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Israeli architects Pitsou Kedem have completed a showroom for furniture brand B&B Italia inside an industrial warehouse by the harbour in Tel Aviv. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Italian architect Piero Lissoni introduces his Dock modular sofa system for B&B Italia in this movie Dezeen filmed for the Italian furniture brand during Milan design week. Read more

Set back from the beach behind a row of houses, this Mexican villa has terraces and a swimming pool raised up so residents can relax outdoors with a view of the ocean (photos by Edmund Sumner + slideshow). (more…) View the full article

The Trump Baby blimp is an attempt to communicate with the US president "in a language he understands", says the graphic designer behind the project in this exclusive Dezeen movie. Read more View the full article

London design brand Hulger has launched a mini version of its award-winning Plumen 001 lightbulb and it’ll be available at Dezeen Super Store from Friday. (more…) View the full article

A farmhouse hotel in South Africa's Cape Winelands has opened a plant-filled dining space, designed by Malherbe Rust Architects to pay tribute to the history of the spice trade. Read more

Baca Architects – the studio behind the UK's first amphibious house – has completed a boxy floating home on Chichester Canal in southern England. Read more View the full article

Korean designer Joongho Choi designed this chair to be carried over one shoulder like a handbag. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: designer Mike Meiré invited visitors to a fetish club furnished with customised design classics at his Cologne factory during the imm cologne trade fair last week (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US company Backdrop is aiming to ease the process of choosing the right paint, through a curated selection of colours and adhesive samples for testing on walls, along with an essentials kit and a redesigned can. Read more

A vivid green floor covered in semi-precious stones is the focal point of this decadent Asian restaurant in central London, which has been created by The Ivy in collaboration with Adam Ellis Studio. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: design critic Justin McGuirk says that a kitchen concept by Dutch electrical company Philips that uses decomposition to generate methane gas for cooking is an example of how we may “have to get more comfortable with bacteria and with putrefaction’s role in our ecosystem” – The Guardian McGuirk claims the Microbial kitchen concept‘s “steampunk” aesthetic offers “an alternative vision to the clinical kitchen,” and also mentions the trend for low-tech kitchen appliances, such as designer Christoph Thetard’s pedal-powered devices, which he says represent a reaction to the impending energy crisis. Last year Dezeen published a report on Food and Design, includi…

Designer Sammy Jobbins Wells has stretched material made by bacteria over structural frames to create a set of wearable objects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Hundreds of tiny holes puncture the white concrete panels that clad these two extensions to the Badajoz Fine Arts Museum by Spanish firm Estudio Arquitectura Hago (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

South Korean designer Bae Se Hwa steam bent hundreds of slender walnut slices to create the sinuous chairs, benches and desks that feature in this exhibition at New York gallery R & Company. Read more

Architect Baerbel Mueller and architectural designer Juergen Strohmayer have created a multi-use gallery for the Nubuke Foundation in Ghana. Read more View the full article

Patchy timber shields the glazed upper storeys of this extension to a historic town hall in southern Spain by architects Viar Estudio. (more…) View the full article

Milan 2013: Rossana Orlandi curated an exhibition of work by designers including Nacho Carbonell, Front and Studio Libertiny at the Bagatti Valsecchi Museum in Milan. (more...) View the full article

Here’s another project using old carpets (see our earlier post on a chair made of rolled-up carpet), this time handbags by Spanish initiative Maam Project, manufactured by prisoners. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: French designers Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec will present this chair for Magis in Milan next week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Brazilian architects Studio mk27 have completed a house in Salvador, Brazil, where the exterior walls consist of sliding latticed wooden panels. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A twisted entanglement of tree branches appears to grow organically from the beams of Paris' Palais de Tokyo museum in this installation by Brazilian artist Henrique Oliveira (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Light permeates this civic hall designed by Magén Arquitectos in southern Spain through blocks of alabaster in the facade. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Swedish design studio Claesson Koivisto Rune has come up with a stove for the developing world that uses a two-thirds less wood than a traditional cooking fire (+ movies + slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Slideshow: Australian practice March Studio conceived this Melbourne bakery as an oversized breadbasket. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article