If Ettore Sottsass designed your town
Illustrator Lauren Rolwing imagines a world where Memphis rules
Sarah Lucas debuts furniture line in Milan
Artist says the materials used are "meaningful" and the furniture is "surprisingly stylish"
The Insider's Guide to Havana
Singer Eme Alfonso on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* Guide
Could you live with Studio Job's wallpaper designs?
The Belgian duo's new Archive Wallpapers collection for Dutch brand NLXL go "beyond styling"
Concrete culture from Louis Kahn apprentice
If you loved our book Concrete take a look at this building from the master's last apprentice
Joel Meyerowitz revisits 1960s Europe
The Howard Greenberg Gallery recreates Joel's 1968 exhibition, shot entirely from inside a moving car
Pentagram gives Sotheby's a new look
The leading design studio reworks the branding for the legendary auction house
Ten questions for Nick Lander
The Art of The Restaurateur author on iPad dining and why waiters worry when you nip out for a cigarette
The building they said couldn't be built
Using the smooth overlapping scales of a pine cone as their inspiration Oikios triumph in Switzerland
What to expect at the Milan Design Fair
Dutch designer Hella Jongerius' furniture for Vitra and Artek are our stand-out works among this year's stands
Ten questions for Paris Photo's Julien Frydman
Paris Photo director and former Magnum man talks to Phaidon.com about this month's Los Angeles fair
Two designs cater for New York’s increasing numbers
With a million more residents expected in the city by 2040, two firms propose some out of the box thinking
Marina Abramović to do nothing this summer
The performance artist will be the only exhibit at London's Serpentine gallery from 11 June until 25 August
Neville Brody creates typography for new England kit
Will it be a future design classic that ends up in the next edition of the Archive of Graphic Design?
Hunter S. Thompson's advice to Danny Lyon
When his photographer buddy joined a motorcycle gang the infamous writer implored him to "Get the hell out!"
Wikipedia rolls out redesign
Readers will benefit from (though may not actually notice) subtle changes to typography
Karim Rashid's splash of colour in Miami
Mybrickell features designer's Pop Art-inspired magic from top to bottom
Warhol’s lost mural returns to New York
The Queens Museum is commemorating the Warhol mural 13 Most Wanted Men, 50 years after it was banned
The Bouroullecs debut their glass collection at Milan
The French design duo’s Diapositive furniture collection for Glas Italia picks up where Shiro Kuramata left off
When Danny Lyon met Muhammad Ali
The US photographer shot America's protestors, dissidents and agitators - and the world's greatest boxer
Does this new Zaha Hadid hotel look like a swimsuit?
The Pritzker laureate's latest tower appears to share some aesthetic qualities with her new swimwear range
Why apartheid South Africa's greatest nightlife photographer died before seeing his first show
The Photobook III's Martin Parr and Gerry Badger on the life, work and untimely death of Billy Monk
What did Mies van der Rohe mean by less is more?
The aphorism is one of the most used (and abused) in design and architecture. Detlef Mertins, author of an exceptional monograph on the master architect, reveals how it came about and what it meant to him
Koons, Schnabel and Hadid create Fabergé eggs
Artists, architects, photographers and designers contribute eggs to the jeweller's annual charity Easter egg hunt
Adrià dish inspires award-winning water packaging
Designers draw upon the elBulli chef's use of membranes to produce Ooho!, an edible water carrier
When Danny Lyon was just two dogs in
The photographer's 1962 work, shot in the South, was an early example of a burgeoning confrontational style
Ai Weiwei sends 6000 stools to Berlin
Artist references a seminal 1913 Marcel Duchamp readymade in huge new Berlin installation opening this week
René Redzepi's Tokyo Story
The chef will relocate Noma to the Japanese capital for two months at the start of 2015
Ten questions for Nan Goldin
The Eden and after photographer on addiction, Robert Pattinson, motherhood and collecting human skulls
The Photobook III on show in Madrid
Throughout April the Ivorypress bookshop will display rare titles featured in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's book
Inside the Texas Department of Corrections 1968
In the 1960s Danny Lyon moved to a cattle ranch in Texas. Nearby was the Texas Department of Corrections, a prison complex whose past inmates had included Leadbelly - these are some of the photos he took there
How the world caught up with John Stezaker
The 64-year-old photo collage artist and photobook author is finding success late in life a little overwhelming
Sarah Jones's alchemical camera
Photography Today cover artist explores how subjects are measured and flattened in new series of pictures
Richard Prince inspires Christie’s Instagram sale
The auction house attracts young collectors with a sale named after a Prince painting and lots on Instagram
Jean Paul Gaultier comes to London
The touring exhibition dedicated to the French designer opens at the Barbican next month
Alvar Aalto's Savoy Vase inspires a new hockey puck
Nordic Society for Invention and Discovery's latest idea aims to level the playing field between opposing teams
Tillmans, Beuys and Nauman lined up for Manifesta
The European biennial announces the list of artists for this year's event at the State Hermitage in St Petersburg
Ai Weiwei asks for his passport back
Artist releases video in which he talks of his desire to visit Berlin for upcoming Martin-Gropius-Bau show
Shigeru Ban wins the Pritzker Prize
Judges laud the architect's ability to "respond to extreme situations caused by devastating natural disasters"
Obrist, Warhol and Emin in your hotel room
The Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden's new exhibition, Room Service, extends its reach to the town's hotels
Snøhetta unveils two very different designs
New projects in Mecca and on a mountainous archipelago show diversity of architecture practice
How one man and a hyena changed the photobook
Martin Parr and Gerry Badger explain how a personalised documentary approach revitalised photography
How is John Pawson's Design Museum coming along?
Architect and author has opened up the roof but compares the basement excavations to 'marine archeology'
Bouroullec brothers get touchy feely
French design duo unveil first fabric collection with Kvadrat at upcoming Milan Design Week
New Jersey's loftiest building takes to the skies
70-storey Journal Squared provides an architectural counterpoint to late era brutalism of PATH station next door
Shepard Fairey does Ai Weiwei
Street artist and graphic designer dedicates new portrait to Ai's ongoing struggle with the Chinese government
Hotel Hotel is a who's who in down under design
Fender Katsalidis and Suppose Design Office's Canberra hotel ticks the box for every happening design firm
Nan Goldin "People forget how radical my work was"
She may have influenced a generation of photographers but accepts no responsibility for their work
Hans J Wegner honoured in centenary year
'The King of Chairs' is called "the most important Danish designer ever" by curator Christian Holmsted Olesen
Tomma Abts's Painting Abstraction
German artist often takes years over her canvases which she lays on a table, as if writing rather than painting
Fiona Strickland designs new Royal Mail stamp
Our How to Boil an Egg illustrator is one of the artists featured in a new series commemorating WW1
Ferran Adrià on Charlie Rose
elBulli chef talks over his gastronomic legacy as well as capturing the restaurant’s greatest years in print
Stan Douglas’s hard-boiled stage and screen hybrid
The Canadian artist has teamed up with scriptwriter Chris Haddock to create a multi-layered, live film-noir
Pentagram's carbon free foot print
Design agency works with Do The Green Thing charity on environmentally friendly posters
The Insider's Guide to Moscow
Garage project manager Katya Istratova on the city's secrets as featured in our downloadable Wallpaper* guide
Shigeru Ban to design Mount Fuji visitors’ centre
World Heritage site centre resembles upside-down latticed cone - an architectural inversion of the mountain itself
Klaxons love our Where Chefs Eat app
James Righton from the band tells the NME that he takes the restaurant guide on tour with him
Alex Brown's Painting Abstraction
Stand well back from your screen and see what happens to the hybrid paintings by this New York-based artist
How Mies invented modern architecture
Early Friedrichstrasse and glass Skyscraper projects were way ahead of their time - even for Mies van der Rohe
Origami inspires a rethink of the toothpaste tube
US design student Nicole Pannuzzo thinks we don't need new products, just better designs for our existing ones
Czech photos balance beauty and documentary
NYC's Czech Center show, You. Never Too Close, shows mid-career photographers with a common viewpoint
René Redzepi up for two James Beard Awards
The chef's Phaidon book, A Work In Progress is nominated in two categories of the prestigious US culinary awards
Why are these old Spanish men colouring in pigeons?
Among the punk and fashion books, Martin Parr and Gerry Badger pick out one on bird racing in the Photobook
Why Mies van der Rohe divided opinion
Genie behind the curtain wall or architect of cold technology? Let Detlef Mertins guide you to the answer
Who's who in these Nan Goldin photos?
Goldin's new book Eden and After features familiar friends with their kids. Read on to find out who they are
Ruth Root's Painting Abstraction
Chicago born painter's work appears to be painted on the wall, not the canvas. How does she do that?
Daniel Kovalovszky's unearthly landscapes
Hungarian photographer subverts conventional landscape photography with uncannily uniform forest shots
Martin Parr rewrites photobook history
The photographer tells the Financial Times why he would like to bequeath his incredible collection to the Tate
Have you seen Maurizio Cattelan's dinner service?
The Italian artist has produced a line of plates, mugs and tablecloths using his distinctive Toilet Paper images
Perrault unveils Austria’s tallest building
Dominique Perrault, architect of the French National Library, unveils the first of two towers in Vienna
Ferran Adrià hits the East Coast
Impassioned speech to 800 students at the Culinary Institute of America and MoMA Store launch among highlights
The Atlas takes a big look at some small buildings
New Editors' Focus feature lays bare the most diminutive buildings on the site
Nick Lander spills the (French) beans in Edinburgh
Author of new eBook The Art of the Restaurateur set to lift lid on the restaurant business at Talking Food event
The Insider's Guide to Berlin
Designers Philipp Schöpfer and Daniel Klapsing on the city's secrets from our downloadable Wallpaper* guide
Ed Ruscha’s LA Film Festival poster
The Los Angeles pop artist creates a 20th anniversary poster for his local film festival, based on a 1962 work
Take a look at the RCA’s Secret Postcard sale
£50 works by big names (as well as plenty of unknowns) go on show in London
Mugaritz in Chicago – some tickets still left!
Join world-renowned Spanish chef Andoni Luis Aduriz during a rare visit to Chicago this Sunday
Smiljan Radic creates 2014 Serpentine Pavilion
White, translucent and made of fibreglass The 48-year-old Chilean's plans for the summer pavilion are unveiled
Vitsœ reissues Dieter Rams’ noble plastic side table
Originally produced in 1962, the high end furniture brand has revived the occasional table, adding adjustable feet
LAPD opens its archives for Paris Photo
Most famous police department on earth gets its mug shot in the second edition of Paris Photo Los Angeles
The World We Made style hybrid air vehicle unveiled
Airlander can take-off and land on any surface, emits few greenhouse gases and can stay airborne for 5 days
Daniel Gordon wins the Paul Huf Award
The 33-year-old American photographer wins the young photographers award, for his still-life collages
When product design meets political resistance
From Suffragette teapots to protest robots, the V&A's Disobedient Objects examines the role of making in rebellion
Understanding Alice Aycock's Park Ave. Paper Chase
The artist says her new series of artworks are "the metaphorical visual residue of the energy of New York City"
First building in new district is a concrete church
Nameless Architecture eschews the usual shopping centre or office block for something more spiritual in Korea
Ferran Adrià on the road (and in the air)
A short report from the first few days of the Spanish super chef's US tour
Sou Fujimoto's tree-inspired apartment building
The Japanese architect's Arbre Blanc brings outdoor high rise living to a rejuvenated Montpelier
Martin Parr on Paris, pants and photobooks
To mark his Paris show, the photographer reveals his personal likes and dislikes to France's Le Figaro newspaper
How to read Bruce Nauman's works on paper
A new show in Toronto examines how the innovative artist explored the breakdown of printed language
Why Nan Goldin focused on children in her new book
In an accompanying essay the Italian writer Guido Costa offers insight into the inspiration behind Eden and After
Chapmans, Micallef and Collishaw search for God
The Stations of the Cross shows contemporary works themed around the Passion of Christ throughout Lent 2014
Italy V ArmaLite over use of Michelangelo's David
"The image of David, armed, offends and infringes the law" says government's culture minister
Wolfgang Tillmans' cosmic worldview
The German photographer explains how an early love of stargazing informed his wide-ranging world view
Time magazine captures One World Trade
The magazine greets New York's magnificent new skyscaper with an equally impressive photo shoot and video
Win a Ferran Adrià-inspired dinner party
Yes you read that right - Phaidon, Williams-Sonoma and Kitchit have your next modernist dinner party sorted
Morphosis brings a touch of New York to Los Angeles
Emerson College evokes concentrated energy of East-coast metropolitan centers in an iconic LA setting
Martin Parr's Acropolis Now
The photographer collates his water-damaged prints of Greek ruins into a new online series
John Baldessari reflects on his favourite things
A Goya etching, a picture by Sol LeWitt and a yodelling pickle from Damien Hirst are among most treasured items
