Natural Connections exhibition aims to "help people rediscover nature"
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
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Students create sustainable furniture from hardwoods at Madrid Design Festival
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
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Milan design week
Milan design week
Studio Swine uses packing crates to construct Milan installation that will "leave no trace"
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
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Connected virtual exhibition sees nine designers craft carbon-negative furniture from hardwoods
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
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Benedetta Tagliabue wraps playful wooden furniture around pillars of 15th-century Milanese auditorium
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
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Asif Khan adds elevated wooden play area to east London primary school
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
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Cox and Bacon build wooden structure with a lower carbon footprint than an iPhone 6
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
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The Wish List: emerging designers produce objects for Hadid, Foster, Rogers and more
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
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Okay Studio to exhibit hardwood designs at Clerkenwell Design Week
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
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Endless Stair by dRMM
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
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dRMM to install Escher-style staircase outside St Paul's Cathedral
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
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Bench Years by Established & Sons at the V&A museum
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
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Out of the Woods 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
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Devil Amongst the Tailors by Aberrant Architecture
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
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Worth Abbey by Heatherwick Studio
London designer Thomas Heatherwick has embedded curved threads of ash into dark walnut pews for an abbey in England’s South Downs. More
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Timber Wave by AL_A and Arup
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
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Manufacturing the Timber Wave by AL_A and Arup
This movie by the American Hardwood Export Council shows the manufacture of the Timber Wave by AL_A, a three-storey-high red oak sculpture installed outside the V&A museum for the London Design Festival. More
