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Vitra acquires Kazuo Shinohara’s iconic Umbrella House

The Swiss manufacturer has relocated one of Japanese architect Kazuo Shinohara’s last remaining homes from Tokyo to its campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany Photography

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Plastic: Remaking Our World examines the history and future of a controversial material

The exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum brings together objects of the pop era as well as contemporary designs and smart concepts for waste reduction

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Piet Oudolf designs new garden for Vitra Campus

The Dutch designer’s project creates a space of nature to complement the architectural interventions across the Weil am Rhein campus Dutch garden designer Piet Oudolf

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New version of Barber and Osgerby’s Tip Ton chair made from upcycled household waste

The Tip Ton RE has been developed by Vitra using recycled plastic material Words by Francesca Perry The gently rocking, simultaneously playful and utilitarian Tip

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Jasper Morrison discusses his new cork fireplace and furniture collection

Corks by Jasper Morrison at Kasmin gallery. Photos: Diego Flores/Kasmin  Jasper Morrison’s cork stools are minimal, modern classics. His first exhibition in North America takes

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Is it time to reinvent bathrooms as social hubs of the home?

Bathroom giants VitrA and designer Terri Pecora are on a mission to reinvent the bathroom as shared, sociable environments families enjoy spending time in  

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Highlights: Maison & Objet

January’s edition of the Parisian exhibition showed French designers in fine form, says Peter Smisek Visitor numbers at this year’s Maison & Objet have yet

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From the archives

A trend for archive pieces has emerged at Clerkenwell Design Week, as industry stalwarts such as Vitra, Cassina and SCP unearth and update former successes and

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Hella Jongerius: “There’s too much shopping without any social or environmental consciousness”

The self-proclaimed “design pastor” denounced production “without any social or environmental consciousness” and called on designers to be more responsible at Design Indaba in Cape Town

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Wellcome Collection reading room

Opening later on 5 February, the London institution’s wondrous new library by architecture and design practice AOC combines the spirit of open access with the

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Design London makes LDF debut this September

Arts Council Malta to present Urban Fabric by Open Square Collective at the London Design Biennale 2023

Architects fardaa turn a dilapidated barn on the Isle of Mull into an airy restaurant

Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

The Sustainable City looks at how truly good architecture can transform a city

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the curators of the British pavilion draw from diaspora placemaking




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Architects fardaa turn a dilapidated barn on the Isle of Mull into an airy restaurant

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

The Sustainable City looks at how truly good architecture can transform a city

At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the curators of the British pavilion draw from diaspora placemaking

How recycled hospital equipment is transformed into a plastic pavilion designed for inhospitable climates

Johannes Torpe Studios draw upon Italian and Japanese aesthetics to design new Copenhagen restaurant

Ladbroke Hall is reimagined as a meeting place for artistic expression

The must-see design and architecture events this spring

Lebond Watches collaborate with Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza on new minimalist watch


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Arts Council Malta to present Urban Fabric by Open Square Collective at the London Design Biennale 2023

Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

Vitra, the Eames Office and Herman Miller unveil a limited-edition design with Steinberg Cat

Swedish label Sandqvist collaborates with Emmely Elgersma to bring Nordic style to London

The must-see design and architecture events this spring

Lebond Watches collaborate with Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza on new minimalist watch


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Design London makes LDF debut this September

Arts Council Malta to present Urban Fabric by Open Square Collective at the London Design Biennale 2023

Architects fardaa turn a dilapidated barn on the Isle of Mull into an airy restaurant

Our highlights from London Craft Week 2023

Architecture Icon: The Paimio Sanatorium and its humanistic approach to modernism

New York studio Particle recycles footwear into furniture and homeware designs

The Sustainable City looks at how truly good architecture can transform a city

The ICON Guide to Clerkenwell Design Week 2023

Editor’s Picks: The best new season design and lifestyle launches

At the Venice Biennale of Architecture, the curators of the British pavilion draw from diaspora placemaking