South Korean designer Bae Se Hwa steam bent hundreds of slender walnut slices to create the sinuous chairs, benches and desks that feature in this exhibition at New York gallery R & Company. More about Bae Se Hwa's sinuous Steam Bent Series goes on show in New York
Furniture, lamps and jewellery by designers from Norway, which demonstrate sustainable design and the circular economy, will be displayed at an exhibition called Join at this year's Milan design week. More about Circular design to be showcased at Norwegian Presence in Milan
A scale model of a concrete housing complex features alongside architectural photography in this New York exhibition, detailing the works of Polish modernist architect Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak. More about Polish modernist Jadwiga Grabowska-Hawrylak is celebrated in Manhattan retrospective
New York studio Snarkitecture has taken over a space at Hudson Yards to allow the public to explore its experiments, including an inaugural installation comprising a landscape of cork-clad columns. More about Snark Park provides Snarkitecture with permanent exhibition space at Hudson Yards
British designer Lee Broom has opened an exhibition of his work called Park Life, in a car park beneath the Space Furniture showroom in Sydney. More about Lee Broom presents over 100 lights with exhibition in a Sydney underground car park
Lighting designer Michael Anastassiades has brought together a collection of his work from the past 12 years for the Things That Go Together exhibition at The Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre in his native Cyprus. More about Michael Anastassiades presents his sculptural lighting in retrospective at NiMAC
An exhibition featuring the painterly, diagrammatic drawings by Japanese architect and artist Shusaku Arakawa has opened at the Gagosian gallery in New York. More about Diagrammatic paintings by Japanese architect Shusaku Arakawa go on show in New York
Scenic, improvised and dilapidated basketball courts around the world are documented in these photographs by Bill Bamberger, which form an exhibition at Washington DC's National Building Museum. More about Hoops photography exhibition shows basketball's universal appeal
Madrid-based Jorge Penadés tasked 14 international designers with creating objects no larger than a shoe box in this exhibition at Madrid Design Festival. More about Jorge Penadés invites 14 designers to showcase "bold ideas in small boxes"
A "rampant cast of character-objects" that includes furniture, lighting and sculpture are displayed at artist and designer Misha Kahn's first solo show in Los Angeles. More about Misha Kahn presents "endearingly absurd" Just Around the Bend exhibition in LA
New York gallery Friedman Benda is hosting the first solo exhibition of work by Lebanese designer Najla El Zein, which includes sculptural furniture influenced by pregnancy and seduction. More about Najla El Zein's "sensual" furniture goes on show in New York
Barcelona-based designer Guillermo Santomà installed a series of sculptural and "transgressive" structures in the lavish interior of a baroque-style mansion in Madrid. More about Guillermo Santomà inserts sculptures inside 19th-century mansion in Madrid
The first major exhibition of fashion by French designer Thierry Mugler, presented at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, examines his visions for "metamorphoses, superheroines and cyborgs". More about Thierry Mugler exhibition in Montreal includes garments for "dangerous seductresses"
There has never been a more critical time for design exhibitions focused on climate change, says Cooper Hewitt director Caroline Baumann, ahead of the museum's Nature triennial that will show "how designers can save the planet". More about Cooper Hewitt Design Triennial to tackle climate change "emergency"
Humans will inevitably become extinct due to environmental breakdown, but we have the power to design ourselves a "beautiful ending", says Paola Antonelli, who will next week open a major exhibition in Milan called Broken Nature. More about "We don't have the power to stop our extinction" says Paola Antonelli
Amsterdam-based Studio Drift "de-produced" a bicycle and a pencil into the chunks of the materials used to make them for an exhibit at the inaugural Frieze Art Fair in Los Angeles. More about Studio Drift deconstructs everyday objects for Materialism series at Frieze LA
Furniture by Frida Escobedo and designer Hector Esrawe are among the designs decorating a "magnificent" 1970s house in Mexico City, for the inaugural exhibit from Masa gallery. More about Mexico City mansion provides setting for Masa gallery exhibit
An exhibition celebrating the career of Gio Ponti is on show at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris, featuring reconstructions of some the architect's best-known interiors. More about Gio Ponti exhibition at Musée des Arts Décoratifs examines his six-decade career
Berlin-based artist Claudia Wieser has transformed the ground floor of Bloomberg's European headquarters in London into a Roman Empire-inspired installation that references the site's heritage. More about Claudia Wieser's Shift installation for Bloomberg Space references Roman antiquity
Swedish design collective Malmö Upcycling Service says "you can't sit with us" unless you rethink the sustainability of your production methods, in an exhibition of furniture made from recycled materials. More about Malmö Upcycling Service repurposes waste materials to make sustainable furniture