2025 Modern Gift Ideas From Senior Contributing Editor Vy Yang

Design Milk 11/20 4:00A Vy Yang

I assembled this year’s gift guide around the things I reach for, ritualize, or obsess over – and chances are, you know someone who does the same. If you’ve got a candle devotee, a matcha maker, a...

Take 5: Modern Almanacs, RISOTTOPIA, + Candy-Coated Art

Design Milk 11/20 3:00A Vy Yang

1. RISOTTO Celebrates 100th Issue of Riso Club I’m a newly minted RISOTTO fan, completely charmed by their paper goods – like their adorable Risograph calendar and their delightfully graphic prints....

Gunter & Co Design Light-Filled London Arts and Crafts Residence

Design Milk 11/20 2:00A Leo Lei

Light became architecture in this Edwardian-era home in South West London, where the promise of relocating a staircase evolved into a radical excavation that preserved only the facade. Designed by...

The Sax Paris Hotel Has Immaculate Views of the Eiffel Tower

Design Milk 11/13 5:00A Adrian Madlener

Paris is suffused in relatively compact boutique hotels that boast stylish features and distinctive narratives but they’re mostly concentrated within the flashy and glitzy Right Bank. Few emerge from...

2025 Best Modern Gifts to Splurge On

Design Milk 11/13 4:00A Joseph Sgambati III

For many, great design is the ultimate indulgence. This gift guide celebrates objects that marry form, function, and a little fantasy. From sculptural furniture collaborations and serene wellness...

Katerina Bulgakova’s Seahorse Coffee Table Embodies Waves

Design Milk 11/13 3:00A Aria Lee

What hyper-minimalist forms lack in ornamentation, they often amplify in color, texture, and materiality. Iridescent and ephemeral, the Seahorse Coffee Table s textural inlay – designed by Katerina...

TOMBOGO x MOFT Launch Monogram Tech Accessory Collection

Design Milk 11/13 2:00A Adrian Madlener

Shedding fresh light on the “small patterns we repeat in our everyday lives,” Los Angeles-based multi-media artist and fashion designer Tommy Bogo of TOMBOGO has just launched the Monogram Collection...

An Agency Office in the Ukraine Doubles as a Creative Workshop

Design Milk 11/12 5:00A Anna Zappia

Advertising firm Banda Agency is tasked with generating a steady stream of ideas, and company leadership wanted a new office that would provide plenty of inspiration, sans cubicles. Tapped to design...

2025 Best Modern Gifts Under $100

Design Milk 11/12 4:00A Aria Lee

As colder temperatures arrive and remind us to turn inward, physically and emotionally, the need to show how you care comes out as well – just in time for the holidays. For the design-minded in your...

The Torii Bench by Placyle Follows the Path of the Sun

Design Milk 11/12 3:00A Aria Lee

Celebrity included, our most famous star is undoubtedly the sun. Defining our days, and ultimately our nights, the path of the sun has mystified and regulated us all, bringing our circadian rhythms...

Walker Wolfe Lets Light Take Sail With Handcrafted Lamp

Design Milk 11/12 2:00A Vy Yang

One of the most memorable experiences on the water – one you never tire of – is watching a sail catch the wind, whether you re on deck or watching from shore. It’s a moment when nature takes presence,...

NOA Transforms an Innsbruck Attic Apartment into a Traveler’s Haven

Design Milk 11/11 5:00A Caroline Williamson

After a two-decade journey spanning the realms of Asia and Oceania, a client enlisted NOA to redesign an attic apartment in Innsbruck, Austria that captures the spirit of her faraway travels. Having...

2025 Best Modern Gifts Under $50

Design Milk 11/11 4:00A Caroline Williamson

Good design doesn’t have to break the bank – and this holiday season, we’ve rounded up 10 modern finds, all under $50, that prove it. From sculptural home accessories to clever everyday upgrades,...

Buckle Up: Silver Cross + Lamborghini Take the Stroller for a Spin

Design Milk 11/11 3:00A Vy Yang

Rickety strollers that disrupt naps (and a parent’s sanity)? A contraption on wheels that buckles under stress, snack-related and otherwise? Not a thing here. Over two years in the making, the Reef AL...

Ferro Presents Poetic Homeware With a Hearty Inaugural Release

Design Milk 11/11 2:00A Aria Lee

The Ferro Collection – a limited-edition series of artful housewares – is crafted in the complex hardwood London Plane and highly contrasting industrial stainless steel. Presented by interior designer...