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Dezeen Screen: in this movie from the V&A museum in London, Simon Peers and Nicholas Godley talk about the golden cape they made by harvesting silk from over a million wild spiders in Madagascar. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: people strolling by this brick wall in London might miss the disguised entrance to a secret office and home. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: people strolling by this brick wall in London might miss the disguised entrance to a secret office and home. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo will present new additions to their 1% products in Milan this April, including this tea set where the lids double as spinning tops. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese designers Nendo will present new additions to their 1% products in Milan this April, including this tea set where the lids double as spinning tops. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto presented this table lamp, called Vader after the Star Wars character whose mask it resembles, at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: stripy monochrome triangles are folded into facets around the walls and ceiling of this church hall in Linz, Austria, to create a cavernous interior. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: stripy monochrome triangles are folded into facets around the walls and ceiling of this church hall in Linz, Austria, to create a cavernous interior. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Venetian designer Luca Nichetto presented this table lamp, called Vader after the Star Wars character whose mask it resembles, at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair earlier this month. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the deadline to apply for this year’s A’ Design Award is 29 February. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen promotion: the deadline to apply for this year’s A’ Design Award is 29 February. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sarajevo fashion designer Ljiljana Majkić presents her Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection of garments with exaggerated geometric silhouettes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Sarajevo fashion designer Ljiljana Majkić presents her Autumn/Winter 2011-2012 collection of garments with exaggerated geometric silhouettes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Slideshow: the dark-rendered exterior walls of this house in Switzerland screen top-floor terraces at either end. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designers Gabriella Gustafson & Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF have created a collection of storage cabinets and tables for new brand Pieces with large interchangeable feet made from wood, marble or porcelain. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Competition: Dezeen and Austrian architect Hans Hollein have teamed up to offer our readers the chance to win one of five copies of his new monograph. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Seoul studio Cloud and Co have designed this discrete bottle-shaped desktop humidifier. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Two guest suites in the grounds of a ruined Victorian house in Kent are separated by a walkway cast from concrete set against rough planks of wood. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Screen: in this movie filmed at Dezeen Space, Glasgow designer Fraser Ross presents his series of plant-like sculptures that react to the presence and movement of people around them. Watch the movie » </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

The elevated garden of this Singapore house by architects Formwerkz creates a huge canopy to shelter bedrooms beneath. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Construction will begin this week on the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington DC designed by architect David Adjaye. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London architect Lynton Pepper of 00:/ designed these open-source spectacle frames in 18mm plywood to be made from the offcuts of his studio’s WikiHouse project. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Japanese architects Junya Ishigami + Associates and Dutch studio MAKS have won a competition to co-design a visitor centre for a nineteenth century park in the north of the Netherlands. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Having noticed piles of old books used as props in fashionable boutiques and bars, Royal College of Art student Koby Barhad created this “time machine” to accelerate the ageing of new tomes into objects with a sense of history. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

A 1960’s bungalow in Cambridgeshire is hidden behind a Siberian larch-clad extension with a row of gabled roofs. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article