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Architect Peter Pichler has converted an existing 14th century farmhouse into a family home in Puglia, Italy, adding by these perforated shutters over its facade. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Arik Levy presents a pebble-shaped device for opening water bottles at Maison&Objet in Paris this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2011: German designers Ett La Benn show these vases made of biodegradable cellulose as part of Poetry Happens at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Here’s a selection of our favourite Christmas e-cards sent in by designers, including this one from UK designers Lazerian. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Li Xiaodong has completed a library in China that’s covered in firewood. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Music: Belgian studio Framekit based its animated music video for French band Toybloïd's track If You Dare on road trip films from the 1960s and 1970s (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Dezeenwire: former Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo has been appointed as chairman of the committee for World Design Capital Helsinki 2012. See press release below. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen podcast: curator Nina Due gives a guided tour of the Sustainable Futures exhibition on show at the Design Museum in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

There’s a horse made of crystals hanging in fashion designer Stella McCartney‘s new Las Vegas store designed by London studio APA. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dutch architects Office for Metropolitan Architecture have won a competition to design an extension to the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec in Canada. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

This captioned video shows a virtual reality experience created by Universal Everything, where a 5,000-strong crowd of simulated humans surges and swarms in response to the user's movements. Read more

Milan designers Gabriele and Oscar Buratti have collaborated with bathroom brand Roca to create a combined toilet and wash basin, where waste water from the sink is used to fill the toilet cistern. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

To coincide with Icelandic design festival DesignMarch, which began in Reykjavik yesterday, here are some parchment gas masks by Reykjavik designer Sruli Recht. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The timber stalactites of an undulating cave-like ceiling bear down around the bar of a coffee shop in Łódź, Poland. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French design brand Moustache will launch their second collection of furniture by designers including Big-Game, Matali Crasset and Bertjan Pot in Milan next week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Shimmering panels of stainless steel create the appearance of a rippling lake above the heads of shoppers at a supermarket in Moscow. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese firm Avehideshi Architects and Associates have completed this one-person house with a tobacco shop on the ground floor in Osaka, Japan. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

In this Dezeen podcast for the Design Museum architect David Adjaye talks to curator Gemma Curtin about Urban Africa, an exhibition of his photographs on show at the museum in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Space: visitors to Dezeen Space today can listen to the ambient sounds of the local area through a tangle of corrugated plastic tubes, courtesy of Polish studio mode:lina at Dezeen Platform. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An exhibition of work by Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto has opened at the V&A museum in London. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Barcelona architects Xavier Vilalta Studio have won a competition to design a tower for Doha, Qatar. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Eindhoven designer Kiki van Eijk presents a collection of wooden furniture with ceramic drawers for the Zuiderzee Museum at the Ventura Lambrate district in Milan this week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2010: Japanese bathroom brand TOTO launched a toilet by Italian designer Stefano Giovannoni in Milan last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Atelier Tekuto have created a house in Hayama, Japan, by wrapping two 100 year-old wooden warehouses in a new faceted skin. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Eindhoven studio DHV Architecten have completed a laboratory for nanotechnology in Delft, the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article