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Art and Craft
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Dorothy Cosonas Designs Textiles from the Fiber Up
The creative director carries forward Luum’s legacy of material innovation through close collaboration with mills and an emphasis on fiber-level experimentation.
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Profiles
Neri&Hu Design for Continuity
For the Shanghai-based firm, design that is relevant for the future is also a bridge to the past.
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Viewpoints
How Can We Celebrate Craft in Architecture Today?
The designers of some of the most beautifully crafted buildings and spaces in New York City convened to discuss the role of artistry in architecture.
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Michael Ford and Momentum Find a New Way to Express Hip-Hop Culture
Ford’s new textile-and-wallcovering collection brings rhythm to commercial interiors.
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An A-to-Z Guide to the America We Want to Build
For the United States’ 250th anniversary, METROPOLIS highlights the designers and ideas shaping a more equitable, sustainable, and imaginative future for the built environment.
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How The Craft of Kawai Kanjirō Teaches Us to Find Beauty in the Unknown
On the 100th anniversary of the Japanese mingei movement, New York’s Japan Society puts on the first U.S. retrospective of the folk potter and Living National Treasure.
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Viewpoints
The Shakers: Culture, Craft, Community, and Care
Behind the separatist Christian sect that believed that every tool, object, and design choice should serve a purpose.
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Projects
Calder Gardens Brings Stillness to Philadelphia’s Parkway
Piet Oudolf’s signature garden and Herzog & de Meuron’s subterranean museum unite to create a quiet sanctuary for Alexander Calder’s art on Philadelphia’s grand boulevard.
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Products
Should Wool Play a Bigger Role in the Built Environment?
As mountains of waste wool pile up around the world, its untapped potential is coming into sharper focus.
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Projects
The Intuit Atlanta Office Pulses with the City’s Energy
Studio O+A, TVS, & Intuit collaborate to create an inspiring, community-driven atmosphere with a network of “neighborhoods”.
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Profiles
Inside Three SoCal Design Workshops Where Craft and Sustainability Meet
With a vertically integrated approach, RAD furniture, Cerno, and Emblem are making design more durable, adaptable, and resource conscious.
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Profiles
Studio ThusThat Gives Industrial By-products a Second Life
The Amsterdam-based designers create furniture and objects that explore industrial production and waste narratives.
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3 Textiles and Wall Treatments with Purpose
Textiles and wall treatments shape our surroundings, but it’s the fusion of material innovation and artistic intent that gives them meaning
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Studio Kër Looks at Design as Resistance
Former NFL star Michael Bennett’s format-defying furniture designs grapple with identity, history, and representation.
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Projects
A ‘Ghost River’ Flows Through Baltimore
Learn how this public art installation tells the story of 100 years of urban development—and invites us to imagine what the next century should look like.
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Projects
Every Object in Philadelphia’s Yowie Hotel is a Design Lover’s Dream
The Yowie Hotel is the next evolution of designer Shannon Maldonado's homegrown design brand.
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Profiles
Marcos Lutyens and the Exploration of Consciousness Through Art
How the great nephew of famed architect Edwin Lutyens has charted his own path, investigating perception and the mind as a multidisciplinary artist.