Author name: Evelyn Gill

As British furniture brand SCP celebrates its 40th anniversary, its founder Sheridan Coakley reflects on the brand’s journey over the past four decades. In the mid-1980s, when antique and reproduction furniture prevailed in the UK, entrepreneur Coakley tried his luck at selling modern designs. This year, Coakley is enjoying a moment of introspection, recalling humble […]

Dezeen Showroom: work and leisure combine in designer Niels Diffrient’s eponymous lounge chair for furniture brand Humanscale. The Diffrient lounge chair invites relaxed, supported sitting with its cocoon-like shape, reclined position and matching footrest, although unlike a typical lounge chair, it is also intended for use while working. The Diffrient lounge chair supports both relaxation

In this week’s comments update, readers are discussing Philippe Starck’s surreal nine-storey Maison Heler hotel in Metz, France, topped with what appears to be a 19th-century mansion. The mansion, which is entirely clad in metal, stands on top of a nine-storey monolithic tower and contains a restaurant, bar and events spaces. Philippe Starck reveals surrealist

Local studio In Praise of Shadows has added a curved wooden salon bar to the BioRio cinema in Hornstull, Stockholm, which it refurbished to create a “warm and inviting atmosphere”. The studio was tasked with updating the 1943 cinema by architect Albin Stark, redesigning its restaurant and refurbishing its cinema hall. BioRio’s restaurant features stone

Artists Tika Shelia and Ano Jishkariani have furnished an apartment with design objects based on recent political demonstrations that took place in Tbilisi, Georgia. The Conspiracy Bar exhibition, which was supported by Kunsthalle Tbilisi, was held in a rented apartment in Tbilisi. It was created by Shelia and Jishkariani’s interdisciplinary collective Around the Studio to