Paris-based Baguette Studio has developed a range of wax lampshades that can be melted down and recycled without any loss of material using its own custom-built rotational moulding machine. More about Meltable wax lamps by Baguette Studio can be endlessly remade
London-based designer Maggie Yang has created a collection of wax candles replicating different foods, including a Ploughman's pie, a wheel of brie and an entire breakfast plate with beans and brown sauce. More about Full English breakfast cast in wax for Maggie Yang's hyperrealistic food candles
A design studio that specialises in beeswax has curated a London Design Festival exhibition revealing how living trees can provide materials for design objects. More about Wax Atelier showcases objects made from tree-based waxes, resins and dyes
A pinecone-shaped wildfire detector built out of wax and charcoal has won the UK James Dyson Award, recognising the best inventions by student and graduate designers. More about Pyri wildfire detection device melts in response to fire
Copenhagen design duo Daydreaming Objects has developed a series of lights that combine reclaimed vintage lamp bases with "renewable and transformative" shades made from natural wax. More about Soft Solids lighting has infinitely recyclable wax shades
Thai company BeeConscious has created wraps from beeswax-coated cotton, that can stand in for cling film and other plastic packaging for food. More about SuperBee wax wraps offer an alternative to cling film
Bangkok designer Apiwat Chitapanya has created a collection for specialist brass furniture brand Masaya that emulates Chinese ink paintings through the process of lost-wax casting. More about Chinese ink paintings come alive in Apiwat Chitapanya's wax-cast furniture
Tokyo studio We+ added dimpled texture to its Drought chair by embedding shrinking balls of resin into wax. More about Pockmarked Drought chair by We+ takes shape as it dries
German designer Katharina Gross has dipped brass boxes into a molten wax mixture to create a series of tables with stalactite-like legs (+ slideshow). More about Katharina Gross adapts candle-making process to create wax tables
Lisbon Architecture Triennale: people are dunked in a pool of wax to create sculptural dresses by Dutch fashion designer Bart Hess as part of a futuristic city on show at this year's Lisbon Architecture Triennale, which kicked off yesterday in the Portuguese capital. More about The Garment District by Bart Hess at Future Perfect
Milan 2011: visitors lower objects into pits of molten wax then hang them from the ceiling to solidify in this installation created by students of the HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design at workshops with designer Matali Crasset and curator Alexandra Midal. More about Dip in Space by Matali Crasset and the HEAD Geneva School of Art and Design