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BDNY 2026: The Lime in the Coconut
If the reference in the title above is lost on you, don’t fret, it’s an oldie but a goodie. The… Full Story
BDNY 2026: The Lime in the Coconut
If the reference in the title above is lost on you, don’t fret, it’s an oldie but a goodie. The… Full Story
BDNY 2026: Designed Spaces
In the hopes of transporting people to other worlds, interior designers lured visitors into five Designed Spaces at BDNY—illustrating what… Full Story
Capsule Reviews
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Ingo Maurer Sets the Table With Light
Three lights from Ingo Maurer start life as tableware. The studio has spent more than 50 years turning familiar objects… Full Story
27 New Shades and a Better Way to Read Them
Little Greene has added 27 interior paint colors, and rethought how the color card itself reads. Five shades join ‘Colours of… Full Story
Noken Broadens the Metal Range for Bath and Kitchen
The shapes stay put. The metals change. Noken has widened the finish range across fixtures it already builds well, and that… Full Story
Stellar Works Runs the Curve Through Three Collections
Ynez, Pesca, and Taylor are three of the curved collections Stellar Works builds, and no two take the curve the same distance. Pesca… Full Story
Duravit Retrofits the Wellness Bathroom, One Seat at a Time
SensoWash® Arcova fits most standard elongated toilets. That is the entire premise. Duravit built SensoWash® Arcova for the U.S. and Canadian markets,… Full Story
Kimball International Builds Out Metal Storage at Both Ends of the Budget
Storage decides whether a floorplan works. Kimball International just expanded that argument with two metal storage series pitched at different… Full Story
Arper’s Adell and Leaf Don’t Care Which Side of the Door
Arper’s Adell and Leaf both work as indoor outdoor seating. Adell is a compact lounge chair with a shell of 80% recycled polypropylene. Leaf… Full Story
The Seamless Case for a Steel Kitchen
The worktop in this London kitchen runs without a single join. That seamlessness is the tell for Ego, the bespoke line… Full Story
Kimball International Wins the Room at Fulton Market
Some Design Days news rewards a second look. Kimball International‘s two awards qualify: a 2026 IIDA Showroom and Booth Design Competition… Full Story
Water Street Brass Builds Color Into the Cabinet Pull
Most cabinet hardware insists on being seen. Vestige takes the opposite position. The new collection from Water Street Brass is built around… Full Story
Wall/Pepper Sends the Tropics, the Coast, and the Garden Up the Wall
Wall/Pepper® works from a simple premise: a wall can do more than enclose a room. The brand’s latest wallcoverings, from Wall/Pepper®,… Full Story
Four Seasons, One Roof: Corradi’s Alba Pergola
Summer arrives this weekend, and with it the seasonal rush to make outdoor space usable. But a patio earns its… Full Story
HON Builds a Classroom That Moves
For its largest showroom opening to date, HON brought two education collections that treat reconfigurability as a core design value, not an… Full Story
NeoCon 2026: KI’s Kiaura Collection Redefines What a Chair Is Supposed to Do
For years, the dominant logic in commercial seating went like this: add more levers, more controls, more adjustability. Make sitting… Full Story
NeoCon 2026: Keilhauer and Yabu Pushelberg’s Etta Makes the In-Between Moments Count
The pause between meetings is where real work gets done. That’s the premise behind Etta, a new lounge collection from Keilhauer developed… Full Story
Ceramic, Italian, and Available in Any Color You Actually Want
The vessel sink is a category with a lot of noise. Hastings Bath Collection cuts through it with four new Italian-made ceramic… Full Story
Craft Work: Six Mills, One Language
Luum Textiles has launched Craft Work, a six-pattern collection from Creative Director Dorothy Cosonas that treats handwork and machine production… Full Story
Cattelan Italia Rounds the Corner
The straight line is having an off year. Cattelan Italia knows it. The Italian maker just put two curved sofas on the… Full Story
Jenna Krypell: Steel That Wiggles, Rugs That Open Up
Jenna Krypell builds and rebuilds. The Brooklyn sculptor and painter moves between wood, mirror, hand-dyed resin, and paint, chasing how illusion, color,… Full Story
HON’s Brim Brings the Bucket Chair Back to Work
The bucket chair has done a lot of heavy lifting in commercial design. Brim, the latest polyshell from HON, adds a… Full Story
Campus Collection by Case Furniture: Matthew Hilton’s Outdoor Manifesto
Terraces, courtyards, rooftop decks. The new Campus Collection by Case Furniture, designed by Matthew Hilton, brings outdoor design to the long stretches… Full Story
Verum Strips the Door Handle Down to Its Essentials
Subtraction is a discipline. Verum makes the case with new additions to its Nuda collection of minimalist door handles, designed without rosettes… Full Story
Laser Evo by iGuzzini Rewrites the Recessed Downlight Playbook
The best ceiling lighting is the kind you don’t notice, until you realize how much it’s doing. iGuzzini’s Laser Evo picks up… Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: Three New Lodes Pieces, Three Ways to Read a Room
Transparency. Orbit. Repetition. These are the three ideas Lodes brought to Milan Design Week this year, each one translated into a distinct… Full Story
Iconic Design
Ingo Maurer Sets the Table With Light
Three lights from Ingo Maurer start life as tableware. The studio has spent more than 50 years turning familiar objects… Full Story
12,060 Pieces. One Unfinished Masterpiece.
Lego just released its largest Architecture set ever: a 12,060-piece architectural scale model of the Sagrada Família, the Gaudí-designed basilica basilica… 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
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
Sip a Mocha in Mocha Mousse
Given that this year’s Pantone Color of the Year is Mocha Mousse, the perfect Pantone gift for design lovers is… 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
Ingo Maurer Sets the Table With Light
Three lights from Ingo Maurer start life as tableware. The studio has spent more than 50 years turning familiar objects… Full Story
Interviews and Profiles
Decorative Lighting Learns to Dance
Foscarini handed its lamps to multimedia artist David Szauder and got back a corps de ballet. His contribution to the… Full Story
Elisabeth Mejia: Current Obsessions
Elisabeth Mejia is Vice President and Office Design Leader, Interiors, at HKS in New York, working across healthcare, hospitality, financial… 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
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
Decorative Lighting Learns to Dance
Foscarini handed its lamps to multimedia artist David Szauder and got back a corps de ballet. His contribution to the… Full Story
Show Coverage
BDNY 2026: Room, Board, Leroy, Rory
Here’s a pair of comfy and congenial chairs to put you at ease as we slide into coverage of Boutique… Full Story
Brown Jordan Carries Its Color Card to the Kitchen
Brown Jordan Outdoor Kitchens has lifted 24 colors straight off Brown Jordan’s outdoor furniture and baked them onto stainless steel…. Full Story
Inside Bonaldo’s New Sleeping Area
Bonaldo showed three new pieces for the sleeping area this year, and all three read as architecture before furniture. Shown… Full Story
Kimball International Wins the Room at Fulton Market
Some Design Days news rewards a second look. Kimball International‘s two awards qualify: a 2026 IIDA Showroom and Booth Design Competition… Full Story
Shaw Contract’s NeoCon Floor Show Has Range
Shaw Contract arrived at NeoCon last week with four commercial carpet tile collections that read less like a product lineup and… Full Story
NeoCon 2026: Dordoni Strips the Conference Table Back to Essentials
Andreu World‘s Fusion Table, designed by Rodolfo Dordoni, just took home a NeoCon 2026 Gold Award in Best of Furniture… Full Story
HON Builds a Classroom That Moves
For its largest showroom opening to date, HON brought two education collections that treat reconfigurability as a core design value, not an… Full Story
NeoCon 2026: Momentum and Michael Ford Translate Hip Hop Into High-Performance Textiles
Momentum has always known that a surface can carry a story. Their new collaboration with architect, educator, and Hip Hop By… Full Story
NeoCon 2026: Grain, Structure, and Staying Power from Mantra Inspired Furniture
Mantra Inspired Furniture makes the kind of solid hardwood office tables that feel like a quiet argument for doing things right…. Full Story
NeoCon 2026: KI’s Kiaura Collection Redefines What a Chair Is Supposed to Do
For years, the dominant logic in commercial seating went like this: add more levers, more controls, more adjustability. Make sitting… Full Story
NeoCon 2026: Odyssey Grows Up with Stools, Tables, Brackets, and a Smarter Waiting Room
Integra’s Odyssey Collection took home a Best of NeoCon Gold Award in 2025. This year, it comes back with a lot… Full Story
NeoCon 2026: Keilhauer and Yabu Pushelberg’s Etta Makes the In-Between Moments Count
The pause between meetings is where real work gets done. That’s the premise behind Etta, a new lounge collection from Keilhauer developed… Full Story
NeoCon 2026: Sandler Debuts Spin, Public Seating as Public Art
At NeoCon 2026, Sandler is debuting Spin, and it’s the kind of introduction that stops you mid-stride. Designed by Brogliato Traverso, Spin… Full Story
HD Expo 2026: Tuuci’s Outdoor Couture
There’s a moment at HD Expo where you turn a corner and stop walking. Tuuci’s booth was that moment, a masterclass in… Full Story
HD Expo 2026: emu Lands at HD Expo with Saint Martin and a Smarter Nef
emu arrives at HD Expo 2026 with a one-two punch of Italian hospitality outdoor furniture. The Saint Martin collection makes its official debut,… Full Story
Pump Up the Volume: IKEA’s PS 2026 Reinflates a Forgotten Dream
Inflatable furniture had its moment. Then it deflated, slid across linoleum floors, and quietly slunk into the dustbin of design… Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: When Leather Learns to Glow: Kwangho Lee for Bottega Veneta
Step into Bottega Veneta’s Via Sant’Andrea flagship during Milan Design Week 2026, and you’ll find a sculptural lighting installation overhead where the… Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: Alcova Takes Over An Abandoned Military Hospital and a Modernist Gem
As with past Milan Design Week exhibitions, Alcova is taking over distinct spaces to unite art, design, and technology from… Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: The Rhythm Section, Cast in Glass
At Milan Design Week, 6:AM unveils OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER inside the 1929 Piscina Romano, a pool hall turned… Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: An Architectural Collaboration, Kelly Wearstler x H&M HOME
The Kelly Wearstler H&M HOME modular furniture collection makes its global debut at Milan Design Week 2026, staged inside Palazzo… Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: When Ceramics Bloom, Bosa’s Fifty-Year Fever Dream
Matteo Cibic has turned the courtyard of Milan’s Senato Hotel into something between a botanical garden and a fever dream…. Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: Enter a Galactic Future with Crystal Crypt by Baccarat
We love it when design brands go immersive—and this year, Baccarat returns to Milan Design Week with a sci-fi-inspired event… Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: Three New Lodes Pieces, Three Ways to Read a Room
Transparency. Orbit. Repetition. These are the three ideas Lodes brought to Milan Design Week this year, each one translated into a distinct… Full Story
Milan Design Week 2026: The Eames House, Recast with Kettal
Step into Triennale Milano this week and a two-story steel cage stops you cold: a striking example of modular architecture,… Full Story
BDNY 2026: Room, Board, Leroy, Rory
Here’s a pair of comfy and congenial chairs to put you at ease as we slide into coverage of Boutique… Full Story
