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Our summer sale has started on Dezeen Watch Store with savings of up to 40% on our curated collection of watches, including the stylish and sophisticated touch-screen Mutewatch. Now only £159.20 (UK and EU) or £132.67 (rest of world). Buy now » View the full article

French designer Mathieu Lehanneur has created a series of Wi-Fi stations in Paris where people can sit down to use their laptops or access local information via a large screen. (more…) View the full article

Wooden shutters fold, tilt and slide open to let in the sun and keep out the burglars at this weekend cabin in New Zealand by architects Crosson Clarke Carnachan. (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

This hotel by Mexican architects Gracia Studio comprises 20 separate cabins dotted across the landscape in one of Mexico’s wine-making regions. (more…) View the full article

These felt elephant toys by German designer Daniel Böttcher are available at our pop-up design emporium Dezeen Super Store at 38 Monmouth Street, Seven Dials, Covent Garden, London WC2. (more…) View the full article

Architect John Lin has adapted the traditional style of a rural Chinese courtyard residence to create a village house that is entirely self-sufficient. (more…) View the full article

Chunky chipboard surfaces have been sanded and stained to look like marble at this Aesop skincare shop in Tokyo by Japanese studio Torafu Architects (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Eindhoven designers Studio Toer have created a table designed to fit through your letter box (+ movie). (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

Dezeen Wire: Sergio Pininfarina, the Italian car designer who worked for brands including Ferrari, Maserati and Lancia, has died aged 85 (via Reuters). Pininfarina worked at and later ran the family-run Pininfarina design studio from 1950 until 2006, working on models including the Ferrari Testarossa, Alfa Romeo Giulietta Spider and Bentley Azure. View the full article

Students at the Geneva University of Art and Design have formed a travelling commune inside a collection of shipping containers and have been staging performances around Switzerland. (more…) View the full article

Spikes made from semi-precious stones break out between the heels and platforms of these shoes by fashion designer Iris van Herpen and shoe brand United Nude. (more…) View the full article

Designer Gerry Judah has created this white knotted sculpture of a race track for car brand Lotus at Goodwood Festival of Speed, which took place in West Sussex last weekend. (more…) View the full article

Architect Frank Gehry filled a stage with crumpled paper for a recent production of the Mozart opera Don Giovanni (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Movie: in this interview filmed at Dezeen Studio in Milan, curator Lowie Vermeersch talks to Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs about the programme of events for this year’s Interieur Biennale, which will take place in Kortrijk, Belgium, from 20-28 October and feature projects from the likes of Ross Lovegrove, Troika and Jurgen Bey. (more…) View the full article

This bicycle that’s designed to grow with your child by Spanish designer Álex Fernández Camps has been awarded the top prize at the Delta Awards for industrial design at FADfest in Barcelona. (more…) View the full article

Our Dezeen Super Store is now open at 38 Monmouth Street in Seven Dials, London WC2 and readers can get 10% off any purchase in the store* by downloading this special flyer and presenting it at the store. Check out our 2012 summer special issue of Dezeen Mail for an invitation to a party, tickets for a special FREE event and details of how to get up to 40% off in our watch store sale. Subscribe to Dezeen Mail. * excluding sale stock and Jambox View the full article

These London townhouses by architects Piercy & Company have chunky banisters formed from thickly layered birch plywood. (more…) View the full article

Wooden stairs climb up through a narrow lightwell inside this house by Japanese studio Tato Architects. (more…) View the full article

New York photographer Randy Scott Slavin has joined hundreds of photographs to create distorted views of American cities and landscapes (+slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This range of tables by Swedish company Massproductions features simple poles on circular bases with interchangeable tops. (more…) View the full article

Here’s the line-up for our Designed in Hackney Day on 1 August. This event is FREE! Click here to register now and read on for more details… (more…) View the full article

Belgian studio EXAR Architecture have replaced walls of brick and plaster with glass and Corten steel on this extension to a suburban house outside Brussels. (more…) View the full article

Scroll on for all the latest from our recruitment site Dezeen Jobs, including positions with Dezeen, Habitat and Stanton Williams, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles with Camron PR, Tom Dixon and more… (more…) View the full article