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Milan Design Week Opens With Record Number of Independent Studios

More than half of this year's exhibitors are studios with fewer than ten people, and the fair has rearranged its halls around them.

By Sana Kovač

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The Architecture of Unease: How Brutalism Became Beautiful Again

Once derided as concrete monstrosities, mid-century brutalist structures are experiencing a renaissance among a new generation of designers drawn to their uncompromising honesty.

By Chiara Romano

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Fen & Marble Reveal First Look at Rotterdam Flagship

The studio's first permanent space pairs a spiralling steel stair with a ground floor that stays open to the street.

By Tomas Adeyemi

Translucent iridescent glass shapes catching pastel light

Milan Design Week Opens With Record Number of Independent Studios

More than half of this year's exhibitors are studios with fewer than ten people, and the fair has rearranged its halls around them.

By Sana Kovač

Curved grey sculpture rising from a field of snow

A Danish Lighting Brand Just Reissued Its Most Controversial Chair

Pulled from production after a single season in 1971, the cantilevered chair is back with a new base and the same argument about comfort.

By Sana Kovač

Dark notebook, pencils and a drafting triangle on a textured table

What Fen & Marble Actually Use to Pitch New Clients

A notebook, a set of pencils and a one-page brief: the studio walks through the kit it brings to every first meeting.

By Tom James

Poster of flowing blue horizontal wave lines

Arclight Studio Unveils New Identity for Nordic Airline

A single flowing line carries the new system from the tail fin to the boarding pass.

By Alex Suskind

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Renzo Vidal Premieres Short Film Honoring Late Mentor

Shot over three years, the film follows the workshop its subject left behind.

By Nina Corcoran

Team gathered around a table working on laptops and tablets

Bloom & Ash, Kiro Tanaka, and Lea Wren Launch New Collective

Three practices will share a studio, a client list and a single invoice template.

By Jazz Monroe

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See Fen & Marble's Surprise Pop-Up With Local Ceramicists

For one weekend, the studio's model shop became a gallery for five ceramicists from the neighbourhood.

By Alex Suskind

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Arclight Studio Announce Fall Exhibition

The show will open the studio's archive of rejected work to the public for the first time.

By Jazz Monroe

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