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American movie director David Lynch has completed a nightclub in Paris that’s inspired by and named after Club Silencio from his 2001 film Mulholland Drive. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch Design Week 2010: design studio Moon/En/Co curated a pop-up exhibition restaurant for the fifth consecutive year during Dutch Design Week last month, featuring pieces by designers including Kiki van Eijk and Maarten Baas. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A "bed-cabinet", kitchen island and boxed-in bathroom help organise the floor plan of the Spinmolenplein penthouse in Ghent designed by Jürgen Vandewalle. Read more View the full article

Hennebery Eddy Architects has clad a fire station in rural Oregon with charred wood, turning "the destructive manner of fire into an image of beauty" (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

We’ve teamed up with It’s Nice That magazine to give away five copies of Issue #5 of their bi-annual printed publication. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This wood-clad house perched on rocky terrain in Victoria, Australia, was designed by Australian practice Farnan Findlay Architects and features two separate volumes joined by a central walkway. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American studio Michael Graves & Associates have completed a new building to house over 230 cars of the Dutch national automobile museum in the Hague. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: Copenhagen designers Stine Gam and Enrico Fratesi are the next guests in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents, talking us through some of their influences including Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi and the importance of craft in their work. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers including Jaime Hayon, Paul Cocksedge and Dominic Wilcox will create unique products and curate displays of their work at The Temporium, our Christmas shop taking place at 65 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London from 1-24 December. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian designer Brunno Jahara of Jahara Studio will launch a dented task lamp made of anodised aluminium during Design Miami next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architecture office AP Valletta has restored an old coach house in the town of Balzan, Malta, adding a contemporary extension featuring a weave-patterned stone facade. Read more

Italian design brand Kundalini will present this light based on the natural form of the clover leaf by Australian designer Brodie Neill in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Wire: with 30 Habitat stores in the hands of administrators, the Guardian’s Andy Beckett asks how this iconic British design retailer can be saved – Guardian </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

ECAL graduate Romain Lagrange has designed an indoor croquet set that’s crafted from timber, cork and leather. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

VDF products fair: Vienna designer Sassa Ann Van Wyk has reinterpreted a classic straw boater hat as a sculptural headpiece, called Summer Hat, for which the material is layered in undulating folds. Read more View the full article

News: the Design Museum in London has sold its Thames-side building to architect Zaha Hadid for use as an archive of her studio's architecture. (more...) View the full article

Dutch designer Frederik Roijé presents his range of sofas with an integral side-table in Cologne, Germany, this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The winners of the AHEAD Americas awards will be announced tomorrow in a virtual ceremony broadcast on Dezeen as part of Virtual Design Festival. Read more View the full article

As part of their VDF school show, graduates from York St John University are presenting interior designs for the elderly, which tackle loneliness and make life easier for those dealing with dementia or visual impairments. Read more View the full article

In this week's comments update, readers are debating the French Senate's ruling that dictates Notre-Dame Cathedral must be built in the same style as it was before the fire. Read more

The week on Dezeen, graffiti artist Banksy sketched a memorial to slavery, architects and designers created a public Google Doc to promote black-owned studios and Michael Ford warned architects away from designing prisons. Read more View the full article

Dezeen is media partner for the fifth annual World Architecture Festival, taking place in Singapore from 3-5 October, and our readers can get a 25% discount when they enter their projects for the awards programme (see below). To kick off a series of videos about the awards, programme director Paul Finch explains what WAF is all about and sets the scene for this year’s event. (more…) View the full article

Music: a crow made of matches goes on an adventure through a paper landscape in singer-songwriter Gabriel Bömher's music video for his own track The Singing Gate (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie Dezeen filmed at the Design Academy Eindhoven My Way talks in Milan, Dutch designer Christien Meindertsma talks about her book PIG 05049, in which she traced and catalogued all the products derived from a single animal. Watch the movie » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2010: at Variability in London last week designer Simon Donald presented new additions to his Stanley collection, which includes this candle holder with sandpaper for striking matches on. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article