A Layered Wood Landscape Shapes SKIN1004’s SoHo Flagship

Layers of ultralight MDF, each two inches thick and banded in stained maple veneer, stack into a sinuous mass that runs the length of SKIN1004‘s first U.S. flagship. The Korean skincare brand’s New York store spans nearly 9,900 square feet across two floors on Broadway, with ochre- and umber-toned w

This Mexico City Wellness Studio Turns Alignment Into Architecture

Mexico City is frenetic and saturated with color, a sprawling metropolis of more than 20 million people and nearly 2,000 neighborhoods. In upscale Las Lomas, Talo Atelier explores what it means to “align yourself” in this uniquely charged context. Align Studio, designed by Talo Atelier and led by Ta

How to Make an Unfitted Kitchen Feel Especially Inviting

There’s something especially appealing about a kitchen that doesn’t look as though it arrived all at once. Instead of perfectly matched cabinets, an unfitted kitchen feels as though it has evolved over time. An old cupboard might sit beside painted cabinetry, a worktable becomes an island, and a fre

Shark Redesigns the FlexStyle by Rethinking What’s Inside

The hardest products to redesign aren’t the ones that don’t work—they’re the ones that already work well. That was the dilemma the Shark Beauty team faced when tackling the FlexStyle IonCurl, a new tool in the growing FlexStyle franchise. “Our overall approach was to make the tool feel familiar to e