Adrian Madlener

The designer streamlined his 20-person operation to go back to making things by hand.

Wendell Castle's Environment for Contemplation (1970), a carved oak pod, met the era's spiritual seeking with Midwestern irony and marked American studio furniture's turn from modernist restraint towards sculptural invention.

Stephen Burks's KIDA lounger for Dedon adapts an ancient basket-making technique worked out with the company's weavers in Cebu. For Burks and his partner Malika Leiper, collaborations like this give makers equal footing and credit in design.

In New York City's ever-constrained real estate landscape, transitioning from a sleek Manhattan residence to a historic Brooklyn brownstone often

In 1952, a newly graduated Poul Kjærholm built a lounge chair from steel and flag halyard cord – a material choice that set him against the timber tradition of Danish Modernism and laid the ground for his career-long exploration of structure.

Constructed in 1908 by government architect Keijiro Yamashita, the landmark Nara Prison is the only complex among Japan's monumental “Five Great Prisons of Meiji” to survive almost entirely intact.

Designed in collaboration with Mangrove, Common Object Studio’s Un Nido seating collection uses a leading-edge, low-waste additive process.

In contemporary interior design, the rug has quietly transcended its conventional role as a soft buffer between furnishings and hard floors.

Decades before the multi-posture office, Danish designer Nanna Ditzel argued that furniture should adapt to the body and its changing habits. The first instalment of Dead Designers Society, our new series on iconic designers.

The handsome duplex is a home, workspace and showroom for the Swiss-made furniture brand Studio Seitz