Formed’s Picks For Clerkenwell Design Week 2025
Clerkenwell Design Week returns with a dense, high-energy program that pushes the boundaries of architecture, materials, and interiors across London’s most design-savvy postcode. From site-specific installations and public sculptures to talks, tours, and after-hours celebrations, here’s our curated guide to…
These Stools Are Made Of Recycled Erasers
Now open at Gallery FUMI in London, Rubber Rocks marks the first solo exhibition by design duo Study O Portable (Bernadette Deddens and Tetsuo Mukai) with the gallery. The show presents a newly developed body of work that playfully probes…
MSCHF × Mercedes-AMG: High-Performance Art, Not for Automotive Use
What happens when one of the world’s most elite performance car brands meets Brooklyn’s most provocative creative collective? You get “Not for Automotive Use”, a bold, high-concept collaboration between Mercedes-AMG and MSCHF, unveiled during NYCxDesign Festival. The project transforms actual…
Elevated by Restraint: Magarola House
Perched on a dramatic 100% slope in the Catalonian landscape, Magarola House by Raúl Sánchez Architects does not defy gravity so much as it collaborates with it. Rather than cutting harshly into the terrain, the house rises with a sense…
Baroque Machinery: The Gothic Obsessions of Wim Delvoye
Wim Delvoye does not decorate; he infiltrates. For over three decades, the Belgian artist has carved, tattooed, welded, and reimagined the banal into something baroquely perverse. Best known to many for tattooing live pigs and constructing a working cloaca machine,…
New Balance Celebrates Its Signature Grey with a Japanese-Inspired Installation in Tokyo
Every May, New Balance dedicates a month to its iconic grey. This year’s global celebration, Grey Days, includes a standout installation at T-HOUSE New Balance in Tokyo’s Nihonbashi Hamacho district, honouring not only the brand’s color identity but also one…
Jony Ive’s LoveFrom Rebrands San Francisco’s Most Iconic Design Bookstore
For fifty years, William Stout Architectural Books has quietly held court on the edge of San Francisco’s historic Jackson Square, a haven for architects, designers, and collectors in search of the thoughtful and the rare. Founded by Bill Stout in…
Inside Northern Italy’s Newest Café, Where History is Layered with Precision
In the heart of Arzignano, a small city nestled between the folds of Northern Italy’s leather district, something quietly remarkable has taken shape. The newly completed Caffè Nazionale, designed by AMAA, the architecture studio led by Marcello Galiotto and Alessandra…
Design, Reassembled. Buchanan Studio Brings Warmth and Whimsy to USM
Some objects become so synonymous with order and restraint that we forget they’re ripe for rebellion. The USM Haller system, long a darling of architecture studios and impeccably ordered homes, is one such icon. But leave it to Buchanan Studio,…
Velvet, Brass and Smoke: Inside the New Orient Express
Dimorestudio Reimagines the Romance of Rail in La Dolce Vita Orient Express Milan-based Dimorestudio has infused the newly launched La Dolce Vita Orient Express with cinematic glamour, referencing the golden age of Italian design to transform the train into a…