Furniture
Juxtaposed: Power by Mike and Maaike
San Francisco designers Mike and Maaike have created a shelf with slots specifically cut to house seven seminal books about power and society. More about Juxtaposed: Power by Mike and Maaike
San Francisco designers Mike and Maaike have created a shelf with slots specifically cut to house seven seminal books about power and society. More about Juxtaposed: Power by Mike and Maaike
Stockholm 2010: at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last week, Copenhagen design company KiBiSi exhibited a chair made of wooden poles joined by cast aluminium components. More about Tube Chair by KiBiSi for Hay
London shoe designer Tracey Neuls and Danish artist Nina Saunders have collaborated to create an installation using fabrics by British textile brand Sanderson at Neuls' London shop. More about Most Curious by Tracey Neuls and Nina Saunders
Ron Arad: Restless opens at the Barbican in London tomorrow and in the first of four films we made to coincide with the exhibition, the Israeli-born designer shows us around his studio in Chalk Farm, London. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More about Ron Arad: Restless – a tour of Ron Arad’s studio
Philips Design in Eindhoven have collaborated with Spanish restaurant Arzak to create a conceptual series of tableware that glows when food is placed on it. More about Multi-sensorial Gastronomy by Philips Design
At design fair Object Rotterdam earlier this month Dutch designer Richard Hutten presented new additions to his Playing with Tradition series of oriental rugs, where the traditional patterns are stretched into stripes.
Milan 2010: Here's another yellow table! This one is by Rotterdam designer Reinier de Jong, is made of plywood and has triangular legs. More about Volt by Reinier de Jong
Stockholm 2010: at an exhibition of their work in Stockholm last week Swedish designers Form Us With Love presented a beanbag contained in a metal frame. More about Swell by Form Us With Love for Voice
Designer Anna Ter Haar of the Netherlands has created a series of wooden chairs where each has one blown-glass leg. More about Cinderella's Chair by Anna Ter Haar
Fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier has become the latest famous name to create a plastic shoe for Brazilian brand Melissa. More about Jean Paul Gaultier x Melissa
Stockholm 2010: Swedish designer Anna Kraitz has designed a sofa for furniture company Kallemo with a leather belt strapped around the backrest, which is on show at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More about Mama Look by Anna Kraitz
Stockholm 2010: at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week Stockholm designer Shane Schneck exhibits a wooden chair that can be hung from the edge of a table by its cantilevered seat. More about RU Chair by Shane Schneck for Hay
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will exhibit a glass window made of 500 crystal prisms at MUSEUM. beyond museum in Seoul this May. More about Rainbow Church by Tokujin Yoshioka
Stockholm 2010: at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week Stockholm studio Chen Karlsson present a lamp where treasured objects can be exhibited inside a transparent tank beneath the light source. More about Favourite Things by Chen Karlsson
Stockholm 2010: Swedish designers Muungano are exhibiting a collection of furniture that combines African colours and patterns with the aesthetics of the Bauhaus movement at this year's Stockholm Furniture Fair. More about Baufrica by Muungano
London designer Ron Arad has created a polycarbonate version of his famous Well Tempered Chair for the forthcoming exhibition of his work at the Barbican in London. More about Well Transparent Chair by Ron Arad
Dezeenwire: fashion designer Alexander McQueen has been found dead at his home in London - BBC
More about Alexander McQueen 1969-2010
Stockholm 2010: Berlin designers Osko+Deichmann are exhibiting a collection of colourful chairs made of tubular steel folded into sharp bends at the Stockholm Furniture Fair this week. More about STRAW by Osko+Deichmann for Blå Station
London designer Asif Khan has produced an installation of chairs and tables made of freeze-dried flowers as part of the Designers in Residence program at the Design Museum London. More about Harvest by Asif Khan
At Object Rotterdam in the Netherlands last week Brazilian designers Fernando and Humberto Campana exhibited a terracotta table made of decorative ventilation bricks commonly used in Brazilian houses. More about Tavolo Cobogó by the Campana Brothers