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Airbnb's Samara hires Apple industrial designer to join housing initiative
Airbnb's offshoot design studio Samara has hired Apple industrial designer Miklu Silvanto to join the company's housebuilding initiative. Silvanto will move from Apple's industrial design department to...
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GRT Architects revitalises mid-century house in Upstate New York
New York firm GRT Architects has used a simple palette to offset the existing details of this mid-century house in New York's Hudson Valley, which it overhauled for the architect's grandchild. The...
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Aldo Bakker exhibits sculptural urushi lacquer pieces in New York
Dutch artist Aldo Bakker used a 12,000-year-old Japanese technique to create a series of lacquered objects currently on show at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in New York City. The works are among 10...
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Atelier Ace draws on warmth of Finnish saunas for Manhattan's Sister City hotel
Ace Hotel's in-house creative team has completed a new hotel next to the New Museum in New York, featuring warm cherry wood self-check-in booths, a diner-style restaurant and compact bedrooms designed...
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Assemble turns derelict New Orleans building into experimental fashion school
London studio Assemble has transformed an industrial property in New Orleans into a hub for the local community to learn fashion design and manufacturing. Assemble designed the Material Institute for...
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Trump Comb-over watch goes into production following April Fools prank
Swedish company TRIWA is selling a limited-edition watch that features the hair of US president Donald Trump as hands, after the success of an April Fools-day prank. TRIWA received hundreds of requests...
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Stephenson Design Collective designs House on the Cove to blend with coastal...
This residence in the Pacific Northwest by US firm Stephenson Design Collective features exterior walls clad in weathering steel and black-stained cedar, along with large windows that offer sweeping...
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Jordana Maisie stacks cardboard shoe boxes around Feit's San Francisco store
Australian designer Jordana Maisie has designed this shoe shop in San Francisco to look more like a storage room than a boutique. Masie's eponymous studio designed the 80-square-metre shoe store in the...
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Calistoga Residence in Napa Valley draws on local barns and farmhouses
American firms Wade Design Architects and Geremia Design took cues from "modern farmhouse architecture" to create a wood-clad home in northern California's wine country for a retiring couple. Located...
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WeWork opens San Francisco HQ in Pelli Clarke Pelli's Salesforce Tower
Co-working company WeWork has completed a light-filled headquarters in San Francisco's 61-storey Salesforce Tower, featuring mid-century furniture, vibrant rugs and bold artwork. The co-working company...
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OMA completes renovation of Sotheby's New York galleries
Chunky columns covered in aggregate puncture through galleries in Sotheby's New York headquarters, which has just re-opened to the public following a major overhaul designed by OMA partner Shohei...
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Drake/Anderson updates rural New York house to fuse warmth and minimalism
Interior design studio Drake/Anderson has used muted tones, earthy materials and clean lines to create tranquil rooms with a strong connection to nature inside this 12-year-old home in the Hudson River...
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Object & Thing launches in New York as alternative to traditional art and...
A former Frieze artistic director has established a new art and design fair in New York that offers exhibitors fewer restrictions and lower prices. Object & Thing took place at 99 Scott in...
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The Met celebrates "resurgence of camp" in new exhibition Camp: Notes on Fashion
The Met's Costume Institute has unveiled a pink-hued exhibition exploring camp fashion across the centuries, from the playful to the outrageous. Camp: Notes on Fashion opens this week, following The...
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Elissa Lacoste creates "grotesque" furniture that resembles flesh
Skeletal stools and a blobby, monolithic table and chair features in this series of furniture by French designer Elissa Lacoste. Lacoste drew on natural landscapes and human forms to create the new...
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Eames House preservation plan launched 70 years after residence was completed
The Eames Foundation has released a plan to maintain the modernist Californian residence that Charles and Ray Eames built for themselves to make it look like the designers "just stepped out for the...
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Leong Leong and KFA complete Hollywood campus for Los Angeles LGBT Centre
Curved glass blocks, white stuccoed volumes and courtyards are strung together to form this new community facility for Los Angeles' LGBTQ community, designed by architecture firms Leong Leong and KFA....
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10 must-see installations and exhibits at NYCxDesign 2019
With New York City's design festival kicking off today, US editor Eleanor Gibson has picked out 10 shows not to be missed, from a tiny home built by Fernando Mastrangelo to a colouful pop-up hair...
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Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners designs spy museum to stand out in Washington DC
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners has completed its first cultural building in the US: the International Spy Museum in America's capital, which features an angled black volume, splayed red columns and a...
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Stickbulb designs Chime to look like a "tree and a chandelier had a baby"
New York design studio Rux has extended its modular Stickbulb series with a chandelier modelled on a large wind chime. The latest edition to Stickbulb – the lighting arm of design firm Rux – Chime is...
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