interior-design
Sancal’s 2015 collection includes furniture that pieces together like a puzzle
Italy’s Museo della Merda is full of shit
The Museum of Shit is housed in an Italian castle and is dedicated to demonstrating “what a useful and living substance crap really is” (+ slideshow). (more…)
Paris’ tallest building in over 40 years is a housing block clad with gold and silver metal
These two metal-clad towers featuring stepped forms and angular balconies were designed to prove that, after years of skyscraper restrictions in Paris, height is no longer taboo (+ slideshow). (more…)
Venetian fog influences Marco Zito’s Caiigo lamp for Foscarini
Milan 2015: Italian designer Marco Zito has created a blown-glass pendant lamp for lighting brand Foscarini designed to mimic the morning mist that rises up from the Venetian Lagoon. (more…)
France’s Expo pavilion is a wooden lattice with plants and food slotted into its crevices
Milan Expo 2015: a robot cut all the components used to build France’s Expo pavilion – a curved wooden lattice structure designed by XTU Architects to become a trellis for growing vegetables, herbs and hops (+ slideshow). (more…)
Luca Cipelletti plasters Milan gallery with manure for Shit Show
Milan 2015: the walls of a Milanese gallery are lined with excrement to highlight one of the material’s potential uses in this installation by architect Luca Cipelletti (+ slideshow). (more…)
Smithsonian Cooper Hewitt names Graves and Burks among 2015 award winners
Michael Graves, MOS Architects and Stephen Burks are among the 11 winners of the prestigious 2015 National Design Awards, given annually by the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum in New York (+ slideshow). (more…)
Weiwei Wang’s portable kit provides utensils for making fresh tofu
Milan 2015: specially adapted cooking implements, hand-woven baskets and ceramic bowls slot into this wooden and metal box, created by Chinese designer Weiwei Wang to work as a portable tofu-making kit (+ slideshow). (more…)
Gottlieb Paludan Architects fuels Copenhagen’s ambition to become carbon-neutral by 2025
Danish firm Gottlieb Paludan Architects has seen off competition from BIG, Henning Larsen Architects and 3XN to win a project designing a new biomass-fired heating and energy plant in Copenhagen. (more…)
