Perfect Darkness is an apartment installation that shows how to make the most of tiles
Design studio H+O has fitted out an apartment in Milan's Brera district, showing how tiles can be used to create bold contemporary interiors. More
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Ten Instagram highlights from Milan design week 2019
Large inflatable bubbles, a car made out of Rimowa suitcases and a mirrored pavilion were among the installations that were tagged using our #milanogram2019 hashtag during this year's Milan design week. More
Anton Alvarez creates 12 "creature-like" objects from extruded bronze
Swedish-Chilean designer Anton Alvarez has brought the lost-wax casting technique into the modern age to create a series of 12 extruded bronze objects inspired by the Renaissance. More
Diébédo Francis Kéré's colourful towers among installations and artworks at Coachella 2019
With Coachella music festival kicking off last weekend, Dezeen has picked out five of the bright and wonderful installations filling the Californian desert site. More
Linda Tegg fills Jil Sander HQ in Milan with "spontaneous plants"
Australian artist Linda Tegg has created a living installation inside Jil Sander's headquarters in Milan, using plants gathered from around the city. More
Dimore Gallery presents metallic Gabriella Crespi furniture amongst sand dunes
Produced for Milan's Dimore Gallery, seven pieces of furniture by the late artist Gabriella Crespi are installed them among piles of sand for an exhibition called Visioni. More
Note Design Studio champions closed-loop sustainability with Formations installation
Note Design Studio has installed geometric totem poles inside a historic Milanese building to showcase the potential of IQ Surface, a new material by Tarkett that can be continuously recycled. More
Carlo Ratti grows Gaudí-inspired structures with a kilometre of mushroom mycelium
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has grown a series of arched architectural structures from mushroom mycelium, which will be returned to the soil after Milan design week is over, in a fully circular fashion. More
Watch our talk with Arthur Mamou-Mani about his bioplastic COS installation
Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs spoke to architect Arthur Mamou-Mani about the design of Conifera, his 3D-printed bioplastic installation for COS, in this talk filmed by Dezeen during Milan design week. More
Cj Hendry installs white bouncy house modelled on psychiatric ward for Brooklyn exhibit
New York City artist Cj Hendry has designed "a psych ward mimicked as a children's wonderland" for an art exhibit in Brooklyn's Dumbo neighbourhood. More
Humanscale's Milan design week installation captures "essence of human movement"
Humanscale's installation at Milan design week mimics the movements of its visitors, explains designer Todd Bracher in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the workplace ergonomics brand. More
Samsung's Resonance installation invites visitors to make art with "everyday behaviours"
Dezeen promotion: Samsung has created an interactive installation for Milan design week that allows visitors to create art by breathing, talking and moving. More
Google offers "scientific proof that design is important" with A Space for Being
Google has partnered with scientists on a Milan design week exhibition that shows how different aesthetic experiences can impact our health and wellbeing. More
Ron Gilad installs giant book celebrating UniFor's 50th anniversary opposite statue of Napoleon
Dezeen promotion: Italian office furniture manufacturer UniFor has collaborated with Israeli designer Ron Gilad to create an installation that imagines Napoleon reading a giant book at this year's Milan design week. More
Alex Chinneck unzips a building in Milan's Tortona district
British artist Alex Chinneck has unveiled an installation that sees an old Milanese building ripped open by giant zips. More
Arthur Mamou-Mani promotes circular design with bioplastic Conifera installation for COS
French architect Arthur Mamou-Mani has assembled a structure from 700 bioplastic bricks in the courtyard of a 16th-century palazzo, as this year's Milan design week installation for fashion brand COS. More
Dornbracht installation aims to challenge the way people experience water
Dezeen promotion: German kitchen and bathroom manufacturer Dornbracht has unveiled plans for a virtual-reality installation at this year's Milan design week, which will examine how technology can change the way people interact with water. More
Christo to wrap silver fabric around the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Artist Christo will finally realise plans to envelop Paris' Arc de Triomphe in 25,000 square metres of silvery recyclable fabric and 7,000 metres of red rope. More
Invisible Landscapes installations explore how virtual reality will change architecture
The Royal Academy of Arts has unveiled a series of installations that show how virtual and augmented reality technologies can change the experience of buildings and spaces. More
Neri Oxman builds with melanin for Totems project
Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group at MIT has designed an installation using melanin — and says the skin pigment will inevitably be used in architecture. More