Massachusetts-based designer and professor Iman S Fayyad has created a shelter from standard sheets of plywood, moulding it and fastening it with straps to form a "collective space" that is easy to assemble for the Chicago Architecture Biennial. More about Iman S Fayyad fastens plywood shelter with straps for Chicago Architecture Biennial
Irish furniture workshop Joseph Walsh Studio has created a conductor's rail for Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, featuring a dynamic bentwood form that reflects the "energy of live music". More about Joseph Walsh Studio crafts sculptural conductor's rail for Louisville Orchestra
Architecture studio Woods Bagot has used sculptural timber battens to create pathways through this immersive showroom space in Melbourne, designed for local cladding manufacturer Sculptform. More about Steam-bent timber tunnels through Melbourne showroom by Woods Bagot
US firm Trahan Architects has renovated the Coca-Cola Stage at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, Georgia, using steam-bent timber to form an undulating auditorium. More about Trahan Architects creates curving wooden balconies for Atlanta theatre
Oak slats are steam-bent to form the undulating handles of the Bue Brushes, handmade by Norwegian designer Poppy Lawman to encourage a slower, more conscious way of living. More about Poppy Lawman designs sculptural crumb brushes to be "enjoyed in and out of use"
British designer Samuel Wilkinson has paired steam-bent wood with Vienna straw to create a contemporary dining chair called Latis. More about Samuel Wilkinson brings the Viennese bistro chair into the 21st century
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
London-based architecture studio Carmody Groarke has teamed up with designer Joe Pipal to produce a seat inspired by early 20th-century bentwood bistro chairs. More about Carmody Groarke's Chair 182 nods to classic bistro seating
Dutch designer Ineke Hans has designed a steam-bent conference chair for one of its Austria's most important art galleries, which is manufactured using both manual and digital production methods. More about Ineke Hans combines new and old production techniques to create chair for the Kunsthalle Wien
Swedish studio Front has put a new spin on the classic No. 14 bentwood chair by Gebrüder Thonet Vienna with its one-armed N.0 design. More about Front designs asymmetric version of Thonet's classic bistro chair
Israeli designer Bar Gantz has created a collection of furniture by steam-bending wood into twisted shapes. More about Bar Gantz uses steam-bending to create twisted wood furniture
Furniture designers Tom and Danielle Raffield have used steam-bent timber to cover this extension to an old gamekeeper's lodge in Cornish woodland, which featured in UK television show Grand Designs earlier this month. More about Steam-bent wood wraps house in the Cornish woods
London studio 51 Architecture has combined digital fabrication with boatbuilding techniques to create a sculptural timber staircase at the centre of a family home (+ slideshow). More about Twisted staircase features in Casa Vota renovation by 51 Architecture
Danish design duo GamFratesi has incorporated patterned cane panels into a collection of steam-bent furniture for Gebrüder Thonet. More about GamFratesi pairs bent wood and rattan for Gebrüder Thonet furniture line
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 about Cox and Bacon build wooden structure with a lower carbon footprint than an iPhone 6
Students from London's Architectural Association have designed and built a lattice-framed shelter for seasoning timber at the school's Dorset campus, using short lengths of wood taken from neighbouring beech trees (+ slideshow). More about Architectural Association students build woodland shelter with a twisting lattice roof
A sweeping, sculptural staircase extends through the centre of this monochrome inner-city loft apartment in Melbourne, Australia, by Adrian Amore Architects. More about Sculptural staircase twists through loft apartment in Melbourne by Adrian Amore Architects
New Designers 07: Lounge Chair by Northumbria University design graduate David Irwin features a steam-bent timber frame with a removable cushion that is fixed in place by buttons. More about Lounge Chair by David Irwin