Call us crazy, but we’ve always thought it would actually be pretty cool to find yourself in one of David Lynch’s movies. And the scene in Mulholland Drive’s Silencio, when everything changes, remains one of our all-time ...READ»
Avant-garde Belgian fashion house Maison Martin Margiela has given a très-cool makeover to a fussy, luxury hotel in Paris, the high Holy Land of fussy, luxury hotels.
Maison des Centraliens reopened to the public in May with a ...READ»
Ever stay at a bar until closing time, when the fluorescents are turned on, only to reveal the beer puddles and sallow complexions of you and your friends? Yeah, us neither. But we imagine it to be a pretty dispiriting experience. ...READ»
With a home office, I never have to worry if the temperature, lighting, or power situation isn't to my liking: I just set it up exactly how I want it. But if you work in an old federal office building run by the U.S. General Services ...READ»
When it opened last year, Bar Agricole garnered as much praise for its food -- sourced from local farms, of course -- as its décor, a modern but warm combination of industrial, recycled, and handcrafted elements. Now the restaurant ...READ»
What Happens When, the world's first restaurant to treat design like speed dating, has unveiled its newest look: a bright salute to spring that turns the walls of this très-urban NYC dining establishment into an abstract, enchanted ...READ»
You'd think that being a creative director the Google Creative Lab would take up most of your creative energy. Not so with Ji Lee. When not managing the awesome promos that Google churns out, Lee still finds time to make impressive ...READ»
Here's a great way to show clients your company is otherworldly: Make your office resemble something George Jetson might've commuted to in his aerocar.
With the Pons + Huot headquarters, by Parisian architect Christian ...READ»
In the fiercely competitive world of New York dining, restaurants are always trotting out a new shtick to separate themselves from the pack. What Happens When is trotting out nine shticks.
Each month for the next nine months, the ...READ»
My boyfriend and I aren’t the marrying kind -- we already declared our love for each other at City Hall, at the impossibly romantic domestic-partnership bureau, for the impossibly romantic reason of health insurance -- but if we ...READ»
Google is famous for forcing perfectly respectable people to work in studiedly zany offices -- themed ones, no less, whether it’s gondola lifts at Google Zurich or, as we saw recently, red telephone booths at Google London. So we ...READ»
NE is a new hair salon in Osaka, but you’d be forgiven for mistaking it for a modern art museum (or some kind of sensory-deprivation tank).
The place -- designed by Japan’s Teruhiro Yanagihara -- doesn’t have a single ...READ»
Today, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum announced the winners of the 2010 National Design Awards. Just over a decade old, the awards are the closed thing the country has to a Nobel Prize in design; the nominees were drawn ...READ»
Computers might be taking over the world, but all anyone seems to want to design nowadays is stuff that would look right at home in Bedrock. Primitivism has returned, from stone shelves and rabbit sculptures to punching bags shaped ...READ»
Computers might be taking over the world, but all anyone seems to want
to design nowadays is stuff that would look right at home in Bedrock.
Primitivism has returned, from stone shelves and rabbit sculptures to
punching bags ...READ»
For all the out-sized buzz it attracts, contemporary furniture design is
almost non-existent in America. Blame it on conservative tastes, or a
lack of a strong, homegrown design culture--the fact is, almost all of
the ...READ»
