Xiao Lin spent her formative years in the United States and China, and some of her most cherished memories are those rooted in place, from the front door of the family home to the rooms… Read More »F5: Xiao Lin Talks a Stone Seal, Her Grandmother’s Mala Bracelet, an Incense Holder + More
For the American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC), design has never been only about what gets made. It is also about what gets understood. The organization does not sell a chair, table, or finished product; it… Read More »The American Hardwood Export Council Helps Design Take Root at Clerkenwell Design Week
What’s the purpose of bird feeders? Like most human innovation altruistically aimed at aiding nature and other sentient beings, the benefits have almost always been mutually beneficial. In this case, a feeder helps ensure our… Read More »The Improved Kiwibit Bird Feeder 2 takes Twitching to New Heights
Doors have been considered symbolic portals for millennia: thresholds through which the unknown lies, where one condition gives way to another. And if you’ve ever walked into a room and immediately forgotten why, that charged… Read More »Bankston and FOR SCALE Make the Case for Hardware as High Design
On an 880-square-foot site in Toshima City—roughly the size of a generous one-bedroom apartment—Key Operation Inc. / Architects has produced a building that contains shops, clinics, cafés, maisonette residences, a curved atrium, a bouldering wall,… Read More »A Tokyo Building Offers an Elegant Answer to Urban Compression
It was the early 19th-century architect and designer Augustus Pugin who called for an honest approach to material and construction in these respective fields: one that champions maintaining the imprint of assembly as a visible,… Read More »These Luminaires Wear The Messiness of Their Assembly as a Badge of Honor