ECOVACS has been pushing robot vacuum technology forward for years, from their bagless X11 OmniCyclone to various innovations in navigation and mopping systems. Bosch has…
Furniture should probably stay still. That’s the basic contract between you and the table: it holds your dinner plates, you don’t worry about physics. Alessio…
Cars belong to the world of hard surfaces, precision tolerances, and engineering constraints measured in fractions of millimeters. Ulises Studio works in the opposite direction….
Scandinavian winters keep people indoors for roughly six months a year, which gives Swedish designers a lot of time to think about what a kitchen…
A watched pot may never boil, but an unwatched one seems to do so with a special kind of enthusiasm. That familiar kitchen truth highlights…
At some point, the bottom rack of a dishwasher stops being a minor inconvenience and starts being a genuine daily difficulty. For older adults and…
When Marcel Wanders designed the Monster Chair in 2014, the “monster” part was mostly conceptual. The piece had presence, sure, with its quilted leather upholstery…
Air has always been free. IKEA designer Mikael Axelsson has been thinking about that fact for over a decade, sitting on an idea he first…
The armchair has been one of the most contested territories in furniture design for over a century, from Alvar Aalto’s bent plywood experiments to Arne…
The early 2000s had a very clear idea of the future. Think of films like *Minority Report* with its PreCrime headquarters, all white rooms and…
Six wheels on a Lexus, at a furniture fair in Milan, sounds like either a provocation or a punchline. At this year’s Milan Design Week,…
For roughly six months of the year, Sweden is cold enough to keep its people reliably indoors. That is long enough to matter, and long…