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Jul 20, 2026 Haas Brothers: Furniture That Looks Back Eighty-five works, twin makers, beasts that might be stools. At the Museum of Arts and Design, the Haas Brothers' Uncann... Jul 19, 2026 gt2P: Soft Monuments That Right Themselves Fourteen inflatable giants—some nearly seventeen feet tall—modelled on a Chilean roly-poly toy. At Atlanta's High Mu... Jul 19, 2026 The Paper Log: When Pleating Leaves Furniture Behind Eighty-centimetre cylinders of waste paper from the pleating machine. Carved like timber, waxed like craft. Miyake's pro... Jul 18, 2026 Alaïa and Dior: The Couturier Who Collected Another A few days in the Dior ateliers in 1956; six hundred dresses bought in secret over forty years. Azzedine Alaïa did not ... Jul 17, 2026 Architects of Liberation: When Modernism Stopped Being Europe's Alone A pyramid in Abidjan, a library in Bolgatanga, banks and schools drawn as instruments of self-rule. MoMA's Architects of... Jul 17, 2026 Grammar of Forms: Couture That Wants to Be Read as Sculpture Silhouettes among bronzes, archive Dior beside new line, Lynda Benglis in the same air. Jonathan Anderson's Grammar of F... Jul 17, 2026 A Serpentine: The Wall That Holds by Refusing to Stand Straight A crinkle-crankle wall, brick columns like a grove, a roof that barely decides to be a roof. LANZA atelier's 2026 Serpen... Jul 17, 2026 Costume Art: The Met Stops Treating Clothes as a Guest Nearly 400 objects, all 19 of the Met's departments, garments hung as peers to painting and armour. Costume Art does not... Jun 22, 2026 The Bicycle as Object of Desire: A Short History of the Beautiful Machine Two triangles, two wheels, a chain — and yet no object has been redrawn by more designers, dreamers and luxury houses.... Jun 22, 2026 Sebastian Errazuriz: The Designer Who Refuses to Decorate A boat carved from a single fallen tree; a wardrobe that opens like a fan; sculptures that melt in protest. Sebastian Er... Oct 12, 2013 The Spacelander: The Bicycle That Came From the Future A biomorphic fibreglass body, built-in dynamo, curves like a parked rocket. Benjamin Bowden's Spacelander sold barely 50... Feb 18, 2013 Erba Cycles: Bicycles Grown, Not Welded Steel frames since the nineties, then a turn to something stranger: bamboo and hemp, grown rather than mined, lashed by ...