Design

Maximalist Kelly Wearstler is guided by a thirst for unexpected pairings. A look into her overfull downtown LA warehouse reveals lost vintage relics and rubberized treasures soon to come.

Adrian Gaut collaborates with Design Within Reach on a collection of exclusive prints that detail the overlooked moments of Mexico City's skyline. 

In Los Angeles, the artist duo Base 10 presents a collection of arboreal furniture reminiscent of their origins.

Nordic Knots and Jessie Andrews’ Tase Gallery debut a rug collection that is both contemporary and reminiscent of ‘70s Los Angeles. 

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David Kohn designs the spaces gallerists show their work, then he builds the places they live. A reverence for the transformative nature of a space animates each of his architectural projects, where rooms spark dialogue with that which they hold.

Both Nicole McLaughlin, whose beloved remixes of everyday objects have set the Internet ablaze, and Aska Yamashita, the artistic director of Chanel-owned Atelier Montex, have certain material fascinations. As it turns out, the two designers seem cut from the same cloth—even half a world and a generation apart.

Herman Miller is reviving two pieces from a pivotal moment in design history: a chair and table designed by Gilbert Rohde displaying modernist influences that were ahead of their time in the lineage of avant-garde American tastes.

While the late sculptor JB Blunk’s holistic art and design philosophy has only come to light in recent years, his hand-built family home in the woods of Inverness, California, preserved by daughter Mariah Nielson, reveals his influence runs generations deep.

A fateful return to Italy from the Netherlands has imbued Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin with a new appreciation for the land that raised them—and the new world they’ve created there together.

Fueled by curiosity, the late Gaetano Pesce’s radical, multidisciplinary approach to making carved a path for a new generation of polymaths, including trailblazing artist and DJ Awol Erizku, with whom he shared one of his final conversations.

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One century ago, Svenskt Tenn made a colorful splash in the throes of Sweden’s modernism movement. Today, Maria Veerasamy is leading the design brand to new horizons, while honoring its legacy.

Alex Tieghi-Walker’s first group exhibition at his eponymous New York gallery evokes the mysterious, ancient, and often enchanted qualities of the remote, forested landscape through newly commissioned artworks and objects by nearly two dozen artists and designers.

Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta close their eyes and envision a free-flowing future where different ideas coexist and nature is an equilibrant. When they open them, the duo behind DRIFT channel this paradigm shift into kinetic sculptures, some of which exist by recontextualizing familiar relics, an approach they share with the designer Bjarke Ingels.

Pink Essay creates exhibitions and online experiences that examine the weird and wonderful ways design manifests. From London to Seoul, these six up-and-coming makers from its international community are at the vanguard of our built environments.

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Marc Newson has made it all—and then remade it twice over. Though a few relics from his iconic industrial and interior practice mingle with personal matters inside his family’s Victoria, London flat, the prolific designer reassures Maison Alaïa creative director Pieter Mulier that he’s hardly stuck in a storage unit.

In Common With debuts a sprawling 8,000-square foot concept shop and creative gathering space in TriBeCa, New York, with a mural by Italian artist Claudio Bonuglia as its crown jewel.

A drastic change of scenery sparked a new chapter in Simone-Bodmer-Turner’s creative endeavors. Now, her modernist-inspired aesthetic readily embraces natural motifs.

In New York, the South African designer fosters deeper connections to the animal kingdom through design.

Throughout his pioneering sculptural and design practices, Isamu Noguchi fabricated a world of his own. Now entrusted to his namesake museum in Queens, New York, these rarely seen belongings offer an intimate connection to the awe-striking breadth of his life—and ours.

Loewe showcases imaginative lamps by 24 international artists for the 2024 edition of Milan Design Week.