Yves Béhar designs slanted Surf Shack for Design Miami
Design Miami 2015: San Francisco designer Yves Béhar created a temporary beach hut installation to showcase his collection of surfboards in Miami Design District. More
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Revolution Precrafted recruits famous architects and designers to create prefab homes
Design Miami 2015: Revolution Precrafted is aiming to "democratise high-design and architecture" with prefab structures by over 30 famous designers including Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, Kengo Kuma and Zaha Hadid. More
Car brands unafraid of Tesla's electric challenge, says Audi marketing head
Design Miami 2015: traditional automotive brands "don't need to be scared" of upstarts including Tesla and Apple – and the cars of the future may not be electric, according to Audi's head of experiential marketing. More
Ian Stell's Austrian Loop chair expands and contracts like an accordion
Design Miami 2015: American designer Ian Stell has created an expandable bench that forms two conjoined chairs when contracted. More
Stone-powder wallpaper features in Fragments exhibition at Design Miami
Design Miami 2015: Dutch designer Lex Pott and US wallpaper brand Calico have created products that highlight the qualities of stone, including marble furniture and wallpaper covered with stone powder (+ slideshow). More
US designers create Christmas decorations to raise funds for Detroit museum
Design Miami 2015: a miniature terrarium and a cluster of small balloons coated in blue resin are among the bespoke Christmas tree ornaments by US designers that are being sold to raise money for the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit. More
Fernando Romero's El Sol resembles a glowing red sun made from thousands of bespoke crystals
Design Miami 2015: Mexican architect Fernando Romero has created a glowing ball of 2,880 crystals accompanied by a soundtrack of noises made by the sun. More
Harvard Students create pink pavilion of 200 elevated models outside Design Miami
Design Miami 2015: a group of students from the Harvard Graduate School of Design has built a temporary entrance pavilion from architectural models outside the Design Miami fair. More
Campana brothers base Cangaço furniture on Brazilian bandits' clothing
Design Miami 2015: design duo Fernando and Humberto Campana have created a collection of furniture that references the decorated leather clothing worn by Brazil's 19th-century Cangaceiros bandits (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid unveils Volu dining pavilion at Design Miami
Design Miami 2015: architects Zaha Hadid and Patrik Schumacher have designed a dining pavilion shaped like an open clam shell. More
Porky Hefer's Fiona Blackfish is a killer-whale-shaped hanging chair
Design Miami 2015: South African designer Porky Hefer is showing a killer-whale-shaped chair from his Monstera Deliciosa collection of animal-themed "nests" at Design Miami. More
Janne Kyttanen unveils metal and volcanic-stone table made with explosion welding
Design Miami 2015: 3D-printing pioneer Janne Kyttanen has used explosion welding to create a sculptural table that fuses metal and volcanic rock (+ slideshow). More
GT2P pairs unusual materials in Marble vs Bronze coffee table
Design Miami 2015: islands of bronze rest on top of marble tables designed by Chilean studio GT2P for its first collaboration with New York's Friedman Benda gallery. More
Antonio Aricò mixes and matches objects in Still Alive desk tidy set for Seletti
Design Miami 2015: Italian designer Antonio Aricò has created a set of small storage items for organising desks that can be arranged to look like a still-life painting. More
Aranda\Lasch unveils loopy Railing chairs made of metal pipes
Design Miami 2015: US firm Aranda\Lasch has used stainless steel tubes to create a series of sculptural chairs that look like they were squeezed out of a tube (+ slideshow). More
Elaine Yan Ling Ng's interactive Sundew installation coils in response to movement
Crystal-covered strands in London designer Elaine Yan Ling Ng's Design Miami/Basel installation respond to movement nearby by curling and twisting, as shown in this movie filmed by Dezeen (+ movie). More
Time-lapse movie shows construction of Richard Rogers' revamped Prouvé house
Galerie Patrick Seguin has released a time-lapse movie showing Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners' adaptation of a 70-year-old Jean Prouvé house being assembled in a field (+ movie). More
Max Lamb installs multicoloured manmade-marble bathroom at Design/Miami Basel 2015
Design Miami/Basel 2015: British designer Max Lamb has created a bathroom suite for Dzek from speckled synthetic marble and installed the products in a space lined with the same material. More
Atelier van Lieshout sculpts a hybrid cave dwelling and pool house
Design Miami/Basel 2015: this inhabitable sculpture by Dutch studio Atelier van Lieshout is a cross between a luxury lounge and a primitive dwelling (+ slideshow). More
Gallery Fumi's Design Miami/Basel 2015 exhibition includes metal furniture by Max Lamb
Design Miami/Basel 2015: London's Gallery Fumi presents metal-tube furniture by Max Lamb and patinated bronze tables by Glithero as part of its exhibition for this year's Design Miami/Basel fair (+ slideshow) More