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French designer Philippe Starck will be joined by architects Odile Decq, Lyndon Neri and Alison Brooks as Dezeen Awards 2019 judges. Read more

French designer Philippe Starck has created a minimal and recyclable summer sandal collection for Brazilian brand Ipanema. (more…) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has created a wood-burning stove for heating brand Speeta that can be customised by combining different modules (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has designed his first smartphone: the Mi Mix for Chinese electronics company Xiaomi. Read more View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has created smart radiator valves that allow homeowners to remotely control the temperature of each room using their voice (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

A collection of outdoor seating, created by French designer Philippe Starck for Italian furniture brand B&B Italia, has foldable backrests that can cover the seat to protect it from the elements. Read more View the full article

French designer Philippe Starck has worked alongside Venetian artisans to restore this 18th-century restaurant, refreshing its upholstered walls, chandeliers and decadent furnishings. Read more View the full article

News: French designer Philippe Starck and timber engineering company Riko have announced a new venture manufacturing sustainable prefabricated wooden homes. (more…) View the full article

This captioned video produced by Dezeen for Autodesk reveals Philippe Starck's A.I. chair for Kartell, which the software company claims is the first chair designed using artificial intelligence to be put into production. Read more

Dezeen Awards 2019 winners have been selected by sixteen leading architects and designers, ahead of the Dezeen Awards party in London next month. Read more

Dezeen Wire: designer Philippe Starck says that not being able to save lives and tackle key global issues in his work leaves him feeling “impotent”- The Independent The designer has created a new photobooth that meets his aims of designing democratic and affordable products. Starck claims they offer a solution for those who can’t afford a camera, adding that photos help us to “exist.” He also laments the modern propensity for vandalism that threatens the booths, saying: “Twenty years ago it was possible to design something pretty and people to respect it. Not now.” </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View…

Movie: in our final exclusive video interview with Alberto Alessi, the president of the Italian design brand recalls the controversy surrounding Philippe Starck's stylish but impractical lemon squeezer, saying he considers it to be "a big joke". (more...) View the full article

Philippe Starck has unveiled a prototype for his latest series of prefabricated low-energy wooden homes – a glazed and aluminium-clad structure outside Paris that he and his wife Jasmine plan to move into (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

These medals designed by Philippe Starck split into four, allowing winning Olympic athletes to share their success with their families. Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: lighting consultancy LightCollective has collaborated with electronics brand Philips to create a smartphone app enabling lighting designers to collect and share their inspirations, available to download and trial for free from today on Apple and Android (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Philips Lighting, the world's largest lighting company, has announced its move into emerging technology LiFi – LEDs that can wirelessly transmit data at high speeds. Read more View the full article

Rod White, chief designer at Philips TV & Sound, discusses the electronics brand's new collection of portable audio accessories with Georg Jensen in this talk produced by Dezeen for the brand as part Virtual Design Festival. Tune in at 12:00pm UK time. Read more View the full article

The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam will next week open a remodelled exhibition wing, as the second and final phase of the major renovation by Spanish firm Cruz y Ortiz Arquitectos (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Customers can leave their children playing downstairs and dine beside a four metre-high model elephant at this Bucharest restaurant. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An arc of mirrored posts installed by American artist Phillip K Smith III reflected the colours of the Southern Californian landscape as they changed throughout the day. Read more View the full article

Architect Phillip Lühl has added a pair of extensions to a Modernist house in Namibia, using cement brickwork textured with the coarse fibres of hessian fabric (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

A brick wall conceals the majority of this two-storey house that Phillips Tracey Architects has slotted between a pair of heritage-listed buildings in south London (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Roger Scruton, the British conservative thinker, author and architecture critic, who was co-chair of Building Better, Building Beautiful, has passed away at the age of 75. Read more View the full article

Writer and Dezeen columnist Phineas Harper has become director of London-based charity Open City, which organises open house events in over 40 cities around the world. Read more View the full article

The top-floor living room of this Seattle house projects across the garden in a twisted cantilever. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article