Brands
American design house Schumacher has acquired the archive of Vanoutryve, a defunct Belgian textile mill with a direct historical link to the company's founder, recovering more than 75,000 fabric samples spanning nearly a century.
Brands
New York gallery R & Company has opened Building 86, a 16,000 square foot space at the Brooklyn Navy Yard that gives collectors and designers by appointment access to its extensive design archive.
Brands
British designer Faye Toogood has unveiled Faces and Figures, her debut tile collection for Italian manufacturer Mutina, bringing sculptural eyes, noses and mouths to a range of glazed and matte clay tiles.
Interiors
RX Architects has added a garden facing extension to Druim, a timber clad home on the Rye Nature Reserve in East Sussex it first completed in 2020, wrapping a new dining space in full height glazing.
Brands
British furniture brand SCP has closed its long running Shoreditch showroom and opened a new home in a five storey Clerkenwell Green townhouse. Founder Sheridan Coakley says the move reflects how the trade side of the business now works.
Stays
Pasona Natureverse Retreat on Awaji Island gives half its 57 rooms a sea view and half a forest view, each with a private onsen, built around Ban's D-shaped plan and a month-long stay philosophy called Mibyo.
Trend
After years of voice assistants and app-controlled everything, a growing number of designers say their clients want one thing above all: a light switch that just turns on the light.