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Across Two Exhibitions, Jaume Plensa’s Monumental Sculptures Unite Scale and Material
'Beyond Silence' marks Jaume Plensa's tenth solo exhibition with GRAY, coinciding with 'Remote, Serene, Ethereal' opening next week.
Inside a New Venice Hotel with a Lighter Take on Venetian Grandeur
Escaping the city’s at times heavy-handed grandeur, new hotel Elizabeth Unique Venice introduces unpretentious, contemporary flair along the Cannaregio Canal.
Venus Williams Serves Up a New Collection with Crate & Barrel
Venus Williams may best be known for her time on the tennis court, but design has long been a part of her career.
Three-Axis Joint Connects Raw Tree Branches Without Screws for Self-Building Structures
Presented at paris design week 2026, the system moves beyond construction experiments as its screw-free joint takes shape as a chair, table, and lamp built from raw branches.
Lasvit Imprints Bohemian Meadows into Custom Lighting Fixture for Napa Valley Home
Designed by mária čulenová, lasvit’s herbarium lighting sculpture translates bohemian glassmaking into a modular lighting concept.
Hollis+Morris Looks Beneath the Ice with Beaufort Lighting
The idea for Hollis+Morris’ Beaufort lighting collection began somewhere over the Atlantic.
Dubai Gallery Pairs Open White Exhibition Halls with a Concealed, Brick-Toned Museum Room
White walls provide a neutral background for the gallery collection dark brick-colored MDF panels line the museum room with their raw texture exposed.
Ancient Korean Hanji Paper Transformed into Sustainable Biomaterials at Maison&Objet 2026
From september 10-14, KCDF brings 'hanji house' to paris design week 2026, turning 1,000-year-old hanji paper into contemporary craft.
‘Chairman’ Celebrates the Joyful Furniture Design of Yinka Ilori
Chairman celebrates more than a decade of colorful furniture transformations.
Joe Flacco’s Family Home Puts Function Before Flash
Some NFL quarterbacks choose to spend their fortune in a wildly ostentatious fashion, buying private jets, yachts, $300,000 watches, or flashy supercars.
Leisurama’s Prefabricated Promise of Fabulous, Mid-Century Vacationing for All
On the eastern tip of new york's long island, nearly 200 homes popped up that welcomed summer travelers and adventurous investors.
Rick Tegelaar’s Designs Begin with Making, Not Sketching
The Dutch designer shares how hands-on experiments turn into unexpected forms.
Audo Copenhagen Sets the Table for Fall with Six New Designs
6 new pieces bridge Italian hospitality, Danish modernism, and Japanese influences.
Louis Vuitton and Singer Take the Porsche 911 Somewhere Unexpected
Two Porsche 911s draw from watchmaking, leatherwork, travel, and more.
ADN FÓRUM Turns Madrid Pink with Art, Design and a Temporary ‘Dry Port’
ADN FÓRUM returns to Madrid’s Plaza de Colón with pink shipping containers, installations, art, and design from September 24 to 27, 2026.
Kemetale Revives the Art of Slow Travel on the Nile
Designed with Cairo-based studio Eklego, Kemetale looks to an earlier era of travel.
Do Ho Suh Maps Four Decades of Home, Memory, and Migration at MMCA Seoul Retrospective
Robin Hood Gardens, Woolmore Street, London E14 0HG , 2018, Single-channel video, color, sound (stereo), 28 min.
Behr’s 2027 Color of the Year Finds New Depth in Green
Green certainly isn’t revolutionary in interiors, but Behr’s 2027 Color of the Year makes the case that there is still plenty of territory to explore.
Andover Audio Gives Portable Hi-Fi a More Refined Look
Andover Audio built the FreePlay to handle the outdoors without looking outdoorsy.
Martin Labbé Builds Pine Chair Without a Single Screw in Stockholm
Martin Labbé crafts a screw-free pine chair in Stockholm from standard construction timber, using mortise-and-tenon joints, and linseed oil.
Material, Structure, and Scent Converge in So Koizumi’s South Korean Solo Exhibition
So koizumi design presents his first solo exhibition in south korea in collaboration with seoul-based scent brand pointtwofive·second.
How a Fashion-Trained Eye Shapes April Graves’ Approach to Stone
A background in fashion led April Graves to an unlikely material: natural stone.
Nick Sheridan Talks Surfboards, His VW Beetle, Morocco + More
When Nick Sheridan was young, he explored everything from sketching to sewing to channel his creativity—but it was craftsmanship at home that set him on his future path.
Officeuntitled Turns Vacant Santa Monica Office Floor into School After the Palisades Fire
OFFICEUNTITLED adaptively reuses a vacant Santa Monica office floor as Village School’s interim campus after the Palisades Fire.
Former Mclaren Designers Bring Supercar Thinking to Furniture
Before João Dias and Patrick Carton designed furniture, they were designing machines built to exceed 200 mph.
Urn Studios Reimagines Memorial Objects into Expressive Celebrations of Life
UK-based Urn Studios releases its first US collection, which saw seven artists reinterpret the urn as an object of identity, intimacy and enduring design ‘For decades, the funeral.
New York City’s Last Standing Wood Column Company Closes After 110 Years
110 years later, Brooklyn's American Wood Column Corporation is closing.
Jen Lewin’s Monumental ‘Ursas’ Find a Permanent Home Along the Gowanus Canal
For many public artworks, permanence is the exception rather than the rule.
Designboom Shop Drop: Limited Release of Watches and Architectural Jewelry
Explore designboom shop drop for august 2026: limited-edition watches and architectural jewelry curated for modern design enthusiasts.
‘First for Mental Workout and Game’: How Starck’s Iconic Lemon Squeezer Broke the Mold
More than 35 years after its debut, the aluminum citrus squeezer continues to spark debate, proving that the most influential designs are not always the most practical.
20 Winning Projects Spark Submission for A’design Award and Competition 2027
designers across all creative disciplines are invited to submit their projects to A' design award and competition until september 30.
Presence, Memory, and Time Merge in the Surreal Works of ‘Architects of Absence’
The five-person group exhibition at Gallery Wendi Norris plumbs the dialogue between absence and presence.
Colorful Furnishings and Raw Textures Animate an Open-Plan Flower Shop
The flower shop combines preserved textures with bold new forms and colorful furnishings.
Jil Sander Expands Her Thonet Furniture Collaboration, an Ode to the Bauhaus
See the latest additions to the Bauhaus-inspired JS Thonet collection
Yinka Ilori and Dunelm’s New Furniture Collection Is Colourful and Accessible
Launching today, the artist and designer
Ana Elisa Egreja Takes a Magical Realist Approach to Migration in Her Rich Still Lifes
"Improbable but not impossible" is how Brazilian artist Ana Elisa Egreja describes the unexpected companions in her vibrant still lifes.
Century-Old Japanese Cedar Unfolds into Flat-Pack Furniture Collection, FLAT/FORM
exposed joints become part of the visual language | No.
Saba’s Oasi Outdoor Seating Finds Its Natural Habitat
Robin Rizzini’s modular collection comes to live in an Italian botanical garden
Robotic Carving Transforms Reclaimed Stone Waste into Porous Modular System
the installation and modular components are designed by architect Vlad Tenu
