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fromFood & Beverage Magazine
1 day ago

Raise a Toast to the Lunar New Year with AAPI-brewed Craft Beer From Highland Brewing - Food & Beverage Magazine

Highland Brewing celebrates Lunar New Year with special releases, community events, and honors resilience after Hurricane Helene's impact.
Graphic design
fromDesign Milk
4 days ago

Hikarigami Lighting Forges New Finishing Techniques

Hikarigami merges handcraft and robotics to create unique light fixtures from aluminum sheets through innovative design processes.
E-Commerce
fromApartment Therapy
1 week ago

My Aunt Taught Me About Collecting This Antique Gem - Now, I See It Everywhere

Glass fairy lamps are becoming a popular vintage trend, offering versatile decor options and a candle-powered light source.
Berlin
fromwww.nytimes.com
3 weeks ago

36 Hours in Shanghai: Things to Do and See

Shanghai transforms through electric vehicles, expanded transit, app-based services, visa-free travel options, and repurposed heritage buildings into cultural and dining destinations.
Arts
fromOpen Culture
4 weeks ago

Enchanting Video Shows How Globes Were Made by Hand in 1955: The End of a 500-Year Tradition

The first globe was created in 1492 by Martin Behaim and Georg Glockkendon, beginning a 500-year handmade tradition that continued until machines replaced manual production in the 20th century.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
4 weeks ago

vernacular bridge craftsmanship informs micro-museum set within bamboo grove in china

Baqiao bridges, including the nearby Shisanba Bridge, typically appear in areas where the difference between river level and embankment is relatively small. Their upstream piers are shaped like tapered spindles with slightly raised tips, creating a distinctive structural profile. Stone slabs span between the piers, forming a bridge deck assembled through interlocking construction methods.
Design
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Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago

Lunar New Year at Industry City

Free dragon and lion dance Feb. 19 and ticketed mahjong Lunar New Year celebration with market, raffle, cafe, and DJ on Feb. 22.
Washington DC
fromThe Washington Post
1 month ago

The 37 best things to do in D.C. this weekend and next week

Washington, D.C. hosts a packed weekend of cultural festivals, film screenings, parades, sports and dining deals celebrating Lunar New Year and Black History Month.
San Francisco
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Chinese Historical & Cultural Project "Lunar New Year" Festival (San Jose)

CHCP and History Park San Jose host a Lunar New Year Fire Horse celebration on March 14th featuring cultural performances, interactive demonstrations, food vendors, and family activities.
San Francisco
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

PHOTOS: 2026 San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade

Thousands of people gathered in San Francisco on Saturday to celebrate Lunar New Year and watch the Chinese New Year Parade featuring dancing, floats, and festivities.
New York City
fromwww.amny.com
1 month ago

SEE IT: New York celebrates Lunar New Year in Chinatown | amNewYork

New York officials celebrated Lunar New Year in Chinatown, pledging support for Asian Americans amid immigration enforcement concerns.
Remodel
fromApartment Therapy
1 month ago

Designers Say This Vintage Piece Is the "Jewelry" Every Room Is Missing

Vintage lighting, particularly sconces and torchères from the 1930s-1950s, is a major 2026 home decor trend that transforms spaces with unique character and visual interest.
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

These Sculptural Japanese Lamps Come in 100 Colors for $150 - Yanko Design

Designed by Michael Kritzer, an industrial designer with Red Dot, iF, and Cannes Lions awards to his name, Dollights are inspired by creative Kokeshi dolls, those beautifully varied Japanese wooden figures that range from traditional to wildly expressive. The connection isn't literal. You won't mistake these for dolls on a shelf. But the DNA is there in the proportions, that satisfying relationship between a rounded head and a tapered body, the way each silhouette feels like it has its own quiet personality.
Design
San Francisco
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

Floats for San Francisco Chinese New Year Parade get finishing touches

San Francisco's Chinese New Year Festival parade floats celebrate the Year of the Fire Horse with three months of construction featuring horses, fire symbolism, and intricate details like cherry blossoms and mountains.
fromCurbed
2 months ago

Sentimental Value Is an Excellent Lamp Movie

Sentimental Value is very much a film about a house - a Victorian " dragestil," or "dragon style," home in Oslo where generations of the same family have lived for more than a 100 years. Director Joachim Trier, who found the house in Oslo's Frogner neighborhood, called its role in the film "a witness of the unspoken ... a witness of the 20th century."
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San Francisco
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

SkyStar Wheel glows red and gold over at SF's Fisherman's Wharf in honor of Chinese New Year Parade

SkyStar Observation Wheel at Fisherman's Wharf will illuminate in red and gold during Chinese New Year celebrations, offering scenic bay views during the holiday period.
San Francisco
fromABC7 San Francisco
1 month ago

SkyStar Wheel glows red and gold over at SF's Fisherman's Wharf in honor of Chinese New Year Parade

SkyStar Observation Wheel at Fisherman's Wharf will illuminate in red and gold during Chinese New Year celebrations, offering scenic bay views during the holiday period.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Rooms as Heritage: How Interior Typologies Carry Cultural Memory

Cultural memory often survives in domestic interiors and everyday practices rather than visible architectural facades.
fromCN Traveller
2 months ago

How Burns Night and Lunar New Year connect me to my Scottish-Malaysian heritage

This is the time of year when my kitchen starts to tell the truth about who I am. Scottish crab, fresh from Tarbert, is lowered gently into a bubbling chilli bath of sambal and egg to become chilli crab, scooped up with steamed mantou buns and eaten messily with friends and family. Oysters from Lindisfarne are deep-fried in a light cloak of rice and corn flour, fished out of the wok with long chopsticks and dipped into sweet chilli sauce.
Food & drink
Travel
fromLondon Unattached
1 month ago

City Break to Lucerne - Lilu Light Festival

Lucerne offers lakeside charm, mountain views, historic hotels, a vibrant annual Lilu light festival, and local specialties like Chügelipastete, ideal for short or longer breaks.
fromESPN.com
2 months ago

Manchester City celebrate Lunar New Year with special kit

Manufacturers Puma say that the Fire Horse artwork embodies power, movement and relentless drive -- three essential qualities that City will need to summon if they intend on usurping leaders Arsenal at the summit of the Premier League this season. If in doubt, just use more horsepower. The badges and logos appear in beige with metallic gold detailing to add an extra air of luxe to the equation, fitting for a lunar year which only occurs once every 60 years.
Manchester City
Games
fromFast Company
2 months ago

How the Olympic cauldron became its own spectacle

Two cauldrons at Milan Cortina 2026 perform synchronized light-and-motion shows inspired by Leonardo da Vinci, expanding and contracting, responding to music, with hourly performances.
Film
fromCurbed
2 months ago

Sentimental Value Is an Excellent Lamp Movie

Lamps and a century-old Oslo house visually trace generational change, era, and character, making lighting central to design and storytelling.
Science
fromwww.scientificamerican.com
1 month ago

Happy Year of the Horse! Let's trot out some fun horse science

Horses originated in North America, were domesticated in Eurasia/Africa, profoundly shaped human civilizations, and remain highly social animals requiring freedom, forage and equine companionship.
Philosophy
fromArchDaily
1 month ago

When Do Buildings Begin to Matter? Rethinking Heritage in Local Time

Global heritage systems prioritize longevity and material authenticity rooted in European slow-growth models, disadvantaging rapidly changing cities where cultural time operates unevenly.
Arts
fromFuncheap
1 month ago

Lantern Festival 2026 (Oakland)

Lantern Festival 2026 in Oakland Chinatown offers family-friendly performances, food, a maker market, vendors, and community celebrations on March 1, 3–8 PM.
E-Commerce
fromApartment Therapy
2 months ago

The Cute Party Essential You Only Need to Buy Once and It'll Last Forever

Reusable metal number-shaped cake toppers hold candles, preventing melted-number emergencies and offering elegant, washable, long-lasting cake decorations.
Travel
fromConde Nast Traveler
1 month ago

In the Year of the Fire Horse, Travel as a Herd-and Other Tips From the Zodiac

The Year of the Fire Horse brings intensified energy favoring movement, travel, social connection, decisive action, and applying lessons learned in the Snake year.
Design
fromDesign Milk
1 month ago

F5: Amber Pan Talks an Iconic Lamp, Sculpture + More

Amber Pan transitioned from architecture to interior design, founding Studio ŪMA to create spaces that tell stories through imperfect beauty, weathered materials, and intentional restraint.
Renovation
fromArchDaily
2 months ago

Material Mediation and Architectural Heritage

Updating historic buildings requires balancing modern performance, regulatory demands, and energy goals while preserving material, cultural, and symbolic continuity.
fromColossal
2 months ago

In Collaboration with Indigenous Artisans Around the World, PET Lamp Emphasizes Sustainability

Tons upon tons of these single-use plastics end up in landfills or even floating in the ocean. Spanish design firm PET Lamp set out give another purpose to these otherwise short-lived materials. Partnering with artisans in communities from Chile to Ethiopia to Australia, the company celebrates both Indigeneity and sustainability, drawing upon time-honored global craft traditions while supporting local economies and recycling discarded materials.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Pizza Hut feasts and improvised altars: lunar new year in Australia's small town Chinese restaurants

In the 1960s and 70s, Ruby Lee's parents ran the Pagoda Cafe in Burleigh Heads, a surf town in Queensland. They worked 14-hour days and opened the restaurant year-round, even Christmas. When they did eventually close for one day a year, it was for lunar new year. It was the only day that I can recall ever eating out with the family while growing up, says Lee.
Food & drink
Design
fromYanko Design - Modern Industrial Design News
1 month ago

A 400-Year-Old Japanese Candleholder, Upgraded Again - Yanko Design

Dai Furuwatari's Pendulum Candleholder thoughtfully updates the traditional Japanese teshoku by adding a hanging hook and adjustable pendulum mechanism, making it both portable and versatile for modern use.
Arts
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

Chinatown Sets the Year of the Fire Horse Aglow

Sarula Bao created a bu zha-style stuffed horse puppet, Xiao Baoma, for Think!Chinatown's Lantern Residency, honoring Bai embroidery traditions during the Lunar New Year procession.
World news
fromwww.npr.org
1 month ago

After a 2-decade ban, kites fill Lahore's skies during a Pakistani springtime festival

Lahore's Basant returned under strict regulation, with registered vendors, QR-coded kites, banned items, time limits, and harsher penalties after lethal past incidents.
Brooklyn
fromBrooklyn Eagle
2 months ago

New date announced for Danish Fastelavn celebration

The Danish Fastelavn celebration in Bay Ridge has been postponed from Feb. 7 to Feb. 28 due to lingering winter weather that may impede travel.
Design
fromArchitectural Digest
2 months ago

What to Hang When Even A Noguchi Lantern Isn't Big Enough

Isamu Noguchi's Akari lights remain timeless design staples, yet large double-height spaces can call for bespoke, oversized paper-and-bamboo lanterns that reinterpret the same light quality.
Arts
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

light sculptures preserve ancestral designs through antique doilies and lace textile

Kinship transforms heirloom doilies and stockings into LED-lit stainless steel sculptures that preserve textiles and project lace-like shadows and layered histories.
fromdesignboom | architecture & design magazine
1 month ago

industrial components assemble glowing clock-house by drawing architecture studio in china

Drawing Architecture Studio presents The Clock House No.2 at the 7th Shenzhen Bay Public Art Season in Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China, on view until April 19th, 2026. Commissioned for the public art program, the Beijing-based practice reinterprets the historical automaton clock as architecture, using low-cost industrial components to construct a structure that chimes and glows every fifteen minutes. Where the clocks once gifted to emperors represented technical virtuosity and expensive craftsmanship, this installation adopts a deliberately rough and economical construction.
Design
fromHyperallergic
1 month ago

The Irish Do It Best

The Irish government will give 2,000 artists unrestricted weekly stipends in a program officials described as a "recognition, at government level, of the important role of the arts in Irish society." After a successful three-year pilot, the Irish government made its basic income program for artists permanent. Similar pilots have been launched here in the United States, but they're supported primarily by the nonprofit sector.
Arts
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Be the lion, feel the lion': the gruelling life of lunar new year lion dancers

A dedicated Sydney lion dance studio trains intensively year-round to perform over 100 lion dances across Lunar New Year and major city celebrations.
Arts
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month ago

Experience: I'm the last traditional clog maker in England

A solitary English clog maker handcrafts wooden-and-leather clogs from self-collected sycamore, finding therapeutic purpose and a peaceful, enduring rural craft late in life.
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