philippe starck enters designboom’s room for dreams During Milan Design Week, Philippe Starck sat down with designboom’s Editor-in-Chief Sofia Lekka Angelopoulou for a live conversation as part of ROOM FOR DREAMS, a takeover of ME Milan Il Duca. Across the hotel’s Aldo Rossi-designed interiors, the program gathered installations, screenings, and talks into a […]
Most people mop their floors, thinking they’re getting them clean. The uncomfortable truth, though, is that the moment you dunk the mop head back into the bucket, you’re no longer cleaning with fresh water. You’re spreading a diluted mix of soap and grime across the same surface you just wiped down. It’s a problem as
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fondazione dries van noten takes shape on the grand canal Dries Van Noten inaugurates its foundation in Venice, establishing a new cultural platform dedicated to craftsmanship as a living, evolving language. Housed within the historic Palazzo Pisani Moretta, Fondazione Dries Van Noten opens with its first presentation, The Only True Protest Is Beauty, running
SICIS SHOWS ITS UNIQUE IDENTITY DURING MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026 During Milan Design Week 2026, SICIS thrills the crowd with a series of evocative environments throughout the city, following the concept of ‘Impossible to Ignore’. Positioning artistic mosaics as the centerpiece of their exhibition space at Salone del Mobile, the brand creates a scenographic
bamboo and tea waste shape upcycled chess table by reEDIT At Milan Design Week 2026, circular design studio reEDIT makes its European debut with The Upcycled Gambit — Bamboo & Brew Chess Table Set, an installation that reframes the chessboard as both object and social infrastructure. Exhibited at Isola’s No Space for Waste exhibition,
Touchscreens have been quietly making their way into almost everything around us. From car dashboards to kitchen appliances, the tap-and-swipe interface that once defined smartphones has spread into nearly every product category imaginable. It’s reached a point where finding a device without a screen feels more unusual than finding one with it. Designers just keep
Turtle Beach’s Command Series puts touchscreens right where your hands already are Read More »
S-AR reinterprets a chapel through thin concrete walls Set within a garden in Santiago, Nuevo León, Mexico, the Oratory Chapel by S-AR is conceived as a small-scale structure that reinterprets a previous chapel once located on the same site. The project reuses elements from the earlier construction, establishing a spatial and material continuity between
thin concrete walls frame tiny chapel by S-AR, built from its own remains Read More »
GROHE SPA PUSHES THE BOUNDARIES OF PERSONALIZED DESIGN At the Piccolo Teatro Studio Melato, GROHE SPA reinforces its presence as a leader in luxury bathroom design, through the installation ‘Aqua Sanctuary’ held during Milan Design Week 2026. Through the exhibit the brand explores its know-how in bespoke signatures and curated materials, and finishes intertwined
grohe spa sets new benchmark in bathroom craftsmanship and bespoke signature in milan Read More »
fly ash becomes material in bentu design’s second mine project At the confluence of Poyang Lake and the Yangtze River in China, BENTU Design initiates The Second Mine, a project that reuses coal fly ash from the nearby Shenhua Power Plant as a basis for material exploration. The project explores fly ash as a
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There’s a quiet tension in how most furniture is still designed. Sofas are built to stay put, claiming floor space indefinitely, whether you need them there or not. Meanwhile, the way people actually use their homes has shifted considerably, moving between indoors and outdoors, hosting spontaneously, clearing space for workouts or kids, and treating balconies
This Inflatable Sofa Packs Into a Bag and Still Sits Like Real Furniture Read More »
