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Industrial Design
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Two Pendant Lighting Collections Celebrate Their Materials
Introductions from LightArt and Reflections Copenhagen use recycled plastic and jewel-toned crystal to vibrant effect.
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Exactly How Sustainable are Ceramic Tiles?
Italy's ceramic tile industry eyes a greener future and takes account of its recent progress on operational energy and water conservation.
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Viewpoints
The Radical Reshaping of Craft
From museums to TikTok, explore radical craft as a response to climate crisis, a means of storytelling, and an exploration of new materials.
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Profiles
For Mauro Porcini, Design Is All About Love
The chief design officer of PepsiCo shared his insights at Metropolis's inaugural Design Optimism symposium.
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Tracing Nearly 100 Years of Cross-pollination Between the U.S. and Scandinavia
Scandinavian Design and the United States, 1890–1980 on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art shows how design in Northern Europe influenced the development of American modernism and vice-versa.
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The Ultimate Metropolis 2022 Holiday Gift Guide
Metropolis editors select the best design-minded gifts for this holiday season.
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Products
Meet the Design Practices Shaking Things Up in Mexico City
The city-wide event Design Week Mexico debuts up-and-coming designers shifting the creative hub’s design scene.
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Is the Future of Furniture Flat-packed?
Designing for easy assembly is back in vogue, because it’s a fast way to achieve manufacturers’ carbon-reduction goals.
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RBW Puts Down Roots in Kingston, New York
The lighting brand doubles down on its B Corp values with a 100,000-square-foot facility that champions collaboration, innovation, and sustainability.
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Products
Carl Hansen & Søn Revives an Icon of Danish Functionalism
The Vega chair, first designed by Vilhelm Lauritzen for Copenhagen’s Folkets Hus, finally gets its due.
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15 Design Products for Better Indoor Air Quality
Now more than ever, product certifications are placing the power of good indoor air quality in interior designers’ hands.
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Products
9 Highlights from Italy’s Tile Trade Show
Biophilic patterns and natural hues pervaded tile trends at this year's Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings in Bologna, Italy.
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Products
Nick Cave Mines His Creative Processes in a New Collection for KnollTextiles
Inspired by his Soundsuits, the collection of upholstery and wallcoverings balances art and function.
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Viewpoints
Spotting the Rising Design Stars (and Their Creations) at Singapore Design Week 2022
The ten day celebration of Southeast Asian design showcased brave experiment, clever sustainability, and vibrant surprise in furniture, fashion, textiles, and more.
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Profiles
For This Shive-Hattery Principal, Curiosity Always Yields Innovation
Flexible, morale-boosting interiors distinguish the work of Michael Davis.
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Profiles
Net Zero 2022 Makes the Case for Expanding the Green Movement
The conference's ninth edition showcased the latest thinking in sustainability, but also aimed to broaden its scope beyond the built world.
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Products
Rediscovering a Master of Brazilian Modernism
Joaquim Tenreiro: Tectonic Master at R and Company in New York examines the legacy of a furniture-maker who was much more than a paper artist.
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Profiles
Shantell Martin Shares the Stories of Music and Scholarship Behind Her Artwork
The visual artist known for her spontaneous hand-drawn art sheds light on other key aspects of her practice.
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Products
Nine Female Textile Artists Bring Belgium’s Sober Aesthetic to New York
The Gift to be Simple group exhibition, curated by Li Edelkoort, highlights designers reinterpreting the country’s rich textile history in pared-back, yet poignant, fashion.
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Products
Maison & Objet Celebrates Independent Talent Navigating the New “Meta-Sensitive” World
For its second 2022 showing, the major Parisian trade show was awash in bold colors, playful patterns, and seamless digital integration.