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Saint-Etienne by Sophie Françon and François Mangeol

Ruth Hynes — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 09:54:41 +0000

French designers Sophie Françon and François Mangeol have collaborated to create a range of modular school furniture. (more…)

Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre by Peter Rich Architects

Marcus Fairs — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 08:09:54 +0000

A centre built to house prehistoric artefacts designed by South African practice Peter Rich Architects won the World Building of the Year award at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona last night. (more…)

Dezeen podcast: Airside at the Design Museum

Brad Turner — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:26:57 +0000

Dezeen podcast: in this latest podcast collaboration with the Design Museum in London, Fred Deacon, Nat Hunter, Jamie Wleck and Malika Favre of London-based design agency Airside talk us through the history of the company and some of their recent projects. (more…)

Competition: five Cyclops watches by Mr Jones Watches to be won

Brad Turner — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 17:42:37 +0000

Dezeen have teamed up with Mr Jones Watches to give away five Cyclops watches. (more…)

Coloured Rainshower Icon by Grohe

Rose Etherington — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 16:12:02 +0000

German bathroom brand Grohe have launched limited edition coloured shower heads at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona this week. (more…)

Tokyo Designers Week interviews: Nigel Coates

Rose Etherington — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:01:39 +0000

Tokyo Designers Week 09: architect and designer Nigel Coates describes the “complete chaos” of Tokyo in this final installment in our series of short interviews commissioned for the Tokyo Desigers Week official guide, which was produced by Dezeen. (more…)

Dezeen Podcast: ExperimentaDesign 09

Rose Etherington — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:53:58 +0000

Dezeen podcast: designers including Konstantin Grcic, Michael Young, Nacho Carbonell and Studio Glithero talk about their response to the theme It’s About Time in this podcast report on design event ExperimentaDesign 09 in Lisbon. (more…)

World Architecture Festival category winners

Rose Etherington — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 12:24:36 +0000

The nine World Architecture Festival category winners have been announced at the festival in Barcelona. (more…)

Tokyo Designers Week interviews: Gwenael Nicolas

Rose Etherington — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:34:44 +0000

Tokyo Designers Week 09: in this short interview commissioned for the Tokyo Designers Week guide, designer Gwenael Nicolas asserts that anything is possible in Tokyo. (more…)

Prism by Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich

Ruth Hynes — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:36:51 +0000

Los Angeles-based architects Marcelo Spina and Georgina Huljich of architectural practice Patterns have completed an art gallery on Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles. (more…)

Tokyo Designers Week interviews: Jaime Hayón

Rose Etherington — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:26:10 +0000

Tokyo Designers Week 09: designer Jaime Hayón describes his love of detail in this short interview commissioned for the Tokyo Designers Week guide. (more…)

Bread Shoes by R&E Praspaliauskas

Rose Etherington — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:42:42 +0000

Twin brothers and designers R&E Praspaliauskas have designed a collection of shoes made of bread. (more…)

Klein Dytham Architecture at Gallery MA

Rose Etherington — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:40:28 +0000

Tokyo practice Klein Dytham Architecture have sent us images of an exhibition of their work that was on show at Gallery MA in Tokyo, Japan, earlier this year (thanks to Jean Snow for pointing out our earlier error!) (more…)

Doublefacette by Postfossil

Rose Etherington — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 11:58:29 +0000

Florian Hauswirth of Swiss studio Postfossil has designed a set of salt and pepper mills that fit together. (more…)

Tokyo Designers Week interviews: Tokujin Yoshioka

Rose Etherington — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:51:30 +0000

Tokyo Designers Week: designer Tokujin Yoshioka talks about being a pioneer in this short interview commissioned for the Tokyo Designers Week official guide, produced by Dezeen. (more…)