SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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,...
SURFACE 7 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,...
SURFACE 7 Sky Ting Yoga Spreads Its Wings Plus, an elite newcomer to Milan’s members-only sphere, a penthouse stocked with artisan-made...
SURFACE 7 Remedy Place Makes a Sleek Entry in SoHo Plus, an Angeleno twist on Riviera maximalism, a bold observation tower that also functions as a...
SURFACE 7 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
SURFACE 7 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
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 Kolamba East’s Ode to Sri Lankan Architecture Plus, Lee Bul’s deconstructed figures at the Met, a stylish members club beckons from Mallorca,...
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 Thoughtfully Made Furniture That Celebrates African Artisans Plus, a Lisbon convent reborn as a quaint hotel, Ricardo Bofill’s emerald-hued sanctum of...
SURFACE 7 A Bridal Boutique Rooted in Interstellar Minimalism Plus, vivid majolica must-haves inspired by deep-sea creatures, a Tokyo-inspired record bar aglow...
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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...
SURFACE 7 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...
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.
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...
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.
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...
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...
SURFACE 7 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...
DESIGN DISPATCH Robert Smith’s Spiral Jetty Joins the National Register of Historic Places, and Other News Plus, Calvin Klein returns to New York Fashion Week, and the fashion and photography worlds mourn...
DESIGN DISPATCH AIA Appoints Evelyn Lee as its 2025 President, and Other News Plus, Prada Group renews its partnership with Essilor Luxottica, and an early Jean-Michel Basquiat...
DESIGN Saint Laurent’s Newest Store Channels Anthony Vaccarello’s Sleek Vision The Belgian creative director sets a breathtaking standard for the French fashion house's largest...