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
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