
Design


Home Tour: The New Palace
In a sleepy city in western Gujarat, Komal Sharma discovers the last maharaja of Morvi’s extravagant art deco playground.

Ilya & Resha
Love, trust and erotic leatherwear: Stevie Mackenzie-Smith meets the married couple behind Fleet Ilya.

Josephine Akvama Hoffmeyer
Copenhagen’s queen of color makes the case for “weird” shades and dark rooms.

The Hot Seat
Like fashion, chairs can be sumptuous or simple, whimsical or practical, a frill or a necessity.

Arumjigi Culture Keepers Foundation
Five millennia of Korea’s design history, distilled into a light-filled Seoul headquarters.

Archive: Roberto Burle Marx
Buoyed by the bossa nova experimentalism of mid-century Brazil, an opera-loving landscape architect struck out against the diktats of cool modernism.

De Cotiis Residence
In Milan, designer Vincenzo de Cotiis makes the case for not meddling with raw beauty.


Cult Rooms
For Osaka’s extravagant 1970 Expo, Isamu Noguchi created a propulsive centerpiece that married Japanese and Western traditions.

Meet the Makers: Julius Arthur
In partnership with Toast, we meet the House of Quinn founder who swapped menswear for quilt making.

Charlotte Rey
In partnership with Bang & Olufsen, we meet the design consultant bringing her “more is more” philosophy to London’s interiors.

Meet the Makers: Nicholas Shurey
In partnership with Toast, we meet a Copenhagen-based woodworker carving functional objects into tactile sculptures.

Meet the Makers: Takahashi McGil
In partnership with Toast, we meet the couple blending Japanese and Western woodwork techniques to create naturally beautiful homeware.

Tariq Dixon
In partnership with Bang & Olufsen, we visit the welcoming Brooklyn home of a flea market connoisseur turned designer.

Home Tour: E-1027
Inside the French Riviera villa that Eileen Gray built, Le Corbusier “vandalized”—and history almost forgot.

The Chain Reaction
Inspired by the overcomplicated machines of Rube Goldberg, follow the trail to watch a flower—finally—get watered.

Cult Rooms: Kenzo Tange
Kenzo Tange fired up one of the 20th century’s most ambitious architectural movements—but he kept his own home simple.


The History of Utopia
Is utopian architecture a doomed quest to build human progress with bricks and mortar?