Basic Space: Designed for Calm, Built for Community

Design Milk 4/24 5:00A Kendra Jackson

For some, the idea of entering a yoga studio can be fraught with feelings of intimidation and anxiety. What is meant to be a calm and meditative space can often be perceived by the inexperienced as...

Aesop Presents The Factory of Light Installation in Milan

Design Milk 4/24 4:00A Adrian Madlener

There’s a certain clarity to Aesop’s visual identity. The Australian skincare brand’s approach to developing clean, luminous products for hands and hair often translates into the warm, minimalist, yet...

A Los Cabos Home Raises the Roof(s)

Design Milk 4/24 3:00A Elizabeth Pagliacolo

In sunny Los Cabos, shade is a much-needed amenity. So, when designing Casa en Palmilla in the Mexican city, the firm ESTUDIO Ignacio Urquiza Ana Paula de Alba crafted an architectural form that...

FOG Architecture Designs a Light-Filled Shanghai Villa for Three Generations

Interior Design and Contemporary Homes Magazine 4/23 11:28P Gareth Houterman

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Jonoya by Masakazu Tsujibayashi Is Anything But Ordinary

Design Milk 4/22 6:00A Aria Lee

All architecture is a dance between the public and the private. The things we choose to show, and the things we keep to ourselves – usually quite telling. Among the small streets of Osaka, things that...

Bang & Olufsen Brings the Outdoors Inside at Milan Design Week

Design Milk 4/22 3:00A Adrian Madlener

Milan Design Week is particularly good for one thing: holistically imagined installations that when conceived well demonstrate the potential use of new products. Where these go wrong is in simply...

studio vapore Turns Up the Color in its Music Classrooms

Design Milk 4/21 4:00A Elizabeth Pagliacolo

In juicy hues that punctuate its core spaces, the music classrooms of Wester Academy Beijing resonate aesthetically and acoustically. Beijing s studio vapore, a practice that boasts a striking...

Delfyd Farm Keeps Soul, Substance, and Sheep

Design Milk 4/21 3:00A Aria Lee

Sheep have been integral to civilization since the beginning: songs, clothing, and culture itself has been built around the humble flock, providing community, industry, and an astounding amount of...

iQ Motion: Tarkett’s Quiet Revolution in Ronneby

Design Milk 4/20 3:00A Joseph Sgambati III

Somewhere between Sweden’s most savory semla and its picturesque seaside sits the unassuming town of Ronneby—quietly, a cradle of circular innovation. In a country where progress has long been shaped...

Sabah House NYC Pays Homage To Set + Setting

Design Milk 4/17 3:00A Aria Lee

Completed in 1823 and clad in Flemish red brick, 56 Bleecker Street sits at the edge of the Bond Street district—one of the most exclusive enclaves in 1830s Manhattan. Once home to Jacobus Roosevelt...

Marc Thorpe’s Forest Edge House Blends Beauty and Self Sufficiency

Design Milk 4/14 7:00A Avinash Rajagopal

There is no mistaking the core philosophy of the Forest Edge House , a 1,500-square-foot home nestled into the woods of the western Catskill Mountains. On the southern face of the house, a grid of...

Lumens Brings a Rare Afra and Tobia Scarpa-Designed FLOS Luminaire to the U.S. Market

Design Milk 4/14 4:00A Adrian Madlener

The son of seminal polymath Carlo Scarpa —an experimental Italian architect and designer who marched to the beat of his own drum— Tobia Scarpa forged a career in a similarly irreverent,...

Meet The New Linea Collection by Romilly Newman for Armadillo

Design Milk 4/14 3:00A Aria Lee

Humans are innately talented at pattern recognition. Our ancestors memorized colors, shapes, and formations that suggested good food, safe shelter, a suitable mate, and––more often than...

In Trace, Bureau de Change Lets Circularity Cement Memory in Cast Concrete

Design Milk 4/13 7:00A Joseph Sgambati III

New builds boast a certain architectural bravado, often from a place of hubris, when realized from scratch—a clean slate’s seductive promise that the future need not answer to the past. Bureau de...

Dyson Makes Hand-Held Fans Cool with the HushJet Mini

Design Milk 4/13 4:00A Joseph Sgambati III

A heatwave hack, a last resort—perhaps even a stand-in for traditional air conditioning—tiny fans have long hovered somewhere between novelty and quiet surrender. Dyson , unsurprisingly, has other...