A Student Designed Stools That Glow When Strangers Connect
I spend a lot of time in cities. Airports, subway stations, coffee shop benches, those weird little plazas that exist between office buildings where nobody…
Nudge Is the Brain-Tuning Wearable We Didn’t Know We Needed
We’ve gotten pretty comfortable letting technology tell us how to sleep, how many steps to take, and when to breathe. The next frontier, apparently, is…
How a Soccer Stance Solved One of Furniture’s Oldest Problems
If you’ve ever hosted a dinner party and counted chairs two hours before guests arrived, you know the panic. Do you have enough? Do you…
MVRDV Planted a Secret Valley in the Middle of a Housing Block
Most apartment buildings do their best work from the outside. A striking facade, a bold roofline, some smart use of glass and steel, and the…
Vipp’s New Catskills Pavilion Is a Sculpture You Can Sleep In
Not every building earns the word “sculptural” without some heavy editorial lifting, but the Vipp Pavilion in Upstate New York is the rare case where…
The Soviet Union Built UFO-Shaped Circuses. Now You Can Fold One.
The Soviet Union had a complicated relationship with spectacle. Everything about Soviet ideology pointed toward collective purpose, practical function, and the rejection of excess. And…
Fiore Is a Wall Light, a Vase, and a Fragrance All at Once
Most lighting does one thing: it illuminates. If it’s beautiful, that’s a bonus. If it fits the space, you’re winning. But every once in a…
India’s Anthill House Has No AC and Stays Cool Anyway
We’ve been building houses wrong. Not structurally, not legally, and not in any way that’s easy to name. But somewhere along the line, the conversation…
A Student Just Designed the Lantern Every Nomad Needs
Most portable lights exist to solve a problem. They help you see when there’s no overhead fixture, charge your phone during a power outage, or…
IKEA Just Built 18 World Cup Flags Out of Furniture
Every few years, the FIFA World Cup does what few things can: it makes the whole planet pay attention to the same thing at the…
How a Korean Dowry Chest Inspired a Smarter Modular Furniture System
Some of the most interesting design work starts not in a studio, but in a family home. For Korean designer Kim Gayoung, it started with…
Haworth Just Gave Its Most-Loved Office Chair a Softer Side
The original Hello lounge chair launched in 2002. Over two decades later, it’s back, and Patricia Urquiola has had her way with it. The result…