“One of the reasons the tech industry is so creatively bankrupt is that people just focus on attributes you can measure,” said Jony Ive, when told of the insecurity Kushner had confided to Rick Rubin. “I was very lucky at Apple, because Steve [Jobs] showed me there was a way to articulate things like sensibility, intuition, taste, which all start... See more

“I think people think of design as how something looks. But that’s a superficial definition—it’s how something works,” says Airbnb co-founder Brian Chesky, who says he called Ive as soon as he saw his resignation announcement from Apple and asked to be one of LoveFrom’s first clients. Chesky, who studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, adds,... See more

Jesper Kouthoofd envisioned living in a one-room apartment without any ­money. But life wanted something different for the Swedish ad-man and ­founder of ­music-tech company Teenage Engineering. We were granted an exclusive ­audience in Kouthoofd’s 18th-century house in Stockholm.