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‘I hope the craft outlasts my name’: Ashiesh Shah’s global vision for India’s living handmade traditionsThe Mumbai-based architect, designer and artist talks about his lifelong dialogue with Indian craft, from quietly expressive interiors to collectible design
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Get up close and personal with icons of Italian design at Nilufar's summery New York residencyWorks by Gabriella Crespi, Carlo Mollino and more congregate to create a design lover's beach scene at New York's Galerie56
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In this São Paulo apartment, memories of the designer’s mother encourage lingering and contemplationDesigner Clara Nahas transforms a studio space into a tribute to her late pianist mother – built, like a semibreve note, to resonate
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Change your stripes with Dior’s art deco tablewareDior Maison's new ‘Godron’ collection reimagines a classic decorative motif to celebrate the elegant geometry of art deco style
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Rest easy on Willo Perron's pillowy new bed for KnollIt's Knoll's first bed in decades – and it was so worth the wait
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‘Precision with soul’: Cubitts sets up shop in Manchester with a store that celebrates the cityThe eyewear company collaborates with Manchester design studio Youth to create a shop that respects the building’s past while reflecting the city’s future
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‘The Nue Black Aesthetic’ maps the diasporic voices shaping design todayThe Design Museum in London announces a new exhibition (6 November 2026 to 8 August 2027) bringing together 16 contemporary Black designers; guest curator Charlene Prempeh tells us about exploring identity, the diaspora and who gets to shape the design canon
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The New Balance factory is updated with a restorative outdoor space for workersNew Balance and jewellery designer Bleue Burnham collaborate on a new horticultural project for its factory in Cumbria, a reflection of the footwear brand’s belief that exceptional craftsmanship begins with happiness
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Yinka Ilori’s new book gives his celebrated chairs a voice‘Chairman’ reveals how one of design’s most familiar objects became the starting point for more than a decade of work
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‘Cinephiles are the best storytellers’: inside the LA offices of Neon Rated, designed to capture the ethos of filmmakingThe offices of boundary-pushing LA film production company Neon Rated by Studio Muka reference old Hollywood and cinematic storytelling through a design lens
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The Design Drop: 12 launches we love this monthFrom a redressed 1970s sofa to the scent of the summer, we round up the design objects we couldn’t stop thinking about this month
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This finely crafted bookstand by Marc Newson is the ultimate showcase for heftier tomesThe designer and longstanding Taschen collaborator’s bookstand weighs 14 kg and is the perfect tool to display the publisher’s oversized volumes
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Meet Trone, the brand creating sculptural toilets worth spending a penny onThe toilet is design’s last taboo. Trone founder Hugo Volpei is on a mission to change that – turning this most overlooked of objects into an object of desire
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Step into Yabu Pushelberg’s Amagansett beach house, ‘designed around the dunes’Designers Glenn Pushelberg and George Yabu invite us into their beachfront Amagansett home: take a tour, and discover what they love about the East Hampton location
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Blue Green Works experiments with Murano glassThe latest lighting collection from Blue Green Works, sculpted in Murano glass, is an emotional ode to heartbreak, loss and vulnerability
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The ‘Mah Jong’ sofa has officially entered pop cultureWhat's a ‘Mah Jong’ sofa? Inspired by Charli XCX's shopping list in 'Card Declined', we take you on a deep dive into the history of one of contemporary design's most eclectic pieces of furniture
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Pirajean Lees’ Formentera retreat is designed for barefoot livingThe husband and wife founders of London design studio Pirajean Lees have transformed a neglected 1960s house in Formentera into their own relaxed island home
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This private art collection offers a chronicle of queer life across two centuriesMuch of the work in Ron Zuckerman’s San Francisco flat was illegal in midcentury America, so was created, printed and distributed privately, only existing to this day thanks to a host of tenacious and courageous collectors
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Design studio Kawabi’s lighting gives Chinese heritage a contemporary twistChinese folklore is reinterpreted in fresh takes on the lantern by New York studio Kawabi, part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
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This pine-shrouded Marseille villa is Eurosummer distilled to its most stylish formOn the Mediterranean coast, Sandrine Sarah Faivre reimagines a seaside villa built around the trees it refused to disturb
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Meet Minjae Kim, the designer who makes tradition feel tantalisingly contemporarySeoul-born, New York-based Minjae Kim has developed a practice that discreetly dips into his heritage to create a new contemporary language; he is part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
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The Sagrada Família’s final sculpture is lit by what ‘feels like pure magic’As Andrea Mastrovito’s monumental ‘Agnus Dei’ installation at the Sagrada Família is unveiled, Studio Waldemeyer illuminates the sculpture through invisible technology
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‘Like using a metal detector and finding nuggets in history’: meet New York design studio Vy VoiAncient cultural traditions are reinterpreted in the work of designer Steffany Tran of Vy Voi, part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
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Resembling Dutch flower paintings, Dominik Tarabański’s photographs sit at the cusp of ‘synthetic and organic’The natural world is reinvented in the work of Polish-born, New York-based photographer Dominik Tarabański, part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
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Orior gives the humble foosball table a high-design makeoverThe Irish furniture house trades pub-tastic plastic for handcrafted luxury, turning a games room staple into a collectible design object
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‘A rug helps ground a room’: Design Within Reach’s new collection is more central to a space than a piece of artDesign Within Reach has collaborated with interior designer Little Wing Lee on a rug collection inspired by tradition and broken geometry
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How Soft Geometry's work reflects its founders' Indian legacyBased in LA, design studio Soft-Geometry's work embodies its founders memories of home in India, at the same time 'uncovering the underlying philosophies and natural behaviours that inform subcultures.' The profile is part of our American Dreams series, exploring the work of five American design studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives.
