Design
NEW YORK — How many ways can you reinvent the sofa? That’s the annual conundrum for designers and manufacturers in anticipation of the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, the industry’s essential stateside trade show. For the 25th year, the...
Concept stores may be common today, but 10 Corso Como was way ahead of the pack 22 years ago, blending art, design, cuisine and culture into one holistic retail vision. A former fashion editor for magazines such as Italian Elle and Vogue, founder Carla...
Collective .1 is a new design fair that presents a cohesive, curated selection of vintage and contemporary design from 25 exhibitors from around the world. In runs through May 11 on the Hudson River Park's Pier 57 at 15th Street. The fair hosts a daily...
Collective .1, ostensibly New York’s first major all-design fair, brings a surprising new hybrid to its scene. It touts all the international powerhouse galleries one might recognize from the likes of Pavilion of Art and Design, Design Miami...
If you had to engineer a design star, you might come up with someone like Marc Newson, possibly the world’s best-known living designer. With his rock-musician looks (he’s modeled for Comme des Garçons), his racing-car habit (he drives in Italy’s Mille Miglia...
In 2004 the French designer Maria Pergay was retired and running a guesthouse in the town of Essaouira on the Moroccan coast. Her four children had grown up and given her seven grandchildren. The house she built and furnished in Provence with the spoils of...
Click on the slideshow to see works by Eileen Gray.The major retrospective that opened at the Centre Pompidou in Paris in February (and runs through May 20) is only the latest confirmation of Eileen Gray’s status as one of the most brilliant designers of the...
MILAN — About this time a year ago, a Russian billionaire-helmed, design-oriented think tank called Be Open made its global debut in Milan. As a co-producer of FuoriSalone, Interni magazine’s annual city-wide design programming during the...
Spanish-born, Milan-based designer Patricia Urquiola is one of today’s most prolific design stars, thanks to a skill we can’t get enough of: making old-fashioned things look contemporary and cool again. A few such examples include her use of the classic...
During Milan’s Salone del Mobile, the world’s largest celebration of industrial design isn’t limited to the mammoth fairgrounds on the outskirts of town. While the mega-brands may be concentrated at the tradeshow, design is deeply embedded into the culture of...
