This week on Dezeen, IKEA shared a first look at its Konstrunda collection, which elevates "everyday objects into art pieces" with contributions from seven designers, including Andu Masebo and Lisa Hilland.
The 22-piece collection aims to offer an entry point for young collectors just beginning to accumulate pieces for their home, at prices they can actually afford.
"To make something that can be considered art, that can also be accessible is a really interesting challenge to consider," said London's Andu Masebo, who contributed a side table wrapped in a chunky metal frame.
In other design news, the first production model of Ferrari's first electric car – the opinion-dividing Ferrari Luce – sold for a record $40 million at a charity auction during Monterey Car Week in California.
Designed by Apple alumni Jony Ive and Marc Newson, the EV is now the most expensive new vehicle ever sold at auction, flying in the face of critics who argued that with four doors, five seats and zero engine, it wasn't a real Ferrari.
Also taking on records this week were architecture studios Waugh Thistleton Architects and Mithun, who unveiled their design for the "tallest mass timber office building in the US".
The 12-storey mass timber office block will be set in Bellevue, Washington, and demonstrates that "timber is ready to take its place at the forefront of American architecture" – at least according to Waugh Thistleton Architects co-founder Andrew Waugh.
Architecture firm OMA celebrated its own first this week, with the completion of its debut affordable housing development in the United States, set near Golden Gate Park in San Francisco.
We also revealed exclusive images of the new facade on the postmodern Thompson Center in downtown Chicago, installed as part of a renovation by architecture studio Jahn that will see it converted into Google's HQ in the Windy City.
Meanwhile, American actor Brad Pitt has taken on the role of executive producer for a documentary on Swiss architect Peter Zumthor, directed by German filmmaker Wim Wenders.
The 3D film, recorded over the course of 14 years, is set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival next month and aims to immerse audiences in the Pritzker Prize-winning architect's buildings.
Among our most popular projects this week are a concrete extension to a Lisbon school, the Chenhu Migratory Bird Observation Tower and a Norwegian cabin made from uprooted spruce trees.
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