Rachel Hahn

ARTIFICIAL BEAUTIES Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi’s Twisting Chalices Borosilicate glass, a heat-resistant, chemically stable material that barely expands under temperature shock, is usually found in function-focused settings: like in science labs, with thos... See more

MCM LANDS ON MARS AT MILAN DESIGN WEEK MCM was born in Munich in 1976, a city that was then the epicenter of disco — Giorgio Moroder essentially invented electronic music there, and Diana Ross and Freddie Mercury were regulars at the clubs. Fifty years la... See more

THE LAST PICTURE Prada Frames Takes on the Image at Milan Design Week Leonardo da Vinci’s The Last Supper is undeniably one of the most famous paintings in the Western canon. More than 400 years after it was painted in oil and tempera on dry plaster on a ... See more

LISHA BAI REFRAMES HERMÈS ON MADISON AVENUE Artist Lisha Bai’s textiles are studies in depth and dimensionality, built around one simple device: the window. Bai’s two-dimensional, cut-and-stitched works resemble theater sets — small domestic interiors tha... See more

PAPER TRAIL Eriko Horiki on Building with Washi It was the smaller-scale pieces in Eriko Horiki’s showroom in Kyoto that first caught my eye — a washi paper lamp or two in the corner, intricately designed yet the kind of object that’s not so hard to imagi... See more