Explore - Design

The agony and ecstasy of home renovations, featuring case studies, caveats, and true confessions.

If your manuscript is far from being illuminated, it’s time to drop the task at hand and find a new lamp to read by.

Even high-design dressing rooms, rare as they are, rarely function or inspire as the shop floor can. That may be changing, though.

The ancient Greeks did it in the agora; the Romans did it in the forum; Persians did it in the bazaar (“the place of prices”); and Arabs and Berbers did it in the labyrinthine souk....

The former Constantinople isn’t all Ottoman-era carpets and ruins: A cutting-edge art, dining, and travel scene overlays its rich past.

Cole & Son, a London-based wallpaper manufacturer established in 1875, recently launched its collection of autumn wallpapers, including a particularly striking harlequin pattern of overlain...

An enterprising duo mines their respective creative and business backgrounds to create a furniture collection with French roots and universal appeal.

Curated by Héloise Park at the Aram Gallery, the Geenen & Hoon exhibition brings together two young furniture makers who approach design through structure—but from opposite ends of...

There’s a fine art to getting you to gape—one that shop-window designers of all stripes must learn.

"We thought design was this incredible discovery as a field, and yet no one was making it interesting. There was so much work to be done."

Personal devices are the new frontier for shops peddling their wares. Have a look at how your toddler will shop.

As with most trade fairs, it was difficult to find dense clumps of strong design at the London Design Festival; instead gems were dispersed throughout. When an object did stand out, the work was...

Albeit with more drizzle and more crowded aisles, 100% Design in Earls Court, London, resembles New York’s International Contemporary Furniture Fair in that it is small and easily digested....

Beyond a shining white foyer and a canteen infused with fragrant lunchtime aromas, Marimekko’s Helsinki headquarters hides a textile factory in its belly.

Rescued from its long tenure as the home of processed snacks, the vending machine is enjoying a moment of unprecedented glitz.

As the ill effects of many a mattress become crystal-clear, never before has the saying “You snooze, you lose” held more weight. Thankfully, there are some great options out there that...

A philosophical designer based in Beyoğlu relies on handicraft, woodworking, and the universal meaning of nature.

John Arndt and Wonhee Jeong Arndt named their studio after the made-up word “gorm,” an invented antonym to the real word “gormless” (meaning stupid or dull). The Eugene...

In 1940, architect Franco Albini made a single model of his ship’s rigging-like Veliero bookcase for his Milan home—where it eventually collapsed. Sixty-six years later, Cassina...

For the second year running, Milan’s Zona Tortona feels more like Zona Tortura, a nightclub dotted with big brand showrooms, than the former creative epicenter of the Salone furniture fair...