Architecture

Caviar’s Apple 50th anniversary collection has been moving faster than the company’s own PR team can keep up with. We covered the Steve Jobs turtleneck edition earlier this month, nine units of a titanium iPhone 17 Pro carrying an authenticated Issey Miyake fabric fragment inside the Apple logo, and by the time most readers had […]

In a market saturated with predictable pet furniture, minimal cubes, beige scratching posts, and standard enclosed beds, this monkey-shaped cat house arrives as a refreshing disruption. It is not just a product, it is a presence. Something between furniture sculpture and quiet theater, it redefines what it means to design for animals while speaking directly

Every few years, the tech industry digs up something from the past, slaps a USB-C port on it, and calls it innovation. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it’s a gimmick dressed in nostalgia. The Maxell Wireless Cassette Player lands, surprisingly, somewhere in between, and it’s more interesting for it. Maxell isn’t exactly an outsider here. The

The design process has always lived between two worlds: the rough immediacy of a hand-drawn line and the precision of a finished object you can hold. What changes the game is not having more tools, but having the right ones at each stage. The five picks here form a complete creative pipeline, moving from the

I’ve been watching filament spool prices creep upward for two years, but the last six weeks turned that creep into a sprint. A kilogram of basic PLA that cost $18 in February now runs closer to $28 if you can find it in stock. Specialty materials like carbon-fiber composite or flexible TPU have crossed $60

For decades, “form follows function” shaped how you designed and lived. Minimalism stripped objects down to pure utility, where functional products like a chair were only a chair, or a lamp was only a source of light. That clarity once felt essential, but now it feels incomplete. We are moving into an era of playful

Every April, you could spend an entire week in Milan chasing novelty. Salone del Mobile is full of it: the flashy, the concept-heavy, the beautifully photographed pieces that look better in a press release than they ever would in a real room. That’s what makes the Ori chair by Giuseppe Bavuso for Rimadesio so easy

Not every sneaker collaboration deserves attention. Most of them follow a predictable script: take a classic silhouette, swap a few colors, slap two logos on the tongue, and call it a limited drop. Which is why when Camper and Issey Miyake unveiled the Karst Finch for SS 2026, I sat up a little straighter. The

The Vermont Villa by Backcountry Containers is the kind of build that makes you reconsider everything you thought you knew about shipping container homes. Not because it’s shocking, but because it’s genuinely, quietly good. The running joke about container homes has always been that they’re either a clever budget hack or an architect’s ego project

When I first came across Talia Luvaton’s work, I genuinely paused. Not because it was unexpected to see leather used in design, but because nothing about these pieces looked like leather was supposed to look. The forms were full, curved, almost muscular, more closely related to the human body than to anything you’d find in