Children's furniture made out of recycled plastic and wooden bookcases featuring discordant shelves are among editorial assistant Natasha Levy's pick of the best products from this month's Maison&Objet furniture fair. More about 10 best furniture and homeware launches from Maison&Objet 2018
A drug-smuggling operation brought over £10 million worth of cocaine into the UK under the guise of a Leicester-based interior design company, a jury has heard. More about Drug ring smuggles cocaine into the UK inside office furniture
Japanese studio Nendo has created a collection of furniture and accessories in its trademark minimalist style for Chinese lifestyle brand Zens. More about Nendo creates Kanji-inspired furniture and stone-shaped tableware for Zens
Canadian designer Martha Sturdy has combined geometric shapes with bold, primary colours to create a collection of furniture pieces made entirely from resin. More about Martha Sturdy uses resin to create bold, blocky furniture
Danish brand Menu has enlisted Norm Architects to design a versatile chair for its multi-use co-working space in Copenhagen. More about Norm Architects designs minimal chair for Menu's co-working space
Swedish design studio Front has created a collection of colourful rugs, then transformed the design to produce matching poufs. More about Front designs modular rugs that can be folded up into furniture
Design duo Estudio Persona has based this range of furniture on the aesthetic of their native Uruguay, which they describe as "far from the exuberantly colourful Latino cliché". More about Estudio Persona's furniture collection channels "Hispanic rock 'n' roll"
This photo series by French photographer Alain Delorme spotlights China's consumer society through doctored images of workers transporting teetering piles of furniture and other goods. More about Workers carry exaggerated furniture loads in Alain Delorme's Totems photographs
London designer Stephen Johnson has developed a colourful adhesive dough that is strong enough to bond parts of furniture together. More about Stephen Johnson's Play-Doh-like substance offers a fun alternative to glue
Paris-based design firm AC/AL Studio has created a table and chair set for Petite Friture with forms influenced by the practice of martial arts. More about AC/AL Studio creates martial arts-inspired table and chair set for Petite Friture
Spanish designer Max Enrich has contrasted simple, geometric panels with bulky, tubular legs to create a trio of nesting steel coffee tables. More about Max Enrich pairs bulky legs with slender surfaces to create nesting coffee tables
Yoh Komiyama set out to create a cat toy befitting of a modernist home when designing this multi-storey climbing toy, which features a cylinder of wooden dowels and a scratching post anchored to a marble base. More about Yoh Komiyama's climbing toy for cats doubles as a minimalist home decoration
Sheepskin armchairs based on Goldilocks and the Three Bears feature in this range of furniture by French designer Pierre Yovanovitch, displayed in New York earlier this year. More about Cuddly bear-like chairs feature in OOPS furniture collection by Pierre Yovanovitch
Australian designer Tom Fereday has created a minimal dining chair with an adjustable curved backrest, which he based on seating found in old factories. More about Tom Fereday bases minimal chair on industrial factory seating
Eindhoven design studio OS & OOS has created a range of furniture based on architectural constructions, which are built from individual steel ribs fixed in a gridded structure. More about OS & OOS bases gridded furniture collection on architectural structures
Brussels designer Alain Gilles stacked different shapes to form these totem-like side tables, which are supported by a lightweight cork base. More about Alain Gilles stacks cork and wood to create totemic side tables
Dutch design studio Super Local has worked with craftsmen in Malawi to develop a line of affordable hospital products that can be made locally. More about Super Local creates affordable equipment for hospitals in Malawi
Clashing colours and sharp angles characterise the interior of this smartphone repair shop in Valencia, designed by creative consultancy Masquespacio. More about Masquespacio creates colour-clashing interior for phone-repair shop in Valencia
Danish textile designer Stine Mikkelsen has crushed granite, melted tin and torched rope to create this collection of bizarre-looking furniture for Miami's Aybar Gallery. More about Stine Mikkelsen creates lumpy granite and knobbly tin furniture for Miami gallery
Italian designer Fabio Novembre has created a range of beds influenced by fairytales for mattress brand PerDormire. More about Fabio Novembre designs six beds inspired by "the world of dreams"