ecal x Google Just Imagined 10 Phones Beyond the Slab
At ECAL’s collaboration with Google’s Industrial Design team, the smartphone is no longer treated as a fixed icon of consumer tech. In A Message from…
Milan Design Week 2026
Leave It to a Jewelry House to Make the Most Beautiful Candle
When CADAR showed up at Salone del Mobile this April, it did not bring jewelry. It brought candles. And not the kind you grab in…
Bang & Olufsen Just Taught Stone to Sing at Milan 2026
Every year, Milan Design Week raises the question of what design is actually for. Not in the abstract, philosophical sense that gets debated in panel…
Bosch and ECOVACS Built a Robot Vacuum That Hides Inside Your Kitchen Cabinet… Finally!
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…
Smeg’s Air Fryer Comes With A Steam Function For Food That’s Crispy Outside and Juicy Inside
I was today years old when I learnt that Smeg’s origins were in enamel technology, not the gorgeously colorful kitchen appliances we’ve known them for…
If Fidget Spinners Were Furniture: This Marble Table Has a Brass Sphere You Push Around Endlessly
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…
Skoda’s Inflatable Car Installation at Milan Design Week Looks Like a Bouncy Castle Grew Wheels
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….
Electrolux and Veneta Cucine Use Biophilic Color Science to Rethink Kitchen Design at Milan 2026
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…
Miele’s Smart Utensils Can Detect When Food Is Burning And Power Your Induction Hob Down
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…
This Electrolux dishwasher lifts its bottom rack so you can load pots without bending down
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…
These Stickers Turn Crumbling City Walls Into Tiny Living Ecosystems
Cities are built almost exclusively for people. Every surface, every wall, every façade is designed, maintained, and repaired with human use in mind. But cities…
These Sequins Are Made From Industrial Dye Sludge and Still Sparkle
The fashion industry has a water problem that most people never see. Dyeing fabric is one of the most chemically intensive steps in garment production,…
Moooi’s 25th Anniversary Monster Chairs Have Hand-Embroidered Creatures on Every Backrest
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…
IKEA Waited 12 Years to Show This Inflatable Chair at Milan Design Week
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…
BRABUS Urban E First Edition bring cyberpunk flair to premium electric motorcycles
German tuning specialist, BRABUS, has shown to what extremes four-wheeler modding can go when you’ve already got a powerful machine at hand. They’ve now partnered…
A Copper-Wax Lamp Revives a Slovak Forge and Glows Like Stained Glass
Industrial heritage sites have a way of disappearing quietly. The machinery goes silent, the workers move on, and the buildings either get repurposed or left…