Simply sign up to the House & Home myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. “Is my brain a poorly furnished apartment?” It’s a question asked by Swiss artist Peter Fischli, along with “am I ...

The "desirable" aesthetic of a standard mass-produced tin can has informed the shape of this stool designed by Lennart and Lauren Leerdam. Called Paperthin, the stool is made from a 0.5 millimetre ...

Insects are an unlikely "collaborator" in British designer William Eliot's Digested Objects stool, which was shaped by plastic-eating mealworms as they gnawed their way through blocks of polystyrene.

A lamp. A xylophone. A wine bottle holder. A flowerpot. A mirror. A tie hanger. An ironing board. And the list goes on. These items may not sound visibly connected – yet they are among more than 100 ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, then Artek’s organic, stackable Stool 60 is among the most admired seats in the ...

Although not religious himself, Edward Milton loves visiting religious buildings for design inspiration. “The level of craft and attention-to-detail is astonishing,” he says. He was visiting St Albans ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Artek stool 60, which was designed in 1933 and so celebrates its 80th anniversary this year, was a revolutionary ...

Gift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Over the past decade, the annual MPavilion program has changed Melbourne’s cultural landscape – literally. A hit list of ...