When Jackson Schwartz was a teenager he watched videos of glassblowing and was transfixed by the process. As he worked with glass he became fully immersed in the craft, responding to the material as it… Read More »F5: Jackson Schwartz on the Forest, Clouds, Snowy Branches + More
A structural stone loggia and cross-laminated timber upper storey frame views of the English countryside at Field House, a home in West Sussex by London studio Wilkinson King Architects. Field House is a home for… Read More »Limestone loggia wraps rural English home by Wilkinson King Architects
Architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Daniel Libeskind, Audrey Large and Philippe Starck have created funeral urns for Alessi‘s The Last Pot exhibition at Milan design week. Alongside Chipperfield, Libeskind, Large and Starck, Michael Anastassiades, Michele… Read More »Philippe Starck and Daniel Libeskind create funeral urns for Alessi
As British furniture brand SCP celebrates its 40th anniversary, its founder Sheridan Coakley reflects on the brand’s journey over the past four decades. In the mid-1980s, when antique and reproduction furniture prevailed in the UK,… Read More »“You can’t have your roots in modernism forever” says SCP founder Sheridan Coakley
Dezeen Showroom: work and leisure combine in designer Niels Diffrient’s eponymous lounge chair for furniture brand Humanscale. The Diffrient lounge chair invites relaxed, supported sitting with its cocoon-like shape, reclined position and matching footrest, although… Read More »Diffrient lounge chair by Niels Diffrient for Humanscale
In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Philippe Starck’s surreal nine-storey Maison Heler hotel in Metz, France, topped with what appears to be a 19th-century mansion. The mansion, which is entirely clad in metal,… Read More »“We all need a bit of silliness” says commenter