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Industrial Design
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Products
METROPOLIS’s Sustainability Lab Returns to NeoCon
Discover tools, ideas, and inspiration to make thoughtful material choices for a sustainable future.
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Products
15 Booths We Loved at ICFF 2026
This year’s edition was filled with hand-crafted and digitally fabricated pieces made with bio-based and recycled materials. Check out METROPOLIS editors’ top picks here.
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Viewpoints
Milan Design Week 2026: Beyond the Spectacle
Milan Design Week 2026: Beyond the Spectacle. Has design’s biggest event become all flash? Looking past brash brand activations and frivolous displays of stylistic flex, can one still find substance?
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Viewpoints
Wolf-Gordon’s Material Journey
Chief Creative Officer Marybeth Shaw on decades of innovation, from early use of natural materials like cork to today’s PVC-free and bio-based offerings.
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Products
In Collaboration with Teknion, SOM Reissues Designs from Its Archive
The new Ikon collection revisits work from SOM’s long-unsung interiors division, originally created for powerhouse clients, including Halston and IBM.
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Products
From Skyscrapers to Chairs: Rewriting SOM’s American Design Legacy
An exhibition by Rarify reframes SOM’s philosophy of total design by reassessing decades of forgotten furniture and interiors.
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Viewpoints
Closing the Loop at Interface
Interface’s Jay Lanier and Mikhail Davis discuss the company’s journey and its ongoing efforts around circularity.
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Viewpoints
Water, Wellness, and the World We Build
Kohler’s chief sustainable living officer explains how to harness water conservation to create meaningful change.
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Viewpoints
The Power of Biophilia: Designing Buildings That Heal People and the Planet
METROPOLIS’s Winter issue explores how biophilic design continues to advance human well-being while evolving into a regenerative framework for buildings, ecosystems, and the planet.
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Products
Boss Design’s New Label Changes How Designers Specify
The Carbon Efficiency Label turns complex lifecycle data into a visual tool for informed specification.
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Viewpoints
Design Mumbai Redefines “Made in India”
This year’s fair showcased a new generation of architects and designers grappling with the realities of India’s scale and politics.
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Products
Discover the Best Products and Materials of 2025
METROPOLIS rounds up some of the most innovative products and materials that shaped design this year, highlighting breakthroughs in sustainability, circularity, and performance.
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Viewpoints
The Ripple Effect of Thoughtful Products
Teknion's vice president of sustainability, David McDivitt, shares how responsible design and manufacturing can drive global change.
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Viewpoints
6 Insights from Sense of Space Season 2
Ella Hazard and Faraz Shah return with conversations about how we design, inhabit, and make meaning in the built environment.
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Viewpoints
Making the Case for Slate
CUPACLAD’s Drew Ford shares how this ancient material, paired with modern engineering, meets today’s sustainability and performance standards.
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Profiles
This Studio is Reworking Indian Modernism by Hand
In Bangalore, Phantom Hands builds a model of sustainability that merges tradition, technology, and ethical design in a living workshop.
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Products
Lighting That Lets Shape Shine
From sculptural forms to fixtures inspired by nature—these three lighting trends reimagine how we shape space, mood, and meaning with light.
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Products
Feria Hábitat València 2025 Exhibits the Best of Spanish Craft and Sustainable Design
Despite a delayed opening due to weather, the Valencian community's annual furniture show returned with record numbers.
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Viewpoints
How a Fresh Materials Mindset Can Transform Your Projects
METROPOLIS’s Products 2025 issue explores inspired material alternatives that prevent harm, do good, and expand what’s possible in design.
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Products
Vitra Launches Two New Collections by the Bouroullec Brothers
The Mynt chair and Courier desk, although designed independently, speak to both brothers’ minimalist approach to functional workplaces.