Tag: furniture

  • What we learned at Milan Design Week 2026

    Across the design industry’s leading event, renowned decorators and leading brands looked to nature and the past to mollify the current moment, while independent talents harnessed history and natural material to set their sights on the future.

  • 5 unmissable highlights from Design Shanghai 2026

    The 13th edition of Asia’s pre-eminent design showcase returned to Shanghai with a dazzling exploration of the future of design.

  • 5 must-see exhibits to look out for at Downtown Design Dubai

    As Downtown Design returns to Dubai Design District, we speak to the fair’s director, Mette Degn-Christensen.

  • Ligne Roset’s Olivier Roset on legacy, innovation and the future of French design

    Cultural Union sits down with Olivier Roset, co-CEO of Ligne Roset, to talk about heritage and modernity, the challenges of the industry – and the iconic Togo.

  • Four Seasons designer Ed Ng on creating hotels of the imagination

    With clients from Mandarin Oriental to Four Seasons and Rosewood, AB Concept is a design studio that inhabits the global first division. Its co-founder Ed Ng speaks to Cultural Union about the intuition that lies behind great spaces “It’s the sixth sense of the designer,” says Ed Ng, when asked how he anticipates the desires…

  • Natalia Miyar blends glamour with comfort in her dazzling interiors

    Architect and interior designer Natalia Miyar speaks to Cultural Union about her contextual approach to creativity and her residential and hotel projects in London, Ibiza, Miami and beyond. “My job is like a conductor of sorts,” says Natalia Miyar. “I just weave together beautiful parts of things.” The designer is describing the practical aspects of…

  • How Goddard Littlefair reached the global pantheon of design firms

    With a client list that includes Four Seasons, Raffles, Mandarin Oriental, Mondrian and the Berkeley Group, Goddard Littlefair are in a pantheon of true global interior design studios. Jo Littlefair sat down with Cultural Union to explain how they got there. In an era of spectacular property launches, a certain design studio’s name keeps appearing…

  • Step inside Anouska Hempel’s exquisite Parisian boutique hotel, Monsieur George

    Legendary interior designer Anouska Hempel talks to Cultural Union about her jewel-like Parisian bolt-hole, Monsieur George Hotels, at their best, are portals. They hold the power to transport us to a heightened version of reality, a stage for us to act as elevated versions of ourselves. Monsieur George, tucked in a relaxed side street off…

  • 6 iconic modern and contemporary designs by Marc Newson

    Over the past four decades, Australian industrial designer Marc Newson has become one of the most influential creatives of his generation. A recent monograph by Alison Castle, published by Taschen, celebrates the span of his career.

  • Design studio DE ROSEE SA on curating atmosphere from London to Lisbon

    Claire Sá and Max de Rosée speak to Cultural Union about their globally respected London and Lisbon-based architecture and design studio, DE ROSEE SA. “We curate atmosphere,” says Max de Rosée – which is as good a description as you’ll ever come across for the ineffable nature of design. It’s also highly apt: while DE…

  • Meet Attua Aparicio, winner of the 2024 Ralph Saltzman Prize for emerging designers

    In the latest of our Designer Q&A series, Effect speaks to Attua Aparicio, a London-based Spanish multidisciplinary artist and the 2024 recipient of the Design Museum’s prestigious Ralph Saltzman Prize To visit Attua Aparicio’s exhibition at the Design Museum in London is to experience a collection of ceramics that appear to glisten with life. Digit Texture Vases – bearing the…

  • 5 Modernist icons with stunning architecture and interiors

    Mid-century Modern is the 20th century’s most enduring and engaging design legacy. With seminal projects from John Lautner, Eero Saarinen and Paulo Mendes Da Rocha, we round up 5 extraordinary examples of Modernist architecture and interiors, curated from Modernist Icons by gestalten It’s now more than 70 years since the term Mid-Century Modern first appeared…

  • Must-see highlights from PAD London Design + Art 2023

    Europe’s chicest design fair returns to London for its 15th edition, having celebrated its 25th anniversary in Paris earlier this year A packed and confident PAD returned to London this week, bringing what the design fair’s founder and CEO Patrick Perrin describes as “a place of boundless inspiration, dedicated to creativity, quality, learning and discovery”…

  • 6 Modernist glass houses with incredible design and architecture

    From South America to Northern Europe, here are six extraordinary residences with pioneering use of glass by Modernist architects such as John Lautner and Philip Johnson and their contemporary successors, curated from Glass Houses by Phaidon One of the most dazzling aspects of Modernist architecture is its extensive use of glass – an innovation unlocked by…

  • 10 treasures you need to see at London’s Treasure House Fair 2023

    The inaugural Treasure House Fair comes to Royal Hospital Chelsea in London, with the team behind Masterpiece curating a cohort of blue-chip art and design exhibitors from Europe and America A new art and design fair has arrived to grace London’s summer season in the beautiful Royal Hospital Chelsea – and the good news is…

  • 3 galleries that dazzled at London’s 2023 Collect Fair

    The world’s leading international fair for contemporary craft and design returned to London’s Somerset House last week for its 19th edition. Collect inhabits a singular space in the art and design world. One of the few international fairs to focus almost exclusively on contemporary objets, it remains intimate in feel, yet wears its global stature…

  • Meet Marco Campardo, award-winning designer of tomorrow’s furniture

    In the latest of our Designer Q&A series, Effect speaks to Marco Campardo, an emerging design talent from Italy, now working in London and the second recipient of the Design Museum’s prestigious Ralph Saltzman Prize Ask Marco Campardo what his go-to material is and he’ll tell you he doesn’t have one – and it’s this sense of…

  • Tala Fustok brings glamour and edge to her interior design

    London-based designer Tala Fustok has brought her singular vision to interiors from the Mandrake Hotel in London to Bleecker Street in New York and Hôtel de Crillon in Paris. She talks to Effect about her design philosophy, process and influences. In just over six years, Tala Fustok has emerged as a highly original voice in…

  • 8 essential highlights from BRAFA 2023

    BRAFA has made an emphatic return to Brussels for its 68th edition, taking back its traditional January slot and re-asserting itself as one of the world’s great art and design fairs. The approach to BRAFA’s new home at Brussels Expo is something of a palate cleanser, sitting as it does in the gaze of the…

  • 7 must-see highlights from New York’s 2023 Winter Show

    Cultural Union rounds up the highlights from New York’s premier art and design fair, returning to the Park Avenue Armory for its 69th edition. Founded in the 1950s and the undisputed grande dame of America’s art and design events, The Winter Show returned this week to the Park Avenue Armory, its home for all but…