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Art and Industry

Konstantin Grcic is one of the most successful industrial designers working today. When Lucy Bullivant met up with him, she discovered a designer revelling in the unpredictability of today?s design and manufacturing process.

Smeg’s Family Factory

Mandi Keighran heads to Guastalla, Reggio Emilia in Italy to discover where Smeg makes their iconic kitchen appliances.

Scandinavia to Singapore: Muuto joins XTRA

By adding Muuto to its roster as Singapore’s only retailer, XTRA not only celebrates the enduring appeal of Scandinavian design – it heralds a whole new perspective on its universally appealing legacy.

Layering time: A Contemporary farmstead in Kyoto

A contemporary rural home by Tomohiro Hata Architect & Associates reinterprets historic farmstead clusters in a bamboo-forest landscape.

A Mediterranean vision, realised

Hamsi Taverna brings Aegean warmth to Sydney – delivered through a tightly aligned collaboration between Alkot Studio and Unita.

Comment: Four design principles pushing beyond the office in 2026

As 2026 gathers pace, Davenport Campbell Principal Neill Johanson argues that the people-place-process nexus in workplace design just won’t cut it any longer.

The sofa as landscape: How Groundpiece rewrote the rules

In 2001, Antonio Citterio designed a sofa that threw out the rulebook. A quarter-century later, Groundpiece remains Flexform’s longest-running bestseller – and it still looks like the future.