London Design Festival 2011: here are some photos of the third collection of furniture by London designer Faye Toogood, this time exploring iridescent materials, on show at Phillips de Pury & Company in London this week. More
Dezeen Wire: non-profit organisation Architecture for Humanity have acquired Worldchanging magazine and plan to merge it with their own online Open Architecture Network. More details on the Architecture for Humanity website.
Dezeen Platform: in the first of our series of interviews with designers presenting their work at Dezeen Platform at Dezeen Space, architect Julian Hakes talks about his Mojito Shoe, which has no footplate and wraps around the wearer's foot in a single ribbon. Watch the movie »
London Design Festival 2011: Austrian designer Robert Stadler presents new work at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London. More
London Design Festival 2011: Dezeen filmed this interview with Bruno Allard, UK managing director of French brand Ligne Roset, to coincide with the Telling Tales exhibition at the Ligne Roset Westend showroom during the London Design Festival. In the movie, Allard talks about the brand's history as a tight-knit family company and working with Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec on their Ploum sofa, which Ligne Roset launched in January. More
Spanish designers Normal have completed a Barcelona cocktail bar with tables made of drawers, a bar made of doors and a door made of cupboards. More
Dezeen Platform: In this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Israeli designer Sivan Royz presents her Blooming Structures purses and jewellery made from laser-cut silk, which were on show at Dezeen Platform on Monday. See more photos and information in our previous story. More
The Dezeen Book of Ideas features a selection of the best ideas for buildings, interiors and products from the pages of Dezeen. More
A scooping concrete roof cantilevers over the rear entrance to a house by the Ganges River in northern India. More
Dezeen Platform: Mat Barnes and Eddie Blake of C.A.N take to Dezeen Platform for the second day of Dezeen Space with their 1:87 scale-model island. More
Rough grey slate and red-stained wood panels infill a zig-zagging stone frame on the exterior of a house in Venlo, the Netherlands. More
A jungle of bushy ferns and sprouting begonias fills the windows of Replay’s Barcelona boutique. More
A cross-shaped window in the sliding door of this Belgian pharmacy transforms into a green sign during opening hours. More
Japanese designers Nendo will present this display unit with shelves that are only 5mm thick at Carpenters Workshop Gallery in London next month. More
London Design Festival 2011: Dutch designer Marcel Wanders presents a photographic installation featuring mermaids exploring the Moooi collection at the London Design Festival, which starts today. More
A group of disused grain silos near Christchurch in New Zealand are being fitted out as motel rooms. More
HENN have won a competition to design a 450-metre tower for Haikou on the Chinese island of Hainan. More
Dezeen Space is now open at 54 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3QN, Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm and Sunday 11am-5pm until 16 October.
Come round and check out the new Dezeen Book of Ideas, our latest Dezeen Watch Store pop-up, our live video and blogging studio, specially commissioned sculptures by Dominic Wilcox, an exclusive new product by Paul Cocksedge and a chandelier installation by Plumen, plus a fresh exhibit every day on Dezeen Platform.
See you there!
Dezeen Platform: our micro-exhibition Dezeen Platform kicks off at Dezeen Space today, with architect/shoe designer Julian Hakes. Update: this interview is featured in Dezeen Book of Interviews, which is on sale now for £12. More
This time last year the London Design Festival was in full swing with Kram/Weisshaar's robotic display lighting up Trafalgar Square, Paul Cocksedge's giant magnetic coin crash-landing at the Southbank and Stuart Haygarth's staircase covered in picture frames at the Victoria & Albert museum. More