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Wine Climate Cabinets by Asko
Dezeen Showroom: Swedish brand Asko has created a smart alternative to a traditional wine cellar, which the company has described as a "personal sommelier". Asko designed four different variations of the Wine Climate Cabinet – the freestanding Wine Climate Cabinet, the Wine Ageing Cabinet, the Asko Compact Undercounter iteration and the one-zone Undercounter Wine Climate
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/22/wine-climate-cabinets-asko-dezeen-showroom/
Kiron Cheerla Architecture crowns home in India with lantern-like roof
Indian studio Kiron Cheerla Architecture has completed Pott House, a home in Hyderabad topped by a lantern-like roof that draws light and natural ventilation into its interiors. Pott House occupies half of a garden plot characterised by loose black cotton soil, leading Kiron Cheerla Architecture to design a lightweight gridded structure with pile foundations. It
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/22/kiron-cheerla-architecture-pott-house/
"Heatherwick's naysayers are missing the point" says commenter
In this week's comments update, readers are discussing the news that Thomas Heatherwick's Humanise campaign is developing a master's degree at Loughborough University. The degree aims to challenge conventional architecture education and to foster a generation of architects who will "inspire joyful architecture," in line with the goals of the movement. "Heatherwick's naysayers are missing
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/22/thomas-heatherwick-joful-architecture-masters-comments-update/
Uku lounge chair by Simon Pengelly for Allermuir
Dezeen Showroom: designer Simon Pengelly drew on "subtle Scandinavian influence" when creating Uku, a smooth timber lounge chair made for furniture brand Allermuir. Uku features a slender timber frame, which cradles soft upholstery in a selection of neutral hues. Available in mid- or high-back variations, the chair comes in either natural oak or black-stained oak.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/22/uku-lounge-chair-simon-pengelly-allermuir-dezeen-showroom/
Dezeen celebrates around the world ahead of Dezeen Awards 2024 entry deadline
Earlier this week Dezeen co-hosted dinners in New York City and London to celebrate NYCxDesign and Clerkenwell Design Week respectively ahead of the Dezeen Awards 2024 entry deadline. Dinners took place on either side of the Atlantic just 24 hours apart, one at the Civilian in New York City's theatre district and another at the
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Alarquitectos lines Lisbon apartment with colour-blocked walls and pine wood
Portuguese studio Alarquitectos has used walls of pink and blue to brighten São Sebastião 123, an apartment converted from a 20th-century office in Lisbon. Tasked with revitalising the old workspace's dark and poorly ventilated interiors, Alarquitectos opened it up by removing the existing partitions and adding a courtyard. Along with an existing outdoor space that has
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/22/alarquitectos-sao-sebastiao-123-renovation/
Joseph Walsh Studio crafts sculptural conductor's rail for Louisville Orchestra
Irish furniture workshop Joseph Walsh Studio has created a conductor's rail for Teddy Abrams, music director of the Louisville Orchestra, featuring a dynamic bentwood form that reflects the "energy of live music". Joseph Walsh designed and produced the unique stage piece as a gift to the Kentucky orchestra after bonding with Abrams, who is also a
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/22/joseph-walsh-teddy-abrams-louisville-orchestra-conductors-rail/
"Eccentric" furniture by queer designers fills Bushwick space
New York interior design studio Studio S II has collaborated with artists Grace Whiteside and Liz Collins to showcase furniture by a majority of women, trans and non-binary designers in Brooklyn as part of NYCxDesign. Called Design Dysphoria, the exhibit included furniture, textile artwork, glass work and fine art pieces arranged in a residential-like layout
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/studio-s-ii-gender-dysphoria-queer-design-brooklyn/
Dezeen Debate features "a tastefully understated building from ZHA"
The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features Zaha Hadid Architects' plans to convert a Latvian warehouse into a ferry terminal. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. British studio Zaha Hadid Architects has unveiled plans for the adaptive reuse of a 1960s shipping warehouse in Riga, Latvia, which will be transformed into the Ropax Ferry Terminal.
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/zaha-hadid-architects-warehouse-adaptive-reuse-dezeen-debate/
OMA converts derelict Detroit bakery into Lantern arts space
Dutch studio OMA has converted an early-1900s bakery and warehouse into an arts centre punctuated by 1,000 windows as part of the Little Village development. Called the Lantern, the building contains 22,300 square feet (2,072 square metres) of space for two arts non-profits with retail and studio spaces as well as an expansive courtyard. The
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/lantern-arts-centre-oma-bakery-conversion-detroit/
Eight independent design studios to know in Portland
From sculptural installations constructed using 3D printing to handmade furniture made in wood, Dezeen highlights the work of eight designers creating unique objects in Portland as part of our North American Design 2024 series. Design in Portland, Oregon, spans a wide breadth, buoyed by an underlying craft and maker culture and spearheaded by the city's
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/eight-independent-design-studios-to-know-in-portland/
Tejo seating by Paul Crofts for Isomi
Dezeen Showroom: designer Paul Crofts used recycled cork wine stoppers to create this modular seating system for furniture brand Isomi. Designed by Crofts, Tejo is a "reconfigurable, recyclable and renewable" modular seating collection that can become a bench, a single sofa and a double back-to-back sofa. The curving components were filled with natural latex rather
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/tejo-seating-paul-crofts-isomi-dezeen-showroom/
Stepped villa in Menorca by Nomo Studio offers "an abundance of textures"
A cluster of white-plaster volumes steps down a hillside to frame views of the Mediterranean Sea at Bundle House, a villa in Menorca by architecture practice Nomo Studio. In response to a sloping, awkwardly-shaped site, Nomo Studio divided the home into nine distinct blocks that are organised to create small pockets of outdoor space and a
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/bundle-house-nomo-studio-menorca/
La Poste launches scratch-and-sniff stamp that smells like baguettes
French post office La Poste has introduced a stamp designed by Stéphane Humbert-Basset that gives off the scent of bread when scratched to celebrate the baguette. The stamp has a "bakery scent", which was achieved through the use of microcapsules that are embedded within the ink of the stamps to provide the bread-like fragrance, reported French
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/la-poste-scratch-sniff-stamp-baguette-scent/
Marcel Wanders and Studio Job create inflatable installations for BlowUp Art The Hague
Silver eggs and a giant floating pot are among the inflatables installed outside the Dutch parliament in The Hague as part of this year's BlowUp Art The Hague festival. For the third edition of the annual event, which runs until 2 June, curator Mary Hessing of WOTH Studio asked the studios of four Dutch designers
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/inflatable-artworks-blowup-art-the-hague/
Patternmaker fabric collection by Camira
Dezeen Showroom: British textile brand Camira has launched a range of fabrics in collaboration with textile artist Kate Lawrie, combining material innovation with intricate patterns. The Patternmaker collection features a colour palette of cool-toned blues and warm honey-browns with patterns informed by geological structures, geometry, architecture and weaving techniques. Patternmaker is available for hospitality, commercial and
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/patternmaker-collection-camira-dezeen-showroom/
Winning a Dezeen Award "reaffirmed our commitment to innovation" says past winner
With just nine days left to enter Dezeen Awards 2024, last year's winners detail the positive outcomes of winning. Mexican architects ODAmx and Rubén Valdez Practice, who won interiors project of the year in 2023, told Dezeen that winning generated "exposure which has translated into many potential opportunities," while furniture design of the year winner Noho
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/dezeen-awards-2024-past-winners/
Studio TOOJ 3D-prints Contourage console table from sand
Stockholm-based Studio TOOJ has designed Contourage, a bright-blue table with a wood-grain pattern that was constructed from 3D-printed sand using a binder jetting process. The table was unveiled at this year's Milan design week as part of Studio TOOJ's exhibition "Restrained Beauty: The Unseen Layers of Scandinavian Design" at nomadic design platform Alcova's Villa Borsani
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/studio-tooj-3d-printed-contourage-table-sand/
Daniel Buren brings his signature colours to six hotels around the world
French artist Daniel Buren has created installations at six Belmond hotels, including a colourful pergola in Mallorca, mirrored totems in Cape Town and a window takeover in Rio de Janeiro. The Belmond hotel group invited Buren to create site-specific works at some of the most prominent hotels in its portfolio, with other locations including Venice,
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/21/daniel-buren-haltes-colorees-installations-belmond/
Lyle Gallery showcases "metalwork through a feminine lens" in New York
Inflated and spiralled metal furniture by three female designers have been featured in an inaugural exhibition by Lyle Gallery during the city's NYCxDesign week. Metal includes work by co-founder of London studio Jamps, Martha McGuinn, Texas-based Jøna Maaryn and Michelle Jiaxin Huang, who is based in Rhode Island. "Metal is a celebration of craftsmanship, showcasing
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https://www.dezeen.com/2024/05/20/metal-lyle-gallery-new-york-exhibition/