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Product news: Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec's minimal suspension lamps that create a tangle of wires to produce a climbing plant effect have gone into production. (more...) View the full article

London designer Tomás Alonso presented a range of shelves and lighting that combine ash timber with leather saddlery during the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paralympic athletes headed for London 2012 have inspired transport design studio Priestmangoode to create a conceptual airline seat with a detachable wheelchair. (more…) View the full article

Pale oak surfaces contrast with dark timber beams inside Random Art Space, a gallery and cafe that Air Architects created in Hangzhou, China. Read more View the full article

Brooklyn company Air Co has developed a process for making vodka that converts carbon dioxide into alcohol. Read more View the full article

French designer Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance and branding agency Brandimage have created a park-like business lounge at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, with branching pathways and tree-shaped lights. (more…) View the full article

London designer Héctor Serrano presents a series of paper accessories for turning balloons into animal heads at the New York Gift Fair this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

New Zealand designers Gascoigne Associates have complete this outfitters in Auckland for airline staff at Air New Zealand. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Air New Zealand has filed a patent application for the Skynest sleeping pod, which would allow economy passengers to stretch out and during long-haul flights. Read more View the full article

Paris design studio A+A cooren have designed a glass vase where the neck has been turned back inside the vessel to support flower stems. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London studio Logical Art has created a series of papery necklaces with delicate cut-out patterns (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Torafu Architects of Tokyo, Japan have designed a paper container that can be stretched into a vase, plate or bowl. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lyon designers USIN-e have designed an aquarium in the shape of a test tube. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2013: French designer Jean-Marie Massaud has created chunky grey seating resembling the jagged forms of an iceberg for Swedish furniture brand Offecct. (more...) View the full article

News: home-rental website Airbnb is causing a sea-change in attitudes towards design by allowing people to experience stylish interiors first hand rather than via magazines and websites, according to designer Ilse Crawford. (more...) View the full article

Business news: Joe Gebbia, who co-founded home rental website Airbnb, has become a part-time design partner at American tech startup incubator Y Combinator. (more…) View the full article

Airbnb has launched a new versatile brand typeface that is designed to have good readability across digital and print media. Read more View the full article

Airbnb's offshoot design studio Samara has hired Apple industrial designer Miklu Silvanto to join the company's housebuilding initiative. Read more

Home rental website Airbnb has opened an office in Dublin with a reception area modelled on an Irish pub designed by local architects Heneghan Peng (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Home rentals website Airbnb has launched its own design studio, creating a house of the future for a Tokyo exhibition as its first project (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Home rentals website Airbnb has created a multipurpose office space based on traditional Japanese interiors and neighbourhoods for its Tokyo employees (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

News: online home rental brand Airbnb is to replace a set of aluminium chairs at its new San Francisco headquarters after Emeco, the company that makes the original Navy Chair, pointed out that they were fakes. (more...) View the full article

Airbnb's offices in London, Sao Paulo and Singapore include features like an indoor village green, bleacher-style seating and a reception desk modelled on a front porch (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Airbnb has announced a major move into the architecture and construction industry, with plans to release a new housing prototype late next year. Read more

Continuing our coverage of the recent explosion of tech company headquarters in San Francisco, here's a look inside the offices of online property rental service Airbnb, which feature rooms modelled on eight of the company's listed apartments (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article