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32 textiles and 100 ceramic and glass objects share one Paris hall in October 2026
Two design shows meet in one vertical hall as Carpet Diem and 1000 VASES bring woven, embroidered and sculptural fabrics face to face with glazed ceramics and blown glass. Curated by Francesco Pirrello, the joint display asks where craft ends and sculpture begins, letting…
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Milan’s 1958 Torre Velasca Opens 72 Luxury Residences Designed by Matteo Thun
Few buildings carry the weight of Milan's Torre Velasca, the brutalist high-rise BBPR completed in 1958. Its upper floors are now being reimagined as residences, where Matteo Thun & Partners draws on the tower's pink plaster and green and blue tiles to craft a quietly modern way…
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Miami Art Week, Doha Biennial and Dezeen Awards Party Headline Eight November Design Events
Architecture, design and art fairs fill the calendar this month, from Miami's art week and Doha's biennial to Collectible New York and Cairo Design Week. Dezeen's events guide helps readers map out a busy season spanning several continents, from Dubai to Ireland. The post Miami…
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Cadence Builds 163 King’s Cross Homes With 85 Per Cent Prefabricated Parts
A red-brick tower near Lewis Cubitt Park shows King's Cross evolving beyond a transit hub. Inside, a Venice-inspired reflection pool sits in a courtyard, with arched windows and mirrored walls throughout, while most of the structure was assembled from factory-made components.…
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Stacked Solid Cork Blocks Form a Fully Demountable Silence Pavilion in Portugal’s Alentejo
A Belgian studio has built a meditation space whose walls are made entirely of cork, held together by metal rods rather than glue. Set on a Portuguese holiday estate, the pavilion can be taken apart and reassembled elsewhere, suggesting a quieter model for temporary architecture…
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Ice Pink Pocket ADVANCE Puts Ribs and Mounts on Display Through Translucent Shell
A limited pink colorway of AYANEO's Android handheld lets the case do some of the talking. Its clear shell exposes internal structure, turning the enclosure into a visible part of the design before a single game loads. Even the compact body, with its curved sides and familiar…
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Pedestal’s $45 Silicone Cable Bagel Turns Desk Clutter Into a Tabletop Accessory
Desks rarely look finished once chargers, extra cable length, and power strips pile up below the tabletop. A Swiss studio's additions to Pedestal's Power Series address that unglamorous space with silicone rings, steel covers, and a wheeled storage box that carry more…
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Pink Arches and Striped Cabinets Define Cloud House, a Two-Home Build in Gospel Oak
Cloud House turns a quiet Gospel Oak street into a showcase of soft, sculptural curves. Peter Morris Architects shaped its marshmallow-pink facade around oversized arches, borrowing cues from Miami's pastel Art Deco buildings and nearby St Martin's Church. Two adjoining homes…
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ecoLogicStudio Grows Algae Canopies, Mycelium Trunks, and Living Air Filters in Milan
Architecture that grows, rather than being built, is the idea at the heart of ecoLogicStudio's work. At Milan's Triennale and EXPO 2015, the London studio tested canopies of glowing algae and columns grown from mycelium, asking what buildings could become if they worked…
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Origen’s Charcoal Ceramic Bowl Raises Its Food Dish on a Capsule-Shaped Base
A feeding station stays out long after dinner, which is reason enough to treat it like tableware. Origen, a Medellín studio project, takes that view with thick walls, quiet surfaces, and a round food dish that rises above a long water basin. The post Origen’s Charcoal Ceramic…
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A $19.95 Magnetic Pen Clips to Your Notebook So It Never Goes Missing
Notebook people often have a pen problem: the pen is somewhere else when the page is ready. This small magnetic accessory gives the writing tool a fixed place beside the notebook, turning a forgotten pen into a non-issue. Sometimes the best gift is the one that solves a daily…
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Zyac’s Z01S Titanium Folder Changes Handle Length and Adds a Second Lock
Knife fans have argued fixed blades versus folders forever, and Zyac's Z01S tries to settle it by blending both. This Grade 5 titanium folder lets you shorten its handle mid-cut, with a second lock backing up the blade. Built for collectors who love mechanisms, it leaves every…
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Aedas’s Pebble-Shaped Huanggang Port Hub Rises Nine Storeys on the Shenzhen River
Replacing the 1989 crossing between Hong Kong and Shenzhen, the new facility combines border control with transport networks in a tiered, round-edged form. Its horizontal metal fins wrap the facade like ribbons, while glass curtain walls draw daylight into immigration halls…
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Joshua Hoe’s Double-Exposed City Portraits Turn Solitude Into Amber-Lit Cinema
Singapore-based musician and photographer Joshua Hoe pairs raw street shots with digital manipulation to explore the quiet loneliness of city life. His frames glow with hazy dusk skylines and neon, often anchoring a solitary figure in an empty transit corridor. The result feels…
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Why a Bear on a Tundra Ridge Tells a Bigger Story Than a Close-Up
Wildlife rarely exists in isolation, and pulling back can reveal far more than a tight crop. This piece explores how habitat, behavior, and negative space turn an animal's surroundings into part of the story, and why showing the wild matters in an age of AI imagery. The post Why…
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One Folded Paper Sheet Makes a Waffle Cone That Holds Yarn and Feeds the Strand
Yarn packaging usually ends up in the trash the day it comes home. A Shenzhen design team rethought that routine, creating a paper cone that holds the ball steady and lets the yarn slide free. It also looks like a dessert and earned a Red Dot award. The post One Folded Paper…
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Max Wilkins Draws Rust-Red Airships, Snowbound Stilt Towers, and Mushroom-Choked Ruins
Architect and self-taught illustrator Max Wilkins brings a draftsman's discipline to fantastical worlds. His richly layered settlements, from floating island fortresses to cobblestone alleyways, feel mathematically grounded yet enchantingly impossible, bathed in soft, storybook…
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Six Wall Objects, From a $10 Magnetic Bird to a $95 Kung Fu Clock
Small objects can change how a room feels, and this designboom shop release proves it. From a magnetic bird that clings to metal plates to a textile mural and a kung fu clock, the drop turns blank walls into something characterful. Each piece balances playfulness with practical…
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Apple’s Rumored Air 2 Pairs a 5.2mm Body With a Pill-Shaped Dual-Camera Bump
Apple's thinnest phone may soon be a foldable, but the rumored iPhone Air 2 could match that thinness with a 5.2mm frame. Leaks point to a second camera, a bigger battery, and a design that borrows Google's Pixel camera bar. Apple's plateau is getting a rethink. The post Apple’s…
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Bart Simpson’s $1.99 Spy Camera Captured One Scandal and Ended a Photography Career in Springfield
Few photography careers have been as brief as Bart Simpson's. Armed with coins and a mail-in flier, he tested a tiny camera, produced two arresting black-and-white frames within minutes, and turned his lens on family, himself, and wildlife. Satire has rarely looked so sharp. The…