Airbnb

Airbnb is a short-term holiday-rental platform with headquarters in San Francisco. It was founded by designers Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, and Nathan Blecharczyk, after Chesky and Gebbia came up with the idea of renting out an air bed in their loft apartment to help pay their rent.

The site launched in 2008. It often lists properties with unusual architectural and design features, including a holiday cabin fueled by leftover coffee grounds and a zero-emissions cabin in Finland.

The company is making its mark on the architecture community with its Backyard initiative, which aims to release a new housing prototype by the end of 2019, and its refugee housing programme, Open Homes. Airbnb is also known for its often quirky office interiors.

For jobs at Airbnb, visit its company profile on Dezeen Jobs.

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  Airbnb's Samara hires Apple industrial designer to join housing initiative

  Airbnb's offshoot design studio Samara has hired Apple industrial designer Miklu Silvanto to join the company's housebuilding initiative. More

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  Careers guide: Aaron Taylor Harvey explains his path to designing offices for Airbnb

  Aaron Taylor Harvey studied cinema but his love of architecture led him into a job designing offices for Airbnb in San Francisco. In this interview for the Dezeen Jobs careers guide, he explains how he got there. More

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  Airbnb's Backyard initiative to roll out house designs in 2019

  Airbnb has announced a major move into the architecture and construction industry, with plans to release a new housing prototype late next year. More

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  The Home That Runs on Dunkin' is a cabin powered by waste coffee

  Leftover coffee grounds fuel this small holiday cabin created by American food chain Dunkin' Donuts, which features interiors styled by actress Olivia Wilde and was listed on Airbnb for $13 per night. More

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  The Nolla cabin by Robin Falck is a zero-emissions escape in Finland

  Finnish designer Robin Falck has created an A-frame mirrored holiday home on Vallisaari, an island near Helsinki. More

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  Airbnb debuts new scaleable typeface designed by Dalton Magg

  Airbnb has launched a new versatile brand typeface that is designed to have good readability across digital and print media. More

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  Muller Van Severen duo transplant their living room to Design Miami

  At Design Miami this week, Fien Muller and Hannes Van Severen have created an exact replica of the living room at their home in Ghent. More

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  Airbnb uses current listings to theme interiors of expanded San Francisco headquarters

  Home rental website Airbnb has taken cues from its listings around the world when designing additional office spaces at its headquarters in San Francisco. More

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  Simon Waterfall named creative director of Airbnb's new design and innovation studio

  Industrial designer and creative entrepreneur Simon Waterfall has been named creative director of Airbnb's recently launched design and innovation studio Samara. More

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  Airbnb launches Open Homes refugee housing platform

  Airbnb has harnessed its vast network of short-term home rentals to create a new platform providing housing for refugees. More

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  "The hotel industry is in denial about Airbnb" says Ian Schrager as Public hotel opens in New York

  Legendary New York hotelier Ian Schrager has unveiled Public, a hotel concept designed by Herzog & de Meuron to counter the threat of Airbnb. More

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  Airbnb co-founder Joe Gebbia designs modular office furniture

  Joe Gebbia, who co-founded home rental website Airbnb, has designed a range of adaptable, modular office furniture for American brand Bernhardt Design. More

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  Cameron Sinclair to lead Airbnb's humanitarian team

  Home-sharing service Airbnb has assembled an in-house humanitarian team headed by designer Cameron Sinclair, to help it achieve its aim of providing temporary housing for 100,000 people within five years. More

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  Airbnb fills Leonardo da Vinci's former mansion in Milan with designers' personal curios

  Faye Toogood's ethereal stones and Matteo Thun's watercolours are among the personal items that Airbnb has installed inside the 15th-century home of Leonardo da Vinci for this year's Milan design week. More

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  Pantone creates Greenery-themed home that can be booked on Airbnb

  Colour company Pantone has collaborated with Airbnb to fill a London home with planting and projects that match its verdant 2017 colour of the year. More

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  Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects designs pair of contrasting Tokyo apartments for Airbnb guests

  Hiroyuki Ogawa Architects has overhauled a pair of Airbnb apartments in Tokyo, giving one a suspended table and wood-lined walls, and the other dark plasterwork and plush grey carpet. More

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  Airbnb unveils new headquarters in a disused Dublin warehouse

  Airbnb has revealed its new headquarters in Dublin, which mark the first time the company has been able to determine the architectural layout of one of its offices. More

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  Kristian Knobloch's Ping system is an interactive house manual for Airbnb guests

  Graduate shows 2016: Royal College of Art graduate Kristian Knobloch has created a system of smartphone touchpoints that help Airbnb hosts give guests extra information about their home (+ movie). More

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  Airbnb models Tokyo office on local neighbourhoods

  Home rentals website Airbnb has created a multipurpose office space based on traditional Japanese interiors and neighbourhoods for its Tokyo employees (+ slideshow). More

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  Airbnb launches internal design studio Samara with future house prototype

  Home rentals website Airbnb has launched its own design studio, creating a house of the future for a Tokyo exhibition as its first project (+ slideshow). More