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Design

  • Friday, 18 April, 2025
    Interiors
    The playfulness of plywood that pops

    Designers are having fun with engineered wood stained in a palette of dramatic hues

    Interior with bright blue wooden staircase, patterned tile wall, and a red arched door
  • Thursday, 17 April, 2025
    Cult Shop
    Get the rug bug: how Thames Carpets went viral

    Meet the father-daughter duo with designs from every corner of the world  

    Bahram Javadi-Babreh and his daughter Sophie at the Thames Carpets workshop in Wheatley
  • Wednesday, 16 April, 2025
    HTSIHow to get married in 2025 – an HTSI special
    Why buy gold when silver is so chic?

    From salvers to shells, the precious metal is making a comeback

    Buccellati silver-coated Bursa Bobo small shell object, £420
  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    InterviewHTSI
    HTSI editor’s letter: why design will always look east

    The spring special celebrates the super power of east Asia

  • Saturday, 12 April, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s design special looks to east Asia
    Six Japanese design names to know now

    Meet these avant-garde artisans

    Mobje woven-paper Lapel vases by Shinya Yamamoto
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s design special looks to east Asia
    Inside Japan’s most beautiful bathhouses

    An age-old tradition is buoyant once again

    Goshiki-yu sento, Tokyo, designed by Kentaro Imai
  • Friday, 11 April, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s design special looks to east Asia
    Felix Conran’s Japanese forest home

    In 2023, the designer and his partner arrived in Higashiyoshino, Nara for a holiday. They’ve since put down permanent roots

  • Thursday, 10 April, 2025
    Architecture
    All aboard for Dropcity, a new design hub in Milan’s old railway arches

    In the world capital of high design, an architect has transformed a sooty labyrinth of vaults into a vibrant cultural nexus and innovative workshop open to makers, designers DIYers and families

  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    Interiors
    ‘This renovation is a love letter to my childhood’

    Tanya Selway has reimagined a tired Edwardian property on London by taking the materials and the spirit of her family’s past and using it to transform the house into a canvas for personal expression

    Velvet sofa in warm tones facing a glass coffee table with books and a drink, set against bookshelves and a painting of birds
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    FT Series
    HTSI’s design special looks to east Asia

    A style odyssey of homes, furniture, bathhouses, food and fashion from Seoul to Chongqing

    The Kurume home of architect Toru Shimokawa
  • Wednesday, 9 April, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s design special looks to east Asia
    ‘A maniac for beauty’ – the architectural vision of Toru Shimokawa

    The self-taught Kyushu creative is playing with past and present to create a new design language in Japan

    Toru Shimokawa at home in Kurume, Japan
  • Tuesday, 8 April, 2025
    FT GlobetrotterTips from the top
    My Milan, by Salone del Mobile president Maria Porro

    As Milano Design Week kicks off, the first woman to helm its star event shares her favourite places in the city

    Salone del Mobile president Maria Porro reclining on a blue bench wearing a colourful stripe-patterned dress
  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    FT SeriesHTSI’s design special looks to east Asia
    The new luminosity of lacquerware

    The ancient art is making a comeback – let it shine

  • Sunday, 6 April, 2025
    Interiors
    The crafted home: diaphanous textiles with haute couture pedigree

    From her Anjou farmhouse, Anne Corbière fashions curtains, cushions and artworks from her tactile fabrics, coveted by everyone from Chanel to Tiffany to British brand Ochre

    Two-seater sofa covered in a patchwork-style woven fabric with earthy tones, topped with three textured cushions in black, cream and burnt orange
  • Tuesday, 1 April, 2025
    Special ReportWatches and Jewellery: April
    Past cultures provide rich seam for contemporary jewellers

    Artefacts and techniques from antiquity to the Renaissance and Asian empires continue to inspire designers

    Museum exhibit of couture dresses displayed on mannequins, surrounded by large framed paintings
  • Sunday, 30 March, 2025
    Interiors
    The crafted home: faithful and fantastical takes on heritage oak joinery

    From panelled rooms to secret doors, the elaborately carved woodwork of Stuart Interiors is as much at home in contemporary town houses as historic royal residences

    Elegant indoor pool with arched windows, ornate wooden ceiling, wrought iron balcony, and a hanging rope above deep blue tiled water
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Design special
    Meet the car whisperer

    Tristan Auer breathes new life into classic car interiors

  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Design special
    The first company ‘org chart’ was a design classic

    Devised in the 1850s, it was nothing like the pyramid hierarchy we’re familiar with today 

    Intricate radial diagram resembling a botanical tree, with branching lines of circles and text, forming a dense symmetrical pattern
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Design special
    Hedonism in the hotshop: the new glassware

    Sculpture meets gender-inclusive sex toys in the work of young glass designers showing in Milan this year

  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Design special
    The secrets of Paris’s most artistic homes

    Guillaume de Laubier’s colourful photographs capture the city as you’ve never seen it

  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Interiors
    An interior designer’s adventures in De Beauvoir land

    ‘The house had a magic to it — it just needed to be brought to life again,’ says Irenie Cossey of the near-derelict residence in east London she has repurposed as a fanciful exhibition space

    Woman standing by a bay window with diamond-pane glass, beside a sculptural green candelabra and a curved emerald green sofa in a soft peach-toned room
  • Saturday, 29 March, 2025
    Design special
    At Milan Design Week, fashion is centre stage

    Loewe and Hermès have brought a new buzz. Can design brands raise their game?

  • Friday, 28 March, 2025
    Interiors
    Against the grain: wood-effect furniture goes next-level

    Designers are recreating bark-like textures and even tree rings in unexpected materials such as metal and glass

    Set of sculptural metal furniture with a woodgrain texture, including a bench, chair, round table, blocks and a rectangular stool on a wooden floor
  • Thursday, 27 March, 2025
    Milan Design Week must: Casa Cabana opens its doors for an extraordinary show

    Martina Mondadori is welcoming visitors into her family’s Renzo Mongiardino-designed private home for a craft exhibition curated by New York tastemaker Deborah Needleman

    View of a room with ornate woodpanelling and an elaborately carved wooden cabinet filled with books, flanked by dark floral wall panels and framed artwork. Furniture includes a sofa upholstered in a detailed, traditional pattern, adorned with red and gold cushion and surrounded by wicker armchairs. Other items include a classical sculpture of a reclining woman, a ceramic green jar and other smaller ornate containers, a large table lamp with a pleated shade and a red base and a floral bouquet in the centre
  • Tuesday, 25 March, 2025
    Business InsightJohn Gapper
    British Airways tries to regain its halo with a new first-class seat

    The UK flag carrier has called again on the London design studio that created a revolutionary product

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