Region. He brings over 30 years of experience crafting… Full Story
Floating Harbor: Harbinger of the Future
What was, what is, and what can be: the Harbor Wetland may be explained in these terms. A 10,000 square-foot… Full Story
Happy Earth Day from Heller!
Among the many worrisome accounts of environmental woe, we bring you good news. As of April 1, 2025, Heller is… Full Story
WAF Says, “See You in Miami!”
The World Architecture Festival has announced they are coming to Miami. For the first time in the organization’s 18-year history,… Full Story
Bar Buraco Quente Must be the Place
The Buraco Quente bar in Santa Catarina, Brazil has been serving up healthy doses of purple and pink since January… Full Story
Womanifesto!
Honored by Maison&Objet as the 2025 Designer of the Year, Faye Toogood (amazingly, it is her given name) is an… Full Story
PANTONE
PANTONE is a unique New Jersey company whose color matching systems are available to both professionals and consumers. It is… Full Story
Cray Bauxmont-Flynn
A tribal citizen of the Cherokee Nation and the Delaware Tribe of Indians, Clay Bauxmont-Flynn is an architect, designer, and… Full Story
Alexander Diaz Andersson
It’s probably an easy way out to say that the work of Alexander Diaz Andersson is a study in contrasts…. Full Story
Bethan Laura Wood
For this week’s theme, we are inspired by the work of Bethan Laura Wood—The Queen of Super-Too-Much. A UK multidisciplinary… Full Story
Within Reach: Gensler and REACH LA Collaborate on a Bold Renovation of an LGBTQ+ Youth Center
In September of 2020, smack in the heart of the pandemic and the reeling aftermath of the murder of George… Full Story
Ronan Bouroullec Résonance at Centre Pompidou
From Japanese-influenced ceramics to impromptu line drawings, from a carefully crafted new candelabra for brand Mutina to a bas relief… Full Story
New Exhibit from Estúdio Campana
Estúdio Campana and Friedman Benda present “On the Road,” a new exhibition featuring solo work by Humberto Campana—the first output… Full Story
Christina Seilern wins DNA Paris Design Award for Oak Cottage
Christina Seilern, principal of Studio Seleirn Architects, won a DNA Paris Design Award for Oak Cottage. A low-carbon extension to… Full Story
DNM Architecture and Wellmade Team Up for an Accessory Dwelling Unit Partnership
The recently announced partnership between DNM Architecture and Wellmade makes the idea of moving into your own back yard even… Full Story
Nelson Mandela Cultural Center Opens in Pantin, France
Le Centre Culturel Nelson Mandela recently opened in Pantin, a northeastern suburb of Paris. Designed by architect Jean-Pierre Lott, the… Full Story
Casa Alesan by BACH Arquitectes
Architects Jaume Bach and Anna & Eugeni Bach of BACH Arquitectes recently completed a restoration and extension of Casa Alesan,… Full Story
The Wondrous World of Wonderwall Studios
I’m no expert on the Netherlands—in fact, my cultural reference points for the region are limited to familiarity with breath-work… Full Story
One Size Does Not Fit All: Gensler and Pair Collaborate on the Future-Forward Gradient
Though it may sound like a cliché, there’s something transcendent about connection. As quantum science has shown, even at the… Full Story
Interwar Architecture Museum Opens in Kaunas, Lithuania
An argument can be made that the city of Kaunas, in central Lithuania, owes its identity to war. More specifically,… Full Story
Saskatchewan’s Dakota Dunes Hotel Harmonizes with Values of the Whitecap Dakota First Nation
The vast prairies of Saskatchewan are always austere and often harsh. Much like the terrain of the Dakotas or Southwestern… Full Story
Architecture 101: Children’s Book Features 25 Modern Buildings Across the Globe
Architect/author Annette Roeder, illustrator Pamela Baron, and publisher Prestel have collaborated on a children’s book titled The Power of Architecture:… Full Story
Doodlephilia Hits the English Countryside
Sam Cox, the artist known as Mr. Doodle, recently completed one of his dream projects—the Doodle House. Located in Tenterden,… Full Story
Ready? Set? Cassette!
Lights. Camera. Action! Dafna Kaplan, CEO of Cassette Systems, likens multi-family construction to making a film. While at first I… Full Story
Todd Heiser: Current Obsessions
Todd Heiser, FIIDA, is Co-Regional Managing Principal for Gensler’s North Central Region. He brings over 30 years of experience crafting… Full Story
Show Coverage
Maison&Objet 2026: Seletti Lighting and BIC®
Some icons don’t need reinvention. They need amplification. The BIC Lamp by Seletti takes one of the most recognizable objects in modern… Full Story
Maison&Objet 2026: Guadarte
Guadarte’s presence at Maison&Objet 2026 reads as a complete outdoor setting rather than a typical booth. The brand presents outdoor… Full Story
Maison&Objet 2026: Jonathan Adler
At Maison&Objet 2026, Jonathan Adler presents the booth as a complete interior. It reads immediately as decorative design for commercial… Full Story
Maison&Objet 2026: Monochromatic Design in Borgona
Borgona is a color, but it behaves like a system. At Maison&Objet 2026, Uniqka gives it full spatial control, tucked into Hall… Full Story
Maison&Objet 2026: Harry Nuriev and Transformism
Transformative design thinking sets the tone for Maison&Objet 2026, where Designer of the Year feels less like a proclamation and more like… Full Story
Maison&Objet 2026: Past Reveals Future
Living design trends don’t shout at Maison&Objet 2026. They murmur, layer, and evolve. Past Reveals Future, the show’s central theme, positions… Full Story
BDNY 2025: Bernhardt’s Palm Beach Escape
Bernhardt Hospitality presented the Palm House vignette at BDNY 2025, offering a fresh and transportive take on coastal inspired hospitality design…. Full Story
BDNY 2025: Modern Lounge Seating Steps Into Focus
Commercial lounge seating rarely surprises, but Sandler delivered a sharper, more sculptural direction at BDNY 2025. Their newest upholstered pieces feel deliberate,… Full Story
BDNY 2025: A Layered Look at Texture
Reverie by Shaw Contract Hospitality shows how modern hospitality surfaces can bring the quiet beauty of the natural world into commercial… Full Story
BDNY 2025: Mosaic Flooring Finds Its Rhythm
Artifact, the new mosaic flooring collection from Artistic Tile, looks backward to move design forward. It draws from ancient Roman pavements,… Full Story
BDNY 2025: Tactile Stoneware
At NovaBell, porcelain tile design reaches a new sensory depth. Through the Ceramics of Italy collective presented at BDNY 2025, the… Full Story
BDNY 2025: The Return of Sensory Confidence
Momentum is signaling something different at BDNY this year. Their Wonderland presentation, visible on Momentum’s site, shows a very clear point… Full Story
BDNY 2025: Duravit Defines Sustainable Bathroom Design
At BDNY, Duravit introduced two standout launches that illustrate the brand’s approach to sustainable bathroom design, where refined form meets technical innovation…. Full Story
BDNY 2025: Biodegradable Vinyl Upholstery Takes Center Stage
Debuting this weekend at Boutique Design New York, Hyphyn™ redefines biodegradable vinyl upholstery. Developed by Nassimi, a leader in contract textile innovation,… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Evo is for Everyone!
At this year’s Fulton Market Design Days, Allsteel transformed their Chicago Experience Center into a celebration of “The Intentional Community… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Titanic Achievement
Why did the RedDot award-winning Titan Z-Bar Floor Lamp also take home NeoCon Best of in Task Lighting? Let me… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Get Charged in Style with Combi
How many times a day does a hotel guest search fruitlessly for a place to charge their phone, tablet, or… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Idyllwild by Momentum
The Idyllwild Collection for Momentum Textiles and Wallcovering is a love letter to San Diego penned by designer Ellie Moser…. Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Play Peek-a-Boo with Ila by Pedrali
Patrick Jouin lights up when he describes his Ila Lounge for Pedrali, which beckoned passersby with its encompassing silhouette at… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: A More Comfortable Table
Take a tumble (while staying perfectly upright and balanced) with KFI Stuidios’ latest, a textural tour de force that pays… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Morph with Me
Is your 45″ television a wonder of vivid entertainment when lit, but enters the realm of monstrous eyesore when dark?… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Guest What?
Fresh off their win in the Guest and Lounge Seating category at NeoCon, Integra has proven justified in their assertion… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Leaf Chaise Lounge by Arper
I toured a lot of showrooms while working my way through Fulton Market Design Days in Chicago while 3rings worked… Full Story
NeoCon 2025: Stinson’s Collective Wins Gold
Stinson took home a Best of NeoCon Gold award in the textiles upholstery category for their collection entitled The Collective…. Full Story
Maison&Objet 2026: Seletti Lighting and BIC®
Some icons don’t need reinvention. They need amplification. The BIC Lamp by Seletti takes one of the most recognizable objects in modern… Full Story
