How does a color become the color of the year?  What influences these palettes to make them successful, popular or a noted key color for an entire geographical region? Today, the top manufacturers...

The history of the Noguchi table starts in art. Isamu Noguchi, a Japanese-American industrial artist and designer, created a similar table for the president of the Museum of Modern Art in 1939. So...

If only all design “failures” were so successful. In the mid-1950s a plastics salesman approached George Nelson, director of design for the Herman Miller furniture company. The salesman was...

The Castiglioni brothers aimed for greatness; their visions of purity and functionality came to life in homes around the world in the early 1960s, touching each with the comfortable luxury...