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Designed as a "gentle rebellion against overstimulation," the Introvert Chair is part sculpture, part sanctuary. Its generously padded wooden frame and enveloping curves create a cocoon-like shape that hugs the body, helped along by an internal swivel mechanism that adds a subtle sense of ease and movement. The fabric - a blended composition of virgin wool, alpaca, and cotton - is crafted using an innovative 3D quilting technique that transforms the material into a sculptural surface.

Many of us already practice tiny acts of destruction when we're stressed. Shredding receipts, crumpling paper, or picking at packaging feel oddly satisfying even though we usually hide them. They're little releases that most designs ignore, treating them as guilty pleasures instead of real human behaviors. Art of Destruction is a concept that leans into those impulses and asks what happens if industrial design treats them as experiences worth designing.

New York has no shortage of pop-ups, but the newest arrival in Brooklyn swaps limited-edition merch for something far more lasting: a celebration of Danish wood. Dinesen - the revered craftspeople behind some of the world's most stunning plank flooring - has opened a temporary home-away-from-home on Vanderbilt Avenue, and it goes beyond showroom to be a full-on sensory retreat. Designed by Danish architect David Thulstrup, the Dinesen Apartment feels like stepping inside a quiet, cozy haven that displays how good materials can transform a space.

The world's first upcycle timber high-rise and Denmark's tallest timber tower, TR, is a 78-meter beacon of circular construction, showing that large-scale architecture can combine reused materials, biogenic resources, refined aesthetics, and high performance without compromise.

Cheng Tsung FENG's artistic practice has long been intertwined with endangered traditions, vanishing techniques, and fading cultural memories. Among them, the traditional bamboo theatre - once a vital part of temple festivals and folk celebrations across Taiwan - holds a special resonance. Built entirely with bamboo scaffolding, these temporary performance stages embodied the ingenuity of communities, combining practicality with ritual and festivity.

You know that moment when you're deep into a project, finally hitting your flow state, and you reach for your coffee only to find it's gone stone cold? It's one of those tiny frustrations that can derail your entire momentum. But it's also part of the workflow that you forget you have a warm cup waiting for you to wake you up since you're engrossed with whatever it is you're doing.

The bedroom has vintage nods - plus new finds that feel vintage.

This tenant office building stands just steps from a subway station in the Ichibancho district of Tokyo's Chiyoda Wardan area near the Imperial Palace (the former Edo Castle), steeped in history and culture. Conventional tenant office buildings generally house multiple companies within a single structure, yet their facades fail to reflect the diversity within. On top of this, they lack a sense of connection with the surrounding community and contribute little to the streetscape or the character of the local neighborhood.

With so little time (and so much to browse!) it's always a good idea to arrive with a shopping plan. For some, that might be deciding on decor styles ahead of time. Then, of course, there are those who are simply looking for the best value: items made with high-quality materials and excellent craftsmanship that are built to last.

The Ancora collection, now in production by Italian furniture maker Magis, includes rectangular and round dining tables along with low tables and side tables. What makes them special isn't just that they're made from concrete (though that's certainly part of it) but how Bouroullec has reimagined what this humble material can actually do when treated with a little finesse. Designer: Ronan Bouroullec x Magis

FAR Workshop's Folio Bridge in Huzhou, , draws its concept from the structural behaviour of a folded sheet of A4 . The project examines how a simple crease can reinforce a lightweight material while retaining its inherent thinness and visual delicacy. After testing multiple folding configurations, the design team focused on a single-crease strategy to achieve the required span. The form was defined by fitting three construction curves and one construction point to the crease line.

The Evening Sky Residence is a vineyard home in the foothills of McMinnville, Oregon. The house is placed in a natural clearing at the vineyard's highest point, sited to overlook the Willamette Valley to the East and the Coastal Mountain Range to the West. The architecture's linearity, contextualized materials, and indoor-outdoor living create a place that is inviting and timeless.

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The scheme features a retractable roof and a movable pitch, allowing it to accommodate both sporting and non-sporting events. The bowl is configured to bring seating as close to the field as regulations allow, with a steep profile intended to enhance spatial intensity. Acoustic performance was a central consideration, with the design aiming to concentrate sound within the stadium while minimizing noise impacts on the surrounding neighborhood.

Finding a decent-looking office chair is surprisingly hard, especially if you work from home and stare at it all day. Most of the large ergonomic office chairs are brilliant for posture but look like they belong in a boardroom, not next to your linen sofa or walnut desk. So for this round-up, I focused on design-led options chairs that actually add to your space but still offer proper support.

What makes this project so interesting is how it completely ditches the traditional opera house playbook. You know the type: imposing facades, grand staircases that separate the cultured elite from everyone else, buildings that basically scream "not for you" to anyone walking by. BIG's approach flips that script entirely. The 450,000-square-foot building is designed as what they call "a public building within a park," where the roofscape is fully walkable and the structure has no defined back side.

Creative professionals live between the tangible and the imagined. Their tools need to keep pace with ideas that arrive at odd hours and demand immediate capture. Finding gifts that match this rhythm means looking beyond generic stationery sets toward objects that respect both craft and practicality. These five selections balance functionality with thoughtful design, each priced under fifty dollars and built to earn permanent desk space.

On a hot autumn day in southern Texas, monarch butterflies flit around the gardens of Houston's new Ismaili Centre. Fragile and gaudy, they are on their way south to overwinter in Mexico, travelling up to 3,000 miles in a typical migration cycle, an epic feat of insectile endurance. Their combination of delicacy and stamina is an apt metaphor for the Ismaili Centre, a building that has taken seven years to realise and is designed to last for a century or more.

Early humans scratched lines on stone walls with rocks, and that primal act sits at the root of every sketch we make today. Most modern pencils are optimized for control and detail, shaped like sticks to give you precision over every line and curve. Alberto Essesi's unnamed pencil concept takes a deliberate step back toward that raw, gestural way of drawing, translating it into a highly refined spherical object that looks more like a polished pebble than any conventional pencil.

Solum is a spatial and landscaped installation that draws attention to the importance of soil permeability in managing the water cycle.

Anthropologie is one of my top five favorite spots to shop for gifts during the holidays. It doesn't hurt that I'll usually find a little gift or two for myself there, too. The best kind of presents, in my opinion, are the little luxuries - upgraded everyday essentials that you already know they'll use, but would probably never buy for themselves - of which Anthropologie has plenty.

As an extreme coastal beach environment, the park site must solve for flooding and constant salt spray.

The greatest feat of smart design is when an itty-bitty apartment's floor plan is transformed into a spacious-feeling home that truly makes you think, "How did they do this?!" In cramped studios and compact one-bedroom apartments, space-saving techniques are key, especially when it comes to living rooms. Designing a great living room in a tiny apartment requires a special approach: Rightsizing furniture, utilizing vertical wall space, and investing in key multipurpose furniture, along with having tonsof storage.