Michael Cannell

ICFF Wrap-Up: The End of Luxe

With high-end furniture in eclipse, the furniture fair looks for a new esthetic of efficiency.READ»

ICFF 2009: Octogenarian Pieree Paulin Carries the Day

At the furniture fair, Pierre Paulin shows that design is not the exclusive domain of youth.READ»

Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes Preview [video]

Dutch designers are usually the brainy class clowns of design shows, with their ironic, off-kilter work. None has gained more attention in recent years than Hella Jongerius.   Hella Jongerius: Contemporary Archetypes from ...READ»

In Defense of the Disposable: Has the Green Backlash Begun?

An exhibit of throwaway objects pushes back against green orthodoxy.READ»

ICFF Preview: Freaky Design Videos

Is Blu Dot the David Lynch of the furniture world?READ»

'Design for a Living World' Preview: 10 Products That Stay True to Their Origins

Can products nurture the people and place that produced them? Ten signature designers taking part in the Design for a Living World exhibition show how it might be done.READ»

Would You Make Your Backyard an Office?

As aversion to driving grows, home office sheds come into fashion.READ»

This Is Your Brain on Architecture

Neuroscientists are uncovering how the design of your home or office can make you smarter, faster, happier. Is brain science the next big design trend?READ»

Is Information Visualization the Next Frontier for Design?

As design work shifts to infrastructure and problem solving, sexy infographics are part of the new skill set. READ»

Romancing the Dilapidated: What Will Post-Recession Décor Look Like?

Will the financial crisis translate into a discernible new style?READ»

Design Glut: Is There Too Much Design?

A young Brooklyn design firm calls for an end to the excess.READ»

Front Design: Girl Power at the Milan Furniture Fair 2009

At the design show, an all-female firm from Sweden prevails with a brand of high whimsy. READ»

Milan Report: Fresh From Slovenia, Nika Zupanc, a New Design Star

Will Nika Zupanc emerge as the furniture fair’s breakout name?READ»

Milan Report: Furniture Piles

At the design show, the fashion is for cyclones of product display.READ»

Milan Report: Obama Design

Among the sofas and settees at the furniture fair, a scattering of design for social change.READ»

Milan Report: Designers Find Religion

At the furniture fair, new work is a bible mash-up.READ»

Milan Report: Despite the Recession, New Brands Debut

Downturn be damned. Hope springs eternal at the furniture fair, where three new firms splash onto the scene. READ»

Milan Report: What's the Future for Design?

On the eve of the furniture fair, attendees wet a finger to the wind. Will it sizzle or fizzle?READ»

Milan Report: Design's Most Valuable Player

Five reasons why Tom Dixon will triumph at this year’s furniture fair.READ»

Prefab Homes: But What Would Frank Lloyd Wright Say?

The Frank Lloyd Wright School tries its hand at prefab with an instant desert home.READ»

Milan Report: The Hand Strikes Back

At this year’s furniture fair, the stitched and artisanal rally against mass production.READ»

Milan Report: Furniture Gets the Whirlies

Are the straight lines of modernism giving way to the rickety and wobbly?READ»

Milan Report: Break-Out Moment for Biomimicry?

At the furniture fair, the Bouroullec brothers ask nature for design ideas.READ»

• Biomimicry: Design Inspirations from Nature

Debating the Design Depression: Austerity vs Extravagance

Sure, the economy's on life support, and shelter magazines have been hung out to dry, but design is not dead yet. The tallest skyscraper on the planet is rocketing into the stratosphere over Dubai, and $600 plastic chairs are ...READ»

Bringing Dollars and Know-How to Design Studios

Can venture capital do for architects and decorators what it did for Silicon Valley?READ»