Nendo founder Oki Sato broke two frying pans when creating the heated-up material for his colourful Hana-arashi furniture collection for Paola Lenti, which was shown as part of Milan design week. The designer, whose studio… Read More »Oki Sato “used twenty years’ worth of colours” in Hana-arashi collection
Dezeen Showroom: Italian design brand Alf DaFrè has created a chair that draws on the concept of juxtaposition by combining solid wood with light tubular elements. The Stiks chair was developed for the brand by… Read More »Stiks chair by Gordon Guillaumier for Alf DaFrè
Architect Peter Markos has designed the Monocoque Cabin, an off-grid timber cabin defined by an organic, cocoon-like form, on a farm in Shropshire, UK. Nestled beside the surrounding woodland, the cabin is wrapped by an… Read More »Peter Markos models timber Monocoque Cabin on world war two fighter plane
Dezeen has teamed up with DesignMarch to livestream a programme of talks by leading designers exploring the role of architecture and design in addressing global imbalances in the creative industry. To kickstart the festival, a programme… Read More »DesignMarch live talks will focus on the role of design in addressing global imbalances
As numerous architects turn their hands to designing watches, we round up six designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winners including Tadao Ando, Frank Gehry and Álvaro Siza. LeBond Souto de Moura by Eduardo Souto de Moura… Read More »Six watches designed by Pritzker Architecture Prize-winning architects
Danish architecture studio BIG, alongside faculty at the University of Kansas, has unveiled its design for the mass-timber Makers’ KUbe in Kansas, USA. The structure will serve as an educational building for the University of… Read More »BIG designs all-wood cubic structure as “living curriculum” at University of Kansas