“Making Home—Smithsonian Design Triennial,” opening Nov. 2 at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, features 25 debut commissions that illustrate the ways design is embedded in contemporary life.

Making Home is the seventh installment in the Design Triennial series, established in 2000 to address the most urgent topics of the time through a design lens. The exhibition explores the concept of ...

The Smithsonian’s “Making Home” winds up with an uneven mix of beauty, politics and platitudes. By Christopher Hawthorne When the Cooper Hewitt introduced its triennial design series, in 2000, the ...

The holiday season brings to mind images of home -- and gathering with friends and family around the dinner table, or the fire in low-lit living rooms. But what does home really mean? And when is a ...