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FSB Door Levers
Try this: Walk inside a building. As you go through the front doors, take it all in. The floor, the ceiling, the walls. The colours, the materials. The shapes, the patterns, the themes. Did you notice...
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Gamla
Designers tend to see the world in terms of its potential rather than its shortcomings, where end cuts of wood contain latent sculptural objects and sawdust can nourish your garden. The world isn’t...
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Knauf and Brown
Relationships are often a little awkward at the beginning. Feelings of uncertainty underscore new interactions but soon concede their dominion to a comfortable familiarity, one that becomes ever so...
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Dante Cester and Cesar
Sante Vittorio Cester had been working hard, as an artisanal kitchen cabinet maker, when he decided to do something about what he saw as rapid changes in style in furniture of all kinds. It was 1968,...
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“16” by Bocci
Designer Omer Arbel has been waiting nearly a decade for Bocci’s latest art piece, 16. First conceived in 2007, Bocci didn’t yet have the necessary technology to construct the leaf-like fixture of...
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Minotti
The town of Meda, population hovering around 24,000, sits halfway between Milan and idyllic Como. It has a remarkable history, as do many such towns in the northern reaches of Italy, where Napoleon and...
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Sabine Marcelis
As Sabine Marcelis pulls open the oversized door of Martha Sturdy’s Vancouver studio, it’s hard not to admire the outfit she’s wearing. Wide-leg corduroy trousers and an oversized wool coat might not...
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Jay Osgerby of Barber & Osgerby
I’m in the green room at the Interior Design Show (IDS) in Toronto, leafing through a pamphlet abandoned on the table while I wait for Jay Osgerby to finish his book signing. The brochure is by Swiss...
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Alex Mustonen of Snarkitecture
It was the Summer of Snark. In Washington, D.C., dozens of National Building Museum visitors waded waist-deep into a “swimming pool” filled to the brim with pearlescent plastic balls. In Harbour City,...
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Karim Rashid
Karim Rashid loves white cubes, but he won’t be designing one anytime soon. “You can’t deny it’s not beautiful. I love modernism, I was brought up with it, and I was educated in a Bauhaus education,”...
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