Design in 2023: a year in review

Design editor Rosa Bertoli picks top 10 design stories from 2023

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Design editor Rosa Bertoli picks top 10 design stories from 2023
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Year in review: top 10 design stories of 2023, as selected by design editor Rosa Bertoli

Among the design moments that helped define popular culture this year were Mathieu Lehanneur's water-inspired design for the Paris 2024 Olympic torch, and the Rhianna’s Super Bowl halftime show stage. We also explored team obsessions, like Japanese home appliances and miniature wooden animals, alongside dreamlike interiors andnote-worthy happenings across the design world.

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wood lined office

01. Art Recherche Industrie’s new HQ might be the most beautiful office in the world

The Parisian creative agency’s new base translates a 19th-century landmark into a chic open-plan office worth leaving home for

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Colourful Ikea furniture

02. Ikea’s Space10: a decade of groundbreaking design ideas

The Copenhagen-based design office working exclusively with Ikea on innovative concepts closed its doors at the end of August. We celebrate its greatest hits, from furniture to ‘tomorrow’s meatball’

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fan heater

03. Ingenious Japanese home appliances to enhance domestic life

Founded by Naoto Fukasawa in 2003, +-0 (or Plusminuszero) is still innovating. Here, we take our pick of its pared-back home helpers that make the mundane marvellously minimalist\xa0

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Aynho park interior

04. RH takes over historical Aynho Park

The Grade I-listed 73-acre English estate becomes American furniture brand RH’s first-of-its-kind design and hospitality destination, ‘a place of wonder, enchantment, and history’

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Rihanna on stage

05. Rihanna’s Super Bowl halftime show: behind the scenes of the set

Designer Willo Perron talks us through the stage design of one of the most anticipated musical events of 2023, which saw Rihanna appear on a platform floating over the State Farm Stadium

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Matthieu Lehanneur with Olympic torch

06. Olympic Torch design by Mathieu Lehanneur unveiled

Selected for his ‘poetic and highly symbolic approach’, the French designer tells us about giving ‘form to the values of Paris 2024’

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Salmon Creek creative retreat amid green setting

07. Building Salmon Creek Farm: California’s ultimate creative retreat

Architecture-trained artist Fritz Haeg opens the doors to his cultural commune – a place to slow down and connect with daily life – and tells us its story

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Chapel interior

08. Restored Saint-Michel de Brasparts Chapel features interiors by Ronan Bouroullec

For the reopening of this chapel in Brittany, Bouroullec elevated the interiors with a new altar design, one of the most quietly compelling projects of the year

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Silver tableware

09. Puiforcat presents new silver designs by Donald Judd

Based on sketches of a dinner service that Judd made in 1989, this sterling silver collection is a gleaming example of the artist’s creative legacy

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Carved wooden polar bear

10. Carved wooden animals to rewild to your tabletop

All year, we’ve had a hard time resisting these carved wooden companions,\xa0from bears to dogs and birds,designed by some of today's leading creatives and masters from the past. Start collecting!

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