Design

Design

The Rituale del Vapore represents a revolution in how the home environment supports a daily beauty routine, designed to naturally enhance haircare, skincare, and overall body care.

The project explores perception through the five senses, focusing on the moment before interpretation, where sensation precedes cognition and experience is formed through subtle emotional and sensory cues.

The podium-tower is a hybrid structure consisting of a high-coverage, low-rise podium supporting one or more slender vertical towers, maximizing urban density while maintaining a 'human-scaled' street wall.

Zolnianska created a copper-wax composite that forms the shades, a substance that behaves differently every time it's worked. Some shades come out smooth and disc-like, while others emerge heavily textured and volcanic, their deeply pitted surfaces catching and scattering light in unpredictable ways.

The PS 2026 Easy Chair arrived alongside a rocking bench and a flexible floor lamp, three pieces offering the first real look at the upcoming tenth IKEA PS collection.

The notion of the 'local' in architectural discourse is often tied to regionally rooted building knowledge, materials, structures, and craftsmanship shaped by long-term human-environment interactions.

The specificity makes sense-when was the last time a cruise ship could boast an average guest room size of 581 square feet? Or a bar with églomisé cocktail tables, each one crafted in London and commissioned by AD100 firm MBDS?

In 1962, the architect Buckminster Fuller envisioned a floating city that would free humanity from its dependence on the Earth. The speculative project consisted of enormous geodesic spheres that would naturally levitate in air warmed by the sun and be anchored to mountaintops.

"It would be really hard without this space to make good products, if not impossible," Axelsson says.

The project suggests a future where our living spaces are designed to nurture presence and mindfulness, allowing the brand's precision engineering to dissolve into the background of daily life.

The building, with its discreet facade and lack of expressive gestures, explicitly conveys the intention of creating an austere, silent, contemplative space; with the minimum necessary elements.

Pancalpina serves as a compact piece of infrastructure for rest and emergency shelter, positioned along mountain paths and oriented toward distant views.

The Ring Lunch Box is a three-tier modular meal kit that flips the logic of how we think about everyday carry, making you wonder why nobody did this sooner.