Furniture
Furniture
Industrial Facility designs compact height-adjustable desk OE1 Micro Pack
London studio Industrial Facility has designed a compact height-adjustable desk with the aim of enabling a "new method" of team-working. More
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Installations
Installations
Flint Collective illuminates New York storefronts to form outdoor street installation
Art and design collective Flint Collective used neon lights to transform eight empty storefronts in New York for the Open installation, which is shortlisted in the architectural lighting design category of Dezeen Awards 2021. More
Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen Showroom
Imperial porcelain tiles by Exagres
Dezeen Showroom: Spanish tile manufacturer Exagres has launched a collection of porcelain tiles designed to mimic the appearance of fine-grained stone found in the southeast of Spain. More
Flooring
Flooring
Moche Artisan Carpet by Talk Carpet
Dezeen Showroom: Talk Carpet has unveiled its latest flooring design called Moche Artisan Carpet, which references Peruvian pottery from the ancient Moche civilisation. More
Fashion
Fashion
Auroboros' "living" Biomimicry dress crystalises and changes shape in real time
London-based fashion brand Auroboros has designed a dress made from salt crystals and recycled plastic that changes colour and shape in real-time, mimicking the growth of a flower. More
Fabrics
Fabrics
Velvets textile collection by Dedar
Dezeen Showroom: Italian textile manufacturer Dedar has released an expansive collection of velvet fabrics, which come in an array of lavish and lustrous colours. More
Redesign the World
Redesign the World
Oliver Salway calls for people to "redesign their lives" instead of redesigning the planet
A short film by Oliver Salway that imagines a future where humanity has chosen to embrace a simpler existence to avert climate catastrophe has been highly commended by the judges of Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. More
Design
Design
Volta Trucks develops electric 16-tonne lorry with "glasshouse-style" cabin
Swedish startup Volta Trucks has launched an electric 16-tonne truck featuring a cab with large expanses of glass to offer safer and less polluting freight distribution in city centres. More
Lighting
Lighting
GoodWaste repurposes Selfridges scrap materials to create homeware line
Design studio GoodWaste has collaborated with Selfridges to give new life to the department store's waste materials, recycling them into lamps, candles and vases for sale in its London location. More
Dezeen 15 festival
Dezeen 15 festival
Highlights from week two of Dezeen 15 include Space Popular predicting a "three-dimensional version of the internet"
The second week of the Dezeen 15 festival saw Space Popular demonstrating a new type of portal for the metaverse while Henna Burney celebrated salt as a material for the future. More
Materials
Materials
Nienke Hoogvliet launches Zeefier brand to produce natural seaweed dyes for the fashion industry
Dutch designer Nienke Hoogvliet has teamed up with entrepreneur Anne Boermans to launch Zeefier, a brand that will offer natural textile dyes made entirely from seaweed. More
Architecture
Architecture
This week Foster + Partners' Tulip tower was rejected by the UK government
This week on Dezeen, the UK housing secretary dismissed planning proposals for a 305-metre-tall tourist attraction in the City of London over concerns about embodied carbon and the quality of its design. More
Furniture
Furniture
Leo Maher charts a history of homosexuality with Unfamiliar Passions furniture
Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Leo Maher has created a series of unusual furniture pieces that combine references to queer culture from across history. More
School Shows
School Shows
Hongik University spotlights 10 industrial design projects
A fashion store designed to reference a garden and a series of cocktail-making objects intended to enhance the bartending experience is included in Dezeen's latest school show from students at Hongik University. More
Promotion
Promotion
Fritz Hansen launches chair and table designs to make the office more inviting
Dezeen promotion: Danish furniture brand Fritz Hansen aims to bring more sophistication to the workspace with a rework of a midcentury chair by Arne Jacobsen and a more versatile version of its multifunctional Pluralis table. More
Products
Products
Atelier Luma uses salt crystals to create glass-like cladding material
Material designers Henna Burney and Kalijn Sibbel of Atelier Luma have used ancient salt marshes in southern France to create thousands of glass-like panels and installed them as cladding inside Frank Gehry's Arles tower. More
News
News
SOM unveils prototype for Urban Sequoia carbon-capturing high-rise at COP26
Daily COP26 briefing: today's COP26 briefing includes SOM's proposal for skyscrapers that remove carbon from the atmosphere, a net-zero fund for developing cities and a geodesic Grimshaw pavilion made from construction scraps. More
Dezeen 15 festival
Dezeen 15 festival
"Salt is a material of the future" says Henna Burney of Atelier Luma
In our quest for new materials, we have overlooked abundant natural resources such as salt, writes designer and researcher Henna Burney of Atelier Luma in her manifesto for the Dezeen 15 digital festival. More
Redesign the World
Redesign the World
Shivam Takulia and Anya Ghosh propose giant fog-harvesting buildings to create "a healthier and more nourished world"
Shivam Takulia and Anya Ghosh's proposal to create "water-positive" buildings that harvest water from the air is the next finalist project in Dezeen's Redesign the World competition powered by Twinmotion. More
Dezeen Showroom
Dezeen Showroom
Bouclé textile collection by Dedar
Dezeen Showroom: Italian textile brand Dedar has launched its Bouclé collection, which includes versions of the warm, textural fabric that are fire retardant or suitable for the outdoors. More