Most furniture is remarkably obedient. It goes where you put it, does what it was designed to do, and asks nothing back. A sofa is a sofa. A side table holds your coffee and your remote and maybe a plant you keep meaning to water. The relationship is comfortable, uncomplicated, and, if you’re honest about […]
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If Alpine’s 2026 season is about consolidation, about switching to Mercedes power units and clawing back from last place in the Constructors’ Championship, then HakHyeon Lee’s Alpine Horizon concept is the opposite impulse entirely. This is a designer throwing Alpine’s arrow logo onto a closed-cockpit hypercar with a magnetically levitating driver pod, wire-tethered to a
You approach La Miradora by moving uphill. The house sits at the highest point of a long plot in Ecuador’s central highlands, and from the start, it’s clear that the terrain is in charge. Instead of flattening the land, the design by Taller General works with its natural slope, letting the ground shape how the
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How Three Sisters Turned Their Father’s Former Grocery Store Into A Space For Culture + Community Studio Visit by Lucy Feagins, Editor An art piece hanging in Dukkana reads, ‘As a minority in a predominantly white space, to take up space is itself an act of resistance.’ The El Samad sisters, Emina, Safa and, Fatima.
Fifty years ago this month, a team of engineers and riders rolled three air-cooled German boxer twins into Daytona’s paddock and lined them up against a field of screaming Japanese inline-fours that everyone assumed would bury them. Butler & Smith, BMW’s US importer at the time, had hired an aerospace engineer named Udo Gietl to
If you’ve reached here, stop scrolling any further, and just look at that goddamn watch. Isn’t this Louis Vuitton pocket watch simply incredible? Museum-worthy, my colleague cries out! Before figuring out the entire dynamism of it and setting out to write, I looked again. Is that even a watch? It’s more of an art piece
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Ferréol Babin opens ‘In a Landscape’ at friedman benda In a Landscape, the newest exhibition by Ferréol Babin at Friedman Benda, brings a group of carved wood objects into dialogue with painted surfaces and ceramic inlays. Ahead of the March 6th opening in New York, designboom spoke with Babin about the works on view,
Tiny house living often demands tough trade-offs between mobility and livability, but Decathlon Tiny Homes aims to strike an appealing balance with its latest model, the Betty. At 28 feet long, this towable home sits comfortably in the mid-size category, offering enough room for a thoughtfully designed two-person layout without sacrificing the ability to hit
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A quiet revolution is reshaping the future of sustainable architecture. Instead of treating buildings merely as energy-saving shells, designers are now turning them into active power generators. With innovations such as Building-Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) panels and ultra-thin solar films, the building’s exterior becomes an energy-harvesting surface, enabling power generation directly where people live and interact.
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Most people buy a phone case the same way they buy a phone. They want it to feel like them. Some people want basic, slim protection that keeps the phone looking as close to naked as possible. Others want rugged, military-grade armor that could survive a construction site. Some hunt for modular systems with swappable
