#design Stories

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Pleats Please Issey Miyake Opens in Tadao Ando’s First New York City Building

Plus, Vipp’s Danish modernism reverberates in Todos Santos, Le Labo’s latest transportive home...

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Mozhdeh Matin’s Vision of Coastal Cool Comes Home

Plus, Aesop’s chic approach to considered gift-giving, and Bella McGoldrick’s 'Visa Issues,'...

DESIGN
Gen-Z Sets its Sights on Reinventing the Record Player

With their first vinyl player, enterprising startup Kickback seeks to combine quality audio,...

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 A Palatial Members Club Devoted to Fine Wines and Dining Stuns in Hong Kong

Plus, Kelly Wearstler’s Giobagnara collaboration, a Swedish streetwear label lands in New York,...

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 Sky Ting Yoga Spreads Its Wings

Plus, an elite newcomer to Milan’s members-only sphere, a penthouse stocked with artisan-made...

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Remedy Place Makes a Sleek Entry in SoHo

Plus, an Angeleno twist on Riviera maximalism, a bold observation tower that also functions as a...

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With Gem Home, Flynn McGarry’s Design Eye Sharpens Its Focus

Plus, Sorel and Proenza Schouler hit their stride, a sparkling refit of the St. Regis, and more of...

DESIGN
At 100, Svenskt Tenn’s Caring Ethos Still Resonates

An exhibition celebrating the Swedish design stalwart’s centenary puts founder Estrid Ericson’s

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Gilles & Boissier Mastermind Maison Courvoisier’s Grand Return

Plus, Paul Sepuya maps out his mind, a Laguna Beach hotel that exudes barefoot luxury, and more of...

DESIGN
What Stood Out at Design Miami Paris

Creative energy is flowing throughout Paris, which recently played host to a week-long whirlwind of

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With a Bar, Quarters Embarks on Its Next Chapter

Plus, a jewelry flagship-turned-museum glistens in Jaipur, an in-demand Swedish designer takes New...

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In Los Angeles, Olivia Cognet Crafts a Ceramic Fantasia

Plus, a rugged escape rises from Kyoto’s bamboo forests, Block Shop’s snail-shaped brass...

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At London’s Tramp, Luca Maggiora Rekindles the Flames

Plus, a swaggering new SoHo hotel, a vintage design gallery’s saddle-inspired fragrance, and more

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The Row Plants Roots in Paris

Plus, Bottega Veneta takes you to the zoo, Marc Ange gives form to a surrealist muse, and more of...

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Kolamba East’s Ode to Sri Lankan Architecture

Plus, Lee Bul’s deconstructed figures at the Met, a stylish members club beckons from Mallorca,...

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A Surrealist “Cloud” Packed With Delicate Florals and Glassworks

Plus, an oasis-like wellness club in Venice, rippling wall panels that celebrate a Modernist...

BUSINESS OF DESIGN
The #DormTok Design Market Is Booming

Enthusiastic before-and-after clips of dorm room transformations are doing the rounds on TikTok as...

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In Los Angeles, a Go-To Source for All Things Stone Furniture

Plus, an elevated take on a Hell’s Kitchen haunt, a French artisan’s heavenly debut at...

DESIGN
A Beloved Belgian Design Fair Bets Big on New York City

After seven closely watched editions in Brussels, the Collectible fair heads stateside with the...

BUSINESS OF DESIGN
Kaiyo Abruptly Calls It Quits

After a period of rapid expansion that saw Kaiyo secure $36 million in funding, the online...

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Thoughtfully Made Furniture That Celebrates African Artisans

Plus, a Lisbon convent reborn as a quaint hotel, Ricardo Bofill’s emerald-hued sanctum of...

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A Bridal Boutique Rooted in Interstellar Minimalism

Plus, vivid majolica must-haves inspired by deep-sea creatures, a Tokyo-inspired record bar aglow...

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A Warm, Unpretentious Wine Bar Wins Over Williamsburg

Plus, Cult Gaia goes to the beach, Zeng Fanzhi and Tadao Ando reunite in Venice, and more of the...

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European Charm Abounds in Fishtown’s Hôtel Anna & Bel 

Plus, an airy Saint-Germain flagship for L’Uniform, a dream house of delightfully surreal...

DESIGN
Beloved by Industry Insiders, BAS Stone Breaks New Ground

The designer-favorite purveyor of exceptional natural stone upgrades to a giant warehouse and...

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Moments of Intrigue Define This Moody Menswear Boutique

Plus, the Emory brings a lavish suite of suites to London, Sarah Ellison staples reimagined for the

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A Thoughtful Stay Indulges Munich’s Wilder Side

Plus, London’s disco ball–endowed Cockatoo struts its stuff, art makes a slam dunk at Intuit...

DESIGN
In West Hollywood, a New Source for Curated Midcentury Finds

Stock Studio presents a trove of midcentury furnishings, rare objects, and keepsakes that founder...

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With a New Showroom, Nordic Knots Returns to Its Roots

Plus, neon nostalgia lights up a psychedelic roller rink in Brooklyn, a streetwear stalwart’s...

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A Cantina Takes Shape in Tony Members Club Annabel’s

Plus, The Row’s breezy entry into Amagansett, classic Bauhaus furniture in unexpected colors, and

DESIGN
Science Fiction and Design Continue to Inform One Another

Numerous sci-fi films feature classic furniture that have shaped our image of the future. The Vitra

DESIGN
Colony’s Residency Returns With a Fresh Crop of Design Talents

Alara Alkan, Steph Betesh of Ember Studio, Maggie Pei, and Thomas Yang were selected for the second

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A California Boutique Brings the Art of Hospitality to Wine Shopping

Plus, chawan tea bowls with Peter Shire’s flavor, Sasha Bikoff brings Sicilian exuberance to a...

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A U.K. Staple of Slow Fashion Sets Up Shop in Brooklyn

Plus, Harry Nuriev aces a silvery ping-pong setup, a cave-like speakeasy in Mumbai’s chicest...

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A Lower East Side Gem Pops Up at Spring Place

Plus, Thom Browne’s exacting eyewear debut, Café Ginori’s object lesson in culinary high art...

DESIGN
John Pawson Makes Dinesen Copenhagen a Sanctuary

Wielding his restful minimalism, the architect transforms the Danish joinery manufacturer’s...

DESIGN
Jean Pelle Journeys Back Into South Korea’s Vivid Landscapes

The lighting and furniture designer teams with Calico Wallpaper to translate her father’s bucolic

FAIRS
CK Reed on People Watching at Design Miami.LA

The L.A.-based artist and designer sat down with Surface to reflect on the highlights of the West...

DESIGN
How the Cooper Hewitt Is Tracking the Evolution of Design

From a niche pursuit boxed into the decorative arts to a continuously evolving field leveraging...

CULTURE CLUB
Surface and Kouros Maghsoudi Return for Round Two at Spring Studios

The Manhattan designer celebrates NYCxDesign with Surface and Spring Studios for the second year in

DESIGN
At Long Last, Design Miami Arrives Out West

Following a successful debut edition in Paris and a rebrand under Basic.Space, the design showcase...

DESIGN
Without a Kiln, Simone Bodmer-Turner Gets Even More Intentional

After uprooting herself from Brooklyn to rural Massachusetts and forgoing her biggest tool in the...

DESIGN
A Design Boutique, Gallery, and Bar Where Community Is Key

In Common With, the lighting studio founded by Nick Ozemba and Felicia Hung, recently unveiled...

DESIGN
A Curated Marketplace for Artistic Hardware

Sight Unseen co-founder Monica Khemsurov channels her love for vintage hardware into Petra, an...

DESIGN
Marcin Rusak’s Ghostly Vessels Slow Down Time

The Polish talent is pushing his practice of fashioning one-of-a-kind furniture and objects with...

DESIGN
Hate Touching Grass? Try These Artworks Instead

A new exhibition about biophilia at the Denver Art Museum proves there’s an abundance of ways to...

DESIGN
With a New Home, Colony Doubles Down on Its Mission

The design co-op gallery forgoes its longtime Manhattan loft for a Tribeca storefront that affords...

DESIGN
Antiquity-Inspired Paintings, Imagined As Frescoes for Your Walls

Xavier Donnelly, the creative director of design firm and hotelier Ash, partners with Backdrop to...

DESIGN
Vincenzo de Cotiis Is Leaving His Mark on Venice

With the launch of his namesake foundation in a historic Venetian palazzo, the Italian architect...

DESIGN
Dimore Studio Flirts With Darkness

At Milan Design Week, founders Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci recreated the cosmos inside a...

CULTURE CLUB
Volker Haug Toasts a Collaboration With Flack Studio at Milan Design Week

On April 17, the Australian lighting design studio debuted a new line designed with fellow...

DESIGN
In Milan, Baranzate Ateliers Returns With Revved-Up Appeal

Taking over two warehouses at a disused Linate loading dock, the Zaventem Ateliers offshoot proves...

DESIGN
At Loro Piana, a Joyful Tribute to Cini Boeri

One of Milan Design Week’s most highly anticipated installations puts the late Italian...

DESIGN
John Pawson Revisits His Clean-Lined Furniture for Dinesen 

Thirty years after the British architect first created custom furniture using Dinesen planks for...

DESIGN
A Collectible Design Gallery Bets Big on Brussels

The once-nomadic Objects With Narratives sets up shop in a historic Beaux-Arts building with a...

DESIGN
West Haddon Hall’s Breezy Furniture Is Finally Here

This spring, the custom pieces that designer Kate Driver fills her charming residential projects...

DESIGN
Hector Esrawe Will Make You See Cardboard Differently

The prolific Mexican designer’s latest signature editions find beauty in the fragmented patterns...

DESIGN
Sfrido Estate Strives to Tell Stories Through Stone

The newly launched Italian brand debuts with four tables made using deadstock stone from a...

SPATIAL AWARENESS
Studio PCH Refashions a Grande Dame of Bermuda’s Resort Scene

Ahead of Ariel Sands’ 2025 opening, founder and principal Severine Tatangelo gives ‘Surface’...

DESIGN
Enviable Glassware Steals the Show at Guild Bar

Located inside Roman and Willams' shoppable restaurant-showroom La Mercerie, Guild Bar's...

CURRENTLY COVETING
Henrik Pedersen Forges a Cocoon of Comfort and Style

The Danish furniture designer recently unveiled Bellmonde, a collection of woven outdoor seating...

DESIGNER OF THE DAY
Designer of the Day: Rachel Bu

Authorne founder Rachel Bu knows a thing or two about transformation. In 2022, she converted her...

FASHION
With One Dress, Mara Hoffman Raises the Bar for Fashion-Tech

The designer known for colorfully sophisticated womenswear built to last a lifetime is the first in

EXHIBITION
Ian Collings’ Study of Life Force Culminates in an Exploration of Movement

The furniture designer-turned-sculptor brings stone to life with “Movements,” in which he...

NEW & NOTABLE
What’s New This Fall, From Our List Members

An art gallery at the Tin Building built by Cass Calder Smith, Holly Hunt's 40th anniversary...

FASHION
Inside Carolina Herrera’s Historic New York City Ballet Commission

As the first fashion designer ever commissioned by the world-class company to create costumes for a

RUNWAY REDUX
At Proenza Schouler, Tough Questions and Clarity

For Spring/Summer ‘24, Proenza Schouler founders and self-described “art school kids” Jack...

FASHION
Are Redesigned Uniforms the Biggest Win for Women’s Sports?

In an indisputably marquee year for women’s sports, more women athletes can now show up for work...

DESIGN
Can Olympic Poster Art Dispel Paris’s Reputation for Cultural Snobbery?

Six French artists and two Americans created a collection of posters to celebrate next year’s...

NEED TO KNOW
Ingenuity and Inspiration Runs in the Veins of Buster + Punch

Massimo Minale shares how past lives in architecture and motorcycle making led to his current...

NEED TO KNOW
The Evolution of Audo Copenhagen, a Standard-Bearer of Danish Design

Joachim Kornbek Engell-Hansen stewards the family business in a new era and under a new name, ready

DESIGN
A Furniture Collection With Just the Right Amount of Bulk

Sanayi313’s aptly titled Oblong Collection is a charmingly chunky articulation of the titular...

NEW & NOTABLE
What Our List Members Launched at ICFF/WantedDesign

Biodegradable furniture from Model No., IED alumna Matteo Congiu shows ceramics made from culinary...

New & Notable
What’s New This Summer, From Our List Members

A new Glossier store in Washington, D.C., Pophouse Pop-Up at the PGA , Idris Khan’s first solo...

Design
With the Return of the Disco Ball, Social Media Anoints Its Next Design Obsession

Following in the footsteps of viral design objects such as Ettore Sottsass’s Ultrafragola mirror...

Currently Coveting
McKinnon and Harris Drop a Sleek New Umpire Chair Just in Time for the US Open

In reimagining a classic tennis token, the Dr. Johnson Tennis Umpire Chair pays tribute to a...

PARTNERSHIP
The Jewelry Designer Who Adapted Car Manufacturing Techniques to Make Black Gold

Reut Ringel introduced the world to her sculptural accessories in the midst of the pandemic. Her...

Currently Coveting
A Marble Table Lamp with Enticingly Thick, Swirling Veins

To mark the tenth anniversary of Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec’s collaboration with Established and...

Art
At the Opera, Studio Drift’s Intricate Woven Sculpture Morphs With the Drama

The Dutch firm created the centerpiece for a new Dutch production of Monteverdi’s...

Architecture
David Adjaye on His Majestic, Grapefruit-Colored Design for The Webster L.A.

For the multi-brand clothing and design boutique’s new outpost, the architect created a...

Master Plan
Art Dealer Jessica Silverman’s Tip Sheet for FOG Design+Art Week, from Key Shows to Classic Restaurants

In need of a cocktail or a bookstore in San Francisco during FOG week? The revered gallery owner...

Critical
Mark Foster Gage is the Most Prolific Architect of Buildings That Don’t Exist

Blade Runner meets The Wizard of Oz in the New York architect's fantastical work.

UPSTARTS
Don’t Want No Scrubs?

Direct-to-consumer brand FIGS is giving the health care industry a dose of millennial cool.

SURFACE X MOMA DESIGN STORE
MoMA Wants You to Get Lost in the Stacks

Newly reimagined after a months-long renovation, the flagship Museum Store's new book wall doubles...

The Boundaries Issue
Google’s Ivy Ross Wants You to Simply Be

Ivy Ross, vice president of hardware design and user experience at Google, has embarked on a...

The Boundaries Issue
The Breakout Year of Ini Archibong

Embracing the tenets of spirituality and mysticism, Switzerland-based designer Ini Archibong is...

The Boundaries Issue
Wisdom: Clodagh, Designer, New York

"I didn’t grow up wanting to be a designer. My father planned his children’s lives, and I was...

The Boundaries Issue
David Lynch’s Universe Knows No Bounds

With a new gallery exhibition at Sperone Westwater in November, director and artist David Lynch...

Project Spotlight
A Day Inside Brooklyn’s Sleekest Coworking Space

Nestled into Sunset Park's Industry City, Camp David feels less like an antiseptic cubicle farm...

The Boundaries Issue
State of Clay

These six fine artists add new energy to California’s celebrated ceramics tradition.

Design
For The Couple Behind Danish Powerhouse HAY, Marriage Is an Act of Design

The Rolf and Mette Hay are keeping up a long tradition of successful partnerships that cross the...

RETAIL
Fashion Label or Arts Patron? With COS, It Can Be Hard to Tell

In its first dozen years, the brand has become just as well known for supporting art and design as...

Obsession
A Furniture Collection Immortalized in Stone

One of creative icon Karl Lagerfeld’s most impressive contributions to design makes its stateside

NEED TO KNOW
Same, But Better: Inside Herschel Supply’s Design-Driven Era of Reinvention

With a fresh Soho flagship store and a New Classics collection of time-tested, artist-approved...

TRAVEL AWARDS
These are the Standout Restaurant Openings of the Year

Whether it was light bites in a geodesic dome, dinner in an architectural wonder submerged into the

Design
The Best New Coworking Spaces of 2019

From the Chicago to Brussels, designers have injected new ideas into what is now one of the...

Retail
These are the Best New Stores and Retail Spaces of 2019

The best new shops of the year include a sophisticated CBD boutique, an epic antiques purveyor in...

TRAVEL
Announcing The Finalists for The 2019 Surface Travel Awards

From hotels to headphones, New York to the Maldives, these are the candidates for the best new...

Art
Artist Nick Cave Spreads a Little Joy in Boston

A collaboration between the contemporary artist and Now + There brings ornaments, a parade, and...

Design
The Biggest Design Breakups of the Decade

From Sagmeister and Walsh to Apple and Ive to Marc and Louis, these are the splits that have marked

Architecture
Ho Chi Minh City’s Central Park Steps Into The Future

On what was once a set of 19th-century French railroad tracks, Ho Chi Minh City's revamped Central...

Architecture
At Notre-Dame, a Statement of Rebirth

Ravaged by a fire earlier this year, the historic cathedral receives a pop-up place of worship...

Architecture
Five Visions of the Airport of The Future Offer a New Challenge for the Industry

From a sky-scraping trophy to off-the-ground runways, the 2019 Fentress Global Challenge winners...

Design
This Is What Happens When Google Creates a Schoolhouse

The tech giant's Grow With Google education center in New York City mixes retro analog styling with

Events
Global Entry: All Roads Lead to the International Folk Art Market in Santa Fe

A behind-the-scenes look at some of the artists working in Mexico, India, Kenya, and Guatemala as...

Watch Wednesday
Watch Wednesday: Garmin’s Marq Series Tool Watch

The tech brand brings utility back to tool watches.

The Find
Nike’s N. 354 AF1-Types Are a Design Sketch You Can Wear

The stripped-down, but highly detailed, sneaker successfully cosplays as a prototype for the iconic

Hotel
Opening Shot: New Orleans’s Maison de la Luz

Atelier Ace and Studio Shamshiri bring a modern, global aesthetic to the Crescent City.

Watch Wednesday
Watch Wednesday: Tudor Black Bay Bronze

The Tudor Black Bay Bronze, winner of the "Petite Aiguille" prize at the 2016 Grand Prix...

Surface Shops
10 Stylish Indoor Gardening Essentials for Under $100

Planters, watering cans, and everything else you'll need to bring some greenery into your space.

The Legacy Issue
Your Field Guide to Celebrating 100 Years of the Bauhaus

It was many things: a movement, a school, a style, a mixed-up social set. As an actual institution,

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
The Fiber Tree at the Center of VERDI’s Bogotá Showroom is Nothing Short of Magic

The handcrafted combination of sculpture and fiber art is a bold departure from typical retail...

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Schiller Projects Creates a Law Office You Might Actually Want to Visit

Their stunning design for Boies Schiller Flexner is dramatic, yet welcoming.

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
In Midtown Atlanta, The Canopy by Hilton Hotels Channels Art to Soothe Weary Travelers

The Canopy by Hilton teams with Krause Sawyer to apply local creative influences to smart, restful...

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
A Safari-Themed Kid’s Bedroom, Termite Mound Included

Studio SHK responded to a brief for a child's space with something that is, yes, adventurous and...

The Legacy Issue
Mining the Surface Archives: Gone, But Not Forgotten

A deep-dive into Surface’s history reveals 26 years of art, design, and fashion at the bleeding...

CURRENTLY COVETING
Philippe Starck Looks Back on One of His Favorite ’90s Designs

The designer talks about his work on the AXOR faucet, 25 years after its launch.

CURRENTLY COVETING
The Notebook Collab We Never Knew We Needed

"Drawing can be the first step toward creating something exciting, big or small; It’s the first...

CURRENTLY COVETING
A New Upstart Offers Ancient Craft With A Distinctly E-Commerce Twist

Beni Rugs is creating their Moroccan wears the time-honored way, while offering those shopping...

CURRENTLY COVETING
J. HILL’s Standard Teams With Nigel Peake for a Glassware Collection Full of Magic Tricks

Are these pieces the result of careful, rigorous craft, or impromptu, hand-drawn improvisation?...

CURRENTLY COVETING
An Expanding Table That Doesn’t Constrict Style

Infusion Furniture's Transformer Table switches from hanging in the corner to dominating the dining

CURRENTLY COVETING
L’Objet and The HAAS BROTHERS’ Army of Beasties Come for Your Dining Table

The collection of comical, creepy dinnerware, dishes, and other home goods is on the march.

Travel
Future Island: How Richard Bailey Built Marlon Brando’s Vision into the World’s Most Luxurious Eco Resort

Five years into an extraordinary mission, The Brando’s Richard Bailey offers a new vision of...

Partnership
An Italian Icon Returns Just in Time for Bauhaus’ 100th Birthday

Flexform is bringing Antonio Citterio's Magister sofa back to the marketplace, and not a moment too

The Legacy issue
Alberto Alessi Adds to His Legacy

Alberto Alessi, who helms the eponymous Italian homewares mainstay, dishes on David Chipperfield...

Transport
This Motorcycle Helmet Will Make You Look Like Daft Punk (and Maybe Save Your Life)

The Sotera helmet by Joe Doucet features a brake light and sleek styling.

Surface Shops
Best Gifts Under $100 for the Design Snob in Your Life

These are the inexpensive gifts you can grab and give to that loved one with overly discerning...

Fashion Find
Victoria Beckham Goes Back to School with her New Graphic Tee

The British designer shows her playful, family-oriented side.

Surface Shops
Travel Accessories for The Design-Conscious Globetrotter

Take your carefully curated sensibilities on the road with you.

PARTNERSHIP
Up All Night at The Cosmopolitan Hotel

We spent 24 hours uncovering all the secrets of the glamorous, eclectic destination—human-sized...

DESIGN
How Designers Are Cultivating a New Aesthetic for Cannabis

Can smart branding build the first legal weed empire?

DESIGN
In These Abnormal Times, Find Comfort in Jasper Morrison’s Super-Normal Tableware Line

Jasper Morrison’s name has become synonymous with inclusive, intuitive design that prioritizes...

PARTNERSHIP
Studio Visit: Anna Karlin

DESIGN
This Razor-Thin Table Inspired an Otherworldly Choreography Routine

The gravity-defying Surface Table, designed by Terence Woodgate and John Barnard for Established &...

Events
Design Dialogues No. 49 with Leica

Surface’s William Hanley spoke with photographer Doug Menuez and designer Todd Bracher...

Surface x Bulgari
How It’s Made: Bulgari Serpenti

We pulled back the curtain on Bulgari’s Serpenti to reveal a collection rich with brand history,...

Partnership
Studio Visit: Joe Doucet

The designer applies his strategic thinking to Montblanc's #MY4810 collection.

EVENTS
Design Dialogues No. 48 with MoMA Design Store

Surface magazine’s digital director, William Hanley, spoke with Kimberlie Birks, Juliet...

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
An Exhibition Where the Art is Designed to Keep Your Feet Warm

Henzel Studios is teaming up with Twentieth for an exhibition that challenges the divisions between

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Rapt Studio’s Latest Commercial Project Was Built From the Bones of Its Prior Occupant’s Space

"We exploited everything that was there, even to the degree of building new things out of some of...

PROJECT SPOTLIGHT
Callidus Guild’s Yolande Batteau Reveals Her Site-Specific Installation for The Salon 

On view at Park Avenue Armory Nov. 8–12.

Partnership
Studio Visit: Fernando Mastrangelo

Fernando Mastrangelo’s latest project? Using a suitcase as a blank canvas.

Partnership
8 Designs You’ll Want to Snag from Blu Dot’s Sale

Here’s what to add to your cart first at the annual event.

DESIGN OF THE DAY
A Chunky, Color-Soaked Vase With the Neck of a Swan

Dinosaur Designs’s latest collection includes a vessel that’s as graceful as the bird it was...

DESIGN OF THE DAY
This Designer Wants to Change the Way You Think About Corn

With his Totomoxtle project, Fernando Laposse is revitalizing Mexico’s heirloom corn industry.

DESIGN OF THE DAY
This Chair Puts an Artful Spin on the Traditional Seat

Hlynur Atlason’s Lína Swivel Chair, available exclusively at Design Within Reach, is rooted in...

Partnership
The Blu Dot Designs Our Editors Want in Their Homes Right Now

Plus, a chance to win a $5,000 gift card from the modern home furnishings company.

BEHIND THE SCENES
Why Architect Anda Andrei Will Never Give Up Tracing Paper

The celebrated Romanian designer, an Ian Schrager alumni who helped define the boutique hotel...

Partnership
Visit This Modular System of Revolving Mirrored Columns

On view at Brooklyn creative space A/D/O by MINI, “Spirit of the City” is a poetic...

PARTNERSHIP
Inside the Furniture Company That Puts Inclusivity Over Ego

Blu Dot’s founding principles of democratic design and humility come to life at its Minneapolis...

Events
Design Dialogues No. 45 With Japan House Los Angeles

Kenya Hara spoke about his inspiration for the Takeo Paper Show exhibition, why eggs are an...

THE LIST
These Uncanny Spectacles Will Reframe Your View of Eyewear

From solid-wood visors to real horn-rimmed frames, RIGARDS designs compelling eyewear with a focus...

Partnership
Oui Design’s 2018 Lineup is a Force of Creative Collaboration

This year's programming during NYCxDesign continues to inspire innovative projects between American

DESIGN
Daniel Germani Believes Diners and American Design “Both Need to Go to Rehab”

Our second Diner Dialogues film short, focused on diners and design and filmed at The Diner last...

Partnership
Blu Dot Keeps Turning Furniture Design on Its Head

For more than 20 years, the modern home furnishings company has built its name on democratic...

Events
Design Dialogues No. 46 With R/GA

Surface magazine’s editor-in-chief, Spencer Bailey, spoke with Bob Greenberg, Vimla Black Gupta,...

Design
The Surface 4/20 Gift Guide

A $2,000 ashtray and 15 other design objects that defy the stoner stereotype.

THE LIST
The Secrets to Good Design In the Print, Digital, and Physical Worlds

The founder of Hinterland design studio shares his secrets to a successful collaboration and brand...

Design
Jonathan Olivares Conceptualizes Color In a New Textile Collection for Kvadrat

The designer’s brilliant Twill Weave line launches next week during Salone del Mobile.

DESIGN
Top 10 Picks: Collective Design 2018

The best pieces at this year’s fair include a playground toy–inspired sculpture by Crosby...

Design
R/GA’s Bob Greenberg Curates an Exquisite Exhibition

The just-opened show at New York’s Cooper Hewitt explores the communications honcho’s obsession

BEHIND THE SCENES
A Zen Moment With Yves Béhar

The Swiss designer explains the remarkably therapeutic process that takes place when he sits down...

THE LIST
A Baller New York Headquarters for Nike

Brooklyn design studio WSDIA uses an ingenious visual language to thread the company’s story...

Surface x MoMA Design Store
Don’t Judge This Book by Its Cover

British artist Richard Woods puts his signature spin on a delightfully deceptive hardcover.

Design
The Ten Commandments of Design’s Black Ops

Jeffrey Bernett has left his fingerprints all over the furniture industry’s most coveted...

Design
Designer of the Day: Russell Greenberg

The RUX studio founder, whose designs for Stickbulb feature in a just-opened installation at The...

Watch Wednesday
Watch Wednesday: The Toric Hémisphères Rétrograde from Parmigiani Fleurier

Parmigiani Fleurier wins the Travel Time Watch Prize at the Grand Prix d'Horlogerie de Geneve.

Art
Designer of the Day: Rogan Gregory

The New York fashion designer-turned-sculptor on the resolution of shapes, the two most important...

Architecture
Designer of the Day: Ania Jaworska

The Chicago-based designer on architecture as research, her forthcoming series of furniture, and an

Fashion
Designer of the Day: Daniel DuGoff

The New York designer on making clothes guys love, eating cookies, and his respect for Gordon...

Design
Elinor Portnoy’s Juicer Adds Theater to Cocktail Hour

Created with a cold-working technique that peels away layers of glass, this colorful citrus juicer...

EXECUTIVE
This Legendary Textile Company Is Meeting the Future by Embracing Its Past

Maharam president Tony Manzari talks about textiles, tastemakers, and timing during his tenure at...

Design
Designer of the Day: Studio Gorm

The Oregon-based duo on reinterpreting Shaker artifacts, improving everyday objects, and their...

PARTNERSHIP
This Small Space Forecasts the Future of City Living in Brooklyn, and Beyond

On view at A/D/O, the MINI LIVING URBAN CABIN rethinks the way we live in cities by tapping local...

ART
This Prolific Craft Collective Puts the Werk in Gesamtkunstwerk

Neue Galerie’s latest exhibition explores the staggering skill and output of the Wiener...

BOOKS
Why Architecture and Design Exhibitions Matter

Released today, curator Zoë Ryan’s new book explores the role 11 shows have played in shaping...

Design
Designer of the Day: Kenneth Cobonpue

The humanitarian designer on classic sports cars, his forthcoming boutique hotel, and raising...

Design
Designer of the Day: Gianluca Pacchioni

The Italian designer on his passion for plants, the allure of imperfection, and being seduced by a...

Design
Brooklyn’s Cult Homeware Shop Comes to Manhattan

The Primary Essentials launches a sister location with wares by an increasingly international...

Design
Designer of the Day: Alireza Razavi

The architect discusses creating design value, the key moment in a project, and why he collects art

Studio Visit
This New York Design Firm Creates Luxury for the Instagram Era

Will Meyer and Gray Davis discuss their approach to designing entertaining, calming experiences for

Design
Designer of the Day: David Korins

The New York set designer on sharing Hamilton with the world, a newfound passion for oil...

Endorsement
Anna Rabinowicz Designs Gemstone-Covered Home Goods and Prosthetic Knees

The creator of Anna by RabLabs expands her line of geology-inspired housewares.

Design
Designer of the Day: Kustaa Saksi

The Amsterdam-based designer discusses his penchant for trippy textiles, pastries, and strolling...

Design
Flynn Talbot Morphs a V&A Gallery into a Vibrant Hall of Light

On view throughout the London Design Festival, the Australian designer’s immersive installation...

Restaurant
Manhattan’s New Home for Sushi Purists

A boutique design studio infuses the Omakase Room by Tatsu with a subtle mix of color, scent, and...

Design
Alessandro Michele Takes Gucci Into Décor

The Italian brand's universe continues to expand with a new collection of tables, trays, chairs,...

Design
These Design Objects Were Made for Tech-Savvy Women

Olivia Lee's latest collection facilitates the way women use technology at home.

Design
Matías Duarte’s Material World

First he brought design to Google.
Now, the visionary is subtly shaping our lives.

Design
Ma Yansong and Gallery ALL Land on Mars

The Chinese architect makes his first foray into furniture design with a collection for the red...

Design
Essentials: A Beautiful Place To Hide Your Secrets

Julie Bonde's porcelain ceramics are both sleek decor and hiding spots.

Book
An Abstract Art Book (or a Print Installation?)

In "40 x 40," Swiss artist Claudia Comte translates her sculptures into a two-dimensional...

Design
Olivier Van Herpt Is a Free-Dimensional Thinker

Meet the 28-year-old designer who is radically transforming one of the world's oldest art forms.

Retail
Why You Can’t Leave Toronto Without Visiting Mjölk

Eight years into owning their lifestyle shop, founders Juli and John Baker are still crossing...

Design
15 Items Worth Bidding On at Wright’s Art + Design Auction

The pieces to covet at the American auction house’s major 20th-century sale this summer.

Design
Ara Thorose’s Sculptural Chairs

The designer creates a trio of chairs that are part furnishing, part art.

News
Design Dispatch: June 12, 2017

Our daily take on the world through the lens of design.

Hotel
10 Standout Design Objects at Angama Mara

Steve and Nicky Fitzgerald are done with the steamer trunks and mosquito nets. At Angama Mara, a...

Travel
The Anti-Airport Lounge

Cathay Pacific and Ilse Crawford want to make layovers relaxing.

Partnership
Art and Commerce Come Together at the Seattle Art Fair

Seattle Art Fair director Max Fishko talks supporting up-and-comers, cultivating an art market, and

Fashion
Thom Browne’s Steady Hand

The award-winning fashion designer Thom Browne revels in consistency in an industry that expects...

NYCXDesign
This Furniture Collection Is Like a Cast of Characters

François Chambard’s UM Project presents six new friendly furnishings.

Architecture
Inside Milan’s Most Sumptuous Entryways

An eccentric new book from Taschen
showcases a captivating selection of the
Italian...

Design
Xavier Lust’s Twisted Metal

A New York exhibition proves the Brussels-based designer has carved out a niche with his...

Travel
Murray Moss Loves Kitschy Souvenirs

The cultural arbiter and Surface Travel Awards juror on the power of mementos.

NYCxDesign
Fort Standard Gets Down to Business

With its latest collection, the design firm toes the line between small design shop and big...

STUDIO VISIT
Design, Bitches

The Los Angeles–based duo chats permeable boundaries, the architecture of Taco Bell, and the...

Design
Nanimarquina Makes Some of the World’s Most Innovative Rugs

Over the past three decades, Spanish rug brand Nanimarquina has embraced the unknown to become an...

Endorsement
Studio Mai Coaxes the Tinder Generation to Look Up From Their Phones

The L.A. firm behind hit restaurants and the new Made Hotel in New York forces interaction through...

Executive
Design Within Reach CEO John Edelman

John Edelman, CEO of Design Within Reach, saved the once-distressed company and made it profitable.

NYCxDesign
Salon 94 and Maccarone Present “Midtown” at Lever House

An exhibition blurring the lines of art and design provokes questions related to how we determine...

NYCXDESIGN
Best of TEFAF New York Spring 2017

Our editors’ 10 favorite things at the groundbreaking fair’s debut spring edition in New York.

NYCxDesign
This Pop-Up Bar Revisits the Golden Age of Milan

Jewelry brand Pomellato revives Bar Jamaica, once the city’s creative and social heart.

PARTNERSHIP
Oui Design’s Cultural Exchange

A collaborative program called Oui Design sparks innovative work by American and French designers...

PARTNERSHIP
The Design Mastermind at Squarespace

Inside its sleek New York headquarters, chief creative officer David Lee reveals the inner workings

Design
Transform and Function

The boundary-pushing works of Peter Shire come to the MOCA Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles.

Travel
Marcel Wanders’s Unfiltered Guide to Amsterdam

The famed Dutch designer offers a personal tour of his historic stomping grounds.

Design
The Design World’s Most Influential Person (You’ve Probably Never Heard Of)

Rossana Orlandi’s Milan space is a bastion of groundbreaking contemporary design.

Design
Predicting the Future at A/D/O

At Brooklyn’s A/D/O, a recent conference focused on utopian (and dystopian) design.

Letter from Europe
Trump Talk at Maison & Objet and Beyond

Our editor-in-chief finds the U.S. president looming over the design and art worlds in Paris,...

Partnership
A Day in the Life of Yigal Azrouël, Shot on a Leica TL

The fashion designer documents his life in New York City with a Leica TL digital camera as he...

Destination
San Francisco

Design heft and art world gravitas are giving the City by the Bay a new patina.

Urban Space
Making A Transit System More Habitable

A Brooklyn-based firm rethinks bus stations in the Philippines to accommodate local conditions.

Design
Object: Horizon Collection

A by-the-numbers assessment of a new product or accessory.

Fashion
Ralph Lauren’s Watch in Motion

The fashion designer's latest timepiece takes inspiration from vintage automobiles.

Fashion
Carin Rodebjer Unveils a New Flagship in Stockholm

The sleek retail space celebrates the Swedish fashion designer’s female clientele.

design
A Philadelphia Bistro That Feels Like the Set of “Boardwalk Empire”

In Fishtown, a former whiskey factory is now the Italian restaurant Wm. Mulherin’s Sons.

Travel
Room Mate Giulia is a Hotel Worthy of Milan’s Fashionable Travelers

A longtime resident of the city, Patricia Urquiola looked to a midcentury Italian aesthetic for the

design
Michael Gabellini in Conversation with Valerie Steele

Designer Michael Gabellini and fashion historian Valerie Steele discuss the idea of simplicity and...

Studio Visit
The Natural Order of Monique Péan

The jewelry designer discusses her new SoHo space, creating fashionable, wearable pieces from...

How It's Made
How It’s Made: Ghurka

Artisans at the American leather goods label have been working out of the same Connecticut factory...

design
Essentials: September 2016

A selection from our team’s endless list of personal obsessions.

Bar
Century Bar Brings the Stadium Indoors

A new spot in Portland updates the no-frills sports dive with heritage wallpaper, mahogany...

Fashion
Sonia Boyajian’s Jewelry Captures Surrealist Whimsy

The Hollywood-based designer loves vintage, over-the-top glamour.

Design
How Sony’s New Television Replicates the Real World

The model, part of the Z series, combines the latest advancements in high-resolution and color...

Fashion
Around the World with Louis XIII

The Grande Champagne label honors its place in the history of luxury travel with specially...

design
In Madison Tuton’s Arizona, Cacti And Aliens

For the young designer, the American Southwest is a place of desert elegance and sci-fi mysteries....

Travel
The Sri Lankan Escape on a Former Tea Estate

Nestled in the green, rolling terrain of the surrounding UNESCO-protected land, Santani, the...

design
AHA Front Brings Life to Dumbo

Online store AHA Life opened its first physical location in the Brooklyn neighborhood and designer...

Travel
Insider: Caterina Fabrizio’s Guide to Lake Como

The textile magnate tells us why her heart and history is inextricably tied to the region.

architecture
Ron Arad Is The Master Of Architectural Sculpture

On the heels of reinvigorating Washington, D.C.'s iconic Watergate Hotel, the Israeli designer...

design
Buck and Breck is Open When it’s Closed

The Berlin speakeasy tries to accommodate the few-too-many who are in on the secret.

Design
An Interior Designer’s Longstanding Obsession With Kubrick

Hospitality and restaurant designer Adam D. Tihany shares how the famed director's aesthetic is...

Fashion
Tomas Maier Brings Spanish Flair to Bottega Veneta in Beverly Hills

The fashion designer took a hands-on approach to the new store, which nods to Colonial Revival...

Studio Visit
Robots and 3-D Printers are Joris Laarman’s Tools of Choice

The Dutch designer lets us into his robotics factory, MX3D, which is spearheading programs that...

How It's Made
How It’s Made: B&B Italia

As the Italian furniture giant turns 50, we take a look inside its Novedrate headquarters, where...

design
Gandia Blasco Turns 75 and Is Still Picking up Steam

The family-run Spanish outdoor furniture empire takes stock of its past as it looks to grow into...

design
B&O Play’s Smallest Speaker Comes Up Big

The A1 is one of the few bluetooth speakers to both sound great and look covetable.

Design
High Design: Creating a Modern Marijuana Brand

Twelve leading design firms offer their visions for consumer marijuana in the 21st century.

design
Patricia Urquiola Reinvigorates Cassina

The Spanish designer takes the creative reins at the Italian furniture maker, adding a healthy dose

Design
Google Gets Crafty

The OnHub Makers Series turns the boring wireless router into a functional piece of art.

PARTNERSHIP
Robert Stadler at The Noguchi Museum

Unveiling “Solid Doubts,” a new exhibition that juxtaposes the late modernist icon’s works...

Design
Behind The Scenes: The LAB at Rockwell Group

The team behind the sought-after experiential design firm shares how their different disciplines...