Spanish furniture brand Missana has launched the Simone sofa, designed by Estudio Sputnik to reference a grand piano and named after the famous jazz and blues artist. More about Nina Simone influences Estudio Sputnik's sofa for Missana
Movie: Spanish designer Patricia Urquiola discusses the impact of her relationship with Italian furniture company Moroso on her career in the next instalment of our exclusive video series filmed in Milan. More about Moroso "gave me credibility" as a designer, says Patricia Urquiola
COS and Hay have worked with Spanish designer Tomas Alonso to produce a pair of tables, as part of a wider collaboration between the two brands. More about COS, Hay and Tomas Alonso team up to launch folding wooden tables
Danish design duo GamFratesi has incorporated patterned cane panels into a collection of steam-bent furniture for Gebrüder Thonet. More about GamFratesi pairs bent wood and rattan for Gebrüder Thonet furniture line
Danish designer Cecilie Manz has partnered with 145-year-old Danish furniture brand Rud Rasmussen to reimagine the hotel mini-bar. More about Cecilie Manz designs canvas and wood version of a hotel mini-bar
British designer Kris Lamba has folded a 20-metre-long piece of carbon fibre into a chair that facilitates different sitting positions (+ slideshow). More about Kris Lamba's RV1 Carbon Chair is made from a single carbon-fibre sheet
NeoCon 2015: Swedish studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has unveiled a new line of chairs and tables for Teknion that unites elements of lounge and office furniture (+ slideshow). More about Claesson Koivisto Rune launches Cover furniture collection for Teknion
This month, Swedish furniture giant IKEA launched its first collection with British designer Ilse Crawford in stores and saw its modular kitchens hacked by some of Denmark's best architects. We've collected together 13 of our favourite Ikea designs and hacks from Dezeen's archive – from furniture for space-poor hipsters to a bar made from storage boxes. More about 13 of Dezeen's favourite IKEA designs and hacks
Open-source furniture company Opendesk has created customised workspace fittings for self-build computer brand Kano (+ slideshow). More about Opendesk provides open-source furniture for Kano's London office
Pomo summer: Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown helped lead the charge for Postmodernism in America. Their Queen Anne chair – one of a series of flattened designs developed by the duo in the 1980s – injected humour into the furniture industry and is the next in our summer series on the controversial movement. More about Postmodern design: Queen Anne chair by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown
Havana-based designers Raiko Valladares and Jose A Villa have launched a collection of brightly coloured chairs, which are designed and made in Cuba (+ slideshow). More about Havana duo aims to revitalise Cuban design with elasticated Vibra chairs
Design student Anna Herrmann has made a chair by weaving pairs of laddered tights onto a steel frame. More about Anna Herrmann's 50 Den chair is made from old tights
In the first of a series of movies filmed in Milan, Patrizia Moroso, creative director of Italian furniture brand Moroso, explains why building close relationships with designers and architects is so important to her. More about "I want to work with designers that I love" says Patrizia Moroso
Danish designer Simon Legald has added a two-seater sofa to his Era lounge collection for Normann Copenhagen, responding to market demand for smaller sofas (+ slideshow). More about Normann Copenhagen responds to small sofa trend with Era by Simon Legald
Rhode Island furniture company Greycork has created a collection of quick-assembly, flat-pack pieces that are intended "to be a better alternative to Ikea" (+ slideshow). More about Greycork challenges Ikea with a flat-pack living room in a box
Italian studio Henry&Co has used a material created by binding hay and grass to form the seat of this untreated beech wood stool. More about Henry&Co's Chayr features a seat made from hay and grass
Pomo summer: Italian designer Alessandro Mendini's 1978 Proust armchair, one of the most iconic chairs of the last century and a precursor to Postmodern design, was put into production for the first time by furniture brand Magis. More about Magis creates Alessandro Mendini's Proust armchair in plastic
Israeli designer Ezri Tarazi has created a series of nine tables based on the cultural, religious and geographical diversity of Jerusalem (+ slideshow). More about Ezri Tarazi's Jerusalem Tables highlight the city's demographics
London Design Festival 2015: Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has commissioned seven architects including Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel and Snøhetta to reimagine the Series 7 chair by Danish Modernist Arne Jacobsen, to celebrate the iconic product's 60th anniversary. More about Zaha Hadid, BIG and others reinterpret Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chair for Fritz Hansen
Interlinking stone slabs form this collection of side tables by multi-disciplinary studio AMOO, which set out to create furniture that clients would chose over Ikea products (+ slideshow). More about AMOO designs tessellating tables using marble and granite slabs