Dezeenwire: an aluminum Lockheed Lounge chair by designer Marc Newson sold today at Phillips de Pury in London for 1.1 million pounds ($1.6 million), an auction record for a piece of contemporary design art. Bloomberg
London architects Glowacka Rennie have completed the interior of the ladies toilets at the V&A museum in London. More »
Dezeenwire: Alice Rawsthorn reflects on this year’s Milan furniture fair. New York Times
Milan 09: Danish brand Normann Copenhagen presented furniture by Danish designers including Ole Jensen (above) and Jesper K. Thomsen at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. More »
Milan 09: Italian lighting brand Foscarini launched Le Soleil by Spanish designer Vicente García Jiménez at Euroluce in Milan last week. More »
Milan 09: designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec launched a range of upholstered seating called Quilt for furniture brand Established & Sons in Milan last week. More »
Portuguese architects Camarim have completed Casa Tropical, a holiday home in a fishing village in northern Brazil. More »
Milan 09: British architect and designer Nigel Coates exhibited three lamps designed for Italian lighting company Slamp at Euroluce in Milan last week. More »
More from Rojkind Arquitectos, who collaborated on the New Tamayo Museum in our previous story: the architects have recently completed a laboratory building for food brand Nestlé. More »
Update: we’ve added a new set of diagrams and model shots to our story about the New Tamayo Museum by Rojkind Arquitectos and BIG, published yesterday. Read the story here.
Dezeen have joined up with Laurence King Publishing to offer readers the chance to win five copies of Designing Sustainable Packaging by Scott Boylston, plus a 30% discount on the book when ordered from the publisher’s website. More »
Milan 09: Dutch brand Montis presented a “beanbag on legs” by Dutch designer Bertjan Pot, at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan last week. More »
Dezeenwire: Norwegian architects Snøhetta have won the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture – Mies van der Rohe Award 2009, for their Norwegian Opera & Ballet, Oslo. See our story on the building here. See our story on the award shortlist here.
Dublin-based Ailtireacht Architects have recently completed an extension to a Victorian terrace house in Rathgar, Dublin. More »
Rojkind Arquitectos and Copenhagen architects BIG have won a competition to design a museum overlooking Mexico City. More »