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Design Shanghai returns to present a host of Chinese and international brands alongside a cultural programme exploring regenerative design.

Type keyword(s) to search Every item on this page was curated by an ELLE Decor editor. We may earn commission on some of the items you choose to buy. Museum of the City of New York/Byron Co. Collection/Getty Images Opinion: It’s Time to Rethink Chinoiserie From pagoda motifs to floral wallpaper, chinoiserie has always openly borrowed from Asian visual culture. But is it harmful? A design writer and reporter asks the AAPI design community to weigh in. By Aileen Kwun May 2...

Photography by Bruno Lopes What does it mean to live in a “post-global” world? Posing this question – and also answering it – is a new exhibition presented by Lisbon’s MAAT (Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), named X is Not a Small Country – Unravelling the Post-Global Era. Curated by Aric Chen alongside designer, curator and educator Martina Muzi, the show compiles nine large-scale installations from international practitioners spanning design, architecture and art. All ...

Watch our talk with MAAT about its spring exhibition programme Dezeen has teamed up with MAAT on a live talk to mark the opening of its spring exhibition programme. Watch the talk here live at 2:00pm UK time. The talk is part of the Lisbon-based Museum of Art, Architecture and Technologys (MAAT) event Open/Closed Systems, a day of virtual talks and performances presented live from Lisbon to celebrate the museums new season of shows. Aric Chen, portrait by Mark Cocksedge Focusing on two upcoming...

New interior design book celebrates the world’s exceptional creatives New interior design book celebrates the world’s exceptional creatives Phaidon’s By Design is a visually arresting interior design book celebrating the most exciting designers working today, from Neri & Hu to Studio Shamshiri Phaidon’s By Design is a new interior design book celebrating the work of over 100 creatives working in the field. Pictured here is a private villa in Florence, designed by Dimorestudio in 2018...

Het Nieuwe Instituut appoints Aric Chen as general and artistic director Shanghai-based architecture and design curator Aric Chen has been named the new general and artistic director of Rotterdams Het Nieuwe Instituut. Chen will take up the position at Het Nieuwe Instituut (HNI), an institute and museum for architecture, design and digital culture, from 1 May. In taking up the role, Chen, who is currently curatorial director of the Design Miami fairs, plans to expand on the institutes tradition...

Globalisation, urbanity, the pandemic and more explored at MAAT Lisbon show Globalisation, urbanity, the pandemic and more explored at MAAT Lisbon show A new exhibition at MAAT Lisbon, ‘X is Not a Small Country – Unravelling the Post-Global Era’, curated by Aric Chen with Martina Muzi, explores globalisation, urbanity, the pandemic and more Photography: Pedro Pina, courtesy of EDP Foundation Globalisation, our pandemic world and issues of urbanity are a few of the subjects highlighte...

Last modified on Fri 18 Dec 2020 05.54 EST * * * Susie Gillespie at the loom in her Devon workshop Photograph: Jeremy Walker/Jeremy walker Selected by architect Sarah Wigglesworth In February, about four weeks before lockdown, I attended a five-day course in weaving linen run by textile artist Susie Gillespie. Held at a farm near Totnes where they grow their own flax, we flayed, spun, dyed with natural dyes, and then wove a piece of cloth, all in five days. It was incredibly fulfilling, calmin...

Award-winning broadcast journalist and storyteller One of the best-known news anchors in Indonesia, Andini Effendi has reported from all corners of the world. She covered the Libyan Civil War in 2011 and the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. After falling in love with Africa during a trip to South Africa and Namibia last year, she hopes to visit Rwanda next. “I want to see the conservation work there—how nature and good policies can be an asset to a country. I believe Indonesia can learn fro...