The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a collection of gaming furniture by IKEA. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now. IKEA has debuted a series of gaming furniture which aims to challenge the stereotypical "cyberpunk-esque" aesthetic often associated with the genre. The Brännboll collection, revealed at this year's Milan design week, comprises 20 pieces
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Home fitness brand Technogym has invited 40 international designers and artists to reimagine its exercise bench for its Milan design week exhibition, which is captured in this video produced by Dezeen. To celebrate its 40th anniversary, Technogym asked 40 leading designers including Nendo, Patricia Urquiola and Rolf Sachs to reinterpret the brand's weight storage bench. Titled
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Dezeen School Shows: a project set in a speculative future in which humans and plants live in harmony is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at DesignMorphine. Read more
Dezeen Showroom: Italian bathroom company Agape has released a travertine version of its Spoon XL bathtub designed by Benedini Associati. The travertine Spoon XL from Agape forms part of the brand's new Marble and Stone Collection. It represents a higher-sided version of the original Spoon bathtub designed by Benedini Associati in 1998. Freestanding and smoothly
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Promotion: Australian brand Woven Image has created a rectangular "hood" that can be suspended above or directly fixed over a workstation or conference table as part of its Fuji acoustic tile collection. The product was made from 64 per cent post-consumer recycled plastic and features an "exceptional ability" to absorb mid-high frequency sounds or daily
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Dezeen has teamed up with Hydro to make a video documenting its exhibition at this year's Milan design week, in which seven designers have created objects made from aluminium scrap. Titled 100R, the exhibition takes place at Spazio Maiocchi in Milan and features designs made from the Norwegian brand's Hydro Circal 100R recycled aluminium product.
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Dezeen Showroom: Italian designer Luca Nichetto drew on the work of Gio Ponti when creating this kitchen furniture system for design brand Scavolini. Jeometrica is a contemporary interpretation of the equipped wall designs of influential 20th-century Italian architect and designer Ponti. "It has been extremely insightful to design for a brand such as Scavolini which targets
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French studio Barrault Pressacco has completed the 102LET house outside Montpellier, mimicking the area's suburban architecture to conceal an interior defined by bright, open spaces. Positioned on a sloping site in the village of Pradez-le-Lez, the single-family home aims to challenge the typical standards of suburban housing, proposing a "new model" for the area. "Urban
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As Milan design week continues, we have rounded up the key installations from the year's biggest design event, featuring some of the world's best-known brands and designers. With this year's event seemingly returning to pre-pandemic levels of activity, Milan has been packed with installations created by some of the world's best-known designers and architects for
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Film director David Lynch revealed his furniture design skills at tradeshow Salone del Mobile during Milan design week, where he created a large wooden chair in a room with an ocean-like pattern floor. Known for his dark Americana films, including Blue Velvet and Mulholland Drive, as well as cult TV series Twin Peaks, the filmmaker
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Dutch beer brand Heineken and US clothing company Bodega have launched The Boring Phone at Milan design week, a "dumb" phone designed to prevent young adults from scrolling on smartphones. Produced by Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Human Mobile Devices (HMD), which manufactures Nokia phones, The Boring Phone has been stripped of the "distractions" seen in
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Arab Design Now and Enzo Mari are among the current design exhibitions taking place across the world featured in Dezeen Events Guide. Other design-related events taking place at the moment include Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design, Christien Meindertsma: Re-forming Waste and I Will Follow the Ship. Life Cycles: The Materials of Contemporary Design
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Design collective Numen/For Use has created a netted installation for automobile brand Porsche's The Art of Dreams exhibition at Milan design week, which also features a Vitra furniture collection. The black and white houndstooth of the Porsche "pepita" pattern informed themes of geometry, symmetry, rhythm and repetition that guided the car brand's installation. Design collective
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Dezeen Showroom: Italian design brand UniFor's Andromeda collection was unveiled during Milan Design Week. It includes a selection of coffee tables that share the wider collection's distinctive design motifs. The coffee tables in the Andromeda series come in two tabletop shapes – elliptical or round – and have the refined yet dramatic aesthetic distinctive of
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Burkinabè architect Diébédo Francis Kéré has created a circular pavilion made from spruce logs for Germany kitchen brand Next125 at Milan design week. Named The Fireplace, the pavilion aims to explore the concept of a kitchen as a place for communal gathering and sharing through its rounded structure and centralised kitchen unit. "Circularity is always
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You only have two weeks left to participate in our public nomination for the Designers of the Year awards at Dezeen Awards 2024! Read more
A height variance request for what is set to be the tallest skyscraper in the US located in Oklahoma City has been approved to move forward to the next stage. The Oklahoma City Planning Commission has granted approval of a height increase request for Legends Tower, a proposed supertall skyscraper. Architecture studio AO and developer
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The Dezeen team are reporting live from Milan Design Week (15-19 April). Read on for all the coverage from the third day (Wednesday 17 April) – and follow the live feed for today's activity! 5:30pm Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson has also been at Triennale Milano for the major exhibition exploring the legacy of the late
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Jumbo poppies synonymous with Marimekko cover the floor of Bar Unikko, a pink-hued pop-up cafe created as a Milan design week pit stop to mark the print's 60th anniversary. Named after Unikko, the recognisable poppy pattern designed by Maija Isola in 1964, the cafe is a pop-up project at Bar Stoppani in Milan. Marimekko purposefully
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