Architecture of Home
Seminal Indian architect B. V. Doshi describes the difference between a house and a home.
07/09/2016
Design
New Minimalist: Joseph Dirand
French architect Joseph Dirand acquired his first Prouvé chair at the tender age of 17 and has favored function over form ever since.
06/09/2016
Field Notes: Le Corbusier
We examine how Le Corbusier’s early travels had a lasting influence on his iconic 20th-century architecture.
08/06/2016
The Navigators: Kristoffer Fagerström
Come rain or shine, this longtime Stockholm resident appreciates his city for all it has to offer.
08/06/2016
Behind the Scenes: Hotel Fontevraud
We chat with the folks at the Hotel Fontevraud about working within the stunningly refurbished walls of one of France’s most beautiful abbeys.
08/06/2016
Sincerely Yours
Even though we’re separated by seas, resorting to old-fashioned methods of communication still gets our messages across—literally.
07/06/2016
A Day in the Life: Frida Escobedo
With her own firm and scores of global projects in her inventive portfolio, this architect is transforming Mexico City, one artful building at a time.
01/03/2016
In Anxious Anticipation
The effects of adrenaline are positively pulse-pounding, but the physical whoosh we feel in our bodies actually starts in our brains.
01/03/2016
David Rager
David Rager, co-founder of design firm Weekends, shares his tale of LA and Paris and how he makes time for life’s little distractions.
01/03/2016
Connecting the Lots
City planners may shape streets and devise green spaces, but building community really starts where the pavement ends.
24/11/2015
A Day in the Life: New Tendency
Bauhaus-graduates Manuel Goller and Sebastian Schönheit believe in constantly redefining the norm and crafting fresh modes of thinking.
24/11/2015
In Conversation: Ilse Crawford and Hugo Macdonald
Is current home design changing the way we live, or is the way we live changing current home design?
24/11/2015
Alex Mustonen and Daniel Arsham, Snarkitecture
The founders of the interior installation firm talk about reshaping spaces into shared experiences that invite audiences to step outside the norm.
24/11/2015
Karl Fournier and Olivier Marty, Studio KO
Although these French architects’ large-scale projects have taken them across multiple continents, they still maintain their studio’s esprit de corps.
24/11/2015
Nikolaj and Mathias Mentze
As brothers and partners, this Danish design duo has learned to toe the line between combining complementary aesthetics and maintaining individuality.
24/11/2015
Happiness by Design
Think more like designers: The strategies employed to create a perfectly proportioned bookshelf can also be used to enhance our personal well-being.
24/11/2015
Petra Olsson Gendt and Tanja Vibe, All the Way to Paris
The friends behind this Copenhagen-based design studio discuss positive cooperation and how every idea is worth putting up on the wall.
24/11/2015
The Nature of Desirability
The head of Harvard’s Desirability Lab examines what consumers like and why so designers can create products that hit the sweet spot.
24/11/2015
Natasha Jen
Over the past 15 years, this New York-based designer has come a complete, digitally rendered circle from aspiring intern to inspiring leader.
24/11/2015
Sense in Symmetry
From radial swirls to mirror images, the natural world often shows that there’s beauty in balance.
24/11/2015
The Social Network
Mailmen, baristas and the girl next door: These folks can go from strangers to friends in an afternoon and give you the support system you need.
02/09/2015
A Day in the Life: Hung-Ming Chen and Chen-Yen Wei
We spent a day with Hung-Ming Chen and Chen-Yen Wei of Stockholm-based studio Afteroom, to learn about their working process, home life and careers.
02/09/2015
Neighborhood: Playgrounds
A playground is a cross-generational neighborhood essential where toddlers learn about balance, teenagers awkwardly coexist and old folks play chess.
02/09/2015
A Day in the Life: Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi
Since launching a furniture design studio in 2006, Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi have found ways to stay grounded thanks to their daily rituals.
02/06/2015
A Taste of Home
Sometimes it takes half a continent and an expensive toaster to realize which culinary commodities you hold dear.
02/06/2015
Under the Microscope
Aristotle said that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts, but that didn’t stop photographer Justin Fantl from slicing things to their core.
02/06/2015
A Sense of Spaces
We asked architect, designer and photographer Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen to take us on a tour of Copenhagen spaces that get the experience just right.
18/02/2015