Carpets by the Barcelona-based company aren’t the only hand-woven offerings on the market, but they are among the most demonstrative and enduring examples of traditional hand-weaving. The eponymous founder ensures these old techniques are applied to innovative new designs.
Gensler’s product-development team can cherry-pick manufacturers it wants to collaborate with. These companies, in turn, gain insight into what architects really need to source. Record interviewed Gensler’s director of product development Brandon Larcom about the program.
Husband-and-wife architects Francesco Breganze and Virginia Valentini distinguished their first collection of vases, candle holders and case goods with clever nods to the built environment.
More than a decade after Perkins and Will launched an index of harmful substances found in building materials, architects still need the database to shed light on the impact of a products’ ingredients. Read more.