A silvery tunnel with glittering streamers waving in the wind is a dramatic entryway. Designed by LAB at Rockwell Group, this extravagant portal, titled “Tinsel Town,” set the stage for what to expect ...

Japan has a long tradition of treating ordinary objects as worthy of serious attention. Not just functional, but considered - ...

The design museum makes one quiet argument. Certain objects deserve to be looked at, and how a thing is made can matter as much as what it does. Most people accept this on a Saturday afternoon in ...

Visiting Collective Design amid all of Frieze Week's art fairs is doubly refreshing: it's an unabashed celebration of beautiful objects and you can touch (almost) all of them. Isamu Noguchi, “Untitled ...

Katerina Kamprani is a designer who loves to mess with our minds by creating everyday objects that are completely impractical. Her project, "The Uncomfortable," is all about taking things we use every ...

In a tech-mad world, Jeremiah Baker and his cohorts at design collective Normal Objects consider some intriguing alternatives. Baker, his collaborators, and platformed partners craft astonishingly ...

For every architect and designer, there are objects out there that resonate for them in a profound manner and can even shape their design philosophies. These can be buildings, products – even ...

Most people don’t expect a disposable pen, a sticky note, or a simple paperclip to end up in museum collections. Yet some of the world’s most recognizable design icons were never created to become ...

In a furniture store, it’s a chair. In an art gallery, it’s a sculpture. But at International Objects in Brooklyn, it could be either, neither or both. By Will Heinrich Picture an object with a ...

A new book, “How to Live With Objects,” from the founders of the design website Sight Unseen explores the topic. By Aileen Kwun “You can only afford so much sofa,” Monica Khemsurov said, speaking of ...