Faye Toogood explores "sexuality and the body" in Rude Arts Club exhibition
Pillowy lamps, daybeds that look like stacked mattresses and rugs featuring abstract renderings of private body parts feature in an exhibition of new launches from Faye Toogood at Milan design week. More
Chromasonic makes "light audible and sound visible" for Google's Milan installation
Google has returned to Milan design week with a kaleidoscopic installation by research studio Chromasonic, designed to simulate the experience of having synesthesia. More
IKEA unveils inflatable chair that "challenges traditional gaming design"
As part of Milan design week, IKEA has launched a collection of gaming furniture designed to subvert the genre's stereotypical "cyberpunk-y" look. More
Bulgari unveils world's thinnest watch as skinny as a five-pence coin
Italian jewellery company Bulgari has reclaimed the record for making the world's thinnest mechanical watch with the release of its Octo Finissimo Ultra Cosc, which has a thickness of just 1.7 millimetres. More
Design "provocateur and rule-breaker" Gaetano Pesce dies aged 84
Italian designer and architect Gaetano Pesce, a pioneer of the Radical Design movement who blurred the boundaries between art and design, has passed away at age 84. More
Eight chocolate-brown interiors that look good enough to eat
In memoriam of the many chocolate eggs that will be consumed this Easter, our latest lookbook rounds up eight homes with tasteful cocoa-coloured interiors. More
Samuel Ross designs textured toilet that is "closer to a sculpture"
Designer Samuel Ross set out to subvert any idea of how a lavatory should look when creating his first toilet for bathroom brand Kohler, set to debut at Milan design week next month. More
Buildings "biggest lever" for improving global resource efficiency says UN report
The built environment is the fastest-growing consumer of materials in the world – but it also offers the most potential for improvement according to Julia Okatz, advisor on the UN's landmark Global Resource Outlook. More
Contemporary furniture meets beaux-arts interiors at Brussels gallery Objects with Narratives
Collectible design gallery Objects with Narratives has opened its first permanent brick-and-mortar outpost inside a historic 1920s fur atelier in Brussels. More
"Visionary" car designer Marcello Gandini dies aged 85
Prolific Italian car designer Marcello Gandini, credited with creating the first-ever supercar, has passed away at age 85. More
Computer-controlled cuts leave "ghost traces" on HAHA Studio homeware
As part of the Collectible design fair in Brussels, Swedish firm HAHA Studio has launched a range of futuristic furniture and lighting that lays bare the digital fabrication technique through which it was created. More
Wet clay replaces upholstery in squishy daybed by Niveau Zéro Atelier
French studio Niveau Zéro Atelier has salvaged waste clay from construction sites around Paris and vacuum-sealed it to form the padding of a chaise lounge that was unveiled at the Collectible design fair in Brussels. More
Jean Servais Somian carves fallen coconut trees into towering cabinets
Reaching up to two and a half metres in height, these cabinets on show at the Collect craft fair in London were created by Ivorian designer Jean Servais Somian to showcase the natural beauty of coconut wood. More
Collectible design fair announces New York edition for September 2024
European design fair Collectible is expanding into the US, with its debut overseas edition set to take place in New York City alongside The Armory Show in September. More
Ash & Plumb forms 14 objects from single lightning-struck oak
Careful stitches mend the cracks in these vessels that woodturning studio Ash & Plumb has created for London's Collect craft fair from an oak tree felled by lightning. More
"Surprising colour combinations" define Raw Color's IKEA collection
On the heels of a two-year research process, Dutch studio Raw Color has released an IKEA collection in which no item features less than two colours to explore how our perception of a hue can change based on its context. More
BIG unveils visual identity for Denmark's 3 Days of Design festival 2024
Danish architecture firm BIG has designed the 3D graphics that define the identity of this year's 3 Days of Design festival in Copenhagen under the slogan Dare to Dream. More
Space Perspective completes capsule for balloon-powered "journey to the edge of space"
Space tourism company Space Perspective has unveiled a test capsule for its Neptune spacecraft that, buoyed by a giant balloon, could carry tourists into the stratosphere next year. More
Eight living spaces that go heavy on metal furniture
Although more commonly associated with industrial applications, furnishings made of cool-toned steel, aluminium and chrome are infiltrating every room of the home. This lookbook rounds up eight living spaces that show how it's done. More
Brian Eno's light-up turntable changes colour in "complex and unpredictable" patterns
Ambient music pioneer Brian Eno is exhibiting an updated version of his illuminated record player composed of two eccentric Perspex circles at London's Paul Stolper Gallery. More