Baccarat’s Le Roi Soleil by Marcel Wanders
Empire of light.
Named after the equally extravagant Louis XIV, this light fixture is the embodiment of updated traditions translated for the modern world.
Salone Internazionale del Mobile
Giulio Cappellini
Design-minded.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Don of contemporary furniture Giulio Cappellini has had a decades-long career helming the family business. The architect, art director, and talent scout of international design excellence focuses on real products, not on lifestyle.
The Grohe Design Profile
Tapping the future.
FROM THE ARCHIVE: To most people a faucet is a faucet and that’s pretty much it. But Paul Flowers of Germany’s Grohe waxes poetic about the utilitarian fixture the way some people do about important paintings.
Mattias Ståhlbom’s Up Lamp
Light up, light up.
In simple terms, nordic design, much like the cuisine, places its emphasis on a Scandinavian heritage and clean simplicity; it’s a combination that continues to impress the design world.
An Oki Sato Quartz Garden
Hail, Caesarstone.
Every so often, you meet someone who seems to operate on a different plane, like 35-year-old designer Oki Sato. Sato says the sort of witty yet poignant aphorisms you could imagine coming from Andy Warhol. “At lunchtime, I go to the same restaurant. I have the same bowl of noodles,” says Sato, in Toronto for the Interior Design Show (IDS).
