When New York lighting studio Apparatus held a party themed around Tehran in the 1970s, guests turned up as camel salesmen and belly dancers. Designers should know better than to resort to such lazy cultural stereotypes, says Sina Sohrab. More about "It is important to be mindful of how we use one another's cultures for our own entertainment"
New York's Museum of Modern Art is exhibiting the "extreme maquettes" of late Congolese sculptor Bodys Isek Kingelez, who modelled futuristic African cities with recycled cardboard, colourful paper and Coca-Cola cans. More about MoMA exhibits Bodys Isek Kingelez's fantastical models of African metropoles
Danish brand Menu has furnished a New York apartment with its range of products, creating a space for the company to launch new collections and hold events. More about Menu opens showroom apartment in New York
The top floor of this glazed housing complex in New York's Lower East Side, by architecture firm ODA, has a footprint twice the size of the ground level. More about ODA completes top-heavy residential tower in New York City
Colourful ridged-glass cleaning bottles, a black broom and a red washing line are among the tools for cooking, cleaning and organising created for a New York exhibition based on the American Shaker movement. More about Shaker-style tools for household chores feature in Furnishing Utopia's Hands to Work exhibition
Ettore Sottsass' Memphis designs join eccentric contemporary furnishings that decorate a townhouse in New York's Soho for this installation. More about Memphis designs fill Raquel's Dream House in New York
New York firm Neil Logan Architect has retrofitted a warehouse in the city for streetwear brand Supreme, and put a free-standing skate bowl in the back. More about Supreme store in Brooklyn by Neil Logan features an elevated skate bowl
Penny rounds cover surfaces and perforated metal forms partitions at this pizzeria in New York's Lower East Side, designed by Jordana Maisie. More about Jordana Maisie designs "deco meets industrial" interior for Una Pizza Napoletana in New York
The team behind New York's Collective Design fair is presenting a series of booths at the city's International Contemporary Furniture Fair, showcasing designs including see-saw lighting, striped stone vessels and a totemic alabaster lamp. More about Collective Concept curates 12 design presentations at ICFF
New York design collective Colony has put on an exhibition of tapestries and home products at its space in Tribeca, which was painted dark blue for the occasion, during the NYCxDesign festival. More about Colony showcases Balance Unbalanced homeware for NYCxDesign
Joep van Lieshout discussed what inspired him to become an artist and how he made the transition to product design in our latest Design Dreams talk with Moooi. More about Watch our talk with Joep van Lieshout at Moooi's New York showroom
A pop-up restaurant that is built from recycled food packaging and that composts all of its leftovers has been set up at the WantedDesign Manhattan fair. More about Zero Waste Bistro installation provides circular-economy model at WantedDesign
British designer Tom Dixon has opened a permanent home in New York's Soho neighbourhood, after experimenting with a number of temporary locations. More about Tom Dixon moves in to permanent store in New York's Soho
Italian design company Molteni Group has moved into a new home in New York, designed by Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen and featuring a grand walnut staircase. More about Vincent Van Duysen creates contemporary "palazzo" for Molteni Group's New York showroom
New York designer Huy Bui turned to studios and brands based in Brooklyn to create the verdant interiors for this Vietnamese restaurant in the borough's Greenpoint neighbourhood. More about Di An Di restaurant in Brooklyn serves Vietnamese cuisine in plant-filled spaces
New York architect Rafael de Cárdenas has transformed a tired apartment in a 20th-century brownstone into a home for himself, featuring "multiple living rooms of varying moods". More about Rafael de Cárdenas renovates rundown Brooklyn brownstone for himself
Reels of paper and linen, sand pits and trees provide the setting for this display of Muji's homeware products, which Brooklyn-based Ladies & Gentlemen Studio has designed like a tranquil indoor garden. More about Ladies & Gentlemen Studio create indoor garden exploring materiality of Muji products
British artist Camille Walala has painted the facade of a building in Brooklyn's Industry City with geometric patterns and bold colours, completed to coincide with this month's NYCxDesign festival. More about Camille Walala covers Brooklyn building in colourful Memphis-style graphics
British designer Lee Broom has expanded his celestial lighting collection with a spherical design, launching at his showroom in New York during NYCxDesign. More about Lee Broom debuts globe-shaped lamp at his Observatory installation in New York
Musicians, actors and chefs are among the celebrity creatives paired with 13 designers to create collection of furniture currently on show in New York, which will be sold to raise money for charity. More about Seth Rogen and Rihanna's stylist contribute to Sight Unseen's Field Studies exhibition