Francesca Perry

1 month ago | ft.com | Francesca Perry

Craft “is cool,” says Isobel Dennis, director of Collect, the annual contemporary craft and design fair in London.

2 months ago | wallpaper.com | Francesca Perry

In the Norwegian coastal city of Trondheim, an elegant art nouveau post office building from 1911 has been transformed into a new 4,000 sq m museum for modern and contemporary art. Named PoMo – short for ‘Postern Moderne’ (‘the modern post’) – the structure was reimagined by French-Iranian architect and designer India Mahdavi, in collaboration with Norwegian architect Erik Langdalen. ‘We wanted to make this an inclusive, joyful space,’ says Mahdavi, who with PoMo marks her first museum project.

2 months ago | ft.com | Francesca Perry

The three-year milestone since Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine falls in the depths of winter, when temperatures hover around freezing.

Dec 10, 2024 | ft.com | Francesca Perry

You might keep a beautifully designed spoon in your kitchen but, regardless, every time you open the cutlery drawer, “you use the same...

Oct 22, 2024 | ft.com | Francesca Perry

In 16th-century Tuscany, the ruling Medici family sometimes received diplomatic gifts of Chinese blue-and-white porcelain vases, and...