A personal review of design creations
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 makes the case for design's greatest provocateur.
When Milan Stood Still for an Apricot Tree
A Suspended Moment in Milan: How a Story About a Lost Sea Found Its Audience
The Egg That Eats Itself
How OMA's new mushroom pavilion at Casa Wabi is turning fungi into architecture, community, and lunch.
Against Excess: The Radical Quiet of Hella Jongerius
There are designers who make beautiful things, and then there are designers who make you think differently about things altogether. Hella Jongerius belongs firmly to the second category — and this spring, the Vitra Design Museum is making the case for her as one of the most consequential design minds of our era.
In a Park: How a Forgotten Brick Reframes Domestic Life
In Singapore, a modest apartment renovation by L Architects reimagines domestic life through red brick, greenery and the spatial logic of a park. In a Park shows how a forgotten material can bring warmth, intimacy and a quietly generous way of living back into the home.
Advent 2025: St Peter Church by Le Corbusier
To close this little Advent pilgrimage I wanted a Le Corbusier landmark— but not the familiar hilltop chapel at Ronchamp. Instead one in a former mining town whose industrial grit somehow suits his concrete poetry.
Stop Four: Firminy, France.
Advent 2025: The Holy Redeemer
Over fifteen years in the making, this church is completely integrated in the transformation process of a neighbourhood of 670 homes.
Third stop: San Cristobal de la Laguna, Spain.
Patricia Urquiola: Meta-Morphosa
Patricia Urquiola’s exhibition at the Centre for Innovation and Design at Grand-Hornu arrives at a moment when design can no longer ignore its own implications.
Advent 2025: San Giacomo Apostolo
#Advent2025: With its light and organic structure, this church contrasts with other religious buildings in the same city.
Second stop: Ferrara, Italy.
Fungi: Anarchist Designers
Fungi: Anarchist Designers. A refreshing exhibition that casts fungi not as trendy materials but as autonomous designers with their own unruly logic, far beyond our control at the Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam.