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Nothing says glamour with a touch of drama like an animal print. From Hollywood to the high street, this is why leopard, tiger and zebra prints remain enduring favourites everywhere. Now these prints are infusing interiors with their big statement style.
As our world becomes increasingly digitised and complex, architects, interior designers and artisans are retreating from this overload, adopting a stone-age simplicity by turning their attention to the ultimate analogue material, stone.
As non-renewable resources become ever more depleted, the irrevocable, environmental and ethical damage synthetic dyes are causing is leading designers to rethink the future of dyeing by recalibrating their relationship with nature.
Continuing our series focusing on creatives with a special interest in colour, we speak to Ruben de la Rive Box and Golnar Roshan of Amsterdam- based design studio Rive Roshan about the importance of experimentation and imagination.
From failed chemistry experiment to the giddy heights of Victorian fashion, flirtations with royalty and camp, and now a role in colouring the Metaverse, mauve is a colour with a rich and often surprising history.
As the world moves on from the pandemic aesthetics and ventures out once more, Swedish designers are acutely aware of the importance of reinvention. Stockholm Design Week report.
Despite celebrating its 20th anniversary, 2022’s edition of London Design Festival was a somewhat subdued event, with the effects of the pandemic and current economic uncertainty continuing to be felt.
While the crowds were back to pre-pandemic numbers at this year’s contemporary art fair Frieze London, last year’s rejection of the brash and the shocking in favour of something gentler and more personal seems to have stuck. The dial remains firmly turned to commerciality, rather than shock and awe.
The latest edition of Dutch Design Week saw an abundance of introspective projects that express a complex and sometimes contradictory web of political, physical and spiritual viewpoints.