Five designers and studios to look out for at Sight Unseen Offsite 2017
This year's Sight Unseen Offsite exhibition kicks off in New York next week, and our US editor Dan Howarth has selected five highlights from the lineup of exhibitors. More
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Lindsey Adelman's Afterglow show features lighting with cascading chains and spine-like frames
Wall lamps with draping metal chains by New York designer Lindsey Adelman and huge modular lights that bend in different directions by her colleague Karl Zahn feature in a tropical-themed display. More
Sight Unseen pairs Norwegian and American designers for New York exhibition
US magazine Sight Unseen has partnered five New York and five Norwegian design studios to create products for its annual Offsite exhibition, with results including brick furniture, a bent-steel bench and colourful glass vases. More
Soft-toned installation combines designs by Ladies & Gentlemen and SP01
Products by Brooklyn-based Ladies & Gentlemen Studio are on display alongside furniture by new Australian design brand SP01 at a pastel-coloured installation in New York. More
Women designers display objects of protest and empowerment at New York's Chamber gallery
New York gallery Chamber is hosting an domestic-focussed showcase that features work by only women designers – the second all-female exhibition to open in the city this week. More
"Furniture is still a relative bargain" compared to art, says artist Wendell Castle
Buyers are capitalising on the burgeoning market for collectible furniture as prices and popularity continue to increase, according to pioneer of the American studio craft movement, Wendell Castle. More
Six of the best showcases from New York's Collective Design fair 2017
Icy tables and electric wallpaper are among US editor Dan Howarth's pick of the best furniture and installations from the Collective Design fair, taking place in New York this week. More
Lago models eight interiors after successful women and their "kindness"
Furniture brand Lago has worked with eight prominent Italian women to create a series of rooms in "an ode to women's kindness". More
Egg Collective's Designing Women exhibition unites New York's female designers
New York design studio Egg Collective has brought together furniture and homeware by other women designers in the city for an "empowering" exhibition at its West Soho showroom. More
Comme des Garçons fashion exhibition opens at The Met in New York
The sculptural clothes of enigmatic Japanese designer Rei Kawakubo are the subject of this year's spring exhibition organised by the Costume Institute at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. More
Cassina marks 90th anniversary with installation exploring its past and future
A spaceship-style shelter, and oversized "sofa island" and virtual-reality experiences all featured in furniture brand Cassina's Milan design week exhibition. More
Five highlights from the Ventura Lambrate district at Milan design week 2017
A supermarket filled with waste products and an overview of Norway's hottest young designers are among design reporter Alice Morby's pick of the best exhibitions at the Ventura Lambrate district during Milan design week last month. More
Solid Doubts: Robert Stadler exhibition opens at New York's Noguchi Museum
Furniture by designer Robert Stadler has gone on display alongside sculptures by Isamu Noguchi at the museum dedicated to the late Japanese-American artist's work in Queens, New York. More
Fernando Mastrangelo's Escape furniture evokes landscapes through coloured gradients
Brooklyn artist and designer Fernando Mastrangelo has cast his latest collection of furniture, currently on show in New York, to look like "three-dimensional landscape paintings". More
Designers meet the challenges of the future at Dutch Invertuals exhibition
For this year's Dutch Invertuals exhibition during Milan design week, 10 designers offered a glimpse into how the human race will tackle future global issues. More
Design eras converge in Dimore Studio's moodily coloured Milan exhibitions
Art deco, 1950s car detailing and 1970s interior styling featured in the colourful rooms created by Dimore Studio to showcase its furniture at Milan design week. More
Luca Nichetto fills room with totem-like glass lamps for Decode/Recode exhibition
Colourful blown-glass totems by Luca Nichetto are among the works in Decode/Recode, Venetian glassmaker Salviati's exhibition at Milan design week. More
Nendo creates calm white sanctuary at Milan design week with Invisible Outlines exhibition
A cut-out mountainscape, wobbly jellyfish vases and tables that melt into bowls are among the items shown by Japanese brand Nendo at its Milan design week exhibition. More
Formafantasma presents lighting designs that exploit geometry, colour and shadow
Formafantasma is showcasing a series of lighting designs and experiments in Milan, including golden hoops that project circles of light and slender beams that create colourful refractions. More
ÉCAL students blur the boundaries between art and design with Milan exhibition
ÉCAL's fine art and industrial design students have come together to put on an exhibition that explores the "grey zone" between the two practices. More