What Happens When You Stop Fighting the Rain and Design With It
Most architects treat rain as an obstacle. Drain it. Redirect it. Keep it away from the interior at all costs. Australian architect Steven Chu had…
The 2-Person Rocking Bench Made From 55kg of Plastic Waste
Most furniture tells you exactly what to do with it. A chair says sit. A table says set things down. A bench says sit, maybe…
The Desk Organizer That Looks Like a Rice Field
Most desk organizers are an afterthought. You buy one because your pens are rolling off the edge or your sticky notes have formed some kind…
One Week Design’s Squares Furniture Is Built on a Bricklayer’s Memory
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about what separates furniture that you simply own from furniture that you actually feel something about. Most pieces fall…
The Eames House Was Always Meant to Be Yours
If you’ve ever stood in front of a photograph of the Eames House and felt a quiet longing, you’re not alone. That black steel frame,…
IKEA Just Gave the Allen Key a Glow-Up Nobody Saw Coming
You know exactly where this is going the moment IKEA hands you that little L-shaped hex key. You use it once, maybe twice, cross your…
When Your Sideboard Swallows Your Books (On Purpose)
Most furniture does exactly what it promises. A shelf holds things. A table provides surface. A sideboard stores what you don’t want to look at….
LEGO and Crocs Finally Made the $89 Collab Nobody Knew They Needed
No matter how you feel about Crocs, you cannot deny the brand has a remarkable talent for finding partners that make you stop and say,…
A 1930s French Cabin Brought Back the Pit, and It’s the Best Part
If you grew up watching old movies or flipping through your parents’ architecture magazines from the 70s, you probably remember the conversation pit. That sunken,…
The Sideboard That Started as Lines That Never Finished
Most great furniture doesn’t start with a grand vision. It starts with a sketch, usually a messy one, the kind you draw absentmindedly while thinking…
The Ping Pong Tables at This French School Have No Rules
Most of us learned to play ping pong the same way: flat table, net in the middle, bounce, smash, repeat. The rules were never really…
KFC Brazil Wants to Dress You the Way It Dresses Its Chicken
I love fried chicken as much as the next person. Probably more. So when KFC Brazil announced it was offering to customize your actual clothes…