Crystal chandeliers are so bougie. If you’ve got money, why go for hackneyed over making a really, really big statement? That’s probably what an adventurous Munich couple thought when they commissioned the German lighting master ...READ MORE›
With so much emphasis on digital interactivity these days, you can forget that every day we interact with inanimate objects: We shut off the alarm (interaction), turn on the coffeepot (again, another form of interaction). The simple ...READ MORE›
Perhaps no other design studio can deliver both disarming cuteness and poetic minimalism with more mastery than Nendo. A couple of days ago, we brought you the Japanese firm's computer mouse with a detachable USB “tail”; ...READ MORE›
A live poetry reading is usually an intimate experience, but that doesn't mean it can't be augmented with some high-tech spectacle as well. That's exactly what "creative coder" Andrea Cuius and designer Roland Ellis created for poet ...READ MORE›
Before Jason Miller and Tom Dixon and the handful of other lighting alchemists design journos rhapsodize about nowadays (us included), there was Gino Sarfatti, an Italian aeronaval engineer and one of the most important lighting ...READ MORE›
New York is crawling with designers of every stripe. But big business hasn't followed: You can count on one hand the number of American furniture companies actually cultivating American-bred talent.
One exception is Brooklyn-based ...READ MORE›
There is something sweetly organic about a sphere made by hand: Its imperfection reminds us of cells, tadpoles, fruit, poached eggs, and other places where nature's seemingly loose design parameters can still (somehow) engender ...READ MORE›
LEDs sip less power, last decades and fit neatly into delicate industrial goods, but will they ever be as beautiful as incandescent lights? "Most LEDs don't meet people's expectations for the kind of light they want in a home or ...READ MORE›
3XN is a major player in Scandinavian architecture, so it's no surprise that they were approached to create a larger-than-life lighting installation for the Bella Sky Hotel in Copenhagen, which will be the region's biggest hotel when ...READ MORE›
There's minimalism, and then there's minimalism. "White," the latest collection of lighting solutions from Finnish company Artek, is squarely in the second category. Created by Artek's design director Ville Kokkonen, these lamps are ...READ MORE›
There's an eternal tension between contemporary architecture and its (older) surroundings, with the former perpetually lambasted for neglecting to conform to the character of the latter. A clever new facade by the UK lighting ...READ MORE›
Spanish-born Nacho Carbonell is one of those designers whose work plunges so deep into the realm of the weird -- he once made a settee that could swallow humans alive -- that you don't know whether to love him or hate him, but you ...READ MORE›
At ICFF 2009, the famous young Brooklyn designer Jason Miller came into his own, departing from the ironic stance of his earlier works and producing a confident, handsome new line of work.
Perhaps no designer is as synonymous ...READ MORE›
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