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Eight kitchens with striking material palettes of contrasting colours and textures
In this lookbook, we collect eight kitchens that contrast rough and smooth textures, glossy and grainy surfaces, and a variety of colours for an overall eye-catching interior. The kitchens in this roundup exemplify how a combination of seemingly clashing materials can create a rich and interesting palette. Some opted for contrasting a number of cool-toned
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/20/kitchen-contrasting-colours-materials-lookbooks/
Day five from Milan design week 2024
The Dezeen team have been reporting live from Milan design week (15-19 April). Read on for all the coverage from the fifth day (Friday 19 April). 6:00pm Each year we try to capture the Dezeen team out in Milan in a group shot but with 24 of us here this year – at any given
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Day five from Milan design week 2024
The Dezeen team have been reporting live from Milan design week (15-19 April). Read on for all the coverage from the fifth day (Friday 19 April). 6:00pm Each year we try to capture the Dezeen team out in Milan in a group shot but with 24 of us here this year – at any given
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/19/dezeen-live-milan-design-week-2024/
Renzo Piano unveils Boca Raton cultural centre topped with viewing box
Architecture studio Renzo Piano Building Workshop has unveiled render of its concept for a three-storey cultural centre in south Florida, USA. Located in downtown Boca Raton, The Center for Arts & Innovation will contain public event and education spaces and have a capacity of 6,000 guests. Plans for the center were announced late last year
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/19/renzo-piano-boca-raton-cultural-centre-florida/
Ten products and furnishings launched during Milan design week 2024
Dezeen Showroom: a collection of console tables and benches informed by kimonos are included among products on Dezeen Showroom that were presented during Milan design week. Leading designers and brands unveiled products and collections during this year's event, including a series of undulating lighting, an office chair with a deliberately bent metal structure and a
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Project Wood tile collection by Casalgrande Padana
Dezeen Showroom: based on European beech timber, Project Wood tiles by Casalgrande Padana recreate the look of wood by mimicking the texture of the grain. Developed with design studio SBGA Blengini Ghirardelli, the Project Wood collection delivers the warming effect of natural wood along with the durability and performance qualities of porcelain stoneware. The tiles
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MD41 creates "pure and extremely simple" gymnasium in Italy
Architecture studio MD41 has completed a gymnasium for a school in Merate, Italy, housed in a cubic volume clad in textured concrete panels. Replacing a former gymnasium on the same site, the building slots in between the school to the north and a sprawling brick piazza to the south created by local studio Archea Associati
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/19/md41-merate-school-gymnasium-italy/
Don't Move, Improve! unveils London's best house renovations of 2024
A dwelling with a "tin hat" by Nimtim Architects and a colourful extension by Charles Holland are among the 16 London homes named on the shortlist for this year's Don't Move, Improve! competition. A triangular house in a former garage by studio Brown Urbanism is also on the shortlist, alongside an extension by Cairn that
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/19/dont-move-improve-2024-shortlist/
Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum named world's most influential architects
Architects Lesley Lokko and Marina Tabassum have been named on the list of the 100 most influential people of 2024 by Time magazine. The architects are included alongside world leaders, artists and sports stars in the annually published list of people the US magazine judges as the world's most influential. Called a "force of nature"
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/19/lesley-lokko-marina-tabassum-time-100/
Marjan van Aubel unveils "even more reflective and immersive" solar-powered installation
Dutch designer Marjan van Aubel has exhibited a solar-powered installation in collaboration with car brand Lexus at this year's Milan design week. Named 8 minutes and 20 seconds in reference to the amount of time it takes sunlight to reach the earth, the installation features a full-size silhouette of the brand's Future Zero-Emission Catalyst concept
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/19/marjan-van-aubel-lexus-solar-powered-installation-milan/
Day four from Milan design week 2024
The Dezeen team are reporting live from Milan Design Week (15-19 April). Read on for all the coverage from the fourth day (Thursday 18 April) – and follow the live feed for today's activity! 5:30pm Dezeen co-ceo Ben Hobson reports from a talk that has just taken place in the middle of Dutch brand
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Patrick Carroll presents knitted "paintings" at JW Anderson store
Artist Patrick Carroll has used recycled yarn to create hand-knitted painting-style pieces for the Days textile exhibition at JW Anderson's Milan store during Milan design week. Carroll presented translucent artworks that look "as if they are paintings", which were made using a 1970s flatbed domestic knitting machine and displayed on wooden stretcher bars – the
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Dezeen Agenda features inflatable chair unveiled by IKEA at Milan design week
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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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/18/inflatable-chair-ikea-milan-design-week-dezeen-agenda/
Forty designers reinvent Technogym fitness bench at Milan design week
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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Ten computational design projects by DesignMorphine
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. Also included is a narrative project that includes bionic beings based on moon jellyfish and another that suggests cocoon-like structures based on mushrooms that grow around
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/18/computational-design-projects-designmorphine-dezeen-schoolshows/
Spoon XL bathtub by Benedini Associati for Agape
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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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/18/spoon-xl-bathtub-benedini-associati-agape-dezeen-showroom/
Jeometrica furnishing system by Luca Nichetto for Scavolini
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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David Lynch designs gigantic wooden chair within meditative A Thinking Room
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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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/18/david-lynch-a-thinking-room-gigantic-wooden-chair/
Five art and design exhibitions on Dezeen Events Guide
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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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/04/18/five-art-design-exhibitions-dezeen-events-guide/
Day three from Milan design week 2024
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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