Design Inspo

Back to school season may mean less time outside and more time spent at your desk. But studying (or working from home) doesn’t have to feel like a slog. A new school year calls for a design refresh, and these furnishings, lighting and accessories are...

Selecting a paint colour is no easy feat, especially when — after spending days sifting through swatches — the end result doesn’t match your vision. It’s an all-too-common problem and one that industry leader Benjamin Moore is on a mission to solve, starting with the spec....

Back in October 2022, independent lighting studio RBW moved its operation from Brooklyn to a sprawling facility in Kingston, New York (while still maintaining its SoHo showroom). Coinciding with the brand’s 13th anniversary, the relocation consolidated all aspects of its designing and manufacturing under one...

When Isamu Noguchi designed his series of washi paper lamps in 1951, he dubbed the works Akari, the Japanese word for light, nodding to both their function of illumination and their seemingly weightless design. Noguchi’s self-described “light sculptures” revived the centuries-old Japanese Gifu craft tradition...

I first immersed myself in the work of Milan architect and designer Michele De Lucchi two years ago by visiting Knowing How to Use Knowledge, his exploratory exhibition during the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale. It featured hundreds of sketches, dozens of abstract architectural models and...