Chiselled, sawed and blackened wood, and hand-carved green marble and volcanic stone feature in Mexico City design studio EWE's latest furniture and homeware collection. More about EWE's Sincretismo collection includes stone seat based on Mexican birthing chair
Shanghai furniture brand Stellar Works has for the first time launched products in China rather than Milan, unveiling pieces by Neri&Hu, Jens Risom and Space Copenhagen at the Design Shanghai fair. More about Stellar Works launches furniture at Design Shanghai for first time
Shanghai-based design studio 8 Hour has released a range of seating, which is inspired by the "changing forms" of a paperclip. More about 8 Hour presents Clips furniture collection at Design Shanghai
Blue-tinted glass and iridescent stainless steel feature in Chinese design studio Buzao's latest furniture collections, which were launched at Design Shanghai this week. More about Buzao launches Null and Hot collections at Design Shanghai
A "rampant cast of character-objects" that includes furniture, lighting and sculpture are displayed at artist and designer Misha Kahn's first solo show in Los Angeles. More about Misha Kahn presents "endearingly absurd" Just Around the Bend exhibition in LA
New York gallery Friedman Benda is hosting the first solo exhibition of work by Lebanese designer Najla El Zein, which includes sculptural furniture influenced by pregnancy and seduction. More about Najla El Zein's "sensual" furniture goes on show in New York
Dezeen promotion: the Whass office chair, created by Item Designworks for Spanish brand Actiu, is designed for flexible use. More about Actiu launches "super stackable" office chair by Item Designworks
New Zealand-born designer Sophie Rowley gives new life to discarded denim offcuts by recycling them into pieces of furniture with marble-like markings. More about Sophie Rowley designs marble-like furniture from repurposed denim
A chair that is "perfect for hacking" and baskets made from faux hair braids are among the products created by African designers for an IKEA homeware range. More about IKEA teams up with top African designers to launch Överallt furniture collection
Promotion: Milan-based designer Antonio Citterio has created a range of furniture for Italian brand Flexform, designed to suit the practicalities of everyday life. More about Flexform promotes "good design" with new furniture by Antonio Citterio
Lebanese-American designer Nabil Issa has launched his debut line of furniture, which includes a throne-like golden chair made from brass. More about Nabil Issa debuts "minimalistic yet bold" furniture collection
Dezeen has teamed up with Society6 to offer readers the chance to win either a coffee or side table printed with a design of their choosing, in our latest competition. More about Competition: win a coffee table from Society6
Belgian designer Pierre-Emmanuel Vandeputte has created a collection of long-legged steel furniture that he has imagined as a family of strange creatures. More about Pierre-Emmanuel Vandeputte debuts anthropomorphic steel furniture
Auto-maker Ford has dabbled in the world of home furnishing with the Lane-Keeping Bed, which promises to help couples get a better night's sleep. More about Ford invents smart mattress that keeps sleepers on their side of the bed
Layer has developed a smart textile for use in Airbus' economy class seating, which would allow passengers to monitor and control their seat conditions using their phone. More about Layer's smart Move seating for Airbus adapts to the passengers' needs
Mexico City-based Esrawe Studio has created a series of asymmetrically structured shelves that are inspired by the lattice structure of scaffolding used in construction. More about Esrawe Studio's Trama shelves are designed to resemble scaffolding
Mexican designer Pablo Limón has produced a set of furniture pieces with chromatic rainbow finishes, created by gently buffing surfaces covered in layers of silver nitrate. More about Pablo Limón coats furniture in silver nitrate for chromatic effect
The work of Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti is the focus of a major exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. Curator Salvatore Licitra, who is also Ponti's nephew, picks out five of the most important designs in the show. More about Five influential pieces of furniture designed by Gio Ponti
Soundproof pods, saddle-shaped chairs, adjustable-height desks and wobble boards were in abundance at Stockholm Furniture Fair last week, as privacy and wellbeing become essential aspects of office furniture design. More about Wellbeing and noise concerns fuel "accelerating" trend for healthier office furniture
The residents of Thessaloniki, Greece, can now recycle their plastic waste into 3D printed furniture for the city, using a new laboratory set up by Rotterdam studio The New Raw. More about Print Your City turns recycled food containers into street furniture