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Homeware and accessories brand Trame made its debut at Maison&Objet with a collection, Voyages to Meknes, based on the fictional story of Louis XIV's daughter marrying the Sultan of Morocco. Read more View the full article

In this VDF x Alcova interview, Ismail and Adnane Tazi of homeware brand Trame discussed how their cross-cultural collections build "virtual bridges across the Mediterranean". Read more View the full article

Dezeen promotion: over 30 design companies will present their work at Tramshed, 32 Rivington Street, London EC2A 3LX from 22 to 25 September as part of the London Design Festival. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Paint brand Dulux has selected a cool-tone shade of green as it's Colour of the Year for 2020, which is meant to offer an antidote to an "increasingly disconnected" modern society. Read more

Dezeen promotion: design brand Luminaire will present pieces by designers including Angelo Mangiarotti, Gruppo T and Konstantin Grcic at their Miami showroom 29 November – 11 December. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Chairs, carpets and blinds cleared from homes in the wake of deaths, divorces and bankruptcies form the raw material for these stools by Dutch designer Joost Gehem (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article

Design Miami: Belgian designer Maarten de Ceulaer nailed bendy leather planks onto solid wood to create this installation of stripy furniture for Italian fashion house Fendi (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This sculpture in the Netherlands countryside by Dutch designers Tjep. comprises a series of steel elements that when viewed from a certain point form the outline of a traditional farm building. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

French architect Alain Hinant has converted a former laundry building outside Brussels into a three-storey family house. (more...) View the full article

Danish industrial designers KiBiSi have collaborated on the redesign of a two-seater aircraft that converts into a vehicle that can be driven on normal roads. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Bjarke Ingels Group have won a competition to convert a Basel warehouse with their design for an extension that will zigzag across the roof like a bolt of lightening. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: Austrian designer Robert Stadler will present a bookshelf that separates the books you’ve finished from those you haven’t read yet at Galleria Nilufar in Milan next week. (more…) View the full article

Seoul studio OBBA hung thin white strips around this temporary pavilion, designed as a resting place for visitors to an outdoor art exhibition (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

This concert hall in Poland by Spanish studio Barozzi Veiga features ribbed glass cladding and a spiky roof, giving it the appearance of an icy crown (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Prague studio Ov-a Architekti has built a translucent house and restored a group of 19th-century timber buildings for the office of glass company Lasvit in Nový Bor, Czech Republic. Read more View the full article

Milan 2011: this chair made from polyurethane film is part of a collection of transparent furniture by Japanese designers Nendo, on show in Milan this week. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Developers in London claim to be building the world's first sky pool, but an even more extreme suspended glass-bottomed swimming pool is already underway in India (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Corrugated plastic cladding reveals the timber structure of this house by Czech architects Matěj Petránek and Adam Jirkal, which replaces a family holiday home near Prague (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Transport for London has released renderings and a video showing the trains originally designed by Barber and Osgerby for the city's east-west rail link Crossrail (+ movie). (more…) View the full article

Skidmore, Owings & Merrill has completed a 55-storey tower in Beijing with exterior glass panels that function as prisms, capturing and refracting daylight (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

This seat by Nicholas Le Moigne of Switzerland is made entirely of scrap fibre cement. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

American designer Victor Vetterlein has made a lamp out of egg boxes. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Models wearing hazard-striped garments stood still as conveyor belts transported them past guests at House of Holland's London Fashion Week presentation (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Atelier Stéphane Fernandez has completed Ecole Communale Jacqueline de Rommily, a school in Cannes comprising low, travertine-clad buildings arranged around courtyards. Read more

Sloping exhibition rooms fold around curvy courtyards and a fish pond at this art gallery in Beijing - the first completed project by new studio Daipu Architects (+ slideshow). (more...) View the full article