The Making of Hästens Beds

Our latest video celebrates the Swedish handcraft of the 165 year old company and introduces their two new limited edition beds

Sponsored by Hästens

Hästens has been making some of the world’s finest beds by hand in Sweden for 165 years. We initially visited their headquarters and factory in Köping back in 2000. With the launch of their first ever publicly available bed collaborations, we knew it was time for a return. There, we got the story behind these two new editions, the Appaloosa and Marwari, which premiere today …

Bang & Olufsen’s BeoSound Shape

A customizable wireless speaker system doubling as geometric wall tiles

After roughly four years of development, a new sound system—with home acoustic performance and pristine design at the forefront—will be making its way out of Denmark’s innovative Bang & Olufsen headquarters. Known as the BeoSound Shape, this wireless speaker system—fashioned in the form of modular, hexagonal wall tiles—approaches filling a room with sound in a new way. While each panel of the Shape looks the …

Milan Design Week 2017: Jessica Fügler and Elena Manferdini

We speak with the Lexus Design Award finalist and her mentor about turning concepts into the tangible

Sponsored by Lexus

When Jessica Fügler was selected as a finalist for the 2017 Lexus Design Award multidisciplinary creative Elena Manferdini, one of the program’s mentors, was drawn to her very conceptual proposal. Neither Fügler nor Manferdini knew what was going to become of the idea, exploring color shifting. Most other finalists had fully-fleshed out product ideas for the competition—the theme of which is the broad “Static Yet …