• IKEA’s new museum in Älmhult

    1 March 2017

    The giant home-furnishings’ chain IKEA has opened its own museum, in what was the company’s very first store, in the Swedish town of Älmhult. But does it present a look at how this global phenomenon has developed and operates, bringing reasonably priced Swedish design to everyone, or is it little more than camouflaged marketing?

  • Vitra Schaudepot, Vitra Campus / Herzog & de Meuron

    30 August 2016

    While Herzog & de Meuron receives the plaudits for its heralded extension that is the new Tate Modern, another piece of its display work has quietly opened at Weil am Rhein, home of the Vitra Museum. Liz Farrelly reports