Design
Trash Luxe at Liberty
Trash Luxe at Liberty is an exhibition celebrating designers use take cheap or worthless materials to make exquisite furniture, lighting and jewellery. More about Trash Luxe at Liberty
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Architecture
Thomas Heatherwick new website
Thomas Heatherwick has updated his website with photos and info about many of his projects, including Sitooterie II (above), his 2006 interior design for restaurant Konstam at the Prince Albert (below) and his famous 1997 window display for Harvey Nichols. More about Thomas Heatherwick new website
Furniture
Isle Lounge (small) by Asobi
Slovenian design brand Asobi has put a smaller version of its giant Isle Lounge sofa into production. More about Isle Lounge (small) by Asobi
Architecture
Boiler Suit by Thomas Heatherwick
Thomas Heatherwick has completed Boiler Suit, an undulating facade of woven steel panels encasing the boiler house at Guy's Hospital in London. More about Boiler Suit by Thomas Heatherwick
Furniture
Golden Time Cupboard by Lola Lely
New Designers 07: Golden Time Cupboard is designed for primary schools and contains nine storage boxes for toys and games that can be removed for the "golden time" play hour at the end of the day. More about Golden Time Cupboard by Lola Lely
Design
Burn Burn Burn by Sarah van Gameren
Burn Burn Burn is not a product but a material, according to designer Sarah van Gameren. And also a performance: the flammable paint is applied decoratively to interiors and then ignited to leave a scorched testimony at "funerals, dinners, weddings" etc. More about Burn Burn Burn by Sarah van Gameren
Architecture
Amanda Levete for Corian at LDF 2
Here is a new rendering of architect Amanda Levete of Future Systems' installation for the London Design Festival this September (see our earlier story for more details and images). The piece, made of Corian, is part of the Size + Matter project that also includes Zaha Hadid's Urban Nebula (see previous story).
More about Amanda Levete for Corian at LDF 2
Architecture
Urban Nebula by Zaha Hadid
Architect Zaha Hadid has created a sculptural piece that will be installed at the South Bank Centre in London during the London Design Festival this September. More about Urban Nebula by Zaha Hadid
Furniture
Ettore Sottsass at Friedman Benda Gallery
An exhibition of new work by designer Ettore Sottsass will inaugurate the new Friedman Benda Gallery in New York next month. More about Ettore Sottsass at Friedman Benda Gallery
Design
Moss: Los Angeles
Influential design retailer Murray Moss has opened his first store outside New York, with the launch of Moss: Los Angeles (or "Moss Angeles") on Melrose Avenue. (via David Report via Dezain). More about Moss: Los Angeles
Design
Ethical Kitchen by Alexandra Sten Jørgensen
New Designers 07: The Ethical Kitchen is a project by Alexandra Sten Jørgensen, a recent graduate of the contemporary design course at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University in England. More about Ethical Kitchen by Alexandra Sten Jørgensen
Design
Fish Bowls by Roger Arquer
Fish Bowls is a new project by designer Roger Arquer that presents 15 variations on the standard fish bowl including Do Not Piss Me Off (above), which "tells us about the power to decide between the life and death of the fish". More about Fish Bowls by Roger Arquer
Design
Beat vessels by Tom Dixon
Another of Tom Dixon's new products: Beat vessels are a series of vases made of solid, hand-beaten brass. More about Beat vessels by Tom Dixon
Design
Angle lights by Tom Dixon
More from Tom Dixon's new range: Angle is a range of lights made of bent, extruded aluminium in off-white powder coating. More about Angle lights by Tom Dixon
Furniture
Kimono Chair by Tokujin Yoshioka
Kimono Chair is a concept for creating furniture out of a flat piece of material by Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka. More about Kimono Chair by Tokujin Yoshioka
Furniture
Lounge Chair by David Irwin
New Designers 07: Lounge Chair by Northumbria University design graduate David Irwin features a steam-bent timber frame with a removable cushion that is fixed in place by buttons. More about Lounge Chair by David Irwin
Furniture
Opus Incertum by Sean Yoo for Casamania
Opus Incertum is a shelving and room partitioning system designed by Sean Yoo of Apt 5 Design for Italian furniture brand Casamania. More about Opus Incertum by Sean Yoo for Casamania
Design
Sweet and Heady by Ray Power
Sweet and Heady is a pendant light made of wine glasses by Ray Power. More about Sweet and Heady by Ray Power
Furniture
Peter Marigold at Great Brits in Milan
Very late Milan update: Peter Marigold was one of five designers showcased at the Great Brits - Ingenious Therapies show organised by the Design Museum and the British Council at fashion designer Paul Smith's Milan headquarters in April. More about Peter Marigold at Great Brits in Milan
Lighting
Slip-cast link light by Sarah Moucher
New Designers 07: Sarah Moucher, a graduate of the Wood, Metal, Plastics and Ceramics course at the University of Brighton, showed this light made of removable links fabricated in slip-cast ceramic. More about Slip-cast link light by Sarah Moucher