IKEA’s UK and Ireland resale marketplace makes used furniture cheaper.
An app-controlled wood-knocking device exposes product design’s blind spot: removing
Can Electric Luxury Keep Its Appetite for Excess?
Bentley’s electric Torcal puts luxury at a crossroads: preserve craft and longevity, or simply give resource-intensive excess a cleaner powertrain?
What If Cafés Became Neighbourhood Materials Utilities?
Could cafés turn coffee grounds and other waste into local interiors? A speculative materials network puts hygiene, energy and labour before circular hype.
What If Your Next Lampshade Was Grown Around the Corner?
Could neighbourhood workshops grow mycelium lampshades that meet fire standards, arrive on time and cost less to replace? A radical local-production model.
When Design Inspiration Becomes Evidence
Emeco’s lawsuit against Zara Home exposes the fault line between protected furniture design, mass-market imitation and the right to borrow.
When the Original Makes Its Own Knockoff
OMHU's cheaper Tedy sofa dupe weaponizes copy culture—but does parody expose design's problems or normalize stolen authorship?
The £30m Yacht Restoration Paradox
When restoring vintage superyachts costs more than new build, is it preservation—or luxury performance?
Can Fast Food Become an Open-Source Design System?
Bao Fast Foods turns fast food into a modular brand system. Can speed, consistency, and local adaptation coexist without losing soul?
Can Reuse Become Luxury in Design?
Coffee shells, e-waste and bio-leather are entering collectible interiors. But can waste-based design feel luxurious without becoming moral theatre?
