A chair shaped like a hooded cobra and a table that evokes a scarab beetle feature in designer Omar Chakil's Transcendence series. More about Omar Chakil's stone furniture collection references ancient Egyptian gods
New York design studio BHDM has renovated a hotel in Sunnyvale, California, leaning into the retro vibe of the 1960s property and introducing a "poolside chic" palette. More about BHDM reinvigorates vintage California hotel with bold colours
The weather-beaten concrete shell of an old villa overlooking Lake Como in northern Italy has been transformed into a modern home by British practice Tuckey Design Studio. More about Tuckey Design Studio uses concrete ruin as "blank canvas" for Lake Como Villa
Our latest lookbook features seven examples of unfitted kitchens with mix-and-match furnishings that ditch a conventional copy-paste style in favour of flexibility and personality. More about Seven unfitted kitchens where freestanding units add character
This week on Dezeen, we published IKEA's plans to build a two-kilometre-long store on April 1st. More about This week we published IKEA's tongue-in-cheek plans for a two-kilometre-long store
The latest newsletter of the US edition of Dezeen Agenda features all the news from the US, including a house based on designs by architect Frank Lloyd Wright, completed in Ohio. Subscribe today! More about Dezeen Agenda US features "an interpretation" of Frank Lloyd Wright's final design
Dezeen School Shows: boldly-coloured bowls that change how consumers interpret flavours and salt made with fish skins and scales are included in this latest roundup of student projects published on Dezeen. More about Fish skin salt among student projects that scale up culinary experiences
A team of Virginia Tech researchers have developed the Sustainable Art Painting toolkit for kids, which converts food scraps generated by US schools into watercolour paint. More about Virginia Tech designers create kid's toolkit for converting compost into paint
New York's Metropolitan Transport Authority has released a redesigned map of its subway system, which maintains the colours of the prior one while "simplifying" it. More about New York City releases first new subway map in decades
Promotion: American electric vehicle manufacturer Rivian's new colour, California Dune, references "the essence of going out in the dunes of California," the company's design head explained at a panel talk at SXSW. More about Rivian's SXSW talk explores how a vehicle's colour affects emotion
A structural stone loggia and cross-laminated timber upper storey frame views of the English countryside at Field House, a home in West Sussex by London studio Wilkinson King Architects. More about Limestone loggia wraps rural English home by Wilkinson King Architects
Architects and designers including David Chipperfield, Daniel Libeskind, Audrey Large and Philippe Starck have created funeral urns for Il Tornitore Matto by Alessi's The Last Pot exhibition at Milan design week. More about Philippe Starck and Daniel Libeskind create funeral urns for Alessi
As British furniture brand SCP celebrates its 40th anniversary, its founder Sheridan Coakley reflects on the brand's journey over the past four decades. More about "You can't have your roots in modernism forever" says SCP founder Sheridan Coakley
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing Philippe Starck's surreal nine-storey Maison Heler hotel in Metz, France, topped with what appears to be a 19th-century mansion. More about "We all need a bit of silliness" says commenter
Local studio In Praise of Shadows has added a curved wooden salon bar to the BioRio cinema in Hornstull, Stockholm, which it refurbished to create a "warm and inviting atmosphere". More about In Praise of Shadows gives historic Stockholm cinema a tactile makeover
Artists Tika Shelia and Ano Jishkariani have furnished an apartment with design objects based on recent political demonstrations that took place in Tbilisi, Georgia. More about Around the Studio furnishes apartment with protest-based furniture for Conspiracy Bar exhibition
Local studio Bates Masi + Architects has settled a hillside house on a brick base overlooking the seashore in Montauk, New York, USA. More about Bates Masi creates two-toned Navy Beach house in Montauk
The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features the SunBooster device by tech startup SunLed Life Science. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. More about Dezeen Agenda features clip-on gadget that mimics sunlight
Design studio Rios has presented an installation made of timber panels for the International Mass Timber Conference in Oregon, USA, to demonstrate the "innovative potential of mass timber construction". More about Rios creates "spiraling timber coil" Campfire installation from reclaimed wood
Swedish architecture studio Campus has completed a clifftop home in Värmdö overlooking the Stockholm archipelago, designed using a palette of exposed concrete, timber, steel and stone. More about Campus uses "raw and utilitarian" finishes for coastal home in Sweden