F5: Barry Ginder on a Finn Juhl Chair, Sean Scully, His Son’s Hands + More

When Pennsylvanian Barry Ginder was an architecture student at Temple University his art professor, Larry Spaid, influenced how he would eventually approach his own pieces. “He taught me a method of working the full surface repeatedly, and then refining the work until a moment of balance is achieved

Hyatt Union Square’s Lobby Gets a Timely Refresh in Lower Manhattan

Hotels are no longer just places to lay one’s head. Like most hospitality spaces these days, they’ve become multifunctional environments comprising an ever-expanding set of services. Catering to different types of clientele—travelers taking in all that a locale has to offer; frequent businesspeople

Apple Unveils AirPods Max 2 With Smarter Sound + Spatial Audio

There’s a particular kind of expectation that follows Apple and their iconic announcements—a belief that even the most familiar object can be recalibrated into something more ambient, more intuitive, or more essential. We’ve been spoiled lately. But with the introduction of AirPods Max 2, that expec

Hikarigami Lighting Forges New Finishing Techniques

The power of craft has touched every facet of design since the dawn of time. At the Harvard Graduate School of Design, students Annie Xing, Luke Fiorante, Joseph Fujinami, and Chi Zhang investigate the logic of making by hand—and whether the modalities of robotics can learn these distinctly human ge