Here's one for the annals of experimental marketing: On Wednesday and Thursday a white van carrying a stack of powder-coated Real Good chairs by Blu Dot, a Minneapolis design firm started by three college friends, will patrol ...READ»
For design, fall is the season of ideas.The Milan Furniture Fair, held every April, is essentially an organ of the Italian furniture industry. Walking the fairgrounds on the city outskirts, one gets the sense that a thousand suits are ...READ»
As surely as weighty new catalogues from Design Within Reach and Ikea land with a thump at your door, the fall design season awaits on the far side of Labor Day. This is the customary moment for design editors to preview fall events. ...READ»
London's Design Museum just opened a new exhibition, Super Contemporary, which tasked 15 British design stars--including David Adjaye, Zaha Hadid, Sam Hecht, and Tom Dixon to invent pieces that would improve upon life in the ...READ»
The long-standing link between alcohol and design is fully exhibited at the museum Veuve Clicquot erected in an enclosed bridge crossing a people-packed street in the Zona Tortona. On display, new promotional works by Tom Dixon ...READ»
Each spring, the design world descends like a flock of starlings (glossy, dressed in black) on the northern Italian city of Milan for a week of revelry in honor of the Milan Furniture Fair (which those with Continental pretensions ...READ»
It already seems clear that design enjoyed its own bubble economy: High-end "design art" ate up most of the design headlines in the last couple years, and nearly became synonymous with the discipline. So it'll be ...READ»
