Native Union designs marble charging dock for the Apple Watch
Product design company Native Union has developed a charging dock for the Apple Watch that combines a block of marble with a rotating metal mounting arm (+ slideshow). More
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Bureau A installs pink marble urinal at Zurich car park
Zurich citizens can now relieve themselves at a pink marble public pissoir, installed at an open-air car park by local architecture firm Bureau A (+ slideshow). More
AMOO designs tessellating tables using marble and granite slabs
Interlinking stone slabs form this collection of side tables by multi-disciplinary studio AMOO, which set out to create furniture that clients would chose over Ikea products (+ slideshow). More
Design Systems uses low lighting and marble to create "cold and lonely" mood inside Tuve hotel
Atmospheric photographs of a Swedish lake provided the reference material for this Hong Kong hotel, which Design Systems has lined with flecked marble and textured concrete (+ slideshow). 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
Italian designers continue marble tile recycling project with Little Gerla vases
A pair of Italian designers has extended their line of products made from rejected marble with a collection of four vases, all made from a single tile without producing any waste (+ slideshow). More
Zaha Hadid sculpts marble vases and tables for Citco
Milan 2015: architect Zaha Hadid has carved pleats into the surfaces of these vases and tables made from different varieties of marble (+ slideshow). More
Marble candle holder by Peca can be split to create two objects
Mexican design studio Peca has launched a collection of candle holders made from marble spheres that can be split in two. More
Moreno Ratti's marble vase stacks like a mathematical puzzle
Italian designer Moreno Ratti has created a vase from rings of marble offcuts that are piled up like the pieces in a Tower of Hanoi mathematical puzzle. More
Note Design Studio and Norm Architects design patchwork marble tables for Menu
Stockholm 2015: Sweden's Note Design Studio and Denmark's Norm Architects have collaborated to design a collection of tables with mixed-and-matched marble tops for furniture brand Menu. More
Courtyard becomes rotunda inside Toronto university building by Moriyama & Teshima
Behind the aluminium facade of this innovation centre for the University of Toronto Mississauga, local office Moriyama & Teshima Architects has converted a courtyard into a rotunda with a glass roof (+ slideshow). More
Triptyque's marble and glass showroom was designed to "look like an ice cube"
White marble panels on the exterior of this commercial building in São Paulo by French-Brazilian office Triptyque were intended to give it an icy aesthetic that contrasts with its subtropical environment (+ slideshow). More
Plants grow inside Maxim Scherbakov's marble Sputnik-5 table
This table that houses plants in its centre by St Petersburg designer Maxim Scherbakov is named after the Soviet satellite that first took living objects into space and returned them safely to Earth (+ slideshow). More
David Chipperfield's Valentino flagship store opens in New York
Fashion house Valentino's New York flagship store, with a grey Terrazzo interior by British architect David Chipperfield, has opened to shoppers (+ slideshow). More
Lee Broom creates Nouveau Rebel collection in "de rigueur" marble
London Design Festival 2014: London designer Lee Broom has continued working with marble to create a collection that includes glasses, candlesticks and lighting. More
Timber screens bring fresh air into Pedro House without compromising privacy
Tilting and folding timber screens cover sections of this house by Buenos Aires studio VDV ARQ, to provide privacy and shade for the occupants without blocking light and views (+ slideshow). More
Fou de Feu designs droplet-shaped tableware for Rhythm collection
Belgian studio Fou de Feu has created a collection of tableware shaped like teardrops from a range of materials (+ slideshow). More
Dan Yeffet creates Torch floor light from marble and glass
Israeli designer Dan Yeffet has paired a blown-glass top with a marble base to create this statuesque floor lamp. More
Discarded marble tiles form products by Paolo Ulian and Moreno Ratti
Italian designers Paolo Ulian and Moreno Ratti have created a collection of prototype products made from unwanted marble tiles. More
Joe Doucet designs flat-pack marble furniture for New York's Cooper-Hewitt museum
New York 2014: to celebrate New York design week, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum commissioned designer Joe Doucet to create a limited edition collection of "snap fit" marble tables. More