Lina Bo Bardi’s "radical" glass easels revived for exhibition of Brazilian art
The São Paulo Museum of Art is recreating a 1968 exhibition design by Brazilian Modernist Lina Bo Bardi, with updated versions of her glass and concrete easels. More
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Van Abbemuseum's Thing Nothing exhibition explores "the value of the physical object"
Dutch Design Week 2015: Eindhoven's Van Abbemuseum is hosting an exhibition that brings together experimental objects and installations from designers including Jólan van der Wiel, Studio Drift and MVRDV. More
Modebelofte 2015 presents "sport-related" graduate fashion at Eindhoven football stadium
Dutch Design Week 2015: experimental graduate fashion designs themed around sport and performance are on show at Eindhoven's Philips Stadium for this year's Modebelofte exhibition. More
The World of Charles and Ray Eames exhibition opens at the Barbican
From triple-screen films to plywood chairs, the multi-disciplinary careers of American Modernist design duo Charles and Ray Eames are the focus of an exhibition at London's Barbican Centre. More
Yayoi Kusama exhibition at Louisiana Museum features six decades of spots
Installations that demonstrate Yayoi Kusama's obsession with polka dots are on show at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Denmark, as part of an exhibition that presents six decades of the Japanese artist's work (+ slideshow). More
David Adjaye retrospective at Art Institute of Chicago includes a full-size pavilion
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: the first career retrospective of architect David Adjaye has opened at the Art Institute of Chicago, featuring a full-size replica of his 2007 Horizon pavilion (+ slideshow). More
Nendo's sketch-like Border tables fit the contours of a Tokyo gallery
Japanese studio Nendo has designed a range of furniture that looks like it has been drawn onto surfaces at the Eye of Gyre gallery in Tokyo (+ slideshow). More
Vitra Design Museum hosts major Bauhaus retrospective
Work from Bauhaus artists and designers including Walter Gropius, Marianne Brandt and Wassily Kandinsky is on display at the Vitra Design Museum in Germany (+ slideshow). More
Tatiana Bilbao addresses "urgent need" for housing Mexico's poorest inhabitants
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: Tatiana Bilbao presents a flexible building prototype that offers a solution to Mexico's social housing shortage during the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial (+ slideshow). More
First Chicago Architecture Biennial is a "site of experimentation" say curators
Chicago Architecture Biennial 2015: the inaugural Chicago Architecture Biennial opens to the public this weekend. Speaking at a preview today, curators Sarah Herda and Joseph Grima said the exhibition showcases architects who are carving out new ways to practice. More
Jewellery exhibition focuses on early work by Harry Bertoia
An exhibition at the Cranbrook Museum of Art outside Detroit examines the jewellery of the mid-century American sculptor and designer Harry Bertoia (+ slideshow). More
Fredrikson Stallard creates crumpled metal and rock-like furniture for Momentum collection
London Design Festival 2015: UK design studio Fredrikson Stallard has produced a collection of sculptural furniture – including a sofa that looks like a chunk of rock – to mark its 10th anniversary (+ slideshow). More
Hand-crafted design from across Ireland shown in Ó Exhibition at Tent London
London Design Festival 2015: the Design & Crafts Council of Ireland invited more than 20 designers and craftspeople to contribute to its Ó exhibition at Tent London (+ slideshow). More
Design Museum exhibition celebrates 50 years of British road signage
London Design Festival 2015: designers including Neville Brody, Morag Myerscough and Malcolm Garrett have reinterpreted the Calvert and Kinneir-designed British road sign for an exhibition at London's Design Museum (+ slideshow). More
Robin Day's Works in Wood displayed on Assemble's "forest" of columns at the V&A
London Design Festival 2015: an exhibition designed by Turner Prize-nominated architecture collective Assemble at the V&A museum celebrates the heritage of late British furniture designer Robin Day. More
Sam Jacob Studio creates Lenin's Urn for Soane Museum's "pieces" exhibition
London Design Festival 2015: the studio run by Dezeen columnist Sam Jacob has designed an urn for Lenin, based on a finial found outside the London house the Russian revolutionary lived in for a short period in 1908. More
Matter's first exhibition will explore the future of materials
London Design Festival 2015: artist and designer Seetal Solanki is launching her material consultancy studio Matter with a six-day exhibition and programme of events (+ slideshow). More
Company's Secrets of North Japan includes "spirit" costumes and Japanese roller-skates
Finnish design duo Company has created a range of products combining traditional skills and designs from northern Japan with craft from Finland and has given each one a "spirit" – a person dressed in a costume to represent the soul of the object (+ slideshow). More
Dubai Design Week to showcase student work from RCA, ÉCAL and more in Global Grad Show
The inaugural Dubai Design Week will feature projects from 10 international design schools including London's Royal College of Art and Swiss college ÉCAL for its future-themed Global Grad Show (+ slideshow). More
New York exhibition examines the pre-Memphis work of Ettore Sottsass
A new exhibition at the Friedman Benda gallery in New York displays the early work of designer Ettore Sottsass, best-known for the colourful and radical Memphis design movement of the 1980s (+ slideshow). More