Mark Rothko’s Color Fields Mirror the Elements in a ‘Weather-to-Painting Experiment’

Mark Rothko is known for his “color field” paintings, a genre that was coined in the 1950s to describe his work specifically, along with peers like Barnett Newman and Clyfford Still. These works are generally characterized by their total abstraction and emphasis on clearly delineated areas, or “fields,” of different hues. One might also think of Josef Albers’ seminal series titled Homage to the Square, which delved into the virtually infinite relationships between colors.

For Rothko, canvases were often very large, measuring upwards of 10 feet. The works inside the Rothko Chapel in Houston, for example, are architectonic, commanding the viewer’s...

Hangman lighting collection by Adam Goodrum for Rakumba

Dezeen Showroom: Australian designer Adam Goodrum drew on a classic childhood game to create this lighting collection for design brand Rakumba.

The Hangman lighting collection includes table, floor and ceiling lights, each composed of an extruded aluminium rod that can be kinked into different geometric compositions using a specially designed articulated joint.

The lighting designs are based on the pen-and-paper game Hangman, and channel both the playfulness of the central stick figure and the typographic quality of the word-based game mechanic.

"I wanted to distil the feeling of...

Daily Objects' Node and Loft, a Flexible Wireless Charging System

This wireless charging system is by British industrial design firm Layer. The idea is to provide attractive, flexible wireless charging to multiple devices, using just a single power cord. It consists of a two- or three-port dock called Loft, and different Node modules can be plugged into the ports, allowing you to charge phones, earbuds or the Apple Watch.

A Portable Lamp is also part of the line-up, and plugs directly into the ports.

The Nodes, by the way, don't need to remain attached...

Meister Varma Architects uses salvaged stone for home in India

Indian studio Meister Varma Architects has completed Shilaya, a home in Tamil Nadu built using stone salvaged from a ruined cottage that once stood on its site.

Named after the Sanskrit word śilā, meaning stone, Shilaya is located in Kotagiri, a town in the Nigiri Mountains that was formerly a colonial hill station and is defined by its European-style stone architecture.

The ruins of one of these colonial-era cottages near an abandoned quarry were the starting point for Meister Varma Architects' design. The studio used stones salvaged from the old structure to create...

Dezeen's top five houses of June 2026

A trio of brick-walled homes features in Dezeen's top five houses of the month for June, including a holiday cabin in the Netherlands and a compact British residence built on an infill site.

The third is a British home that mimics its 1930s neighbours, while the remaining two are a bamboo-and-steel home in Malaysia and a family home within a former shop in Australia.

Read on to find out more about Dezeen readers' favourite houses this month:

Anjung, Malaysia, by Eleena Jamil

This single-storey home and studio by Malaysian architect Eleena Jamil was among this month's most popular residential projects.

Located near Kuala...

Nikolaj Mentze fits out Cobe's Copenhagen studio with architecture bookshop

Danish architect Nikolaj Mentze has overhauled the interior of Cobe's architecture studio in Copenhagen by adding a bookshop dedicated to publications on the built environment.

The bookshop, which opened during the annual festival 3 Days of Design earlier this month, features books on architecture, urbanism, landscape and design displayed on bespoke aluminium shelving and wooden display cases.

Mentze, founder of architecture firm Studio 0405, designed the interior for Cobe with the aim of making architecture more accessible to the public.

Occupying the front section of the architecture office near the street-facing glass...

Collective RailLock ceiling system by The Collective

Dezeen Showroom: British company The Collective has released a modular ceiling system for workplaces that combines acoustic functionality and aesthetic appeal.

Collective RailLock was designed as an alternative to conventional workplace ceilings, which The Collective identified as being often overlooked when it comes to designing offices.

"While workplace interiors have become increasingly refined at eye level, many ceiling systems remain visually cluttered, overly technical or disconnected from the wider architectural language of a space," said The Collective.

"We developed RailLock in response, approaching acoustic ceilings as designed architectural surfaces rather than purely functional elements."

Sabine Marcelis's Rotterdam loft apartment is "forever evolving" with her life

Sabine Marcelis's self-designed resin bathtub and three-metre-tall lava lamp feature in her Rotterdam family home, which she continuously reconfigures with her architect partner Paul Cournet.

"Our house is really a metaphor for how we like to live our lives," explained the designer, who spoke to Dezeen about the latest updates to the Coolhaven loft apartment she shares with Cournet and their two young children.

"It's forever evolving and very flexible," Marcelis added.

Set within a 500-square-metre space that was formerly a paper factory and then a bank, the apartment has been steadily designed...

Rick Owens creates Adidas tracksuits that double as personal airconditioning

Tiny built-in fans help to circulate air around the wearer of these inflatable Adidas jogging suits, unveiled by fashion designer Rick Owens as part of his Spring Summer 27 menswear show in Paris during the city's record-breaking heatwave.

The ballooning jackets, shorts and full-body tracksuits are made from Tyvek – the same durable plastic used to make hazmat suits. Worn with ice vests underneath, they create what Owens describes as a "personal air conditioning system".

These kinds of fan-powered jackets, or fan-jakketos, were originally invented to cool down outdoor labourers in Japan and were recently...

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