Sitting Alone in Public: How the Café Chair Defined Modern Urban Culture
Beginning with Thonet's innovations two centuries ago, the development of the café chair typology reflects upheavals in cities and design.
Charles and Ray Eames
With Its Exhibition Add to the Cake, Foreign Legion Calls for Inclusion
The curators take on the subject of gender inequity in design history and contemporary practice, in a show staged at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden.
Hugh Hefner’s Surprising Architectural Legacy
The controversial Playboy founder democratized high design, argues architectural historian Beatriz Colomina.
Life on Planet Eames: Flexible, Colorful, Pleasurable
A sprawling retrospective of design’s favorite duo reveals how conscious they were of the power of their own image.
Everything About the Way We Work Is Changing. Here's How.
A to Z: Your guide to the new, diverse workplace.
Wrk-shp Uses Concrete to Make Clothing and Planters Alike
Designers Airi Isoda and Ryan Upton see architecture everywhere—in everyday objects, interior spaces, and ready-to-wear apparel.
Q&A: At Home with Lucia Eames
Remembering Lucia Eames, 1930-2014. Revisit our 2005 interview with Charles Eames's daughter, where she talks about preserving the legacy, saving the house, and making it all relevant to future generations.
Deborah Sussman Loves L.A. (and She Always Has)
In her illustrious career, Deborah Sussman has not only reshaped graphic design but also helped to rebrand the resurgent city of Los Angeles.
Happy Anniversary to Iconic Design This Year And Next
Great designs, designers, and institutions mark important milestones this year and next.
Kickstart This Deborah Sussman Retrospective
The WUHO Gallery will launch the new exhibition, Deborah Sussman Loves L.A., with the help of Kickstarter.
Has Pritzker Controversy Brought About Architecture's Lean In Moment?
The recent controversy over Denise Scott Brown and the Pritzker Prize served as both a litmus test on the status of women in the field, and a wake-up call for an entire profession struggling for relevancy and respect.
The Living Office—The Action Office for the Digital Age?
Almost 50 years after the Action Office, Herman Miller embarks on the next big rethinking of the workplace: the Living Office. It is the ultimate twenty-first-century work-in-progress.
For Doshi Levien, Mass-Produced Goods Should Feel Custom-Made
Mixing influences from East and West, the vernacular and the modern, Doshi Levien creates precision-tooled products with the look and feel of the handmade.
Eames: The Writers
A documentary on the Eames team missed out on their most integral collaboration.
Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames were intended only to be the starting point for “Design Entrepreneurs: The Next Generation,” the conference organized by Metropolis and sponsored by Nokia on May 19 at ICFF 2003. But the designing couple’s presence resonated throughout…
