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Design Emergency

Hex object • Kengo Kuma gets into the groove with Caran d’Ache

Flip service • Lukas Gschwandtner stretches the realms of chair design

Tough love • Fashion houses are taking the hard line when it comes to men’s bags

Baer necessities • Timeless design and durability define a divine debut of dining staples

Chain reaction • Gender-fluid wearable art from Rashid Johnson and LizWorks

Water works • Tactile textiles inspired by the Mediterranean landscape

Classical composer • Cire Trudon’s latest candle range is a sculptural symphony

Light touch • A flexible artists’ retreat in an idyllic coconut grove in Mumbai Bay

BORN AGAIN • An updated Mario Bellini sofa considers comfort and environmental impact

CREATIVE SMALLTALK • Bodil Blain catches up over a coffee with Snøhetta co-founder Kjetil Trædal Thorsen

Spirited away • We hit the high notes without hangovers at a Tokyo mocktail bar

Romancing the stone • Mineralogy, gemmology and jewellery connect in a Paris exhibition

THE VINSON VIEW • Quality maniac Nick Vinson on the who, what, when, where and why

SQUARE ROUTE • Michael Anastassiades gets in shape for his latest piece for Molteni & C

URBAN GEM • A golden take on the cityscape from Chaumet

ONLY NATURAL • Benchmark, AHEC and nine designers work socially distanced wonders with wood

ON THE BUTTON • Chanel’s perfectly hidden timepiece is everything but off the cuff

Grain teaser • The redesign of an east London ‘forever house’ takes the long view, giving its owners frequent glimpses of greenery

LAVA FLOW • Melting moments with Chilean design studio GT2P as it takes volcanic rock to new extremes

Hidden treasure • A Manhattan couple’s secluded weekend house on Long Island is a serene, Scandinavian-style retreat

OMISSION CONTROL • Fusing creativity and science, artist Tavares Strachan is reinserting the invisible heroes of history back into the collective memory

FLEX APPEAL • Philippe Malouin bends the rules for a de Sede collaboration

SHIFT WORK • Older brings its uniformalism to furniture design

FUTURE FACING • Byredo remodels modern beauty in its debut cosmetic range

One and only • Minimalism with a twist in a materially-mismatched south London renovation

MOON RIVER • Scintillating white stones for dream makers

STILL LIFE • Sculptor Genesis Belanger meditates on mourning and loss

Baroque star • Art, architecture and elaborate detailing fuse effortlessly in a technicolour dream house in Melbourne

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Happy return • A Polish-born, London-based designer retraces her steps to build a unique rural hideway

Design Emergency • Design Emergency, an original Instagram Live series from Paola Antonelli and Alice Rawsthorn, champions design’s ability to innovate and inspire in the face of problems wrought by the global pandemic. As Guest Editors, the pair take over 39 pages of this issue to make their case for design’s central role in building a better world more able to face any crisis, from Covid-19 to climate change to social injustice. Adapting to pandemic-era restrictions, they and...