Untapped Design Journal | Print Edition 004

In issue 004, Ruth Reichl discusses connections between food and pleasure. Glenn Adamson reflects on riding a 65-year-old bicycle around London. Andrew Russeth ponders what Matthew Wong tells us through the paintings of domestic interiors he regularly made. 

Dung Ngo talks about why we should pay more attention to our utensils. Jeppe Ugelvig explores the art of getting dressed. Nozomi Mori describes how a love of hosting prompted her to open her Los Angeles Omakase restaurant. Cory Ohlendorf shows why Hans Wegner's Valet chair is the perfect piece of bedroom furniture. 

Untapped believes that both the near and distant past hold valuable insights for architects and designers. People have already solved, or are making headway on, many of the challenges the industry currently faces—but such achievements are often overlooked among an excess of data or in the pursuit of innovation, or when they are presented in convoluted ways. These stories unpack and add a fresh critical perspective to those achievements, explaining why they’re significant and how they can be useful right now.

Untapped is not anti-innovation. They believe that the most efficient path to progress begins with building on what we know. This is the information that the journal is dedicated to gathering, making sense of, and reflecting on, and that we can’t afford to forget.

Collectively, Untapped’s stories form an encyclopedia of ideas: a gateway to knowledge that serves as a timeless, ever-growing resource for all.

ABOUT THE PUBLISHER
Untapped is an editorially independent initiative of the design company Henrybuilt. The journal does not feature any of its projects or products. Untapped’s focus—seeking to understand and leverage the best of the past to create a better future, a guiding principle of Henrybuilt—is what connects the two ventures.