A trip to La Grange, the Burgundy farmhouse that is changing Erwan Bouroullec’s design practice; an architect’s experience in Auroville, where a galactic masterplan is diving a utopian community; Aldo Bakker’s crystal pipe; a report from the frontlines of architecture’s unionisation movement; Janett Nichol reveals Forward, a new needle-punched material from Nike; a classic brasserie chair from Julien Renault; photographs of condom production from within a Danish cheese factory; the story of the memeification of the Tolix Chaise A; Inga Sempé’s international mirror; sunken e-scooters with Andra Formen; a reflection on ASMR and design’s efforts to embrace weirdness; transparent complexity in Nothing’s Phone (1); a trip to the movies to see googly eyes in Everything Everywhere All at Once; Gorpcore styling in Tom Chung’s Piton lamp; Ineke Hans’s memories of the importance of failure; and new design writing from the Design Drafts programme with Het Nieuwe Instituut.
