Design
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...
Cleverly installed over astroturf rugs inside Paul Kasmin Gallery, Mattia Bonetti’s new collection of high-design furniture is meant to transition seamlessly from living room to garden. The Swiss-born, Paris-based designer is known for his...
What if there were a secret stash in in the collecting market for 20th-century design? A vast, undiscovered hoard of material? As it happens, there is, and it is Italian design. “It’s an Aladdin’s cave,” says Domenico Raimondo, the London-based specialist...
MILAN — Before heading to Milan for the first time to cover the annual Salone del Mobile trade show, categorically the largest event in the industrial design world, my understanding was that the overall sentiment of the Italian design community bordered on...
Tomorrow marks the kickoff of Milan’s much-fabled Salone del Mobile. Arguably the top furniture and design tradeshow worldwide, Salone – as it's commonly known – is said to generate some $260 million in revenues during its six-day run as it plays host...
