Do you compost? Food from home kitchens is the largest contributor to landfills, and is responsible for as much as 8% of global greenhouse emissions. Enter Mill, an odorless kitchen bin that automatically recycles food… Read More »Quickly Create Compost + Keep Stench at Bay With Mill
Dezeen Showroom: Finnish brand Nikari collaborated with designer Pekka Koivikko on a stackable chair made from solid birch that is designed to be painted. The Kumu chair comprises a sturdy frame of four cylindrical legs… Read More »Kumu chair by Pekka Koivikko for Nikari
Dezeen Showroom: British acoustic treatment brand Autex Acoustics has developed an acoustic ceiling and wall system designed to absorb sound in busy open-plan spaces. Created for a range of interior applications including office, retail, education… Read More »Frontier acoustic ceiling and wall system by Autex Acoustics
This month in New York, artist Antonio Santín presents shockingly hyperreal oil paintings that depict life-size undulating ornate rugs. On view at Marc Straus Gallery, each painting is a surprising illusion of a carpet in… Read More »Thousands of Brushstrokes: Antonio Santín’s New Rug Paintings
Architecture practice THISS Studio has reconfigured the dark interior of an interwar house in east London, adding an extension characterised by timber joinery and a curved aluminium roof. Designed to have “a fun and unconventional… Read More »“Fried-egg” canopy tops Sunny Side Up extension by THISS Studio
The seven finalists for this year’s edition of the Mies van der Rohe Award have been revealed and include a Czech art gallery, an urban space in southern Sweden and a copper-clad convent in France.… Read More »Mies van der Rohe Award reveals finalists for 2024