Interior Design

Interior Design‘s latest On the Move includes must-know industry promotions and hires, like a new CEO at Flos and more. Read on to see who’s climbing the ranks in design. Architecture and Design Industry Promotions and Hires Bentley Mills Jim Cusick has been named president of Bentley Mills, the California-based commercial flooring brand and part of global flooring company Belysse.

This past May, what may be considered the most important work yet of multidisciplinary Moroccan artist Amina Agueznay opened as part of this year’s Venice Biennale at the Arsenale’s Artiglierie. Titled Asǝṭṭa—the Amazigh term for ritual weaving—the site-specific work represents Morocco’s debut national pavilion at the event.

As soccer (or football) fever sweeps New York City in the midst of the World Cup, Crosby Studios is offering a look at the sport from a new vantage point. The Paris- and New York-based practice, founded by Harry Nuriev, unveils “Home of Football: Home & Away,” an exhibition at High Line Nine in Chelsea that examines football’s cultural influence.

Ai Weiwei And Rubelli Weave Symbols Of Protest Into Silk Ai Weiwei and Rubelli transform centuries-old silk craftsmanship into a powerful textile installation where luxurious fabrics became a bold canvas for dissent.

What does a design collection look like when it embodies cultural significance? A recent episode of the SURROUND Podcast Network’s Once Upon A Project podcast explores this idea through the lens of hip hop. Michael Ford, architect, educator, and founder of Hip Hop By Design and BrandNu Design Studio, joined show host AJ Paron to talk about translating a cultural movement into the world of interiors.

Although internationally renowned for its wine, Spain’s La Rioja region also enjoys a long-standing relationship with contemporary architecture. The region is home to several avant-garde wineries designed by celebrated architects including Calatrava, Gehry, and Hadid. Concéntrico, by contrast, is firmly rooted in the public realm.

Silk has been produced in China for some 4,000 years, and it eventually spread via the Silk Road to reach Venice, where it became central to the Renaissance economy. At Salone del Mobile, the Chinese artist and activist Ai Weiwei and Venetian fabric house Rubelli explored this connection in an immersive textile installation, “Ai Weiwei: About Silk.” It centers on an elaborate silk lampas based on the artist’s The Animal that Looks like a Llama but is Actually an Alpaca.

Named after the Latin word for step, Framery unveiled Gradus during this year’s NeoCon, introducing an adaptive line of smart pods designed to seamlessly compliment—and elevate—its surroundings. The brand, which disrupted the market 16 years ago with the original office pod, is adept at creating innovative solutions that redefine the way we work. Expanding Framery’s presence in the U.S. and Canada with localized assembly, Gradus stands apart by taking a restrained architectural approach.

What actually lasts in design? In an industry flooded with new and shiny objects, trends, and features, where words like “timeless” and “innovative” pepper every marketing campaign, finding truly enduring products can feel like a Herculean endeavor.

Billy Cotton is a go-to interior designer when it comes to spaces with layered textures that reflect the complexity of the humane experience which is, more than not, non-linear and richly deep. A potpourri of colors, surfaces begging to be touched, and patterns with absorbing configurations are synonymous with the New York-based designer’s visual vocabulary.