An apartment in Poland proves that dizzying design needn’t be overwhelming. Jill Krasny takes a look

Elegant gym kit

Rough or smooth, colourful or au naturel, this cheap and flexible material is ripe for experimentation

Peter Ghyczy explains how Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair has inspired his own work as a designer

It’s cheap, fragile and throwaway, right? Wrong. Tom Morris talks to the designers who are reinventing paper

Kassia St Clair investigates how retail design is adapting to an internet age

In the age of climate change, Rotterdam has become the world’s most important testing ground for urban design

Strong, bendy and abundant, bamboo is springing up in unexpected areas of design, architecture and technology