Architecture

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, […]

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

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

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

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

Every entryway tells a story, and most of the time, it’s one you’d rather not have visitors read. A coat draped over another coat. A bag looped onto an already-occupied hook. A scarf hanging off the edge of something that was never meant to hold it. We’ve all been there, and for some reason, we

What if the door you walk through every day was grown from fungi? Danish mycelium company Rebound and architecture studio Det Levende Hus have partnered to create what they claim is the world’s first mass-produced interior door with a core cultivated from fungal mycelium. Currently in the prototype phase, the door is part of a

I have to hand it to Honor, they are consistent. When I wrote about the Magic8 Pro Air and its striking similarity to the iPhone Air, I thought we had seen the peak of their “inspiration.” It turns out that was just the warm-up act. The main event has arrived in the form of the

In the world of Formula-1 world championships are won by the slender margin of milliseconds that turn into big margins after every passing lap. The level of engineering in the pinnacle of Motorsports is unparalleled, and the drivers competing for the top podium step do every little thing that gives them a strategic advantage over

Most luggage brands don’t have a 127-year-old story to draw from. Rimowa does, and it seems to know exactly when it’s worth pulling from that history and when to let the present speak for itself. With the Classic Aluminium Grid, they’ve clearly decided the archive deserves a second act. The Classic Aluminium Grid is the