Design

Ahead of his first solo in the UK, why the late California-based sculptor’s material sensibility and countercultural ideals deserve reappraisal

A house that looks like a powerstation and a ‘grotesque’ hotel extension are in the running for architects’s least favourite prize

The Paris-based designer on his drawings featured in the 2018 Frieze London campaign

In a quiet mountain town in Trentino, Italy, the duo Brave New Alps is providing skills and support to precarious migrant communities

The disconnect between public museum programming and private hire couldn’t be starker – it’s time for the arts to rethink who it accepts money from

Coming of age during the second wave of Italian Futurism, the artist and designers’ mind-boggling experiments in genre and classification

How designers are exploring the subject’s elemental role as an agent of political and social change

The renowned Swiss architect and designer duo discuss the influences that have shaped their six-decade careers 

The innovatively designed home of Fondation d’entreprise Galeries Lafayette, remodelled by Rem Koolhaas, emphasizes the museum as flexible form

Once dubbed ‘the world’s factory floor’, Shenzhen has re-invented itself as a centre of innovation 

For the fifth in our six-part series in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, Design Matters, the London-based fashion designer talks about manipulating fabric, feeling comfortable and making something from nothing

Are recent innovations in sustainable fashion enough to save the planet? 

Known for swathes of standardized modernist high-rises, the South Korean capital is transforming itself into a hub for architectural design

On the prolific and varied career of artist, designer, collector and archivist Elaine Lustig Cohen 

Tiffany & Co.’s new range of gift objects and the shifting meaning of the ‘everyday’

Founders of the Book Society in Seoul, Helen Ku and Lim Kyung Yong, talk about the origins of their bookshop and publishing house

Alice Rawsthorn on the Italian design duo’s response to ecological and political concerns

For the third in our six-part series in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, Design Matters, architect David Adjaye on the importance of technology in making smarter and more ecological materials

What simulations tell us about the real world 

In the second of a new six-part film series in collaboration with Bang & Olufsen, Design Matters, Barber & Osgerby talk about how function informs their designs