GamFratesi Designs a Verdant, Greenhouse-Inspired Restaurant in Manila
The 60-seat Harlan+Holden Glasshouse Café includes custom seating by the designers for Wiener GTV Design, bespoke stone floors, and lighting by Louis Poulsen and Rubn.
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Heath Ceramics Collaborates with Artist Stan Bitters to Craft a Unique Tile Collection
Bitters helped define an expressive, even carnal side of modern Californian clayware; this Heath collection echoes his raw and dramatic sculpted works.
The Mixtape Magic of Robert McKinley’s Hotel Joaquin
The eclectic motor-lodge-turned-boutique-resort, scheduled to open next month, takes its cues from Joni Mitchell, Serge Gainsbourg, and Pérez Prado.
David Chipperfield's New Mixed-Use Tower Brings Beauty and Brains to New York's Bryant Park
With its rich material palette and crafty millwork, the Bryant is an exercise in humble luxury and takes cues from its historic neighbors.
New Chicago Restaurant Combines California-Inspired Design and Cuisine
Pacific Standard Time, whose interiors are by New York–based firm Parts and Labor Design, is awash in a palette of terrazzo, textural glazed tile, leather, and wood galore.
Mario Bellini's New Table Ups the Ante for Bent-Glass Furniture
The Italian designer teamed up with Glas Italia to produce the low-profile table, which uses extra-light 12-millimeter-thick glass.
New Talent 2018: Joe Lawton's Growing Studio Is a Hybrid of Graphic Design and Architecture
With a passion for environmental graphics, designer Joe Lawton has built a practice dubbed Media Objectives (M-O) within the architecture firm Valerio Dewalt Train Associates (VDTA).
Stonehill Taylor Refreshes a 1929 Nashville Hotel, Mixing Modern Design with Art Deco
The architects worked around the landmark’s many historical elements—some beautiful (plaster ceilings, looping corbels), some odd (the lobby’s red-and-yellow terrazzo floors).
New Talent 2018: For Furniture Design Company Kalon, Each Piece Starts in the Designers’ Own Home
The Los Angeles-based design duo meticulously develops each of their products, fostering a unique blend of beauty and sustainability.
At SFO, a 1960s Airplane Hangar Conceals a Working Design Office
Big Room, a temporary workplace constructed inside an airplane hangar, brings teams together by leaning into scrappy solutions and a sense of fun.
How Form Us With Love Takes an Inclusive and Passion-Driven Approach to Design
"Form Us With Love" is both the name and mantra for this multidisciplinary design studio founded in 2005 by Jonas Pettersson and John Löfgren.
Metropolis's 7 Top Picks from Salone del Mobile
There was no shortage of beautiful and cutting-edge design at this year's Salone del Mobile, which just concluded in Milan.
Cosentino and Riva 1920 Team Up for the Ultimate, Swiss Army Knife Vanity
The new DeKauri Vanity combines a cabinet, sink, mirror, and fixtures into a single show-stopping piece of furniture.
Designer Johan Lindstén's Wild Take on Embroidery for Cappellini
The Swedish designer relied on old school handicraft methods to create an utterly unique new chair for the Italian furniture manufacturer.
Olson Kundig Designs New Golden Home for Denver's Kirkland Museum of Fine & Decorative Art
The striking facade features four shades of golden terra-cotta tiles, all arrayed with a jazz-like rhythm.
With the Public Hotel, Ian Schrager is Reinventing Luxury Hospitality. Again.
Metropolis asks legendary Hotelier Ian Schrager and architect Ascan Mergenthaler of Herzog & de Meueron to break down the details of their new 17-story hotel in New York.
