Eighteen designers create walking sticks for their future selves

Cecilie Manz and Jasper Morrison are among a group of designers who have added "a little glamour" to the humble cane as part of an exhibition at the Triennale Milano for Milan design week. Curated by Japanese designer Keiji Takeuchi, the show features 18 different takes on the walking stick, including a version for off-roading

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Garbage Kids displays playful recycled furniture collection at Milan design week

Georgia-based design collective Garbage Kids has exhibited a "long-lasting" collection of wooden furniture and ornaments made solely from recycled materials at Milan design week. Showcased in collaboration with Dropcity – an urban centre for architecture and design founded by architect Andrea Caputo – the collection is situated in a historic tunnel located behind Milan Central

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Six summer programmes featured on Dezeen Courses

Dezeen Courses: for our latest courses roundup, we've listed six architecture and design programmes taking place this summer available at institutions in the USA, UK, Germany and Italy. The roundup includes summer schools, workshops and short courses to serve as a foundation for future university students. They are suitable for people of all ages and

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Architecture and design can "intensely" engage the public with museums, say Design Doha panellists

Promotion: speakers from UNStudio, OMA research studio AMO, and the Venice Biennale have shared their insights on how architecture and design can be used to make transformative museum experiences at a Design Doha panel that can now be streamed on Dezeen. The panel "Enchanted Vessel: Museum as a design showcase" formed part of Design Doha's

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Miko bathroom collection by Scavolini

Dezeen Showroom: aiming to demonstrate Italian brand Scavolini's distinctive use of clean lines, the Miko collection offers a flexible approach to bathroom cabinetry. The Miko range of bathroom units is designed by Scavolini's research and development lab Vuesse, and is characterised by technical innovation and aesthetic refinement. The doors have an L-shaped profile, allowing for

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House of Greens by 4site Architects offers "a garden experience in every space"

Planted balconies surround open living spaces at this house in Bangalore, designed by Indian studio 4site Architects for a nature-loving family. Named House of Greens, the four-bedroom home is informed by Bangalore's history of green spaces and parks, which have earned it the moniker of the "garden city" of India. "As a tribute to Bangalore,

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Sacred Modernity showcases "unique beauty and architectural innovation" of brutalist churches

Photographer Jamie McGregor Smith has spent the last five years capturing brutalist and modernist churches across Europe. Here, he picks his 12 favourites from his Sacred Modernity book. With 139 photographs of 100 churches, McGregor Smith created the book to showcase the sculptural and unique forms of some of the churches built in the post-war

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Only a week left to enter Dezeen and Forbo Flooring's Marmoleum Design Challenge

There is just one week left to enter our Marmoleum Design Challenge with Forbo Flooring, which invites architects and designers to create a wellbeing space using Marmoleum. Enter before 30 April. The Marmoleum Design Challenge is a global competition that tasks entrants with creating a small space that can provide respite and enhance wellbeing. The

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Nieuwe Instituut's New Store 2.0 turns free haircuts into textiles in Milan

An experimental pop-up at Milan design week offered visitors free haircuts, then turned the harvested hair into textile artworks and clothing. As the second edition of New Store, a project by Rotterdam's Nieuwe Instituut, the installation offered a vision of how retail could harness the circular economy to support communities and the environment. By letting

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Dropcity In Progress showcases live reconstruction of historic tunnels

Dropcity, an upcoming urban centre for architecture and design, let visitors see the reconstruction of its historic tunnels alongside a series of installations during this year's Milan design week. Dropcity, founded by architect Andrea Caputo, unveiled its In Progress exhibition to enable visitors to "view the space being built around them", with the urban centre

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Lake Flato Architects looks to barns for design of North Fork house

American firm Lake Flato Architects has completed a family retreat on Long Island that consists of three barn-like structures wrapped in cedar and constructed using prefabricated timber elements. The project, called North Fork, sits within the quiet town of Peconic and is named after its location on Long Island's North Fork. Located about two hours

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Dezeen Debate features "a peaceful place to live a peaceful life"

The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a family home in the South Downs National Park by Sandel Rendel Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. The five-bedroom home was built on the site of a 1950s bungalow situated on a gently sloping terrain on the outskirts of Pulborough. Readers analysed the home, with

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Do Lab creates sprawling fabric "mushrooms" for Coachella stage

LA-based design studio Do Lab has created a series of fabric "mushrooms" to cover the audience and performers for one of the stages at this year's Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. The installation consisted of nine, oversized satellite-shaped sculptures distributed across a field, under which festival-goers could get some shade, rest and dance. Do

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Grasp portable lamp by Thomas Albertsen for Frandsen

Dezeen Showroom: first created for the TV show Denmark's Next Classic, designer Thomas Albertsen's Grasp portable lamp for Danish brand Frandsen has an innovative rechargeable bulb. Frandsen picked up the Grasp portable lamp after Albertsen debuted it on the reality TV competition Denmark's Next Classic, in which it was one of the best lighting designs.

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HEAD Genève illustrates post-apocalyptic future with nomadic aluminium furniture

Students at Swiss design school HEAD Genève have created an installation of speculative furniture design depicting a dystopian campsite at Alcova during Milan design week. Designed by students at the Master of Arts in Interior Architecture (MAIA) at HEAD Genève, the installation was placed in an outbuilding at Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, a 16th-century villa that

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Cenote basin by Patricia Urquiola for Agape

Dezeen Showroom: designer Patricia Urquiola brings the textured look and feel of clay to bathroom sinks with the Cenote washbasin, created for Italian brand Agape. The Cenote washbasin draws inspiration from the ancient Mayans, who considered the rocky natural waterholes known as cenotes as both water sources and places of spiritual significance. Here, Urquiola reinterprets

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Silver Root tiles by Marazzi

Dezeen Showroom: Italian manufacturer Marazzi has created a range of stone-effect porcelain tiles named Silver Root, with veiny surfaces made by 3D printing. Silver Root has a neutral colour palette with dark brown veining contrasting against a light background, informed by the appearance of Turkish marble. The tiles come in rectangular and square formats and they can

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Beef Architekti creates "outdoor rooms" at House of Grid in Slovakia

A gridded facade of fibre cement, glass and large blinds defines this house in western Slovakia, designed by local studio Beef Architekti. Called House of Grid, the single-storey home in the city of Trnava is designed to offer a seamless connection between its interior and exterior spaces. Beef Architekti has lined the colonnaded facade with

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"I think my work stands out because I follow my gut" says Kelly Wearstler

Kelly Wearstler is often hailed as contemporary interior design's most recognisable name. In this interview, she tells Dezeen about crafting her textured and eclectic style. American interior designer Wearstler has been dressing rooms since her mid-twenties, rising to become one of the discipline's most significant names. "I'm obsessed with nuance," she told Dezeen. "I view

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Oki Sato "used twenty years' worth of colours" in Hana-arashi collection

Nendo founder Oki Sato broke two frying pans when creating the heated-up material for his colourful Hana-arashi furniture collection for Paola Lenti, which was shown as part of Milan design week. The designer, whose studio Nendo is known for its innovative but often pared-back and monochrome designs, created an unusually colourful collection for his collaboration

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