The Container 26L is designed to adapt across environments rather than anchor itself to just one, showcasing a blend of rugged utility and refined design.
The exhibition traces both this historical development and the ways in which designers have repeatedly reinterpreted these tools. Some pieces prioritise function; others verge on the sculptural, testing how far the familiar forms of knife, fork and spoon can be pushed before usability is compromised.
The Portable CD Cover Player speaks directly to that person. It plays audio CDs through a built-in speaker while keeping the jacket art on full display in a front-facing pocket, turning the listening experience into something visual, tactile, and genuinely decorative.
Concrete affords an outdoor space an anchor. It's highly resilient but deeply contextual. The context is its materiality—modern concrete evokes something industrial and sparse, which both Simlai and Pfaff counteract with botanical elements and material mixing.
Quince offers three performance fabrics: a basketweave, a velvet and a chenille linen blend. It also comes in 11 shades, and I chose the performance velvet in Java, which is basically a very on-trend chocolate brown.
Forum Florum unfolds across SIAM's courtyard and two historic interior rooms, with the Flower Journey installation opening the sequence. The monumental portal traces the global history of the cut flower industry, an extractive trade that scaled from 19th-century Dutch greenhouse cultivation into today's Kenyan and Colombian export agriculture.
GROHE SPA embodies the pinnacle of the GROHE brand, showcasing an elevated expression of design, technology, and quality through its luxury bathroom solutions.
'When I go to bed, I go to work.' Starck describes dreaming as an active method in his design process, where sleep becomes a space for production and innovation.
When it comes to your wardrobe, it can be easy to define "bougie" as a piece of clothing that looks or feels expensive - and while the items on this list check those boxes, they're also so clever, you'll wonder how you ever did without them. Scroll on to shop for chic loungewear with extra functional features; trendy and practical fits for both day and night; and accessories that solve all sorts of fashion-related dilemmas.
When was the last time you saw an ashtray filled with stubbed-out Marlboros at a friend's apartment? At a restaurant? For some of us, the answer may very well be "never." Maybe that's the charm of the International Museum of Dinnerware Design's new exhibition on ashtrays - invoking an era before health codes and Mayor Bloomberg. Or reaching back even further, when you might see a Similac-branded ashtray in the office of your OB/GYN.