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STANDOUTS
10 Ways to Light Up a Room

Our favorite fixtures of the moment are made from horizontal hand-blown crystal, hand-hammered...

DESIGN
Collecting Vintage Guitars: Everything You Need to Know About Selecting the Ultimate Functional Design Object

The beginner’s guide, courtesy of Nashville's George Gruhn—the ne plus ultra of high-end...

DESIGN OF THE DAY
We’re Totally Game to Play With This Little Devil

From Alexander Girard’s iconic Wooden Doll series, this solid-fir figurine is naughty and nice.

RESTAURANT
Chef Akira Back’s Secret Ingredient at a New Fanciful Restaurant? His Mom

Her sinewy ceiling installation presides over Studio Munge’s polar design that uses luxurious...

DESIGN OF THE DAY
This Sophisticated Floor Lamp Couldn’t Care Less About Standing Up Straight

Foscarini’s Dolmen floor lamp isn’t ashamed of reclining in public.

DESIGN OF THE DAY
A Textile That Evokes Mondrian—and Your Grandma

Maharam debuts Scholten and Baijings’s new fabric range, based on a sewing tradition that...

Art
Weekend Cheat Sheet: June 11 – 17, 2018

Our picks for the best of this year’s Design Miami/Basel, Juergen Teller’s World Cup fever, an...

DESIGN
Our Favorite Design Objects Are Currently Inside This New York Gallery

R & Company celebrates its 20th anniversary by opening a sister space, and a slam-dunk exhibition,...

TRANSPORT
Can Eco-Friendly Auto Racing Ever Be Sexy?

Formula E, the world’s foremost battery-powered racing series, tries to reinvent the green-car...

THE LIST
A Tantalizing Tour Through South Carolina’s Lowcountry

The latest collection from online retailer Huckberry is presented in a high-touch travel journal...

DESIGN OF THE DAY
We Have the Hots for This Enameled Copper Chair

Baked in a traditional Korean kiln, this seat by Kwangho Lee debuts today during Design...

Design of the Day
A Bent-Wire Chair That’s Actually Nice to Sit In

SP01’s Chee seating collection is at once comfortable and cool.

DESIGN OF THE DAY
Colored Lights That Won’t Make Your Room Look Like a Nightclub

Pelle’s Beam and Glow collection marks the firm’s first stab at incorporating color into its...

ART
Weekend Cheat Sheet: June 4 – 10, 2018

Smash soap sculptures with Rachel Lee Hovnanian, eat free hot dogs with Erwin Wurm, rave with Nick...

DESIGN
The Surprising Role of Furniture Design in Donald Judd’s Creative Practice

How designing objects like Chair 84, released in stock in black plywood this spring, allowed the...