Milan furniture fair: house work

This year’s Milan furniture fair brings clever reworkings of classic designs, plus soft rounded shapes and sorbet colours. Becky Sunshine chooses her favourite pieces from the show

For art and interior design enthusiasts: Lutetia’s collection at auction

Parisian luxury hotel Lutetia to auction furniture collection this May. The historic luxury hotel Lutetia, the Left Bank’s only large hotel and the regular rallying point of artists, designers and intellectuals, closed earlier this month for a three-year renovation, but not before organizing a luxury furniture auction this May. The historic Parisian hotel is giving … Read more

Bang & Olufsen’s next-generation flagship

Sound, design and sensory experiences celebrated at next-generation Bang & Olufsen flagship in North America.   The iconic high-end Danish brand Bang & Olufsen (founded in Struer, Denmark, in 1925 by Peter Bang and Svend Olufsen) unveiled its first newly redesigned store concept in North America, at the new Madison Avenue showroom location in New … Read more

Building Your Luxurious Dream Home: 5 Starter Tips

While it is okay to purchase a ready-to-move-in home, sometimes it is better to build your own dream home. You may feel that this is impossible but with careful planning and assistance from others, you will have a dream home that will last for many years and that you can pass on to future generations. … Read more

Designs of the Year 2014 pits the ingeniously amusing against the admirably innovative.

Designs of the Year 2014. Nominations include students and design stars such as Zaha Hadid, John Pawson, Stephen Jones, David Chipperfield and Miuccia Prada. Looking for the very best in global Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphic, Product and Transport design? Welcome to Designs of the Year 2014. The 76 nominations for Designs of the Year … Read more

Salone del Mobile 2014: Sliding Nature installation takes the gifts of nature into homes

Sliding Nature: a new relationship between people’s living environments and nature.   Japanese houses traditionally use “Fusuma” or “Shoji” paper sliding doors to take the gifts of nature into homes, such as pleasant breezes and soft sunlight. Thanks to the sliding doors, people can also enjoy the surrounding scenery. Thanks to the sliding doors, people … Read more