Furniture has always had a love-hate relationship with art. Some pieces are so carefully considered in form that they become objects of admiration, almost too precious to actually use. Others are purely utilitarian and couldn’t …
Two Makers Just Built the Pocket Linux PC Big Tech Refused To Make
The commercial laptop market has gotten good at making portable computers slim and powerful, but it hasn’t quite figured out what to do with people who want something truly pocketable. A growing number of DIY …
The Best Neck Air Conditioner for Hot Flashes Is Also the Best Mother’s Day Gift Right Now
A few years ago, I bought my mom a simple powerful handheld fan that she now swears by (it’s small enough to be a permanent fixture in her purse). She discovered it also works as …
This Sharp-Cornered Lithuanian Home Only Exists Because Planning Rules Wrecked the Original Design
Most architects fold when the rules change. The Trim House by Polish firm KWK Promes, completed in 2025 in a forested suburb of Vilnius, Lithuania, is exactly that kind of project. It began in 2016, …
The 40-Year-Old Lamp That Still Looks Like the Future
Some design ideas are so quietly right that they take decades to find their full audience. Oliver Michl’s Architect’s Lamp from the 1980s is exactly that kind of piece. It is a ceiling-mounted light that …
Aston Martin Veil Concept Reimagines What Comes After the Valkyrie Hypercar
Aston Martin’s hypercar trajectory over the past decade has followed a clear arc: the Valkyrie brought F1 aerodynamics to road car design, the Valkyrie AMR Pro pushed that concept to track-only extremes, and the Valhalla …
AKAI MPC for Nintendo Switch? This concept turns a gaming console into a live production rig
If you can emulate Nintendo devices on laptops, why can’t you emulate laptop software on a Switch? That’s pretty much Alquemy’s train of thought when it came to this concept which merges the worlds of …
A Gaming Executive Said “Build Me a Crystal House.” This Is What 7,300 sq. ft. of Pure Glass Looks Like
Glass is the most psychologically loaded material in architecture. It promises transparency and delivers ambiguity, reads as weightless while demanding extraordinary structural engineering, and has the strange property of making a building simultaneously present and …
The Ghost of Carlo Mollino’s Best Table Has Finally Arrived
Some designs don’t age. They just wait. The Vertebra table by Carlo Mollino has spent the last 75 years doing exactly that, existing in the margins of design history as a tantalizing “what if.” Created …
Candy, Memory, and Light Melt Into Form in Marten Herma Anderson’s Lamps
Architectural and furniture designer Marten Herma Anderson draws from an unexpected source for his latest series of lamps, translating a fleeting childhood memory into a tactile and atmospheric lighting object. What began as a simple …