Israeli designer Itay Laniado has created a range of stainless steel garden tools with oak handles wrapped in red thread. More »

Here's another project using old carpets (see our earlier post on a chair made of rolled-up carpet), this time handbags by Spanish initiative Maam Project, manufactured by prisoners. More »

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French designer Philippe Starck has completed the renovation of a former wine cellar in Bilbao to create a new culture and leisure centre for the city. More »

Finnish Lahti University of Applied Sciences students Arttu Kuisma and Janne Melajoki have rolled up 250 square-metres of recycled carpet to create this multicoloured chair. More »

French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have created a collection of tableware for Italian brand Alessi. More »

These bird and bug boxes have been installed by art and architecture collective London Fieldworks around trees across London in clusters inspired by neighbouring housing. More »

Dezeen have teamed up with Brands, UK distributors for Emeco, to offer our readers the chance to win one of three Emeco 111 Navy Chairs made of recycled plastic bottles to celebrate the chair's UK launch during the London Design Festival. More »

London designer Roger Arquer has designed this vase with a funnel protruding from the side so that the water to be changed without removing the flowers. More »

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: two enormous girders slice through the Arsenale exhibition at the Venice Architecture Biennale thanks to Madrid architect Antón García-Abril of Ensamble Studio. More »

This winery by Hungarian architects Plant sits at the foot of a volcanic hill in Hungary and is clad in concrete panels indented with the pattern of grapevines. More »

Venice Architecture Biennale 2010: Philippe Starck, Aldo Spinelli and Carlo Colombo (above) are among the latest designers to create pieces for Riva 1920 made of reclaimed oak mooring posts from the Venetian lagoon. More »

This house with a pool on its first-floor terrace is by Japanese firm NRM-Architects Office and overlooks a stream in Hyougo, Japan. More »

Japanese studio Nendo will present a collection of black wire furniture with Phillips de Pury & Company at the Saatchi Gallery in London later this month. More »