Making its debut at Milan design week, American brand Matter Made has brought together designers including Faye Toogood, Philippe Malouin and Pedro Venzon to produce a sculptural furniture and lighting collection. More about Faye Toogood and Philippe Malouin design minimal furniture for Matter Made's XVII exhibition
This trumpet-shaped table lamp by Swiss firm Herzog & de Meuron is based on pendant lighting originally designed for a French museum. More about Herzog & de Meuron designs table version of Unterlinden museum lighting
German designer Lisa Ertel used a sandblasting technique on wood furniture to emphasise the patterns created by trees' annual rings of growth. More about Lisa Ertel sandblasts Dune furniture to highlight underlying patterns of wood growth
For his first flagship design since becoming its creative director, Vincent van Duysen has created a space for Molteni&C that feels like a "secluded home from home". More about Vincent van Duysen's first Molteni&C flagship store opens in Milan
MAD founder Ma Yansong has created a chair for Italian brand Sawaya & Moroni that's designed to be arranged like clusters of fungi. More about Ma Yansong's Mogu Chair is based on the rounded shapes of mushroom caps
Claesson Koivisto Rune has designed a collection of lights for FontanaArte made from pairs of illuminated and mirrored discs. More about Claesson Koivisto Rune's disc-shaped Optunia lights are "devoid of unnecessary detailing"
Are marble and brass still the hot materials? Has millennial pink been usurped by emerald green? Does anyone actually care? Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs offers a guide to the bigger Milan trends that seem to have slipped under the radar. More about 10 trends from Milan design week that nobody is talking about
Architecture office Carlo Ratti Associati used digital processes to produce this collapsible wooden stool that can be adjusted into different predetermined shapes. More about Carlo Ratti experiments with "programmable wood" to make Swish stool for Cassina
In this exclusive movie produced by Dezeen, MINI Living Initiative creative lead Oke Hauser and SO-IL co-director Ilias Papageorgiou explain why they collaborated to install a translucent prefab home in an unused urban plot in Milan. More about Air-filtering house in Milan "contributes to improving urban life" says SO-IL and MINI
Vases with legs and containers moulded around tree trunks featured in OFF Portugal's Glass Cares exhibition of blown glassware at Milan design week. More about Portuguese designers rethink traditional glass blowing for OFF Portugal exhibition
Dezeen promotion: BD Barcelona Design has teamed up with designers Fredrik Färg and Emma Marga Blanche to release a cabinet that is put together using the pair's wood-tailoring technique. More about BD Barcelona showcases Färg & Blanche's wood-stitching skills with Couture cabinet range
Molteni&C has won the first round of a legal battle against Cassina, after both Italian brands showed the same 1950s Gio Ponti chair at Milan design week. More about Molteni&C granted injunction to stop Cassina producing identical Gio Ponti lounge chair
IKEA is to employ refugees at production centres in Jordan this summer as part of a long-term plan to create employment for 200,000 disadvantaged people around the world through social entrepreneurship programmes. More about IKEA aims to take 200,000 people out of poverty in massive social sustainability drive
A vanity table optimised for selfies and a tactile rug that helps you avoid walking into walls while virtual-reality gaming were among the objects presented at this year's Milan design week by Singaporean designer Olivia Lee. More about Olivia Lee designs furniture to help solve technology-related daily dilemmas
Over 1,500 terracotta blocks were intricately carved and stacked to create this installation in Milan, which SHoP architects hoped would provide visitors with a moment of solace. More about SHoP creates immersive terracotta enclosure as a space to pause and reflect
Swedish studio Front has put a new spin on the classic No. 14 bentwood chair by Gebrüder Thonet Vienna with its one-armed N.0 design. More about Front designs asymmetric version of Thonet's classic bistro chair
Burnt-orange walls, velvet upholstery and handmade rugs feature inside the pseudo apartment that London design brand Sé created for this year's Milan design week. More about Sé pairs rich tones with golden details for apartment at Rossana Orlandi's Milan showroom
Swedish furniture company Blå Station has launched an armchair by Stone Designs that has an extra compartment to keep restaurants, bars and hotel lobbies free of clutter. More about Blå Station's Pocket armchair has extra built-in storage for bags and laptops
The latest addition to Kartell's children's range is a set of candy-coloured plastic doll's houses created by Italian designer Fabio Novembre. More about Kartell adds to children's line with ultra-minimal Villa doll's houses
Tables branch out of this eight-person sofa, designed by Swedish studio Front to offer a relaxed breakout space in bustling offices. More about Front's Dune furniture for Offecct is both sofa and temporary workstation for busy environments