Designer Rio Kobayashi has created a London Design Festival "living room" filled with objects he created with the help of artist and designer friends. More about Rio Kobayashi's first solo show features tuna table and totem speakers
Digitally shrink-wrapped skin, armrests salvaged from parks and "frozen" resin featured in Prototype/In Process, an exhibition of seating presented by virtual magazine Chair of Virtue during London Design Festival. More about Chair of Virtue presents experimental seating at London Design Festival
Geodesic domes containing projections of AI-rendered images depicting "ideal eco futures" feature at the Earth Edition exhibition held in California. More about "Solarpunk" installations feature at Earth Edition festival in California
Promotion: Italian wellness brand Effe has launched a number of new saunas for 2023, including the Aladdin sauna and the Natural modular cubicle, which is available as a sauna, hammam or infrared sauna. More about Effe launches two new saunas for the home
Dezeen Showroom: a selection of brands based in Thailand have listed their furniture and accessories on Dezeen Showroom, including chairs that celebrate both Thai craft and native timber. More about Thai Trade presents six award-winning furniture designs
L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped, artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude's last work, is being recycled by Parley for the Oceans, which will turn it into tents and sun shades for use during the 2024 Olympics and other events in Paris. More about Parley for the Oceans to recycle Christo and Jeanne-Claude's L'Arc de Triomphe Wrapped
Dezeen Showroom: British company Karndean Designflooring has released its latest take on oak flooring with the Korlok Regent luxury vinyl tile collection, promising a realistic alternative to natural wood. More about Korlok Regent flooring by Karndean Designflooring
Costume designer Ane Crabtree drew on the style of New York City's Washington Heights neighbourhood and created a coat to function as "a house that you wear on the street" for Apple TV+ series The Changeling, she tells Dezeen in this interview. More about Ane Crabtree designs The Changeling costumes as a "respectful nod to Black history"
Designer Giles Tettey Nartey has presented a communal bench as part of a POOR Collective exhibition at the London Design Festival, with an intricately carved surface that doubles as a game board. More about Giles Tettey Nartey reimagines traditional West African bench as giant game of Oware
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of storage informed by the colourful and bold designs of the postmodernism movement is among six new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. More about Linea range by Porro among six new products on Dezeen Showroom
Singapore Design Week exhibition Emerge has presented work ranging from handcraft to 3D-printed furniture by over 50 designers from across Southeast Asia. More about Emerge exhibition showcases Southeast Asian design at Singapore Design Week
Japanese studio Kengo Kuma and Associates has teamed up with Canadian playground design company Earthscape to create a playground structure made of interconnected logs. More about Kengo Kuma and Earthscape create "wooden mountain" playground structure
Dezeen Showroom: workplace furniture brand Humanscale has launched the Float Mini desk – a compact sit-stand table designed to fit into any room of the home. More about Float Mini height-adjustable desk by Humanscale
Mobility design studio Springtime Design aimed to avoid some of the pitfalls of e-bikes when developing this two-in-one bicycle for German manufacturer Lemmo. More about Lemmo One bicycle transforms from analogue to electric with a simple attachment
Promotion: Thailand's Department of International Trade Promotion is set to display 25 of the country's strongest artisanal furniture and accessory designs at a number of international design festivals. More about Award-winning Thai furniture to be shown at international design festivals
Architect Daisuke Motogi is presenting his Hackability of the Stool exhibition featuring one hundred alternative ideas for Finnish designer Alvar Aalto's Stool 60 as part of London Design Festival. More about Daisuke Motogi reimagines Alvar Aalto's iconic Stool 60 a hundred times over
Promotion: Italian brand Lithos Design has unveiled four new textures as part of its Pietre Incise wall covering collection, which features three-dimensional surfaces with "infinite perspectives". More about Lithos Design launches four new Pietre Incise textures for wall coverings
More can be done to support emerging designers in London says Jan Hendzel, who curated an exhibition focused on emerging talent at this year's London Design Festival. More about "Emerging talents require nurture" says Jan Hendzel
Designer Summer Chen has combined artificial intelligence and sensor-embedded lingerie to create a "touch-to-text" system generating erotica, developed as part of her studies at the Royal College of Art. More about Haptic lingerie uses AI to craft erotica based on the user's touch
Bacteria were used to grow this one-off edition of the Bou Bag by Danish fashion brand Ganni, made from a leather alternative by London biotech company Modern Synthesis that contains no plastic or petrochemicals. More about Ganni unveils handbag made from bacterial leather at LDF