Anna Herrmann's 50 Den chair is made from old tights
Design student Anna Herrmann has made a chair by weaving pairs of laddered tights onto a steel frame. More
Begum and Bike Ayaskan's Growth plant pot expands with its occupant
Graduate shows 2015: Royal College of Art graduates Begum and Bike Ayaskan have designed a plant pot with a complex origami form, which enables it to unfold and accommodate more space for roots over time. More
Milan dental studio converted into compact two-storey apartment
Italian architecture firm +R Piuerre has converted a dental practice at the top of a Milanese building into a 60-square-metre apartment (+ slideshow). More
Erika Emerén designs furniture by scaling up plasticine models
Graduate shows 2015: designer Erika Emerén created the shapes and patterns of the chair, lamp and rug in her graduate collection by playing with plasticine (+ slideshow). More
Normann Copenhagen responds to small sofa trend with Era by Simon Legald
Danish designer Simon Legald has added a two-seater sofa to his Era lounge collection for Normann Copenhagen, responding to market demand for smaller sofas (+ slideshow). More
Fontaine/Fortin/Labelle creates Pomo-inspired entrance to Quebec passageway
Pomo summer: design collective Fontaine/Fortin/Labelle has blocked both ends of a lane in Quebec's Quartier Création with a Postmodern-influenced installation of colourful walls and geometric doorways (+ slideshow). More
Henry&Co's Chayr features a seat made from hay and grass
Italian studio Henry&Co has used a material created by binding hay and grass to form the seat of this untreated beech wood stool. More
Magis creates Alessandro Mendini's Proust armchair in plastic
Pomo summer: Italian designer Alessandro Mendini's 1978 Proust armchair, one of the most iconic chairs of the last century and a precursor to Postmodern design, was put into production for the first time by furniture brand Magis. More
Adam Blencowe brings digital technology to traditional felting techniques with Fuzzy Logic
Graduate shows 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Adam Blencowe has created a series of samples to demonstrate a new technique that brings "unprecedented precision" to the felting of woven textiles (+ slideshow). More
Walden Raft is a cabin offering seclusion in the middle of a French lake
This see-through floating hut designed by Elise Morin and Florent Albinet is modelled on the remote cabin built by American author Henry David Thoreau in the mid-19th century (+ slideshow). More
Ezri Tarazi's Jerusalem Tables highlight the city's demographics
Israeli designer Ezri Tarazi has created a series of nine tables based on the cultural, religious and geographical diversity of Jerusalem (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid, BIG and others reinterpret Arne Jacobsen's Series 7 chair for Fritz Hansen
London Design Festival 2015: Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen has commissioned seven architects including Zaha Hadid, Jean Nouvel and Snøhetta to reimagine the Series 7 chair by Danish Modernist Arne Jacobsen, to celebrate the iconic product's 60th anniversary. More
AMOO designs tessellating tables using marble and granite slabs
Interlinking stone slabs form this collection of side tables by multi-disciplinary studio AMOO, which set out to create furniture that clients would chose over Ikea products (+ slideshow). More
Johanna Jacobson Backman hides lights within Block hanging acoustic panels
This hanging acoustic panel system by Swedish design student Johanna Jacobson Backman has LEDs set into the underside to provide lighting for desks positioned below. More
Glazing pigments and vases kept separate for A Matter of Colour exhibition
Instead of applying coloured pigments to these vases, Scottish designer Dean Brown has placed the powder in glass tubes and suspended it away from the undecorated surfaces (+ slideshow). More
Aandersson deconstructs archetypal vessels to create unusual ceramic shapes
Ian Anderson's Philadelphia-based ceramics studio has developed a collection of porcelain tableware by deforming traditional shapes, with the aim to increase, or at least maintain, the functionality of each piece (+ slideshow). More
Homemade Schizophrenia cutlery designed to increase empathy for "abnormal" behaviour
Graduate shows 2015: Central Saint Martins graduate Firdaws Fourcroy has created a cutlery set that is deliberately difficult to eat with, aiming to help users relate to behaviour caused by schizophrenia (+ slideshow). More
Young designers explore materials, products and processes in Aram Gallery exhibition
London's Aram Gallery is hosting an exhibition of products by young designers who are working with ordinary materials and processes in "extraordinary" ways (+ slideshow). More
Aldo Bakker takes over Amsterdam exhibition space with just five jugs
Amsterdam exhibition space Looiersgracht 60 is hosting a solo exhibition of work by Dutch designer Aldo Bakker that consists of just five jugs. More
Shih-Yen Lo's desktop tools offer simple ways to cut-out complex shapes
Graduate shows 2015: Royal College of Art graduate Shih-Yen Lo has created a set of tools that allow inexperienced users to make precise and complex cuts in sheet materials like cardboard, foam, leather and cloth (+ slideshow). More