A personal review of design creations
Ten Years in Rope: Studio Lloyd and South African Design
A decade after its debut, the Cape Town lighting studio is a useful case study in what South African design has gained, and what it still has to prove.
Living Territories: Biodesign Comes to Mexico
Mexico's first biodesign exhibition, at the Museo Franz Mayer, treats plants, fungi and microbes not as raw material but as fellow designers, and asks us to take a humbler seat at the workbench.
Life of Forms: AlUla Lands in the Marais
A desert exhibition lands in the heart of the Marais this September, as AlUla and Lafayette Anticipations pair centuries of Saudi craft with contemporary French collecting, proof that sand and concrete have more in common than the map suggests.
Open Storage, Open Secrets: Herzog & de Meuron Let Hong Kong Into the Workshop
The firm that built M+ hands over its sketchbooks. Discretion, it turns out, was never the point.
The Uncommon Beauty of Common Things
Charles Eames drove through Nuevo León nine years before he ever met Ray, a footnote so small he barely mentioned it for decades. Now it's the opening scene of Mexico's first-ever Eames retrospective.
Design Ah! Experience the Wonder of Everyday
On Noticing Things: M+'s New Exhibition Asks You to Look Again at Everything You've Stopped Seeing
Sottsass Is Finally in Tokyo. It Was About Time.
The Italian who made the design world uncomfortable… and then indispensable, finally gets his Tokyo moment.
A Name You Don't Know, An Airport You Do
A new retrospective at the Stedelijk asks an uncomfortable question: how can the designer behind Schiphol's iconic terminal have slipped so quietly out of memory?
Verner Panton: Form, Colour, Space
Verner Panton at 100: The man who declared war on beige. From the Panton Chair to the Spiegel Canteen, the Vitra Design Museum’s new retrospective argues for design’s most provocative voice.
When Milan Stood Still for an Apricot Tree
A Suspended Moment in Milan: How a Story About a Lost Sea Found Its Audience