Benoist F. Drut on Peonies, an Eiffel Tower Sculpture, a Louis XV Armchair + More

Design Milk 6/26 8:00A Anna Zappia

Benoist F. Drut grew up in an idyllic village northwest of Paris, surrounded by lily ponds and castles—a place that honed his eye for beauty. When he was a teen, he met 18th-century French furniture...

Our Top 12 Picks from NeoCon 2026 & Design Days

Design Milk 6/26 6:00A Sophie Sobol

When you think of commercial interior design, American DJ Diplo probably does not immediately come to mind. But at the 57th edition of NeoCon earlier this month, that connection materialized thanks to...

Katrien Van Der Shueren’s Cabinets of Curiosity Are at Once Primeval and Present-Day

Design Milk 6/26 3:00A Adrian Madlener

Emerging throughout Renaissance Europe as conspicuous displays of wealth and knowledge, wunderkammers, or cabinets of curiosity, contained carefully amassed collections of oddities, natural elements,...

The Logic of Weaving Entwines These Rugs

Design Milk 6/25 5:00A Adrian Madlener

Rugs have yet again become a popular medium for fresh, unabashed ideation. Art for the floor, this hyper-refined furnishing typology is being reassessed as a potent and plenteous conduit for pictorial...

A Return to Roots with Bentley Mills

Design Milk 6/25 3:00A Sophie Sobol

Texture holds memory. From warped wood steps worn down from years of use to the sun-faded fibres of a favorite carpet, time-worn spaces and surfaces bear physical evidence of the past. Celebrating...

Sashya Thind Gives This New Build a Warm, Worldly Modernist Soul

Design Milk 6/23 8:00A Joseph Sgambati III

Contemporary new builds can arrive with many of their most consequential decisions already made: the orientation, the window placement, the ceiling heights, the boundaries of its floor plan. For...

5 Takeaways from the 2026 NeoCon Talks

Design Milk 6/23 5:00A Sophie Sobol

NeoCon is not for the faint of heart. This year’s attendees visiting The Mart—a building in downtown Chicago so enormous that it used to sport its own zip code—managed appointment-filled days and...

These Multitoned Grid Patterns Bring Depth to Drapes

Design Milk 6/23 3:00A Adrian Madlener

The design industry is moving away from expected, overly iterated typologies—seating and lighting—and expanding its focus to the more overlooked elements of our interiors. More and more brands are...

The All’essenza Chair by Ton Showcases a Simplicity of Form

Design Milk 6/22 4:00A Anna Zappia

Mass produced chairs, more often than not, look like a bulky assembled kit of parts. Czech manufacturer Ton takes a less-is-more approach, and is known for wood furnishings that highlight the...

Danish Fresh Air Tech Brand Birdie Launches an Expanded Home Collection

Design Milk 6/22 2:00A Adrian Madlener

Now the furniture and furnishings trade’s second most influential happening, 3daysofdesign Copenhagen is often synonymous with images of well-crafted Danish modernist wooden chairs, sophisticatedly...

At 3daysofdesign, Aesop Tests Out a Bioplastic Window Decal Alternative

Design Milk 6/19 4:00A Adrian Madlener

Globally recognized skincare and fragrance brand Aesop is no stranger to audacious design innovation, often taking bold leaps into uncharted territory. This April, the Australian company launched...

The Titular Green Box at the Heart of This Greek Home

Design Milk 6/17 6:00A Bianca Weeko Martin

Bookshelves became hallmark backdrops during the pandemic when students and academics were cast off into the virtual realm for lectures. Receding into the flat space of digital grids, these libraries...

Beyond Leather Transforms Scrap Material Into Lighting

Design Milk 6/17 4:00A Aria Lee

Our modern world holds many contradictions at once. Many facets of our day-to-day lives would have been almost unimaginable even fifty years ago, shaped as they are by technological development,...

IKEA PS 2026 Is a Love Letter to Playful Functionality

Design Milk 6/17 3:00A Joseph Sgambati III

In a world demanding design be more streamlined, relentlessly optimized, and endlessly useful, IKEA PS 2026 meets the moment with an alluring proposal to consumers: What if functional objects could...

Messe Frankfurt’s Textile Platforms Make Material Progress Tangible

Design Milk 6/16 3:00A Joseph Sgambati III

Textiles are no longer a quiet substrate. They are infrastructure, technology, protection, climate strategy, logistics challenge, and cultural signal all at once. A fabric might need to breathe,...