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![Plants Out of Place by Coloni and Studio Aikieu]()
Coloni and Studio Aikieu celebrate weeds with Plants Out Of Place exhibition
London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition by Swedish gardening house Coloni and trend forecaster Studio Aikieu will celebrate the potential of "undesirable" and wild-growing species in towns and cities. More
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Reiko Kaneko's porcelain ceramic experiments to be presented during London Design Festival
London Design Festival 2015: Japanese ceramics designer Reiko Kaneko will show the results of three years of experimentation with porcelain glazing at this year's London Design Festival. More
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Dana Douiev's Injera collection brings traditional Ethiopian cooking rituals to modern kitchens
Graduate shows 2015: these utensils by Bezalel Academy of Art and Design graduate Dana Douiev enable the ceremonial preparation of traditional Ethiopian injera bread in a contemporary city kitchen (+ movie). More
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Joseph Joseph aims to reinvent microwave cooking with M-Cuisine collection
London kitchenware brand Joseph Joseph has developed a collection of containers for microwave cooking that can be used to prepare full meals rather than just heating up leftovers (+ slideshow). More
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Décadrages' BedUp lifts up to the ceiling when not in use
Instead of folding against a wall, this space-saving bed by French furniture manufacture Décadrages can be hoisted up to the ceiling to create more room in studio apartments. More
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Nina Simone influences Estudio Sputnik's sofa for Missana
Spanish furniture brand Missana has launched the Simone sofa, designed by Estudio Sputnik to reference a grand piano and named after the famous jazz and blues artist. More
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Kris Lamba's RV1 Carbon Chair is made from a single carbon-fibre sheet
British designer Kris Lamba has folded a 20-metre-long piece of carbon fibre into a chair that facilitates different sitting positions (+ slideshow). More
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Designnobis proposes pop-up disaster relief shelter for earthquake-affected families
Turkish creative consultancy Designnobis has devised a temporary shelter that could be easily transported and quickly assembled to house those displaced by natural disasters (+ slideshow). More
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Studio Job's Banana Show exhibition opens in Belgium
Studio Job has created a series of lamps shaped like peeled bananas for an exhibition at Belgium's Samuel Vanhoegaerden Gallery. More
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![Vibra chair by Raiko Valladares and Jose A Villa]()
Havana duo aims to revitalise Cuban design with elasticated Vibra chairs
Havana-based designers Raiko Valladares and Jose A Villa have launched a collection of brightly coloured chairs, which are designed and made in Cuba (+ slideshow). More
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Emma Buckley's Dye Lines vessels absorb colour through a tiny gap in the glazing
Graduate shows 2015: Bath School of Art and Design graduate Emma Buckley has coloured a range of decorative ceramic tableware by letting dye seep up through gaps in the glazing (+ slideshow). More
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Anna Herrmann's 50 Den chair is made from old tights
Design student Anna Herrmann has made a chair by weaving pairs of laddered tights onto a steel frame. More
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![Growth by Begum Ayaskan and Bike Ayaskan]()
Begum and Bike Ayaskan's Growth plant pot expands with its occupant
Graduate shows 2015: Royal College of Art graduates Begum and Bike Ayaskan have designed a plant pot with a complex origami form, which enables it to unfold and accommodate more space for roots over time. More
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Milan dental studio converted into compact two-storey apartment
Italian architecture firm +R Piuerre has converted a dental practice at the top of a Milanese building into a 60-square-metre apartment (+ slideshow). More
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Erika Emerén designs furniture by scaling up plasticine models
Graduate shows 215: designer Erika Emerén created the shapes and patterns of the chair, lamp and rug in her graduate collection by playing with plasticine (+ slideshow). More
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Normann Copenhagen responds to small sofa trend with Era by Simon Legald
Danish designer Simon Legald has added a two-seater sofa to his Era lounge collection for Normann Copenhagen, responding to market demand for smaller sofas (+ slideshow). More
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![Petite Vie by Francis Fontaine, Luca Fortin and Pascal Labelle]()
Fontaine/Fortin/Labelle creates Pomo-inspired entrance to Quebec passageway
Pomo summer: design collective Fontaine/Fortin/Labelle has blocked both ends of a lane in Quebec's Quartier Création with a Postmodern-influenced installation of colourful walls and geometric doorways (+ slideshow). More
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Henry&Co's Chayr features a seat made from hay and grass
Italian studio Henry&Co has used a material created by binding hay and grass to form the seat of this untreated beech wood stool. More
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Magis creates Alessandro Mendini's Proust armchair in plastic
Pomo summer: Italian designer Alessandro Mendini's 1978 Proust armchair, one of the most iconic chairs of the last century and a precursor to Postmodern design, was put into production for the first time by furniture brand Magis. More
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Adam Blencowe brings digital technology to traditional felting techniques with Fuzzy Logic
Graduate shows 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Adam Blencowe has created a series of samples to demonstrate a new technique that brings "unprecedented precision" to the felting of woven textiles (+ slideshow). More
