Kristi Cameron

Hella Jongerius’s new fabric collection was inspired by the traditional weavers of Mexico and Guatemala.

For her first commercial interior, Angie Hranowsky pulls off big style on a shoestring budget.

Foreign companies are poised to have a particularly strong showing at this year’s ICFF.

The fashion designer Issey Miyake continues his career-long fascination with the essence of clothes.

New restaurants that look like they’ve been part of their neighborhoods forever all share a subtle but ambitious social agenda: to create and celebrate community.

A ventilated-wall system, popular in Europe, holds great promise for existing buildings here.

Thomas Meyerhoffer takes pride in products that succeed by going virtually unnoticed.

How American designers are weathering the tough economic climate—and what they’ll show at ICFF.

The economy may be sluggish and budgets tight, but five up-and-comers are doing incredibly rich interiors.

Jason Miller parlays the success of an antler-shaped lamp into a new venture.

Antonio Citterio harnesses the experimental power of LEDs to design a new generation of lighting for Flos.

Reclaimed wood with a patina as rich as its history

Studios Architecture treated the Grey interior as if it were working for two clients: the creatives and the corporate staff. That left Paula Scher, who handled the environmental graphics, with a dilemma. “They thought we would try to unify the…

You’ll need a pen to navigate the better part of Martí Guixé’s new offerings for Alessi. The Catalan designer’s first collection for the Italian manufacturer includes three “communicator” vessels that have places—in the shape of an arrow, balloons, and a…

A young Bugaboo designer gets a second chance at his first assignment.

For this year’s Games, Omer Arbel delivers medals of daring simplicity.

Many of us appreciate the functional beauty of laboratory flasks enough to take one home and stick a flower in it. But the 25-year-old Benjamin Hubert loves the vessels enough to pay glowing tribute to them in a new lighting…

Bart Halpern partners with Pulp Studio to create a new treatment for his signature textiles.

A remarkably simple treatment for sleep apnea holds the promise of a good snooze.

In a moment worthy of reality television, Chemetal races to ready a weathered backdrop for New York Fashion Week.

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What a difference four years makes. In 2005, just after earning their master’s degrees in architecture from Columbia Univer­s­­­ity, Minnie Jan and Daisuke Nagatomo were thrilled to receive a Viewer’s Choice Award in the OFS Hotseat competition, spon­sored by Metropolis.…

Since its founding in 1956, Tai Ping Carpets has perfected the art of employing Chinese hand-tufting traditions to make lush, modern rugs. But delivering that same sensibility in the form of modular carpet tiles required fresh talent. “There’s a real…

­A book on Dieter Rams—now available Stateside—offers an exhaustive overview of the master’s work.

Having conquered the consumer market, a modern-lighting retailer sets its sights on design professionals.

The shifting demographics here in the United States, and in Europe, are producing bathrooms that defy the traditional trappings of old age.

Given the dismal state of the economy, we decided to ask students completing ten top industrial-design programs (both bachelor’s and master’s) about their career plans. There’s certainly no lack of problems to tackle—environmental, social, or otherwise—but there will likely be…

A restaurant in old-town Alexandria, Virginia, pays homage to village taverns of yore.

In one of An Inconvenient Truth’s crucial scenes, Al Gore chases the earth’s rising carbon-dioxide levels in a mechanical lift. Visitors to Climate Change: The Threat to Life and a New Energy Future, at the American Museum of Natural History,…

What role can architects play in contributing to the world around us? “The top’s off the bottle,” claims Bryan Bell, founder of the Raleigh, North Carolina–based nonprofit Design Corps. That’s because people’s ideas about the profession are changing. “When I…

A new Chinese restaurant in Manhattan avoids easy pigeonholing.

A new generation of design activists is helping to reshape the role of contemporary architects. Also featuring Bryan Bell, Teddy Cruz, John Peterson, and Sergio Palleroni

What’s the most sensible way to certify sustainable hotels? Tourist destinations often have little in common with one another but a penchant for attracting Bermuda-shorts-wearing masses. Are ­travelers—and the rest of us—best served by a standardized system, or would regional…

Having the sole rights to Finn Juhl’s designs doesn’t make it easy for One Collection to manufacture them.

­Up for grabs since 2003, Finn Juhl’s residence is now part of an unusual museum complex.

A spine expert sizes up the performance of two of the latest ergonomic chairs.

Faced with a future of drought, Aurora, Colorado, has found an ingenious way to boost its threatened water supply.

A former New York designer returns home to create a unique partnership with gifted local artisans.

Architect Peter Barfoed lays out his vision for the future of Greenland’s capital.

Boeing’s new Dreamliner packs an array of enhancements to benefit passengers as well as the environment.

Any mention of environmentalism in the same breath as presents likely calls to mind that ill-favored form of recycling, regifting. At the New York International Gift Fair, however—which has a stake in keeping the unwanted goods that circulate endlessly to…

The Front Runner is a bit like a vitamin-enriched soft drink: a healthier product for a market merely seeking gratification. “Boating is filled with hot-rodders and hillbillies who just want to go fast,” industrial designer Joey Ruiter says. “That’s who…

The Bernhardt Studio has been a great addition to the fair, bringing in a curated selection of young designers who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford to make an appearance. It has quickly become one of my favorite places to…

This San Francisco-based company is launching at ICFF with an impressive roster: Arik Levy, One & Co., Khodi Feiz, Mike and Maaike, and Derek Chen have all created designs for the debut collection. Chen, one of the founders, says they…