design /delight: A PLATFORM FOR CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
During Shanghai Art Week, the city’s cultural landscape was shaped by the second edition of design /delight, an emerging platform dedicated to contemporary collectible design and functional art.
SPATIAL GESTURES
The wearable objects Yuta Ishihara makes under the moniker Shihara play tricks on us. “The hardware is in focus, incorporated into the design itself,” says Ishihara.
LAKE COME DESIGN FESTIVAL 2025
The city of Como once again hosted the seventh edition of the Lake Como Design Festival, under the theme Fragments. The festival invited visitors to reflect on fragmentation not as a sign of rupture, but as a catalyst for creative rebirth, for the preservation of memory, and for a regenerative approach to design.
SCULPTING SPACE
Connected by raw materiality and primordial forms, Bosco Sodi’s home and studios in Mexico show the natural affinity between his art and architecture.
MODERN MANNERS
What does it take to restore a heritage protected 1950s house? Humility, patience and sheer determination brought new life to the early Philip Johnson house.
TISVILDE TIME LAPSE
Restoring his 1930’s Beach House, architect and photographer Jonas Bjerre-Poulsen obsessed on period details, grey scales, and capturing its essence in photography.
HOME TBILISI – NATA JANBERIDZE
In her Tbilisi home and studio, the co-founder of Rooms Studio Nata Janberidze shapes Georgian architecture and design.
LAILA GOHAR REALM
Laila Gohar’s loft in Tribeca is maybe not what you’d expect if you know her from Tiffany campaigns or The New Yorker.
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design /delight: A PLATFORM FOR CONTEMPORARY DESIGN
During Shanghai Art Week, the city’s cultural landscape was shaped by the second edition of design /delight, an emerging platform dedicated to contemporary collectible design and functional art.
SPATIAL GESTURES
The wearable objects Yuta Ishihara makes under the moniker Shihara play tricks on us. “The hardware is in focus, incorporated into the design itself,” says Ishihara.
LAKE COME DESIGN FESTIVAL 2025
The city of Como once again hosted the seventh edition of the Lake Como Design Festival, under the theme Fragments. The festival invited visitors to reflect on fragmentation not as a sign of rupture, but as a catalyst for creative rebirth, for the preservation of memory, and for a regenerative approach to design.
HOME TBILISI – NATA JANBERIDZE
In her Tbilisi home and studio, the co-founder of Rooms Studio Nata Janberidze shapes Georgian architecture and design.