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  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Why retrofuturism looks so now

    Utopian visions from the past continue to propel design

    Hakola furniture in the nurses’ house at Paimio Sanatorium in Finland
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    HTSI autumn design issue 2024

    This season’s special features Carlo Scarpa, meme furniture and Apple’s vision of the future

    Pierre Cardin’s home The Palais Bulles, designed by Antti Lovag
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Organic architecture has never seemed so relevant

    How a movement conceived in the early 1900s became a blueprint for modern living

    Javier Senosiain’s Casa Orgánica, 1984
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    The great gas station renovation

    Once endangered, these architectural marvels are being repurposed into essential stops for everything, from burger bars to bookstores

    Here After, 2017, an artwork installation in London by Craig & Karl
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Interiors
    A glimpse into the lavish London homes lost in time

    Remember ‘vogue Regency’ or ‘Curzon Street baroque’? No? A collection of photographs of the capital’s long-forgotten drawing rooms offers a peek into the extraordinary lives and tastes of past generations

    A black and white image of a large, lavishly decorated room, with an Islamic theme
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Art Basel Paris 2024
    Giant rhubarb tables and Virgil Abloh thrones at Design Miami Paris

    The fair returns to the 18th-century Hôtel de Maisons with a vibrant melting pot of classic and contemporary creations

    Three angular, modernistic sculptures, made in white concrete that looks like marble, against a frieze of huge, black, wall-mounted tiles
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    HTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: what does tomorrow look like?

    This autumn’s design special looks back to the future

    Michael J Fox In Back to the Future Part II, 1989
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Travels in interiors hyperreality

    The metaverse is changing the face of contemporary design

    Villa Ortizet, in Lozère, by ZYVA Studio and Charlotte Taylor – all images throughout are computer-generated
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    Interiors
    Margaret Howell gives Lucienne Day new lustre

    Day shook up the world of textiles with her bold, Modernist prints — now her lustrous ‘mosaics’ are the subject of an exhibition at the fashion designer’s store

    A woman with grey hair sits surrounded by fabric artwork, mainly in black and maroon
  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Architect William Smart on David Sedaris, great jackets and his space-age home in Sydney

    The founder of Smart Design Studio talks taste

    WIlliam Smart at home in Sydney with his dog, Digby
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Jumbo, the design duo who’ve turned dumbing down into an art form

    Meet New York’s new meme lords

    Monling Lee (left) and Justin Donnelly in the Jumbo studio in New York City. At their feet are Fortune chairs, $1,175 each, hellerfurniture.com. In the centre is a scale model of the Sport sofa
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    The best thing about sci-fi films? The corridors

    Take a design cue from a movie masterpiece this season 

    An ocatgonal corridor in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Interiors
    Designer Charles Zana’s regal Art Basel outing

    The French architect debuts his latest furniture collection in the storied environs of the Hôtel de La Marine

    A man leans against a fireplace. To one side of him is a modern chair with slim metal arms and legs, and a deep padded seat
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    FT SeriesHTSI autumn design issue 2024
    Beam me up! Take your lamps to a new dimension

    These artists’ lights are out of this world

    Inside a Forest Cloud chandelier, 2019, by Nacho Carbonell, on display in Venice
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Our favourite pieces at PAD are going back to the future

    The 14 most forward-thinking pieces at next week’s London design fair

  • Friday, 4 October, 2024
    HTSI
    How Noritsugu Oda found himself sitting on 1,400 chairs

    Over 50 years, the Japanese illustrator has accumulated a world-class archive. Now he has to decide what to do with it

    Noritsugu Oda in his living room at home in Higashikagura, sitting in the CH468 Oculus Chair designed by Hans J Wegner, produced by Carl Hansen and Son
  • Thursday, 3 October, 2024
    HTSI
    Meet Machado-Muñoz – Madrid’s hottest new design duo

    Mafalda Muñoz and Gonzalo Machado are redefining contemporary cool in the Spanish capital

    Gonzalo Machado and Mafalda Muñoz at the entrance to their gallery
  • Tuesday, 1 October, 2024
    Interiors
    Martino Gamper: ‘There are as many chairs as characters in the world, as people’

    The Italian designer takes over Maja Hoffmann’s London town house for an immersive retrospective

    A middle-aged man dressed in blue corduroy sits on one of seven chairs, which are lined up in a row in a large room, with panelled walls and a decorative reddish carpet. Every chair is completely different
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Designer Ori Orisun Merhav is bringing shellac back

    She uses beetle secretion to blow amber bulbs for her rococo lights

    A young women in a sleeveless white top, a long, terracotta-coloured skirt and heeled mules leans against a crumbling plaster and bare-brick wall. She holds two bird-like forms made up of multiple amber-coloured bubbles
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Designer Michael Marriott: ‘I don’t really like the word “designer”’

    An inspirational maker and teacher in London for 30 years, his designs often employ found objects or adapt existing items

    A middle-aged man wearing black-rimmed glasses, a blue shirt and jeans stands in a doorway. Behind him the room is lined shelves,  crammed full of books
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Substack is design journalism’s irreverent new home

    Newsletters such as Snake, Ground Condition and For Scale are providing independent views on what’s worth buying

    A busy illustration showing various furniture items and electronic symbols
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Collector Luca Bombassei on his love of the Memphis Group’s Ettore Sottsass

    The architect and art patron has filled his Venetian palazzo with surprising contrasts

    A man with grey hair, wearing glasses, a black jacket and white T-shirt, sits at a table in front of shelves full of vibrantly coloured glass vases
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Collecting
    Art and design in London 2024

    As London’s autumn season begins, we look at new digital ways of buying design and we profile the designer who hates being called a designer

    In her studio young woman in a leather apron and dark trousers sits held up by the thin curling steel arms of a chandelier in progress
  • Saturday, 28 September, 2024
    Art and design in London 2024
    Feathers, bones and human hair — the new materials for design

    This year’s PAD art and design fair showcases work using unusual means to create otherworldly pieces

    A man wearing a taupe-coloured poncho, matching trousers and a black, wide-brimmed hat, sits cross-legged among a collection of glowing, cloud-like sculptures
  • Friday, 27 September, 2024
    Interiors
    What does your mantelpiece say about you?

    A solitary vase, a shrine to family photographs, an unruly mess of keys, knick-knacks and unpaid bills . . . whatever sits above the fireplace is compellingly revelatory

    Johnson Hartig’s living room is a riot of colour and pattern, including an orange mantelpiece with green and white zigzag tiling and a bright blue coffee table
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