Design
My life is all food stains and dead pot plants – no wonder I dream of beauty and good taste | Emma Beddington
I’m tired of the dull, drab and mundane. Bring on the gold lamé dresses and pomegranate-scented potpourri, writes Emma Beddington
Emma Beddington
05, May, 2024 @1:00 PM
Neon, kilts, cricket bats: artisans gather to shine a light on Britain’s endangered crafts
Numbers of specialist makers are dwindling but one charity plans to save this vital part of our cultural heritage
Alice Fisher
04, May, 2024 @2:00 PM
‘We handed out raw fish to clubbers’: the mind-bending acid house tour of London
George Georgiou gave British rave culture its smiley face. Now he’s placing plaques where hardcore clubbers sweated till dawn. Our writer joins the designer – and DJs Danny Rampling and Nicky Holloway – on a face-melting trip
Daniel Dylan Wray
30, Apr, 2024 @3:10 PM
‘One of the most racist things I’ve ever seen’: how RIBA is decolonising its HQ
The Royal Institute of British Architects has been taking stock of the disturbingly imperial decoration of its palatial home – with a new show telling a larger, more unsettling story
Oliver Wainwright
29, Apr, 2024 @12:40 PM
John Miles obituary
Creator with his design partner Colin Banks of corporate identities for clients including Royal Mail and British Telecom
James Alexander
17, Apr, 2024 @3:51 PM
‘It’s our job to change it for the better’: can artists influence the US election?
A new campaign brings together major names in the art world, including Shepard Fairey and Carrie Mae Weems, to urge voters to choose democracy over fascism
David Smith in Washington
10, Apr, 2024 @3:48 PM
‘The critics are ignorant’: the designer facing death threats for his Portugal government logo
Eduardo Aires’s innocuous-seeming branding has become a ‘projectile weapon’ for rightwing leaders – who have manufactured ‘patriotic’ outrage into real political power
Oliver Balch
10, Apr, 2024 @3:00 PM
‘It will blow people away’: Dutch superstar gardener redesigns RHS flagship Wisley garden
The ‘Rembrandt’ of green spaces Piet Oudolf reveals plans for the ‘different kind of landscape’ he is creating in Surrey
Lisa O'Carroll in Hummelo
07, Apr, 2024 @9:00 AM
Iain Oughtred obituary
Boat designer whose St Ayles skiff, based on indigenous Scottish craft and intended for coastal rowing, proved hugely popular
Nic Compton
04, Apr, 2024 @1:14 PM
Milanese makeover: 1930s factory to stylish showroom and home
A warehouse space in the Italian city has been cleverly transformed with original features and a mix of styles
Scarlett Conlon
31, Mar, 2024 @1:00 PM
Enzo Mari review – the anarchic Italian at war with design world ‘pornography’
Design Museum, London
From his steel-bar fruit bowl to his troop of wooden animals, the combative creator railed against ‘the rampant consumption of luxury furniture’ – despite his own hefty price tags
From his steel-bar fruit bowl to his troop of wooden animals, the combative creator railed against ‘the rampant consumption of luxury furniture’ – despite his own hefty price tags
Oliver Wainwright
27, Mar, 2024 @12:01 AM
Laurent de Brunhoff obituary
Author and illustrator who carried on his father Jean’s adventures of Babar in more than 40 books
Kim Willsher
26, Mar, 2024 @12:49 PM
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