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Frankfurt designer Kai Linke has created a series of vases and side tables by sand-blasting timber to enhance the texture of the grain then casting the resulting shapes in ceramic. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen movie: in the first of five movies for the Design Museum in association with Peroni Nastro Azzurro, designers Pierro Lissoni, James Irvine and Claudio Silvestrin discuss the workings of the Italian design industry at a talk in London. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Trusses salvaged from an earthquake-damaged barn support the roof of this contemporary glass-walled summer cottage on the shores of one of Chile's largest lakes (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Canadian firm Bourgeois Lechasseur Architects has completed a gabled family home in rural Quebec featuring a facade of cedar tiles (+ slideshow). (more…) View the full article

Need a designer disguise? Estonian product designer Pavel Sidorenko has created this range of felt fake moustaches. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An outdoor elevator by Spanish architects Vaumm connects the mountainside neighbourhoods of a Spanish town to those in the valley. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DMY Berlin 2010: designers For Use/Numen of Vienna and Zagreb wove a web of adhesive tape around scaffolding at the DMY Berlin venue in the Tempelhof former airport last week. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

London designers Slowscape Collective created this temporary cinema at the Royal College of Art in London from faceted planes of oriented strand board. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Milan 2012: today is the final edition of our daily TV show from Dezeen Studio at MOST in which we round up some of the other things that have been happening during the week. Tom Dixon demos the Digital Forming software he’s got on show that allows customers to customise their own bespoke Tom Dixon lamp or speaker and then purchase it online with the click of a button, Piers Roberts introduces the Designersblock exhibition in the cloisters of the museum and Achille Sassoli takes us on a tour of Carpigiani’s Gelato University. We also have footage of the MOST party from earlier in the week, as well as yesterday’s The Great Stamp Giveaway where 400 lucky visitors got their…

Dezeen archive: our two most popular stories this week were V-House (top left) and Fabric Facade Studio Apartment (bottom right), both in the Netherlands, so we’ve compiled a selection of stories from the Dezeen archive about Dutch houses. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeenwire: Nicolas Hayek, founder and chairman of Swiss watch company Swatch Group, has died in Biel, Switzerland, aged 82 - New York Times </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Scroll down for the latest update from our recruitment site Dezeenjobs, including jobs with Acconci Studio in New York, e15 in Germany and LS:N Global in London, plus this is the last chance to apply for roles at Priestmangoode, Design Miami/, B&B Italia and more… (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

We’ve just sent out the latest issue of Dezeenmail – take a look at it here. Dezeenmail contains a selection of Dezeen’s best stories and comments, along with all our latest competitions and jobs. You can subscribe here. </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Architect Philippe Schmit has completed an extension to a extension to a Luxemberg art gallery, clad in perforated brass panels. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Pascal Grasso Architectures have inserted extruding and recessed volumes along the walls of corridors to create a showroom in Paris, France, for fashion sourcing company Stella K. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen archive: Mestia Airport by J. Mayer H. (bottom left, above) was this week’s most popular story so here’s a roundup of all the airports we’ve published on Dezeen. See all the stories » See all our archive stories » </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

An angular platform protruding from the 100th floor of Kohn Pedersen Fox's Hudson Yards skyscraper is the "highest outdoor sky deck" in the western hemisphere. Read more View the full article

Dezeen Wire: the Royal Institute of British Architects in London has published a report promoting the social and economic benefits of well-designed buildings. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Dezeen Watch Store: we’ve just added Vue by Yves Béhar for Issey Miyake (above) and Hu by Ross Lovegrove to the Dezeen Watch Store. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Richard Clarkson has created a conceptual smartphone with a rotary dial. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Audio clip: Adobe Flash Player (version 9 or above) is required to play this audio clip. Download the latest version here. You also need to have JavaScript enabled in your browser. Dezeen podcast: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs talks to James Dyson in this podcast recorded at the UK launch of Dyson’s new floor-standing blade-less fans. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Lego-like blocks are stacked along the walls of this cafe in Chennai by Indian studio Mancini Enterprises. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Amsterdam studio Chops and Moxie have shared with us this short film representing the concrete interior of a boutique by Japanese architect Kumiko Inui as though it’s being inflated from soft materials. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

Designer Benjamin Hubert has created this laptop bag which expands to become an overnight bag, in collaboration with Nava. (more…) </img></img> </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article

DezeenTV: the next movie in our series of Dezeentalks at [D3] Design Talents features designer Kai Linke of Frankfurt talking us through his selection of eclectic images including a dog covered in snowballs and the long wait involved when growing chairs from plant roots. (more…) </img> </img> </img> </img> </img> View the full article