Stories by Amy Frearson
Manea Kella converts art-nouveau house in Romania into boutique hotel Casa Popeea
Douglas & Company founders remodel 120-year-old cottage in Cape Town
Sophie Dries renovates Haussmann-era apartment in Paris for clients who are “really into colour”
Alexis Dornier builds trio of tropical villas in Bali’s surf haven Uluwatu
“We want African design to be functional” says Design Week Lagos founder
Young designer Jehanara Knowles launches furniture brand Kam Ce Kam
Pool Leber Architekten swaps concrete for wood to create R11 loft extension
Simone Post combines hypnotic patterns with bubbles in wax-printed fabric
23 weird and wonderful masks feature in Masters of Disguise exhibition at Seeds
V&A promotes degrowth with a pavilion that’s nothing but empty space
Kengo Kuma combines bamboo with carbon fibre to create “material for the future”
“I’m interested in giving science fiction an overdue sex change” says Lucy McRae
Shimpei Oda and Tetsuya Tanji keep things minimal in studio for graphic design office Panda
Revolving auditorium is showpiece of Boulevard theatre by SODA
Lucy McRae creates hugging machine as an antidote to the “touch crisis”
Envisions explores the future of the humble paving slab
Insects “offer hints for the future of humankind” says Taku Satoh
Austin Maynard Architects adds two scaly extensions to post-war bungalow in Canberra
Yuri Suzuki shows the fun side of sound design in seven offbeat projects
Matter of Stuff recycles last year’s London Design Festival exhibition into something new
Kathrine Barbro Bendixen uses cow intestines to create sculptural lights
Sam Jacob looks to a future when ocean plastic outnumbers fish