Why designers are potty about terracotta
There’s more to it than flower pots. Jill Krasny talks to the designers turning terracotta into furniture and buildings
There’s more to it than flower pots. Jill Krasny talks to the designers turning terracotta into furniture and buildings
Charlie McCann can’t resist the pull of Fabio Salini’s jewellery
Decorative, expressive and sustainable, plants are sprouting in unexpected places
For centuries, the Japanese burned wood to preserve it. Now, as Jill Krasny discovers, Western artisans are embracing the method
Rough or smooth, colourful or au naturel, this cheap and flexible material is ripe for experimentation
It’s cheap, fragile and throwaway, right? Wrong. Tom Morris talks to the designers who are reinventing paper
Strong, bendy and abundant, bamboo is springing up in unexpected areas of design, architecture and technology
The industry has been reinvigorated by designers who have never worked with clay before
The popularity of screw-top wine bottles left cork farmers looking for customers. As Jill Krasny explains, furniture-makers are stepping in
It has been with us since at least 8,000BC. But, as Georgia Grimond explains, designers are still finding fresh ways to work with it
