A personal review of design creations
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.
Concrete Independence
Concrete convictions: how seven newly independent nations built their identity in glass and reinforced concrete — and why MoMA's latest show could not have landed at a more Instagram-ready moment.
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.
Against Excess: The Radical Quiet of Hella Jongerius
Hella Jongerius doesn’t just make beautiful things—she makes you think differently about them. This spring, the Vitra Design Museum argues for her as one of the most influential design minds of our era.
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.
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.
The Rebirth of Designtide Tokyo
After a hiatus of twelve years, Designtide Tokyo is making its much-anticipated return to the Japanese capital on November 27th, marking an exciting new chapter for design enthusiasts worldwide.
Dubai Design Week Celebrates 10 Years
Since its launch in October 2015, Dubai Design Week is set to celebrate a decade next month with one of its largest editions yet. More than 500 designers from 40 countries will gather in the city, showcasing Dubai as the design capital of the Middle East.
EDIT Napoli 2024
The sixth edition of EDIT Napoli is hosting over 100 exhibitors and featuring seven CULT shows at the Archivio di Stato di Napoli.