Homo Faber reveals the work behind crafted objects
Homo Faber 2026 highlighted finished objects and the processes behind them. A look back at how the exhibition presented craft.
Design
IKEA furniture designed for when the game is over
IKEA looked at how players put their equipment away as well as how they play. Beside a thumbstick stool sits a storage box that helps return the dining table to everyday use.
Hella Jongerius: a designer experimenting with color and materials
Hella Jongerius has studied color in the surfaces and materials of objects and in the process of making them. The Hamburg retrospective presents both the finished product and the experiments leading up to it.
Wooden figures sing together in Teenage Engineering’s choir
Wooden dolls with different shapes and voices sing together. Teenage Engineering's choir turns playing music into the experience of forming a small choir.
Golem, a necklace with ice instead of jewels
Real ice sits among silver beads. The jewelry made by GOLEM and Laila El Mehelmy changes gradually as it warms against the body.
Sam Nicklin pairs a wristwatch with onion rings
In Sam Nicklin’s still-life photographs, a watch wraps around onion rings and a bag sits on a small lift. Unexpected pairings give familiar objects a sense of humor.
Schiaparelli's coat with embroidery of two faces and a vase
A 1937 coat created by Schiaparelli and Jean Cocteau turns a visual illusion into embroidery on a moving garment.
Lumeable creates candle-like movement with LEDs
Lumeable uses a small LED array to imitate a moving flame. The design focuses on the shape and behavior of light, rather than simply how much it emits.
From puppets to forest sets: LAIKA’s Wildwood exhibition
LAIKA’s Wildwood exhibition reveals the hands and designs behind movement, from a single puppet to a forest scene.
From exhibition spaces to workshops at the Kyōto YouMe Triennale
The encounter continues beyond finished objects, toward materials and the people who work with them. Kyoto’s new triennale extends its exhibitions across the city.
Inside Es Devlin’s exhibition, from studio sketches to a rotating library
Behind vast stages are small sketches, models and books read many times. Es Devlin’s exhibition reveals those starting points.
The small zipper mechanism that releases when pulled and locks when let go
A zipper moves when you pull it and stays in place when you let it go. A locking mechanism is hidden in the small movements our fingers use every day.