British studio Mitre & Mondays has collaborated with Benchmark and the American Hardwood Export Council on a 3 Days of Design installation revealing the value of sustainable forest management. More about Mitre & Mondays creates forest installation to reveal the five stages of responsible timber production
For an exhibition at 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen, the American Hardwood Export Council commissioned Andu Masebo, Daniel Schofield and Anna Maria Øfstedal Eng to create furniture that celebrates the natural variety found in hardwood furniture boards. More about Designers craft furniture from imperfect timber for No. 1 Common project
Promotion: the American Hardwood Export Council and design journal Disegno's podcast returns for a fourth season exploring the relationship between wood and the design industry. More about Award-winning Word on Woods podcast returns for fourth season
Promotion: the American Hardwood Export Council has launched Three, an exhibition of work made by three Scandinavian designers using American hardwoods, at Copenhagen festival 3 Days of Design. More about Three exhibition showcases timber craftsmanship by Scandinavian designers
Designers Inma Bermúdez, Moritz Krefter, Jorge Penadés and Alvaro Catalán de Ocón have created three playful wooden furniture pieces on show at Madrid Design Festival. More about Natural Connections exhibition aims to "help people rediscover nature"
Spanish design students used red oak, maple, cherry and tulip woods to create furniture pieces for Slow Spain: Slow furniture for fast change, an exhibition by the American Hardwood Export Council at Madrid Design Festival. More about Students create sustainable furniture from hardwoods at Madrid Design Festival
Design duo Studio Swine has displayed 22 hardwood furniture pieces on a "mountain" made from the packing crates they were delivered in for the Forest Tales exhibition at Milan design week. More about Studio Swine uses packing crates to construct Milan installation that will "leave no trace"
Dezeen promotion: a range of carbon-negative furniture items created by designers including Ini Archibong and Thomas Heatherwick for London's Design Museum can now be viewed as part of a permanent virtual exhibition. More about Connected virtual exhibition sees nine designers craft carbon-negative furniture from hardwoods
Benches and mirrors can be pushed, pulled and swivelled from these striped wooden cabinets that Italian architect Benedetta Tagliabue has installed across a palazzo facade for this year's Milan design week. More about Benedetta Tagliabue wraps playful wooden furniture around pillars of 15th-century Milanese auditorium
To provide children at this primary school with more room to play, London designer Asif Khan has created a stilted structure that stands two metres above the playground (+ slideshow). More about Asif Khan adds elevated wooden play area to east London primary school
Clerkenwell Design Week 2015: British designer Sebastian Cox has collaborated with sculptor Laura Ellen Bacon to create The Invisible Store of Happiness – a large wooden installation comprising a skeletal frame and intricate ribbon-like swathes. More about Cox and Bacon build wooden structure with a lower carbon footprint than an iPhone 6
London Design Festival 2014: geometric pencil sharpeners, a horse-shaped chaise longue and a ladder with a built-in seat are among the dream items created by young designers for clients including Paul Smith, Norman Foster, Zaha Hadid and Richard Rogers (+ slideshow). More about The Wish List: emerging designers produce objects for Hadid, Foster, Rogers and more
Clerkenwell Design Week 2014: five teams from London design collective Okay Studio have created furniture and products from different hardwood varieties for this year's Clerkenwell Design Week in London (+ slideshow). More about Okay Studio to exhibit hardwood designs at Clerkenwell Design Week
London Design Festival 2013: architecture firm dRMM has combined fifteen staircases to create an Escher-style installation outside Tate Modern, ahead of the London Design Festival beginning tomorrow (+ slideshow). More about Endless Stair by dRMM
News: architecture firm dRMM will install 20 interlocking wooden staircases outside St Paul's Cathedral for the London Design Festival in September. Update: the Endless Stair will now be constructed outside Tate Modern. More about dRMM to install Escher-style staircase outside St Paul's Cathedral
London Design Festival: Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby, Jasper Morrison and AL_A are among the designers who have created benches with British design brand Established & Sons for the central courtyard of the V&A museum (+slideshow). More about Bench Years by Established & Sons at the V&A museum
London Design Festival: every scrap of material and minute of production time was carefully recorded during the manufacturing of these twelve wooden chairs, helping the Royal College of Art students that designed them to measure each one's sustainability. More about Out of the Woods at the V&A museum
Milan 2012: in response to the growing number of freelancers looking for workspaces outside of their homes, London studio Aberrant Architecture have created pub tables that can be adapted into desks by day and games tables by night. More about Devil Amongst the Tailors by Aberrant Architecture
London designer Thomas Heatherwick has embedded curved threads of ash into dark walnut pews for an abbey in England’s South Downs. More about Worth Abbey by Heatherwick Studio
London Design Festival 2011: In this movie by the American Hardwood Export Council, architect Amanda Levete of AL_A and London Design Festival director Ben Evans discuss the Timber Wave, a three-storey-high sculpture installed outside the V&A museum in London for the festival. More about Timber Wave by AL_A and Arup