Home & Living

Koster is a new range of outdoor chairs and tables by Studio Norrlandet for Swedish brand Skargaarden. While indoor furniture can balance between aesthetics and utility, outdoor furniture requires the functionality of the pieces to fulfill high standards, withstanding anything from heavy winds, torrential rain, and even extreme temperatures. The Koster Collection was born as a testament to...

All images © Guardabosques, shared with permission Evoking the biological illustrations of Ernst Haeckel (previously) and photographic portraits of Merlin Tuttle, an ongoing project explores the incredible diversity of bats through geometric paper sculptures. Juan Nicolás Elizalde, who is half of the creative team behind the Buenos Aires-based studio Guardabosques (previously), began the series in 2019 after discovering...

All images © Ágnes Herczeg, shared with permission Strands of silk thread are delicately intertwined to create inviting pastoral scenes in miniature needlework sculptures by Ágnes Herczeg (previously). The Hungarian artist has recently begun to incorporate found driftwood into her pieces, foraged from the shores of the nearby Danube River where floodplain trees dot the riverside. Drawing inspiration...

Salone del Mobile.Milano, the international and widely anticipated design event in Milan, is celebrating its 60th anniversary this year – and there is much to look forward to! Over 2,000 exhibitors, 600+ of whom are young designers under 35 years old, will be participating in this year’s fair, which will be held at Fiera Milano Rho June 7-12th,...

Working with the existing configuration, BURR Studio transformed this former office in northern Madrid into a modern apartment. Ceilings, floors, and walls are stripped away in order to start fresh; added back in are a mix of movable and non-movable, built-in components that round out apartment NN06. The built-in elements, made of blue coated metal, structurally hang from...

Set to a gentle, upbeat track by Moby Gratis, “Moonlight Mojave” spins through the desert landscape of Joshua Tree National Park under the glow of a night sky. The timelapse compiles 20-second exposures into a deceptive display of light and movement, with the moon and stars illuminating the arid expanses as if it were daytime. Peeking through the...

Throughout the pandemic, the guidelines on social distancing were always changing and evolving with every release of new information on the COVID-19 virus. The office environment would change and adapt but perhaps not quickly enough, and definitely not without stress and anxiety. Vitra’s new Comma office system helps relieve those pain points by allowing users to transform their...

For the Duna Collection, Mexican designer Joel Escalona hoped to recreate the experience of being surrounded by sand while moving slowly through wind while encapsulating the passage of time and our short existence. Everything began with the imagined sensation of warm sand dunes. Duna’s collection of tables, manufactured by nono, are crafted to resemble these serene landscapes through...

All images © Lyske Gais and Lisa Duinker, shared with permission Lined with gilt edges and secured with a gold clasp, a bracelet by the Amsterdam-based duo of Lyske Gais and Lia Duinker packs a vast art historical collection within the span of a wrist. The pair created a wearable catalog back in 2015 that binds 1,400 pages...

Yesterday we went to skip inside a gigantic balloon made from used plastic bags. We walked along a soggy Highline afterward. We split chocolate chip cookies and showed off our jumping skills for patient tourists. We got too cold and one of us peed in our pants and another of us got momentarily lost, or bold, depending how...