Stockholm 2010: Stockholm designer Johan Lindstén will present a collection of chairs with backrests featuring embroidered country scenes in Stockholm next week. More about Embroidery Chairs by Johan Lindstén
Stockholm 2010: at the Greenhouse exhibition at Stockholm Furniture Fair next week Irish design studio Superfolk will launch a collection inspired by Irish vernacular furniture. More about Superfolk at Stockholm Furniture Fair
Hong Kong artist and designer Kacey Wong has designed shelters that look like robots for rich people who have lost their homes in the economic crisis. More about Famiglia Grande by Kacey Wong
Dezeenwire: Danish studio Christensen & Co Architects have won a competition to design a new city hall for Lund in Sweden. See press release and images below. More about Christensen & Co Architects win competitionto design Lund city hall
Dezeenwire: Hong Kong-based British designer Michael Young has been appointed Creative Director of 100% Design Shanghai/IHDD, which takes place at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from 4-6 November this year. More details on this story. Read all our stories about Michael Young in our special category.
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Dezeenwire: retailers SCP, social enterprise [re]design and designer Nick Fraser are among eleven winners of this year's Hidden Art Awards, announced at a ceremony in London yesterday. See press release below. More about Hidden Art Award winners announced
Japanese architects Future Studio have completed a house in Hiroshima City, Japan, where the walls of the building extend to enclose a garden and first-floor terrace. More about Wrap House by Future Studio
Architectural photographer Roland Halbe has sent us his photographs of a conference centre in Offenburg, Germany, designed by Freiburg architects Hetzel & Ortholf. More about Stadthalle Offenburg by Hetzel and Ortholf
Dezeenwire: British textile designer Lucienne Day died on January 30th, aged 93. Read her obituary in The Guardian.
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Cologne 2010: at imm Cologne earlier this month French designer Julien Renault presented a collection of aluminium furniture made with forging techniques normally applied to steel. More about Hand Forged by Julien Renault
French designer Paul Coudamy has designed an apartment in Paris divided by a lumpy red resin wall. More about My Caravan Studio by Paul Coudamy
Spanish studio Stone Designs have converted a log cabin into a cafe at a ski station near Teruel, Spain, using climbing ropes and felt. More about El Portillo by Stone Designs
Dezeenwire: Belgian design biennale Interieur 2010 have announced Architecten De Vylder Vinck Tailleu as designers of this year's exhibition. See press release below. More about Architecten De Vylder Vinck Tailleu to design Interieur 2010 exhibition
Dezeenwire: Design Academy Eindhoven have announced that they will exhibit in the Lambrate district of Milan this April, rather than Zona Tortona. See press release below. More about Design Academy Eindhoven to exhibit at Lambrate in Milan
Dutch designers Atelier NL have been awarded the Re:Vision Design Award by magazine Modern Painters for their ceramics collection made of clay collected from different farms. More about Drawn from Clay by Atelier NL
Dezeenwire: Guardian architecture critic Jonathan Glancey writes about newly knighted architect Sir David Chipperfield to coincide with the opening of the his extension to Museum Folkwang in Essen, Germany. The Guardian
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Hong Kong designer Leo Yiu has created a clock that protrudes at an angle from the wall it's mounted on. More about Insert by Leo Yiu
Architect Tsuyoshi Kawata of Japanese studio Tonoma has completed a house in Usuki, Japan, which features a wooden terrace wedged between two volumes. More about Usuki House by Tonoma
Architectural photographer Stéphane Chalmeau has sent us his photos of a recently-completed extension to the Ecomusée du pays de Rennes in France, clad in wooden shingles and designed by French studio Guinée + Potin Architects. More about Ecomusée du pays de Rennes by Guinée + Potin Architects
Dezeen have teamed up with publishers AVA Academia to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of Thinking: Objects - Contemporary Approaches to Product Design by designer and lecturer Tim Parsons. More about Competition: five copies of Thinking: Objects to be won