Airbnb's Samara hires Apple industrial designer to join housing initiative

Airbnb's offshoot design studio Samara has hired Apple industrial designer Miklu Silvanto to join the company's housebuilding initiative.
Silvanto will move from Apple's industrial design department to lead the industrial and interaction design team at Backyard – an enterprise that Samara launched last year to devise new ways to design, build and share homes better suited to new modes of living.
Silvanto, 38, said that he felt "privileged" with the opportunity to work on the project,