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Read about Michael Graves Design with recent press articles, features, and conversations on accessible design, partnerships, and the future of design for every body.
Fast Company
The biggest barrier to accessibility is not usability
People avoid products that signal limitation, but they shouldn’t.
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Architectural Digest
The 9 Best Stovetop Tea Kettles Are Steeped in Style
From cottagecore checkered patterns to modern stainless steel silhouettes
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Fast Company
Constraints do not limit creativity — they unlock it
The fastest path to innovation is designing inside real human limits.
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Fast Company
Stop designing for categories, start designing for life in motion
Ability is a fluctuating condition and worthless as a label.
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Fast Company
The next revolution in design: Emotional accessibility
Why the future of accessible design depends on how products make us feel
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Fast Company
How legacy brands can lead the next consumer revolution
Stop designing for customers and start designing with them
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STOREBRANDS
Pottery Barn Expands Michael Graves Collection
The new assortment includes several accessible items designed for use in the bathroom
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Azure Magazine
Linden Collection
The Linden collection from Pottery Barn is the brand’s second collaboration with Michael Graves Design and extends its offerings for accessible home furnishings to the bathroom; the first partnership between the two introduced universally designed furniture for the home.
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Fast Company
What accessible bathrooms can teach every entrepreneur
Five lessons on how designing with accessibility prevent injuries, but also builds stronger brands.
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AD
These Vanities Will Make a Splash in Your Bathroom
Contemporary sinks that don’t feel washed up
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Disability Scoop
Pottery Barn Expands Its Accessible Product Line
One of the nation’s best known furniture stores is adding to its lineup of offerings designed to meet the needs of people with disabilities.
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Fast Company
Branded collaborations still define retail innovation
In today’s retail climate, these partnerships can powerful—if done right.
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Fast Company
The best accessible design of 2025
See all the honorees of Fast Company’s 2025 Innovation by Design Awards in the accessible design category.
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New York Times
8 Products That Can Bring Comfort to Life
These innovative designs promote ease in a variety of ways.
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Wallpaper
This walking cane by Michael Graves's office is an example of quietly accessible design that is 'intuitive, dependable, and dignified'
The new Streamline walking cane by Michael Graves is beautifully styled, designed to shape experiences while looking sleek and refined
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Elle Decor
Small Appliances 2.0: the Pleasure of (New) Daily Gestures in the Kitchen and Beyond
Elements between past and future, trace the identikit of a contemporary hearth made of technology, design and new habits
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Fast Company
Storytelling isn't just for marketing
In an era where consumers are flooded with choices and noise, the most enduring brands aren’t just the ones with the best features, they’re the ones that make people feel seen.
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Fast Company
Why mission-driven brands build the strongest communities
Four ways to develop and incorporate mission as a strategic lever
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Fast Company
The revolutionary approach to accessible design
When design meets empathy, consumers get products that work better for them.
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Arch Daily
14 Architect-Designed Lighting, Object, and Furniture Pieces Unveiled at Milan Design Week 2025
KENDA and DEDIM Chairs / Michael Graves Design for YAAZ
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Fast Company
Design Dignity For Those With Disabilities
Innovating around activities of daily living empowers consumers and drives corporate growth.
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Fast Company
Design for Every Body: The Evolution of Accessible Design
How designers can reimagine the way we all live.
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Interior Daily
YAAZ Wins iF Design Award 2025 with Dedim Chair by Michael Graves Design
YAAZ wins the prestigious iF Design Award 2025 with DEDIM folding chair for outdoors and confirms its capacity to bring innovation to living spaces.
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House Beautiful
Designers Weigh in on How to Create an Accessible Home
These are the important elements to consider when designing a space for people living with disabilities.
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Apartment Therapy
This Clever Storage Gem from Costco Is a 2-in-1 Under-Sink Find, and It Only Costs $15
Those areas underneath the kitchen or bathroom sink? Oftentimes, these spots are my kryptonite. If you’re anything like me, it’s so hard to dig in that dimly lit cabinet for what you need, and thanks to pipes that you may have underneath, you’re probably short on space.
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Reviewed
The Best Walking Canes of 2025
Finding the best walking cane isn't your grandma's game anymore. Thankfully, there are lots of options to choose from including foldable and travel-friendly, all terrain, and artistic.
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Nola
As you age, stand easier, bend less and get around better with well-designed and chic furniture
Aging in place pieces have sutble changes but don't look institutional
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Domino
The Best New Furniture of 2024
Get a peek at our expectation-defying Good Design Award winners.
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Dezeen
Quick Fold Cane | Shortlists | Dezeen Awards 2024
Dezeen has announced the design shortlist for this year's Dezeen Awards!
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Hospitality Design
Pottery Barn Expands Its Accessible Furniture Line
A partnership between PB and Michael Graves Design puts a new spin on accessibility
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Forbes Vetted
Pottery Barn Launches Nightstand Designed To Fit Your CPAP Machine
Pottery Barn took on the challenge of housing a CPAP machine used to treat Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) and a few other conditions. The result is a stylish nightstand that millions with the condition can use to conceal those pesky masks, cords and hoses while still keeping them within reach.
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Dezeen
Quick Fold Cane | Longlists | Dezeen Awards 2024
Michael Graves Design has conceptualised and developed the Quick Fold Cane, an innovative walking cane.
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Architectural Digest
From Diane Keaton, Missoni Home, and More: 8 Design Collabs We're Loving Right Now
If the markets latest debuts have any lesson to tell, it's that the design community indeed works better together.
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Disability Scoop
Pottery Barn Adds To Accessible Furniture Line
A major player in home furnishings is expanding its collection of products designed to better accommodate people with disabilities.
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Home & Texture
Pottery Barn x Michael Graves Design Collection Makes Accessibility Chic
Home decor just became a bit more stylishly safe.
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Inc.
The Need for Accessible Home Design Is Growing. These Two Brands Are Partnering Up to Serve a Neglected Market
Consumers' age or degree of ability doesn't change their desire for high-quality design.
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Inclusion and Marketing Podcast
Ep. 122: How Michael Graves Design & Pottery Barn Are Working to Bring Accessible Home Design to More Consumers
In this episode, I sat down with Ben Wintner, CEO of Michael Graves Design to learn more about their approach to creating products that work for a broader group of consumers, as well as about the partnership with Pottery Barn.
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Design Milk
Michael Graves Design for Pottery Barn Dignifies Accessibility
Essential for some, better for all. "Accessibility" has become as buzzworthy a term as "sustainability," with many brands attempting to capitalize on the moral arc that bends toward a more egalitarian design scene and consumer market in its slow march forward. But few are as nuanced in the practice as Michael Graves Design.
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Business Of Home
Accessible design is in demand. Is the home industry ready?
This week, Pottery Barn released a series of new collections that appear nearly identical to its existing Sausalito, Farmhouse and Cayman lines. Closer inspection reveals subtle differences: a dresser with a raised edge that runs along the top, a bed with a built-in bench at the end, a side table equipped with power outlets. For some, these changes offer a functional boost to everyday life—but for consumers with disabilities, they can make a world of difference.
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PopSugar
Pottery Barn's New Furniture Collection Is Designed With Accessibility in Mind
Michael Graves Design is a name synonymous with adaptive products; for the past 20 years, the architecture firm has been a leader in the accessible design space, known for its thoughtful product collaborations which aim to support people of different abilities.
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Business Of Home Podcast
The Thursday Show: Accessible design is in demand. Is the industry ready?
Rob Van Varick of Michael Graves Design joins the show to talk about the company's new accessibility collection with Pottery Barn.
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The Spruce
Pottery Barn's Latest Collection Puts Accessibility (and Style) Front and Center
Accessibility is often overlooked in furniture design, but leave it to Pottery Barn to change that. The beloved brand released its newest home collection with Michael Graves Design that puts accessibility, mobility, and safety at the forefront. This collection is the first of its kind, dedicated to providing functional yet beautiful products.
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Home Furnishings Business
Pottery Barn Announces Accessible Collection with Michael Graves Design
Pottery Barn announced the launch of an accessible home furnishings collection developed in collaboration with Michael Graves Design.
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STOREBRANDS
Pottery Barn Launches Accessible Home Furnishings
The new collection designed by Michael Graves Design provides unique elements said to make life around the home easier.
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Livingetc
Michael Graves Design and Pottery Barn's New Collection Is Making Accessible Design Elegant — By Every Definition
Michael Graves Design's renowned "Design for All" ethos meets Pottery Barn's knack for elevating the everyday, birthing a permanent furniture collection that is beautiful as it is functional.
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TRENDHUNTER
Michael Graves Design Creates a Series for Pottery Barn
Michael Graves Design, which is a notable name in the realm of design now works in collaboration with Pottery Barn on a new collection.
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USA Today
Michael Graves and Pottery Barn Unite For New Adaptive Furniture
Because the right furniture works for everyone.
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Curbed
Pottery Barn Made Some Remarkably Nice Furniture For Seniors
A new Michael Graves design collaboration is unusually subtle about accessibility.
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domino
Pottery Barn Brings Warmth and Style to Accessible Furniture Once More With 29 New Pieces
The integrated dresser grab rails are just one detail we love.
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Better Homes & Gardens
Pottery Barn Is Launching a Line of Gorgeously Designed, Accessible Furniture
The Michael Graves Design for Pottery Barn collection brings together smart, accessible design and the signature Pottery Barn aesthetic.
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Architectural Digest
Michael Graves Design Brings Accessible Bedroom Sets to Pottery Barn—In the Brand's Most Popular Styles
Functional features were added to beloved beds, nightstands, and more.
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GMA
Pottery Barn's accessible home collection with Michael Graves Design is here
Pottery Barn has teamed up with Michael Graves Design to launch an accessible home furnishing collection.
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Forbes
Michael Graves Design Debuts Gorgeous Accessible, ADA-Compliant Furniture For Pottery Barn
The truly groundbreaking offering – 27 pieces that are ADA-compliant accessible updates to three of Pottery Barn's best selling collections, plus several new designs – launches today after almost two years in development.
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Furniture World
Michael Graves Design Partners with Pottery Barn on New Collection
Michael Graves Design has partnered with Pottery Barn to introduce a new accessible home collection, available from August 1 on potterybarn.com and in select stores. The collection provides practical solutions for various needs, including aging in place and living with disabilities, without sacrificing aesthetics.
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Fast Company
Pottery Barn Just Updated Some Of Its Most Popular Furniture To Make It More Comfortable For Everyone
The subtle tweaks to Pottery Barn chairs, dressers, and beds are designed to make life easier for people with medical conditions and limited mobility.
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Homepage News
Pottery Barn Readies New Michael Graves Accessible Furnishings
Pottery Barn is getting ready to launch an accessible home furnishings collection in collaboration with Michael Graves Design, a company that had a renowned collaboration with Target years ago.
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STOREBRANDS
Pottery Barn, Michael Graves Team On Accessible Home Furnishings
The new assortment launching in July will feature bedroom furnishings and upholstery pieces designed to make life at home safer and more accessible.
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Home Furnishings Business
Pottery Barn Announces Accessible Collection with Michael Graves Design
Pottery Barn, a portfolio brand of Williams-Sonoma, Inc., announced the upcoming launch of an accessible home furnishings collection developed in collaboration with Michael Graves Design.
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Business Wire
POTTERY BARN ANNOUNCES ACCESSIBLE HOME FURNISHINGS COLLECTION IN COLLABORATION WITH MICHAEL GRAVES DESIGN
The Debut Collection Launching July 2024 Focuses on Functional, Accessible, and Beautiful Home Furniture.
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Furniture Today
Pottery Barn To Offer Michael Graves Design Accessible Furnishings Collection
Known for its expertise in accessible design, Michael Graves Design and Pottery Barn have partnered on a new collection of bedroom furnishings and upholstery pieces. The Michael Graves Design for Pottery Barn collaboration will launch in July 2024.
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Dwell
Why the Alessi Whistling Bird Kettle Stands the Test of Time
This Alessi Whistling Bird Kettle Makes Boiling Water Far More Pleasurable Than It Should Be Plus, it's reasonably priced compared to other luxury brands.
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Fast Company
11 projects using art and design to improve the world
See the full list of honorees of Fast Company's 2023 World Changing Ideas Awards in the Art and Design category.
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Fast Company
How designer Rob Van Varick made a commode so stylish that it can fit in a living room
The Chief Design Officer at Michael Graves Design created a reimagined line of canes, walkers, and more for CVS.
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Fast Company
How disability is informing better products—and better organizations
Designing with disability and accessibility in mind has finally gone mainstream.
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Fast Company
The legendary design firm that made Target a star is introducing a new line of products for CVS
If I were to ask you right now when you plan to buy a new iPhone, television, or living room sofa, you'd probably have a solid ballpark estimate for each of them, ranging from a few months to maybe a decade. But if I were to...
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Forbes
CVS Introduces New Line Of 'Functional And Stylish' Home Health Products That Makes Everyday Life More Accessible For Aging Adults And Disabled People
Drugstore giant CVS Pharmacy announced this week via press release the introduction of six home health care products developed in collaboration with Michael Graves Design. The modernized collection was developed for...
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Curbed
Michael Graves Design and CVS Made the Next Generation of Canes and Walkers
If you're shopping for new furniture or clothing, chances are you'll be able to buy something that expresses who you are, does its job well, and will make you feel excited to own. That isn't the case for "durable medical equipment...
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Harvard Business Review
Innovating Through Design
Everyone by now has seen the whimsical cone-shaped kettle with the little plastic birdie affixed to its spout, designed by the architect Michael Graves. Since its introduction in 1985 by Alessi...
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The New York Times
Michael Graves on Objects He Designs for Target, and Himself
Michael Graves may be one of the most prolific designers of our time. The Indianapolis native founded Michael Graves & Associates in Princeton, N.J., in 1964, and has designed more than 350 buildings around...
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Fast Company
Michael Graves Design built a $1 billion housewares business. Now it's back for more
In 1997, a train ran late. The architectural firm Michael Graves Design (MGD) was in Washington, D.C., working on a restoration of the Washington Monument. Target executives were in town while planning...
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Dezeen
US Open tennis courts spruced up with furniture by Michael Graves' studio
American studio Michael Graves Architecture & Design has created new seats for players, umpires and line judges at the US Open Tennis Championships, which begin this coming week in Queens, New York...
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Orlando Sentinel
Late designer's quest to elevate the ordinary lives in new kitchenware line
All journalistic objectivity aside, I'm going to come right out and say, my favorite designer of all time is Michael Graves. Hands down. No qualifiers. No apologies. The Princeton-based architect...
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Dwell
7 Quotes on Living Well from Michael Graves
Michael Graves is credited with broadening the role of the architect in society and raising public interest in good design as essential to the quality of everyday life. He has displayed his talents not only as an architect...
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CBS NEWS Sunday Morning
A tea kettle design that's spot-on
Whistling tea kettles have been letting off steam for at least a hundred years, and for Donald Strum, that's music to his ears. "It's primal," he told CBS News' Susan Spencer, "to be able to put something on a stove...
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