A striking installation and photography project for Sunbrella shows the continued significance of high-performance textiles.

Faye Toogood, Oeuffice, Pedro Paulo Venzon, Philippe Malouin and Jonah Takagi have created elegant work for American label Matter Made.

Experimental Dutch design collective Envisions teamed up with Spanish heritage wood manufacturer Finsa on a new series of wildly haptic, colourful, innovate and speculative forms; showcased at Palazzo Clerici during Milan Design Week.

Dispelling the notion that objects are inert, Danish textile artists Hanne G develops The Duet for Mindcraft 17 as both an object and sound-based interactive installation.

Translating age-old construction technology into the suggestion of a modular furniture, interdisciplinary Danish duo MBADV developed Bricks of Time for Mindcraft 17.

For Mindcraft 17, young talents Emil Krøyer and Mads Sætter-Lassen developed Plinth, a cantilevered table combining various noble materials including locally sourced Blue Rønne granite. Championing the material’s haptic qualities, the duo devised an architectonic construction with strategic contrast.

Anita Hackethal spoke to Jean-Marie Massaud, whose work marries high-tech qualities with timeless elegance, lightness and comfort, about materials.

Celebrating IN Residence’s 10th anniversary, 45 designers have created a talisman to be exhibited and auctioned at Atelier Clerici during Milan Design Week.

A series of photographs by Laetitia Bica forms part of this year’s Belgium Is Design exhibition, showing at Palazzo Litta.

Constantly creating, Paris-based designer and artist Arik Levy says that he “thinks with his heart and feels with his brain”. Architonic met up with Tel… Read more

For this year’s Mindcraft exhibition – Milan Design Week: 4 to 9 April – celebrated Danish duo, Eske Rex and Maria Mengel, debuts Day Bed; an exploration of the transition from sleep to activity, time spent traveling, and how both contemporary conditions can be expressed in the formal reference of the rising sun.

For Mindcraft 17, Japanese-Danish silversmith Yuki Ferdinandsen explores the concept of time in her meticulous and meditative mastery of the age-old arare hammering technique. The result is a series of monumentally curvaceous vessels with highly detailed surfaces.