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All articles by Adrian Madlener

This autumn and winter, New York’s MAD Museum dedicates the majority of its galleries to an immersive series of interactive installations that reveal the wide history and application of sound art.

Last month, New York lighting designer Bec Brittain invited fellow craft-led designers Material Lust and Alex P. White to showcase as part of Strange Days, a sensuous deco-eques interior staging.

Faye Toogood mounted Trade Show during this year’s London Design Festival. Opting out of a traditional furniture fair model to launch her Spade Chair, the multi-talented British designer established a barter system with 50 of the UK’s leading creatives. The resulting showcase resembled a cabinet de curiosité.

Last month, Mathieu Lehanneur was in New York launching two highly distinct projects: the new Maison Kitsuné flagship and his latest Ocean Memories liquid marble series at Carpenters Workshop Gallery demonstrates the top French designer’s range; how one format can inform the other.

Brooklyn-based Patrick Weder melds the modernist rationalism, often associated with his native Switzerland, with the volatility of natural material. Sculpting monolithic forms along natural lines,… Read more

After a successful run in Milan and Paris, Dutch Invertuals’ Harvest showcase traveled to London Design Festival this month. The manifesto-like collection revealed how young design talents are finding new efficient and self sufficient ways to practice and address the pressing issues of today and tomorrow: calling for a drastic change in economics; our consumption and production.

The Campana Brothers debuts Hybridism at New York’s Friedman Benda gallery. Responding to a planet in crisis, the intuitively crafted and grotesque series incorporates animal forms, natural textures, woven textiles, and sustainably sourced materials in various furniture applications.