Design
Seeing the Light With Jean Nouvel
A short documentary on the 2008 Pritzker Prize winner doesn’t show his eccentric creative process—just the fruits of it.
The French architect Jean Nouvel spends his mornings lying in bed with an eye mask on, earplugs in, and a sheet over his head as he visualizes what will eventually become a brilliant design solution for one of his projects. (“But first, Bed Cocoon,” he presumably tells staffers.)