New York fashion retailer Komune has displayed laser-cut metal lamps on recycled-wood bases by local designer Bechara Maalouf in a slim gallery during NYC design week, informed by the intricate window guards of Maalouf's family home in Lebanon. More about Bechara Maalouf displays lamps informed by Lebanese window guards
Designer Han Seungmin has created a chair using the mass-produced stainless-steel fencing in Asian and West Indian neighbourhoods in New York to "challenge the idyllic image of the 'American Dream'". More about Han Seungmin creates chair from the stainless-steel fences of Brooklyn
Swiss brand Okapa has unveiled the materials, mechanisms and manufacturing processes behind its luxury water bottle, as shown in this exclusive video produced by Dezeen. More about Okapa explains engineering behind "medical-grade" water bottle in exclusive video
Paris-based architect Nara Lee has unveiled her Pul collection of sculptural metal and leather furniture at The Sun Room exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. More about Nara Lee draws on Seoul's "wild nature" for stainless-steel Pul collection
Dezeen Showroom: design brand Candour Antwerp has released an object comprising three stainless steel components that can be used separately as a mirror and vase, or together as a side table. More about Miro side table by Candour Antwerp
Japanese studio I IN has created Blue Bottle Coffee's first kiosk in Santa Clara, California, which has a minimalist design and was prefabricated from stainless steel. More about Stainless steel and blue details decorate modular Valley Fair Kiosk for Blue Bottle Coffee
Dezeen has teamed up with German appliance brand Gaggenau to showcase its newest oven, as revealed in this video created by Dezeen for the brand. More about Gaggenau unveils oven featuring "floating control ring" in Dezeen video
Stained glass windows and custom wooden shutters filter light inside Six Coffee Wine, a cafe and wine bar recently completed by local practice NAAW Studio in Almaty, Kazakhstan. More about Kazakhstan cafe plays with shifting light from morning to night
French studio Hamonic+Masson & Associés has completed the Monsieur Claude restaurant in Rueil-Malmaison, Paris, which is surrounded by a cloud-like sculpture made from 3,240 stainless steel tubes. More about Hamonic+Masson & Associés raises cloud-like restaurant on stilts above French square
Stainless steel panels wrap walls and cover tables at this compact restaurant in Mexico City, by local architect Ignacio Urquiza and interior designer Ana Paula de Alba. More about Ninyas restaurant in Mexico City features "cool and neutral" steel finishes
Italian studio NM3 has used a selection of its steel furniture to create an interior that was "left raw" for art gallery Galleria Montegani in Milan, Italy. More about NM3 fills Galleria Montegani with stainless-steel furniture
Interior design studio Yatofu has combined stainless steel, warm wood and sky blue accents to create the flagship store of 80-year-old Finnish jewellery brand Kalevala in Helsinki. More about Yatofu takes cues from Kalevala's metallic jewellery for brand's flagship store
Design group Carroccera Collective has created an open-air living space with a kitchen and bath alongside a seven-metre-high chimney on a former vineyard in Italy. More about Carroccera Collective arranges The Missing Room pavilion around monolithic chimney
South Korean designer Junho Kang has created Cling, a stool made from stainless steel sheets and designed to resemble a climber's grip. More about Rock climbing informs stool with integrated carabiner by Junho Kang
Chunky grain silos informed the shape of the enveloping alcoves at Simple Coffee, an all-stainless-steel Paris cafe designed by local studio Mur Mur Architects. More about Mur Mur Architects fills Paris coffee shop with silo-style steel seating
Next up in our 21st-Century Architecture: 25 Years 25 Buildings is Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles by Gehry Partners, an icon of deconstructivism. More about Frank Gehry's Walt Disney Concert Hall was the most significant building of 2003
SOMA 2.0 is a sleek speakeasy-style bar by London studio Cake Architecture, tucked under the DLR railway at Canary Wharf, with a "deliberately austere" facade. More about Cake Architecture hides low-lit London speakeasy in former security station
Plywood and stainless steel meet historic brickwork in this bistro inside a former Kyiv nightclub designed by Ukrainian designer Nastia Mirzoyan. More about Nastia Mirzoyan converts Kyiv nightclub into scantly-decorated bistro
Architecture studio Payette has completed an urban building at Northeastern University called EXP, which features a rooftop garden and facades wrapped in a "solar veil" made of metal strips. More about Payette wraps Boston academic building in ribbons of stainless steel
Our latest lookbook focuses on eight homes fitted with metal kitchens, from a flat in London informed by fish-and-chip shops to a 19th-century apartment with period details in Paris. More about Eight characterful kitchens with sleek metal details