Preview: Milan furniture fair
Designers and brands are playing a cautious game this year, reissuing classics or simply adding new elements to existing lines – and sustainability and recycling are key
Art and design
Trends for spring: what’s new in the world of design
A seaweed house, eye-popping cakes, furniture as art and art as furniture are among the ideas turning heads this season
Raf Simons on life after Calvin Klein: ‘I’ve never defined myself as a fashion designer’
In one of his first interviews since leaving the New York fashion house, Simons talks about the joy of designing textiles for Danish fabric company Kvadrat and his plans to open an art foundation
The flying saucers have landed: Qatar’s thrilling new supersized museum
It took 18 years to build, has nearly a mile of galleries and is inspired by a desert rose. But is Jean Nouvel’s eye-popping creation for the world’s wealthiest nation too extravagant to fill?
‘We never thought it would happen’: Thomas Heatherwick’s $200m gamble
The British designer has landed in New York with the Vessel, an extravagant 150ft-tall structure, the most talked about element of Hudson Yards
Beyoncé effect fills galleries with a new generation of art devotees
Fame sells: that’s the lesson in a survey revealing the world’s most popular exhibitions during a bumper year