These Lamp-Tapestries Are Rooted in Basket-Weaving Traditions in Ghana

Design Milk 1/23 5:00A Vy Yang

Basket weaving has long been central to daily life and local economies in northern Ghana, particularly in Bolgatanga, often referred to as the “city of baskets.” In collaboration with artisan...

How Ray Chen Simplified Custom Window Treatments at TWOPAGES

Design Milk 1/23 4:00A Hayley Arsenault

Custom drapery depends on a series of calculations that remain largely unseen. Measurements define scale. Yardage determines proportion. Fabric and lining affect weight, opacity, and movement. Much of...

LAYER + MAZZU Put the Traditional Camping Mattress to Shame

Design Milk 1/23 3:00A Adrian Madlener

The PU foam used in traditional and more recently developed memory-variant mattresses is not just harmful to the environment – as  everlasting materials – but also to our health. Though often...

F5: Vivian Chiu on Joyce Lin, Sylvie Rosenthal, Meg Callahan + More

Design Milk 1/23 2:00A Anna Zappia

Artist Vivian Chiu was always interested in making objects, but when she attended the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to study furniture design, she experimented with one of her favorite...

Bean Buro Designs a Corporate Oasis in Hong Kong

Design Milk 1/21 4:00A Anna Zappia

Today’s workplaces include biophilic facets to bring the outside in, but most are still relatively staid in design, with neutral palettes and traditional styling. Yet when Bean Buro was tapped to...

Giobagnara Gives Pets a Luxurious Home Upgrade in Leather

Design Milk 1/21 3:00A Vy Yang

There’s not a pet owner out there who would disagree: our pets deserve the best, especially when it comes to the place they call home. Their presence not only brings comfort, but also shapes the...

Sit Soundly With the Biboni Sofa by Johnston Marklee for Knoll

Design Milk 1/21 2:00A Aria Lee

The concept of comfort is different to all of us. Sights, sounds, and shapes – usually from our childhood – evoke a specific feeling of warmth and security from within us. Some of these shapes are...

The Monk Armchair Gets a Decorative Awakening

Design Milk 1/20 4:00A Vy Yang

First designed in 1973 by Tobia Scarpa and his wife and design partner, Afra, the Monk armchair marked the beginning of a long-standing collaboration with Molteni&C . Celebrated for its refined...

Cassina and Technogym Debut the Hidden Ottagono Home Gym

Design Milk 1/20 3:00A Adrian Madlener

Workout gear is almost always clunky and unsightly; gray equipment haphazardly crammed into a basement room that only just checks the box when it comes to an apartment building’s list of promoted...

Tom Dixon x Coalesse Celebrate Contrast at Miami Art Week

Design Milk 1/20 2:00A Aria Lee

Softness and sharpness seem diametrically opposed, irreconcilable in the pantheon of design – think an ink-filled brush stroke across paper, a zero next to a one, or hot against cold. All these...

Giorgetti and Maserati Bring Their Design Collaboration to Dubai

Design Milk 1/19 2:00A Vy Yang

Giorgetti and Maserati have brought their ongoing design collaboration to Dubai, marking a new chapter for the partnership in the Middle East. Presented inside the Al Tayer Motors Maserati showroom,...

Grow Lamps No Longer Need to be Unsightly Afterthoughts

Design Milk 1/16 4:00A Adrian Madlener

With the somewhat nefarious image of raising certain types of plants now dispelled comes the demystification of the grow lamp. Because of its long-held seedy association, the typology never really...

In the Middle of Miami Art Week, a Desert Oasis Awaited

Design Milk 1/16 3:00A Vy Yang

Art Basel Miami isn’t for the faint of heart. Between fairs, exhibitions, dinners, and after-hours events, the city becomes a whirlwind of creativity and constant motion. It’s thrilling – but also a...

F5: Nimrod Weis Talks Skateboarding, Japan, Safety Signs + More

Design Milk 1/16 2:00A Anna Zappia

When Nimrod Weis was 11 years old he would go to the Tandy store in Australia and buy electrical components that he could tinker with and assemble into his own objects. His grandfather, a sculptor who...

Re-norm Table: Maria Bruun’s Case for More Human Domesticity With Muuto

Design Milk 1/15 4:00A Joseph Sgambati III

Ideally, object materiality – a product’s very existence – is invested with imagination and enlivened by performativity. Surfaces are aesthetically established to elicit sensuous experiences from an...