Extreme Beauty Bewitching Heels, Informed by Strip Clubs The British designer Sarah Ansah fuses chemical experiments and a fascination with sci-fi, pop culture, and pole dancing to make otherworldly footwear and knits.
Partnership How It's Made: Renaissance Hotels Through dynamic contextual design and neighborhood-centric influences, each Renaissance Hotel tells the story of its locale.
Art Kahlil Joseph With his riveting short films and installations, the video artist and filmmaker is emerging as one of the most original voices of his generation.
Site Visit Site Visit: Ivy Ross, VP Hardware Design, Google Ivy Ross, Google's vice president of hardware design, has embarked on a lifelong journey to ascertain how art and design impact our physiology. Here, she gives us a rare look inside Google's color lab and materials library, as well as her art-filled home in Mill Valley, California.
Studio Visit Studio Visit: Zaventem Ateliers The spirit of Middle Age guilds has informed the budding Zaventem Ateliers in Brussels. Can it be a model for the preservation of old-world craft? Go inside one of Europe's most experimental design collectives.
Studio Visit Studio Visit: Brendan Ravenhill Brendan Ravenhill’s lighting and furniture studio inhabits an airy post-industrial warehouse in Glassell Park, Los Angeles, that its founder tailored around an intrepid work-in-progress mentality.
The Boundaries Issue Design Dialogues No. 50: David Lynch and Hans Ulrich Obrist At an event inside the Serpentine Pavilion at the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, Hans Ulrich Obrist spoke with David Lynch about the thinking behind his film, art, music, furniture, and approach to consciousness itself.
Travel The Brando: A Look Inside the World's Most Luxurious Eco Resort Five years into an extraordinary mission, The Brando’s Richard Bailey offers a new vision of tourism and sustainable design.
Design Detroit: City of the Past, City of Tomorrow Detroit has a storied design history full of monumental midcentury figures. Now, a new class of avant-garde furniture makers is carrying on the legacy—and evolving it. Isabelle Weiss, founder of local gallery NEXT:SPACE, on why the city will be a driving force in U.S. design again.
NEED TO KNOW Archi-Tectonics Is Redefining SoHo's Skyline Surface tours three of Archi-Tectonics’ SoHo structures and chats with principal architects Winka Dubbeldam and Justin Korhammer about the award-winning firm's greatest hits and upcoming projects. "Flat Lands & Massive Things—From NL to NYC & Beyond," a retrospective highlighting Archi-Tectonics' impact, is on view at Aedes Architecture Forum in Berlin from March 16 through April 25.
DESIGN In the Studio With Studio Drift Founders Lonneke Gordijn and Ralph Nauta talk about their tech-driven, future-focused work, and where humanity fits in.
ART In the Studio With Cai Guo-Qiang We spend a stormy afternoon hanging out with the artist and his team in his downtown Manhattan workspace.
Partnership Jean Pigozzi and Leica Collaborate on the Ultimate Party Camera The art collector and photographer tells us about how he invented the selfie and his design for the new Leica Sofort instant camera.
TRAVEL Musée Yves Saint Laurent The opening of the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech is putting the spotlight back on a cultural treasure trove.
PARTNERSHIP Site Visit: MINI LIVING URBAN CABIN: The Concept On view at A/D/O, the MINI LIVING URBAN CABIN rethinks the way we live in cities by tapping local residents and culture to inform its experimental solutions.
ART Ai Weiwei: "Good Fences Make Good Neighbors" The artist's new, very personal project for Public Art Fund confronts New York's five boroughs with the global refugee crisis.
PARTNERSHIP Marc Thorpe and the Leica TL2 The designer and architect heads to outdoor sculpture museum Storm King with the latest camera from Leica.
DESIGN DISPATCH Neri Oxman Creates a Skyscraper Prototype with AI, and More News Plus, a new supertall observation deck at Rockefeller Center and the new class of MacArthur Fellows
DESIGN DISPATCH Nobu and KAWS Go in On a Tequila, and Other News Plus, Gavin Newsom makes brands responsible for textile recycling and Perrotin will open in London.
DESIGN DISPATCH Beyoncé Stars in a Levi’s Campaign, and Other News Plus, Fotografiska closes in New York, and LVMH sells Off-White.
DESIGN DISPATCH Olafur Eliasson Will Light Up New York, and Other News Plus, Gagosian will stage Europe's largest James Turrell exhibition, and Moncler's chairman strikes
DESIGN DISPATCH Nan Goldin Photographs Debby Harry for Gucci, and Other News Plus, Wes Anderson gets a London retrospective, and art fairs join forces to reduce their carbon...