The hybrid design makes a lot of sense, but we wonder if having a name-brand designer simply invites thievery. Following the wild success of custom-designed public bicycles in Paris and Copenhagen, ...

Like Philippe Starck, whose Alessi tripod lemon squeezer is a bit like an evil-looking Louise Bourgeois spider, Ron Arad emerged in the Eighties as something of a “rock‘n’roll” designer. It’s a label ...

French designer Philippe Starck’s pioneering work from the 1980s, which unabashedly subverted classical forms, is spotlighted in a trio of exhibitions in Paris. They evince the zealous interest in ...