Dezeen's guide to mid-century modern design from A to Z

To conclude our mid-century modern series, we've rounded up everything you need to know about the design and architecture movement from A to Z. More

Verner Panton preferred experimentation to "beautiful platitude"

Verner Panton caused a sensation with his pioneering approach to furniture and lighting design. For our mid-century modern series, we profile the Danish designer whose colourful pieces and interiors define an era. More

Raúl Sánchez Architects adds colourful details and "kitchen cube" to Spanish home

Spanish studio Raúl Sánchez Architects has renovated the PSM21 house outside of Barcelona, adding an interior staircase to turn two separate apartments into one home with colourful details. More

"Design was a new profession" in the UK says Paula Day

Designers Robin and Lucienne Day looked internationally to learn about modernism as contemporary design was unknown in the UK at the time, explains their daughter Paula Day in this interview for our mid-century modern series. More

Isamu Noguchi's sculptural Akari lamps are "poetic, ephemeral, and tentative"

Continuing our mid-century modern design series, we explore Japanese-American designer Isamu Noguchi's Akari lamps made from Japanese washi paper, which remain a staple in stylish interiors to this day. More

John Pawson designs cashmere collection "based on embedded architectural narratives"

British designer John Pawson has collaborated with cashmere brand Oyuna on a collection of throws that draw on his design for the Lake Crossing in London's Kew Gardens. More

Emerge exhibition features furniture made from rice husks and wood chips

More than 50 emerging designers from Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam have showcased furniture and products at the Emerge exhibition at Singapore Design Week. More

Schemata Architects transforms 145-year-old townhouse into Le Labo flagship

Tokyo studio Schemata Architects has combined Japanese and Western designs inside a traditional wooden townhouse in Kyoto to create a store for perfumery brand Le Labo. More

This week we exclusively revealed the subterranean Apple Park Observatory

This week on Dezeen, we were the first to showcase Apple's new events venue, built into a hillside at the technology company's Apple Park campus. More

Eight contemporary living rooms with sculptural coffee tables

Block-shaped, curved and wavy tables are among the unusual designs in this lookbook, which features sculptural coffee tables from around the world. More