Oscar Piccolo had been experimenting with pleated paper lampshades for about a year when the designs went viral on Instagram. From his school in London, the Sicilian design student had regularly ...

Shuttered, shaded, draped or curtained, windows had been dressed and covered in pretty much the same ways for centuries. The same, that is, until aluminum mini-blinds came along. Minis, introduced by ...

Too much natural light, with its glare and heat, is just as much a problem as not enough. All kinds of indoor shades exist for shutting light out–mini-blinds, vertical blinds or roll-up shades. These ...