Design

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

Cassette tapes are having a moment, and that moment is refusing to end. According to Billboard, cassette sales have grown more than 440% over the past decade, and in the first quarter of 2025 alone they more than doubled, hitting numbers not seen in 20 years. This isn’t a blip or a quirky indie niche.