Category: Design
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Norman Jaffe’s Turetsky House: A Modernist Original for $4.25 Million
Built in 1977 on Long Island, Norman Jaffe’s Turetsky House has returned to the market. Its reported appearance in Amazon’s Fallout has drawn fresh attention to a residence originally celebrated for its unconventional planning and its relationship with the landscape. When Architectural Record included Norman Jaffe’s house in Old Westbury in its annual survey of…
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Tashkent: An Art Centre with a Past
Studio KO’s conversion of a 1912 industrial complex brings contemporary art into contact with Uzbek craft knowledge and an artistic history that long predates the opening. Russian-era bricks, patinated copper and bread stamps make an unusually concise introduction to Tashkent’s new contemporary art centre. They are the materials of Nari Ward’s Tashkent Groundin (2026), an…
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The Customer Who Stopped Saving Up
Luxury has always depended on people who wanted what they could not afford. But what happens when the wealthy cease to be admired, the performance of perfect lives becomes tiresome, and the people who once aspired to luxury begin to question the value of the aspiration itself? The black lambskin Chanel Classic 11.12 currently costs…
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What Wood Knows: Akiko Ken Made in Copenhagen
At a small exhibition space on Copenhagen’s Østerbro, Japanese designer Akiko Kuwahata and Danish cabinetmaker Ken Winther bring together two remarkable traditions of woodworking. Their new exhibition celebrates material intelligence, craftsmanship and the quiet beauty of ordinary things. A simple wooden breadbasket and a wall-sized sculpture of light might appear to have little in common.…
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The Art of Ordinary Things: Inside Virginia Sin’s Brooklyn Studio
From sculptural ceramics to experimental lighting and a new collection in metal, Brooklyn-based designer Virginia Sin has spent nearly two decades reconsidering the objects we live with. Her work suggests that even the most ordinary domestic necessities deserve serious design attention. A butter dish is not generally the object through which a designer announces a…
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Salem Charabi: The Architecture of Belonging
From the cabinetmaking workshops of Copenhagen to the ancient craft traditions of Cairo, Danish-Egyptian architect Salem S. Charabi is developing a distinctive language of contemporary design. With a landmark exhibition in Giza, a new publication and an appearance at Design Miami Paris, his work raises larger questions about cultural inheritance, material intelligence and what it…
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Saul Bass & The Seventy Seconds That Changed Everything
Saul Bass did not invent the film title sequence. He did something more consequential: he convinced Hollywood that the audience’s first minute and a half was not dead time to be tolerated but a work of art to be made. Everything that followed — in cinema, in corporate identity, in the visual culture of the…
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Room to Move: Issey Miyake’s Spring/Summer 2027 Collection
With Figure of Ma, Satoshi Kondo gives the space between body and cloth an eloquent, exuberant form. A fashion collection becomes especially compelling when its ideas can be understood through the clothes themselves. Satoshi Kondo’s Spring/Summer 2027 collection for Issey Miyake, presented at the Dojo de Paris on 2 October 2026, has precisely that quality.…
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The 90s at Tate Britain: Art, Fashion and the Politics of Belonging
The 1990s have become unusually easy to recognise and increasingly difficult to remember in their complexity. Kate Moss, a slip dress, a warehouse party, a shark suspended in formaldehyde: the decade survives through images whose familiarity can conceal the circumstances that produced them. Tate Britain’s new exhibition, The 90s: Art and Fashion, brings this visual…
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The Sculptor Who Made Cars Move
Makers & Rooms — Essay VIII Flaminio Bertoni gave the world the DS and the 2CV — the most beautiful car ever made and the most useful, two objects of genius separated by a decade and united by a single Italian hand working in a Paris suburb. He died almost unknown. The cars are immortal.…
