
SÜDQUAI patente.unikate. in collaboration with ZMIK have refurbished a hair salon in Basel, wallpapering the entrance with photocopies from Vogue magazine. More »

SÜDQUAI patente.unikate. in collaboration with ZMIK have refurbished a hair salon in Basel, wallpapering the entrance with photocopies from Vogue magazine. More »

Dutch designer Marcel Wanders has designed a collection of glasses, vases and candelabras for French crystal brand Baccarat, including this family of stainless steel deer with candelabra antlers (above). More »

Stockholm 2010: Stockholm designer Johan Lindstén will present a collection of chairs with backrests featuring embroidered country scenes in Stockholm next week. More »

Stockholm 2010: at the Greenhouse exhibition at Stockholm Furniture Fair next week Irish design studio Superfolk will launch a collection inspired by Irish vernacular furniture. More »

Hong Kong artist and designer Kacey Wong has designed shelters that look like robots for rich people who have lost their homes in the economic crisis. More »
Dezeenwire: Danish studio Christensen & Co Architects have won a competition to design a new city hall for Lund in Sweden. See press release and images below. More »
Dezeenwire: Hong Kong-based British designer Michael Young has been appointed Creative Director of 100% Design Shanghai/IHDD, which takes place at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from 4-6 November this year. More details on this story. Read all our stories about Michael Young in our special category.
Dezeenwire: retailers SCP, social enterprise [re]design and designer Nick Fraser are among eleven winners of this year's Hidden Art Awards, announced at a ceremony in London yesterday. See press release below. More »

Japanese architects Future Studio have completed a house in Hiroshima City, Japan, where the walls of the building extend to enclose a garden and first-floor terrace. More »

Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a conference centre in Offenburg, Germany, designed by Freiburg architects Hetzel & Ortholf. More »
Dezeenwire: British textile designer Lucienne Day died on January 30th, aged 93. Read her obituary in The Guardian.

Cologne 2010: at imm Cologne earlier this month French designer Julien Renault presented a collection of aluminium furniture made with forging techniques normally applied to steel. More »

French designer Paul Coudamy has designed an apartment in Paris divided by a lumpy red resin wall. More »

Spanish studio Stone Designs have converted a log cabin into a cafe at a ski station near Teruel, Spain, using climbing ropes and felt. More »