Architecture

IKEA’s $7.99 Chair-Shaped Hooks Are Going Viral for the Second Time

Wall hooks are one of those home essentials that nobody really thinks about until they need them. Most are utilitarian at best and forgettable at worst, designed to hold things rather than be noticed. The category hasn’t changed much in decades, and the average hook aisle still feels like it’s catering to a warehouse. Most

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7 Handheld Gaming PCs That Actually Look Like the Future — Not a Fisher-Price Toy

The handheld gaming PC market has a design problem. For every device that earns a second look, there are three more that look like they escaped from a toy aisle — chunky plastic grips, aggressive LED halos, fonts borrowed from energy drink cans. It adds up to a category that has historically rewarded specs over

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Forget Upholstery: Lærke Ryom Tailors Furniture Instead

Most upholstered furniture is essentially furniture under stress. Fabric gets stretched, stapled, pulled taut, and forced into submission over rigid frames. It is, fundamentally, a question of control. Danish designer Lærke Ryom looked at that process and decided to do the opposite. Her debut solo exhibition, Raiments, now open at Innenkreis gallery in central Copenhagen,

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Samsung’s Galaxy A Phones Now Get IP68 and 6-Year Updates From $449

Mid-range smartphones have been getting very good, very quickly. Most now check the boxes for performance, camera quality, and even design, but the compromises tend to show up later. Software support runs out too soon, water resistance gets downgraded to save costs, or the storage fills up faster than expected. It’s a category where the

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5 Best Waterdrop Filter Systems for Spring 2026, From Renters to Full Family Kitchens

The water coming out of your tap has traveled through infrastructure that, in many American cities, predates the internet by several decades. Municipal treatment plants catch most of what they’re supposed to catch, but aging pipes, PFAS compounds from industrial and agricultural runoff, and lead from corroding plumbing each leave their own signature in what

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Small, Aggressive, and Under $80: Meet The Kansept Wasp Button Lock Knife

A wasp’s design is a lesson in efficiency. It combines a potent stinger with a small, agile frame to create a threat that commands respect far beyond its physical size. Koch Tools Design captured this spirit perfectly with the Kansept Wasp, a folder where compact dimensions and aggressive geometry work in concert. The knife’s upswept

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This Red House Buried in a Czech Forest Is the Opposite of Every Forest Home You’ve Ever Seen

Deep in the spruce forests of Jevany, a municipality of barely 800 people in the Czech Republic’s Central Bohemian Region, a flash of cherry red cuts through the trees. This is Villa Jevany, a new residence by local studio Architektura, and it has absolutely no interest in blending in. Where most forest homes default to

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