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If any field is ripe for critical discourse, it is ours. More importantly, how can any discipline expect to reach maturity without it? Who evaluates the built environment, and what [...]

So many trade shows, so many products--but what do designers really want? Like juvenile delinquents, product designers are always looking for trouble. In their very quest to right the errors [...]

OSHA's regulations represented a flawed but worthy effort to reduce workplace injuries. Though the legislation is defeated, designers should still fight for the cause. Last month Congress repealed regulations designed [...]

1902-2001 Those who attended the ceremony in New York for the first Cooper-Hewitt National Design Awards, last November 15, saw a frail man in a wheelchair consuming a lot of [...]

Symphony Space Polshek Partnership, LLP Symphony Space, on upper Broadway in Manhattan, is a community arts center the way Exeter is a high school. The community includes not only ordinary [...]

By now we were supposed to be cruising the galaxies in spaceships run by mouthy computers and disembarking at streamlined terminals. What happened? Good transportation is a hallmark of an [...]

Shigeru Ban reminds us that in architecture, as in poetry, lyricism flows from a few well-considered strokes. I am often asked how I choose Interiors's Designer of the Year. Roughly, [...]

The Rocky Horror Show is back. On Broadway, that is. The 1975 film version of the sci-fi camp musical, about a nerdy couple who stumble into a household of irrepressible [...]

LUMINAIRE HAS SOLD HIGH-QUALITY INTERNATIONAL DESIGN FOR MORE THAN A QUARTER-CENTURY. BUT DON'T CALL IT A STORE. Walking around Milan with Nasir Kassamali is a bit like walking around the [...]

This week I went shopping. To get what I needed, I boarded a plane in New York and then another one in Paris. When I arrived at the store, thousands [...]

For this special issue on new-media office design, we had to make a key decision: how to style the generic word we use to describe an online business. In the [...]

On June 1, Autostadt, or 'CarCity,' opened next to Volkswagen's factory in Wolfsburg, Germany. The name suggests a theme park, and that's no accident. Autostadt comprises a cluster of sleek, [...]

Can Old New York find a resting place in the city that never sleeps? Last month, Nina Siegal of The New York Times reported on the controversy surrounding New York [...]

Jazzy products enlivened this year's NeoCon as designers borrowed tricks from the fashion trade. Of the trends we spotted at NeoCon 2000 (see p. 13 for full coverage of the [...]

What better way is there to study a society in flux than to look at hotel design? Once upon a time I lived down the street from the Gramercy Park [...]

Backed up by workers in small-town Pennsylvania, Philippe Starck updates a classic American chair. Six cheers for the red, white, and blue. It's a frigid morning in April, and two [...]

More important than imagining disasters is designing public and private spaces that do not make those imaginings palpable. Five years ago last month, members of a Japanese cult released poison [...]

For more than seven years, we have been peering into the White House, watching the farce played out by its occupants but ignoring the backdrop. According to The New York [...]

Wood has character, one might say personality. And it has a virtue that defies social convention--it grows more beautiful with age. I am writing this essay on a Sunday morning [...]

What we like about our Designer of the Year. Squeezing a drop of audacity out of a fresh millennium, we have selected for Interiors's 21st Designer of the Yeara man [...]

The minimalist artist Richard Serra is best known for Tilted Arc, a sculpture that sliced across Manhattan's Federal Plaza in the '80s until an outraged public succeeded in having it [...]

For the last Interiors of the century, a timeless theme. You are holding the last Interiors of the century and perhaps the only design magazine to see the whole hundred [...]

How much anxiety do we owe to our inability to maintain a consistent sense of time and scale? ABOUT A DECADE AGO, a poster by the artist Barbara Kruger appeared [...]

How can we talk about creativity with conviction if everyone describes it with the same exhausted terms? Being picky about language is a large part of any magazine editor's job. [...]

Last year, the National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) created a profile of the design industry based on a survey received from 780 practitioners. The results indicated that women, [...]

You may recall rumors from the Bush administration of an Education President. They were greatly exaggerated. Then, as now, the cognitive skills of our children ranked among the lowest in [...]

Touring the new Palladin restaurant in Manhattan's Time hotel, I was mildly appalled when a couple of diners flagged down my guide and asked him to refresh their drinks. He [...]

Focuses on the impact of the increasing cost of property on the size of hotel rooms. Description of various hotel rooms in New York City; Improvement of hotel rooms' design; Unlikelihood of hotel rooms' growing bigger.

Features the Autostadt or 'Car City,' located in Wolfsburg, Germany which comprises a cluster of buildings devoted to each of Volkswagen's eight auto brands. Inclusion of crowd-pleasing movies and interactive displays, restaurants and a hotel; Example of experience marketing; Designers of the facility.

Previews the contents of the July 1999 issue of the `Interiors' magazine on interior design. Transformative prowess of interior design; Praise of the illusion and artificial-environment concept in interior design.

Gives a post-mortem tribute to the genius of interior designer George Nelson, after whom the 1999 George Nelson Design Awards was named. Past achievements; Philosophy on interior design; Impact of work on attitudes of users and fellow designers.

Discusses `Interiors' magazine's decision to pay tribute to excellent low-budget interior designs for its April 1999 issue. Arbitrary definition of the term low budget; Concentration on interiors that use limited resources with exceptional creativity.