From shows featuring dozens of nightlights to conceptual furniture and innovative student work, NYCxDesign 2026 was a dazzling mix. Dezeen US editor Ben Dreith and US reporter Ellen Eberhardt pick out objects that show the scope of the busy week. More about Eighteen weird, wonderful and well-made objects from NYCxDesign 2026
Promotion: smart lighting brand Govee has launched a lantern-shaped floor lamp, which mimics natural daylight patterns to seamlessly integrate into a home's circadian rhythm. More about Govee's Lantern Floor Lamp mimics sunsets and natural daylight
From a pair of armchairs made from contrasting hides to a tyre swing wrapped in reclaimed leather and a shaded floor lamp, the Lost Hide exhibition explores creative uses for leftover leather. More about Lost Hide exhibition at Melbourne Design Week finds new uses for leather offcuts
Playful champagne buckets, algae-made marble and over 100 chairs designed and made in Australia, feature in this year's Melbourne Design Week. More about Six exhibitions spotlighting designer-makers at Melbourne Design Week
Design studio Fung+Bedford has used its signature paper-folding technique to create a trio of twisted pendant lights, suspended in the nave of a historic church for Clerkenwell Design Week. More about Fung+Bedford folds origami lighting from eight-metre-long sheet
Designer Michael Anastassiades has announced the closure of his eponymous lighting brand after 20 years in business, telling Dezeen he plans to dedicate his newfound free time "solely to creating things". More about Michael Anastassiades closes lighting brand to refocus on design full time
Copenhagen-based Natural Material Studio has created speckled pendant lighting out of kelp waste, salvaged from miso soup that would otherwise be thrown away at Sticks n Sushi in Lyngby, Denmark. More about Natural Material Studio crafts lighting from leftover seaweed at Sticks n Sushi restaurant
With a busy design fair calendar, launching a collection during NYCxDesign shows a specific commitment to the city's creative scene. Here, we've chosen 11 stand-out launches to look out for in New York this week. More about Eleven design collections launching at NYCxDesign 2026
For the first time in nearly 10 years, IKEA has unveiled a new edition of its experimental PS collection, known for letting "designers go a bit more wild". Here, Dezeen spotlights eight standout pieces from the range, most of which cost under £100. More about Dezeen picks the eight most covetable products from IKEA's latest PS collection
Dutch designer Lex Pott has created the PS2026 Portable Lamp as part of the IKEA's latest PS Collection, which is being unveiled later today. More about Lex Pott creates "universal and unpretentious" portable lamps for IKEA
Dezeen Showroom: cast glass, metal and leather meet in this handcrafted pendant light created by American designer Josh Neretin for his company Buoyant. More about Heirloom pendant light by Buoyant
Hotel group Rosewood unveiled an installation centred on the work of late Italian designer Andrea Branzi during Milan design week, bringing together a series of his signature lamps alongside contemporary artworks. More about "A passion for imperfection" defines Andrea Branzi lamp installation
Dezeen Showroom: designer Joan Gaspar and Spanish brand Marset created this ice block-like light from a material that the company describes as "astonishing". More about Ringo lighting by Joan Gaspar for Marset
Stackable drawers, anthropomorphic lamps and a pillowy PVC coffee table are among the standout products spotted by the Dezeen team last week during Milan's Salone del Mobile furniture fair and the city-wide design festival that surrounds it. More about Dezeen's favourite furniture and lighting from Milan design week 2026
British designer Bethan Laura Wood has created a modular version of a 175-year-old crystal-glass chandelier, described as "somewhere between a science-fiction wormhole and the interlacing of Elizabethan garters". More about Bethan Laura Wood reinvents Baccarat chandelier as modular "vortex" of jewelled flowers
Textiles composed like music and vessels made with the help of a sensitive robot feature in our round-up of the most exciting emerging designers and studios from Salone Satellite – Milan's annual showcase for under-35s. More about Ten young designers and studios to watch from Salone Satellite 2026
Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Lodes has released its first open track system, which can hold both dedicated architectural lighting modules as well as any suspension light in the brand's catalogue. More about DoubleZero7 lighting system by Lodes
A pair of apple-sized fruit bowls were built into Helsinki designer Didi Ng Wing Yin's latest coffee table, which was on display at Spazio Rosanna Orlandi during Milan design week. More about Didi Ng Wing Yin adds "humorous approach" to furniture made from construction lumber
Murano glass studio 6AM has installed its creations, including candy-like glass cubes made for a Bottega Veneta fashion show, in Milan's rationalist Piscina Guido Romano for the city's design week. More about 6AM glass furniture and objects reignite abandoned Milanese pool house
Dezeen Showroom: molten aluminium is poured into hand-blown glass vessels to form 93, a lighting collection created by Canadian design brand Bocci. More about 93 lighting by Bocci