New York fashion designer Aina Beck experimented with foil printing to create the dappled metallic patterns in her latest capsule collection. More »
Autumn Winter 2013 capsule collection
Umbrella Facade for the Madrid Pavilion
by 3Gatti Architecture Studio
3Gatti Architecture Studio will add a facade of opening and closing steel umbrellas to Foreign Office Architects' Madrid Pavilion from the 2010 Shanghai Expo (+ slideshow). More »
Bloom by
Raw Edges
Milan 2013: London design duo Raw Edges came up with a bookcase shaped like a weaving loom to display novels by young British writers. More »
Crescent House
by Andrew Burns
Australian architect Andrew Burns has installed a charred timber pavilion with deceptively curved walls in the garden of the Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation in Paddington, Sydney (+ slideshow). More »
“Milan is a breeding ground for people
who copy our products”
Dezeen and MINI World Tour: in this movie filmed in Milan earlier this month, leading designers and manufacturers discuss the phenomenon of copying and how they are responding. "It’s become an increasingly big problem for us," says Tom Dixon. "People can steal ideas and produce them almost faster than we can now." More »
Grimshaw submits plans for
Australian skyscraper
Parrish by Konstantin Grcic
for Emeco
Milan 2013: a collection of furniture designed by Konstantin Grcic for Herzog & de Meuron's Parrish Art Museum in Long Island has gone into production with American brand Emeco. More »
ABC Center House by Kakuro Odagi
and Daisuke Narushima
With a terrace sheltered beneath its overhanging eaves, this building by Japanese architects Kakuro Odagi and Daisuke Narushima functions as an information centre for prefabricated show homes in Yokohama (+ slideshow). More »
Rick Mather
1937-2013
Iris van Herpen exhibition at the International
Centre for Lace and Fashion
Haute couture garments by Dutch fashion designer Iris van Herpen will be displayed at an exhibition of her work in Calais, France, from June. More »
Park Life folding armchair by
Jasper Morrison for Kettal
Milan 2013: British designer Jasper Morrison has added a folding armchair to his Park Life collection of outdoor furniture for Spanish design brand Kettal. More »
Eight Inscribed Houses and Three Courtyards
by Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos
This social housing block on the Canary Islands was designed by local studio Romera y Ruiz Arquitectos with a pleated facade and three hidden courtyards. More »
Concentré de Vie by Matali Crasset
for Campeggi
Milan 2013: French designer Matali Crasset has designed a sofa that breaks down into a bed, two armchairs and two footstools. More »
Pedervegen 8 by
Rever & Drage
This timber-clad house extension in Norway by Oslo studio Rever & Drage features curvy towers that point outwards like periscopes (+ slideshow). More »
Still Life by PJADAD
and Atelier Food
Stockholm design studio PJADAD used tiny cubes and chunks of food to create this miniature landscape as a visual identity for the Swedish Atelier Food project and restaurant (+ slideshow). More »