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In Stitches

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.

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Faran Krentcil

Formafantasma a Casa

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.

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Laura May Todd

A God Called Time

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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Ann Binlot

Beauty is Key

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.

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Saskia Neuman

Home Bound

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.

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Sophia Roe

Birds of a Feather

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.

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Tina Isaac-Goizé

Tomorrow’s Parties

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.

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Beverly Nguyen

Nature Walk

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.

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Rachel Summer Small

Mapping Utopia

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.

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Meka Boyle

Radical Design Culture

Pink Essay creates exhibitions and online experiences that examine the weird and wonderful ways design manifests. From London to Seoul, these six up-and-coming makers from its international community are at the vanguard of our built environments.

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David Eardley

Collector’s Edition

Marc Newson has made it all—and then remade it twice over. Though a few relics from his iconic industrial and interior practice mingle with personal matters inside his family’s Victoria, London flat, the prolific designer reassures Maison Alaïa creative director Pieter Mulier that he’s hardly stuck in a storage unit.

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Joshua Glass

Lofty Ambitions

In Common With debuts a sprawling 8,000-square foot concept shop and creative gathering space in TriBeCa, New York, with a mural by Italian artist Claudio Bonuglia as its crown jewel.

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Rachel Summer Small

Free Range

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.

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Rachel Summer Small

Porky Hefer’s Alarm Call Is Whimsical and Fluffy—But You Have To Look Closer

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

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Osman Can Yerebakan

Objects that Move You

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.

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Dung Ngo
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Reflections on Design

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.

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Elina Boeva

Perfect Imperfections

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.

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Rachel Summer Small

Take a Seat

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.

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Anyu Ching

Superhouse Gets Supersized with New Location

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.

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Meka Boyle

Step Into My Office

Pink Essay asked 26 artists to visually transform ordinary office objects for the design studio’s latest exhibition in Mexico City. The results were out of this world.

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Elina Boeva

Tied Up

A collaboration between London design firm Campbell-Rey and Swedish design firm Nordic Knots takes twists and turns in its inspirations for three new colorful and minimalist rugs.

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Rachel Summer Small

Nashville 9 to 5

In Nashville, Tennessee's vibrant Wedgewood Houston neighborhood, The Malin's just-opened work-focused club invites members to re-envision productivity at its fourth and largest space yet.

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Anyu Ching

Designing Alpine

In Paris, a design group draws on the history and spectacle of the ski chalet.

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Rachel Summer Small