Furniture
Kiasma chair by Vesa Honkonen
Stockholm Design Week: architect Vesa Honkonen launched the Kiasma chair for Swedish manufacturer Källemo at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Kiasma chair by Vesa Honkonen
Stockholm Design Week: architect Vesa Honkonen launched the Kiasma chair for Swedish manufacturer Källemo at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Kiasma chair by Vesa Honkonen
Stockholm Design Week: Finnish architect Vesa Honkonen presented this public lighting project when he spoke at the Light Now conference in Stockholm last Monday. More about Heinola Reading Lamps by Vesa Honkonen
Wallpaper designer Linda Florence created a patterned dance floor of sieved icing sugar at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, which served as a stage for a performance by ballroom dancers. More about Sugar dance by Linda Florence
Stockholm Design Week: Dutch designer Hella Jongerius launched new additions to her Blossom collection for Belux at the Stockholm Furniture Fair last week. More about Blossom suspension lights by Hella Jongerius
Masters students at London's Royal College of Art presented their work in progress at an interim show last week called Work in Progress. More about Work in Progress at the Royal College of Art
Designer Karim Rashid has designed a collection of five spirit bottles for Bombay Sapphire in conjunction with jewellers Garrard and crystal brand Baccarat. More about Revelation by Karim Rashid for Bombay Sapphire
More airships: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has sent us a couple of new images showing the interior of his flying hotel proposal, Manned Cloud. More about New images of Manned Cloud by Jean-Marie Massaud
Stockholm Design Week: Swedish designers Folkform have launched a furniture range that combines luxury materials such as Carrara marble and vintage leather with cheap imitation products such as laminate and fake leather. More about Unique Standard by Folkform
Stockholm Design Week: Xile, a flexible tunnel designed by Swedish designer Mats Karlsson, is one of three winners of the Forum AID Award 2008, announced in Stockholm on Tuesday. More about Xile by Mats Karlsson
Stockholm Design Week: new Swedish lighting brand Wästberg launched last night with task lights designed by Ilse Crawford (above), Claesson Koivisto Rune, James Irvine and Jean-Marie Massaud. More about Wästberg lighting collection
The Design Museum in London has announced the shortlist for the first Brit Insurance Design of the Year Awards - a new annual exhibition and awards programme that replaces the controversial Designer of the Year award. More about Shortlist for Designs of the Year awards
Stockholm Design Week: We're in Sweden this week, and the girls from Front have just completed an installation in the lobby of our hotel, the Nordic Light. More about Front at Nordic Light Hotel
London designers Peter Marigold and Beta Tank have created a chair that uses sensory substitution technology to transmit moving imagery to the sitter's brain. More about Mind Chair by Peter Marigold and Beta Tank
American sculptor Dan Corson created the Empyrean Passage sculpture to mark the boundary between West Hollywood and Beverly Hills, California. More about Empyrean Passage by Dan Corson
Israeli designer Shay Alkalay has sent us an animation and still images of Cut Attachez - a system that allows you to attach a drawer to an existing piece of furniture. More about Cut Attachez by Shay Alkalay
Mark Sanders, designer of the Strida Bike, has given Dezeen access to his archive of drawings, models and photographs (including his very first sketch of the bike, above). Here he tells us how the project came about: More about Interview: Strida bike designer Mark Sanders
Italian designers Gumdesign have designed two new drinking glasses called Swing (above) and Shadow. More about Swing and Shadow by Gumdesign
Rather belatedly, here are some photos of the New Stuff exhibition held at the Johnson Trading Gallery in New York late last year. More about New Stuff exhibition at the Johnson Trading Gallery
Sculptor Dylan Kehde Roelofs has created a range of functioning incandescent light-bulbs made of hand-blown glass. More about Hand-blown light bulbs by Dylan Kehde Roelofs
These drawers by young Israeli designer Shay Alkalay were launched by Dutch brand Arco at the IMM Cologne furniture fair earlier this month. More about Pivot by Shay Alkalay