This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Where else but at Milan Design Week would you find bookcases made from books, a bar cabinet covered in hairy hide and a pavilion (and all its contents) fashioned from the stuff that stoppers wine bottles? The resourcefulness of designers working with … Read more
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. From furniture inspired by a dancing Muppet bird named Betsy to proposals for coping with a dystopian future, families of objects at Milan Design Week said more with more. Lara Bohinc turned her childhood love of Betsy into a joyous furniture group … Read more
Dear readers, There’s a movie house here in New York that, on Sundays, shows a series of revivals appropriate for kids, complete with booster seats. My 5-year-old and I go often, and, a few months ago, went to see the 1944 musical “Meet Me in St. Louis.” We were having a lovely time watching the … Read more
Believe the hype: Epic Universe, the first major new theme park to open in Central Florida in 26 years, lives up to its name and then some. Honestly, I’m as shocked as you are. But epic-ness was indeed my takeaway after recently spending two days inside Epic Universe as part of “technical rehearsals,” a type … Read more
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Bouncing off glossy metal, being devoured by voluptuous fabrics or pouring out of lamp heads, light is always a design star. At Milan Design Week, it makes a conspicuous presence in the reflective surfaces of Michele De Lucchi’s revived mirrors for Memphis … Read more
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Chairs are to design fairs what apple pies are to state fairs: comfortable fixtures with (at least) 10,000 variations. At Milan Design Week, the new introductions include some popular repeats, like Patricia Urquiola’s Tufty-Time sofa for B&B Italia, now in its fourth … Read more
You’re saying they’re not representative. This is my life. I am engaged all the time. I’m not complaining about it because I hate people that complain about it, but I don’t walk down the street the way that you can walk down the street. I walk down the street, and people go, “Hey you.” I … Read more
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Lani Adeoye is a globe-straddler. The designer moves between teaching design at her alma mater, Parsons School of Design in New York City, and managing projects at her company, Studio-Lani, in her hometown, Lagos, Nigeria. This week, Ms. Adeoye, 35, will be … Read more
Betty Boop has arrived on Broadway, nearly a century after she first boop-oop-a-dooped her way onto the big screen. “Boop! The Musical,” like the “Barbie” and “Elf” films that preceded it, imagines a transformational encounter between an anthropomorphic character and the real world (well, a fictional world full of people). Betty’s journey to the stage … Read more
This article is part of our Design special report previewing Milan Design Week. Known for palettes that are as flamboyant as his characters, the Spanish filmmaker Pedro Almodóvar uses color as an actor with its own dramatic energy. Recently, he teamed up with Roche Bobois, also renowned for its splashy color sense, to modify classic … Read more