Clockwise from left: So & So’s, a new piano bar; archival dining furniture from Swedish design company Svenskt Tenn, Maria Pergay’s Ring Chair, and a line of Yrjö Kukkapuro’s Experimental Chairs.

Japanese designer Daisuke Yamamoto presented recycled steel chairs on podiums of the same material as part of an exhibition at Dropcity in Milan, which has been shortlisted for a 2023 Dezeen Award.

For many designers, the urge to make a chair often seems primal, even essential. But as Mies van der Rohe once commented, “A chair is a very difficult object. A skyscraper is almost easier.” You can’t ...

If you move as a hardware hacker through the sometimes surprisingly similar world of artists, craftspeople, designers, blacksmiths, and even architects, there’s one piece of work that you will see ...