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Airbnb is an expert at building trust between strangers. Now it’s using that skill for good

‘When we started 10 years ago people were not staying in strangers’ homes,’ says Airbnb’s (AIRBNB, +0.00%) co-founder and chief product officer Joe Gebbia. ‘We needed to walk them across the bridge.’ But the company, now a $31 billion hospitality giant...

Design Miami 2017: the highlights

In Miami, Muller Van Severen open up their Belgian home for Airbnb

Fien Muller and Hannes van Severen of Belgian design studio Muller Van Severen have opened up their living room, or at least a replica of it, to the public in a highly personal interactive installation for Design Miami. Simultaneously, their...

Design Miami 2017 preview: the top 20 exhibitions and satellite events

In the neighbourhood: Joe Gebbia’s modular office furniture for Bernhardt Design

Airbnb co-founder and CPO Joe Gebbia and Bernhardt Design have launched a new collection of flexible furniture for the office and public spaces, unveiled this week at New York’s ICFF. The ‘Neighborhood’ collection is based on a simple building block...

Airbnb takes visitors on unique art and design experiences to discover Milan’s hidden treasures

‘We’re hosting the audience in a private house – not an exhibition,’ explains curator Martina Mondadori Sartogo of the installation she curated for Airbnb, on view during last week’s Salone del Mobile. Presented inside Casa degli Atellani – a...

Technically speaking: the latest fast-lane tech on the road to success

Improvements in travel technology are moving a mile a minute. 2017 has barely geared up, and we’ve already seen an influx of travel-related tech emerge at Las Vegas’ CES – from thumbnail-sized DataTraveler cards that hold enough movies to cover...

Take an exclusive journey through Airbnb's 'Sobremesa' installation at Design Miami

For this year’s Design Miami, Airbnb has bought the vibrancy of Mexico City to South Beach, enlisting Pedro & Juana to create an authentic home experience at the main exhibition site. The emerging design studio married the Mexican tradition of...

Airbnb: from Couch Surfers to Big Friendly Giant

Airbnb confounds for many reasons, though the most obvious one is that its success is based on a business model that ignores one of the first lessons we learn at our mother’s knee: don’t talk to strangers. We can only...

Work’s a treat: Airbnb launches a ’belong anywhere’ themed Tokyo office

Airbnb’s new Tokyo headquarters prove that the travel brand’s famed ’belong anywhere’ ethos extends to its employees as well as 60 million worldwide users. On the back of lacklustre staff feedback forms, the drab Shinjuku corporate base was razed to the ground and reimagined. Neighbourhood, community and urban...

How we live: at ’House Vision’, Tokyo, Airbnb imagines the future of the home

Airbnb, the new way of travelling, is working with the architect Go Hasegawa for the curator and designer Kenya Hara’s ’House Vision’ exhibition, opening in Tokyo next month. And with Airbnb being in the business of lodging, it weighs in heavily...

Beach house: Airbnb reveals modular pavillion plans for Design Miami

The installations at Design Miami are always one of the fair’s main attractions. From specially commissioned structures that adorn designated areas of the fair grounds to the immersive exhibitions themselves, there is no lack of dramatic environments on site. One...