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
Local studio In Praise of Shadows has added a curved wooden salon bar to the BioRio cinema in Hornstull, Stockholm, which it refurbished to create a “warm and inviting atmosphere”. The studio was tasked with… Read More »In Praise of Shadows gives historic Stockholm cinema a tactile makeover
Artists Tika Shelia and Ano Jishkariani have furnished an apartment with design objects based on recent political demonstrations that took place in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Conspiracy Bar exhibition, which was supported by Kunsthalle Tbilisi, was… Read More »Around the Studio furnishes apartment with protest-based furniture for Conspiracy Bar exhibition
Local studio Bates Masi + Architects has settled a hillside house on a brick base overlooking the seashore in Montauk, New York, USA. Navy Beach is a 2,000-square-foot (185-square-metre) house on a steep half-acre site… Read More »Bates Masi creates two-toned Navy Beach house in Montauk