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Hundreds of colourful bristles emanate from headdresses in Maiko Takeda's millinery collection, presented at the Royal College of Art fashion show earlier this week. (more...) View the full article

Japanese architect Jo Nagasaka of Schemata Architecture Office has designed the interior of a food-photography studio in Tokyo. (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs will interview designers Werner Aisslinger, Mathias Hahn and the [D3] Contest winners live on stage from 12.30 in the The Ramazzotti D3 Lounge at imm Cologne today, as part of our Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents series. The interviews will be broadcast on Dezeen at a later date. More info plus the full schedule in our earlier story. See films of all the Dezeentalks at last year’s fair here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The modernist Ben Rose House in the film Ferris Bueller's Day Off and Philip Johnson's Glass House informed this pool house designed by Canadian studio Maurice Martel Architecte. Read more View the full article

Vienna Design Week 2011: London designers PostlerFerguson have created a temporary Viennese coffee house for Vienna Design Week, which continues until Sunday. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Grey plaster walls contrast with tan-coloured window frames at a hillside holiday house in Střekov by Czech architects 3+1 Architekti. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese studio Tato Architects have converted a warehouse in Osaka into a house where residents can climb up the walls. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London Design Festival 2011: British designer Sebastian Bergne has constructed a greenhouse out of Lego in London’s Covent Garden. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

US firm Woodhouse Tinucci Architects has spruced up reading room in the University of Chicago's Joseph Regenstein Library, a 1970s building originally designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill. Read more View the full article

Rough concrete columns and beams frame the living room ceiling of an apartment in San Sebastian. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects COBE have extended this theatre in Taastrup, Copenhagen, by wrapping it in a curtain of translucent prisms that slope away from the existing building. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Zozaya Arquitectos has created a traditional palapa with a dried palm roof at the centre of this house in a Mexican beach village. Read more View the full article

Product news: twenty-six cable ties make up this pendant lamp that London studio Vitamin is exhibiting at Clerkenwell Design Week. (more...) View the full article

Here’s a concrete espresso machine by Shenkar College of Engineering and Design student Shmuel Linski. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Warith Zaki and Amir Amzar have envisioned using bamboo grown and harvested on Mars to build the first colony on the red planet. Read more

Designer Ignacio Canales Aracil created these sculptures by pressing and drying wild flowers. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paris 2012: more from Maison & Objet in Paris this week – Japanese studio Torafu Architects present two new versions of their paper containers that can be stretched into bowls or vases for French brand Ligne Roset. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Cologne 2011: London studio Doshi Levien present this child’s rocking horse at imm cologne in Germany this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen in Isreal: these high-heeled shoes disguised as birds are by designer Kobi Levi, whose footwear resembling inflatable sex dolls caused a stir with our readers back in November. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

German architect Stefan Behnisch speaks to Dezeen in this Screentime conversation sponsored by Enscape as part of Virtual Design Festival today. Watch it live from 2:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

Aesop's inaugural book offers a snapshot of its three-decade-long history. Creative director, Marsha Meredith, talks through some of her favourite moments from the skincare brand's past. Read more View the full article

Designed by Royal College of Art graduate Elena Larriba, Vycle is a pedal-powered, vertical transportation system that offers a sustainable and efficient alternative to lifts and stairs. Read more View the full article

This wooden chair by Berlin designer Jerszy Seymour is held together with blobs of wax. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Following the popularity of our story about MVRDV’s Balancing Barn holiday home with a 15 meter cantilever (above, bottom left) we’ve compiled our most-read stories about cantilevered buildings for this month’s top ten. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: London designer Benjamin Hubert launched this chair with a pressed-felt shell at Ventura Lambrate in Milan last month. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article