Design

Nordic Knots and Jessie Andrews’ Tase Gallery debut a rug collection that is both contemporary and reminiscent of ‘70s Los Angeles. 

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David Kohn designs the spaces gallerists show their work, then he builds the places they live. A reverence for the transformative nature of a space animates each of his architectural projects, where rooms spark dialogue with that which they hold.

Both Nicole McLaughlin, whose beloved remixes of everyday objects have set the Internet ablaze, and Aska Yamashita, the artistic director of Chanel-owned Atelier Montex, have certain material fascinations. As it turns out, the two designers seem cut from the same cloth—even half a world and a generation apart.

While the late sculptor JB Blunk’s holistic art and design philosophy has only come to light in recent years, his hand-built family home in the woods of Inverness, California, preserved by daughter Mariah Nielson, reveals his influence runs generations deep.

A fateful return to Italy from the Netherlands has imbued Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin with a new appreciation for the land that raised them—and the new world they’ve created there together.

Fueled by curiosity, the late Gaetano Pesce’s radical, multidisciplinary approach to making carved a path for a new generation of polymaths, including trailblazing artist and DJ Awol Erizku, with whom he shared one of his final conversations.

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One century ago, Svenskt Tenn made a colorful splash in the throes of Sweden’s modernism movement. Today, Maria Veerasamy is leading the design brand to new horizons, while honoring its legacy.

Marcus Samuelsson’s debut furniture collection is ripe with memories from his childhood of growing up in a Swedish fishing village, the colors and patterns of Africa, and the many dreams and laughs shared around the table.

Christian Dior spent his childhood enamored with Japanese art and translated its sensibilities into his legendary designs. Now, Cordelia de Castellane has found new life in his bird and cherry blossom motifs.

Athena Calderone’s name became synonymous with her aesthetic—earth tones and minimalistic, white-on-white decor—until her designs took on a life of their own. Inside her new, moody New York apartment, another adventure awaits.

Alex Tieghi-Walker’s first group exhibition at his eponymous New York gallery evokes the mysterious, ancient, and often enchanted qualities of the remote, forested landscape through newly commissioned artworks and objects by nearly two dozen artists and designers.

Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta close their eyes and envision a free-flowing future where different ideas coexist and nature is an equilibrant. When they open them, the duo behind DRIFT channel this paradigm shift into kinetic sculptures, some of which exist by recontextualizing familiar relics, an approach they share with the designer Bjarke Ingels.

A drastic change of scenery sparked a new chapter in Simone-Bodmer-Turner’s creative endeavors. Now, her modernist-inspired aesthetic readily embraces natural motifs.

In New York, the South African designer fosters deeper connections to the animal kingdom through design.

Throughout his pioneering sculptural and design practices, Isamu Noguchi fabricated a world of his own. Now entrusted to his namesake museum in Queens, New York, these rarely seen belongings offer an intimate connection to the awe-striking breadth of his life—and ours.

Loewe showcases imaginative lamps by 24 international artists for the 2024 edition of Milan Design Week.

For Milan Design Week, Issey Miyake honors the late Japanese fashion designer’s craftsmanship and legacy with a series of animated installations by the Dutch art collective We Make Carpets.

A new book illustrates and intellectualizes the placement of works by 16 contemporary design studios within the historic surroundings of Chatsworth House in the Derbyshire Dales.

Former Gucci designer and self-made interiors visionary Gergei Erdei launches six, original hand-painted screens in the form of his newly released “Objects of Desire” series.

The iconic world of the late design duo Ray and Charles Eames is celebrated in the newly opened Eames Archives in Richmond, California, where over 40,000 artifacts beg to be seen—and sat on.

The art-design gallery just moved to a new location half a mile away and over seven times the size of its original Chinatown, New York mall flagship.