Spring Fever
Emeco, manufacturer of stylish aluminum furniture, commissioned Frank Gehry to design a chair. The name is Superlight, which says a lot about it, but the chair is also super comfortable (it moves with the body), and super practical (it separates into two stackable components). Introduced at the Milan Furniture Fair in April, Superlight makes its splashiest print debut here. Other ingenious projects in this issue: a hunting store that looks like a natural-history museum, trading cards with portraits of star designers, bicycles that outpace the wind, interiors with moving parts, the world's biggest book, and proposed uses for a bright material.

Features

All the Right Moves
Frank Gehry, master of metal, designs a flexible aluminum chair for Emeco.
By Mildred Friedman

More Bang for Your Buck
Cabela's is a design emporium where you're free to handle the goods. Just be careful where you point them.
By Barbara Flanagan

Trading Up
Shirley Liao's Designstars Trading Cards play with the cult of celebrity.
By Alanna Stang

The Walls Have Gears
How Kitchen Rogers Design makes interiors come alive.
By Lucy Bullivant

Framing Carbon Fiber
The material gives cyclists a competitive edge—so why are bike designers spinning their wheels?
By Sebastian Moll

The Big Picture Book
Two publishers redefine the meaning of "large-print editions."
By Marc Frauenfelder

ICFF 2004
A view to this year's International Contemporary Furniture Fair.
By Aric Chen

Material Migrations
Three designers suggest new uses for Panelite. Contributions by Leni Schwendinger,
Newdealdesign, and Mirko Ilic.

/flashback
I.D., September/October 1994
Janet Abrams on Muriel Cooper

Departments

/letters
On a misleading graph, bawdy art, and more.

/editor's note
A limber intelligence produced Qatar's new logo.
By Julie Lasky

/expo
London hotel rooms for $10. The endless search for architecture deans. A prize for product knockoffs.
Edited by Alanna Stang

/q+a
Sociologist Sharon Zukin unfolds insights into shopping.
By Ellen Lupton

/rant
Architecture-crazy museums shouldn't endanger their own collections.
By Ken Carbone

/eco
GreenBlue enacts the principles of cradle-to-cradle design.
By Colin Berry

/market
Conduit helps designers move ideas off the drawing board.
By Joseph Dennis Kelly II

/r+d
Astronaut food will soon improve thanks to a starry-eyed designer.
By Aric Chen

/n+n
Report from the Stockholm Furniture Fair.
Edited by David Sokol

/crit
Barbara K Toolkit, reviewed by Shashi Caan
TED 2004 Conference, reviewed by Julie Lasky
Zapf's Optima Nova, reviewed by Paul Shaw
David Raizman's History of Modern Design, reviewed by Eve M. Kahn