Ripple sofa by Askia Furniture
Dezeen Showroom: Romanian brand Askia Furniture has launched the modular Ripple sofa collection, named after its ruched edges that are designed to emulate draped fabric. Ripple is designed primarily for use in office interiors, with easily reconfigurable components to tailor to changing needs in the workplace. Its components can be used to form sofas for
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Dezeen Showroom: Romanian brand Askia Furniture has launched the modular Ripple sofa collection, named after its ruched edges that are designed to emulate draped fabric. Ripple is designed primarily for use in office interiors, with easily reconfigurable components to tailor to changing needs in the workplace. Its components can be used to form sofas for
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Ripple sofa by Askia Furniture
Askia Furniture has launched the modular Ripple sofa collection, named after its ruched edges that are designed to emulate draped fabric.
Designer Rehan Petit has been awarded second place in Dezeen and Bentley's Start Something Powerful Competition for his proposal to cleanup oil spill using repurposed boat bumpers. The global design competition invited architects and designers to envisage innovative concepts that could have a transformative effect on people's lives over the next 100 years. Through the design
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Transport-focussed industrial design studio Of My Imagination has unveiled a proposal for a multi-person scooter that could travel along cycle lanes to help reduce overcrowding within cities. The vehicle called Hop was the outcome of a self-initiated project by Of My Imagination (OMI) that aims to offer an alternative to existing urban transportation. Responding to
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Tokyo-based design studio We+ has released a portable table lamp made from a material that it has developed, which contains rubble and debris from building sites. The lamp's name, Remli, comes from a combination of the words 'remains' and 'light', in reference to a previous project by We+, named Remains, in which it pioneered the material.
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Swedish designer Gustaf Westman displayed existing and new objects including a colourful "puzzle" shelf during a three-day pop-up event in New York City. Named Gustaf Westman in New York, the show was located in an industrial storefront in Williamsburg and displayed the designer's colourful objects and furniture on a meandering pink and orange pathway. Small
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The latest edition of our Dezeen Debate newsletter features a lime-render home in Cornwall by Hugh Strange Architects. Subscribe to Dezeen Debate now. London studio Hugh Strange Architects designed this house in Cornwall that draws inspiration from the traditional farmsteads of England's West Country. The dwelling captured readers' attention, with one describing it as "beautiful, simple,
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Dezeen School Shows: a city that integrates agriculture through a self-sufficient ecosystem is included in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the American University in Dubai. Also included is an analysis framework which incorporates parametric design and housing typologies including villas and apartments. American University in Dubai Institution: American University in Dubai School: Master of
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International studio MAD Architects has unveiled the One River North apartment block in Denver, Colorado, which has a large, canyon-like opening breaking open its main facade. Named One River North, the residential block in Denver's northern RiNo neighbourhood was designed as a nod to geographic formations in the nearby Rocky Mountains. Located next to a major interstate
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Sphere Entertainment and Abu Dhabi's department of culture and tourism have announced that the second version of the dome-like Sphere venue will be built in the UAE. According to the team, the venue in Abu Dhabi will "echo the scale" of the first Sphere in Las Vegas, which is 112 metres high and has a
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Architecture studio LMN Architects and landscape studio Field Operations have opened a wood-clad aquarium extension topped with a public park that acts as a bridge between the city and Seattle's waterfront. Part of a larger initiative to rehabilitate the Seattle waterfront that began with a restoration to the city's seawall in 2017, this recently completed
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Dezeen Showroom: high performance meets natural textures in US brand Designtex's Facet fabric, which features a pattern of fine linework over a woven-look background. Facet is part of Designtex's Wayside collection, which is made of 100 per cent polycarbonate-based polyurethane – a highly durable material even in high-traffic environments. At the same time, the collection avoids
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Archaeological remains of Shakespeare's 16th-century Curtain Playhouse have been uncovered and integrated into the Museum of Shakespeare in Shoreditch, east London, by Perkins&Will. Designed to "reveal and celebrate the historically significant remains" of the theatre, which were uncovered during the early stages of construction on the site, the museum was designed by architecture studio Perkins&Will
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Continuing our mid-century modern series, we spotlight the CH24 Wishbone Chair, which was created by Danish designer Hans J Wegner for furniture manufacturer Carl Hansen & Son in 1949. The iconic chair, with its characteristic Y-shaped back support, has been in production at Carl Hansen & Son since its launch in 1950. Though Wegner designed
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Dezeen Showroom: Australian brand Zintra Acoustic has added eight designs to its Emboss acoustic panel collection, which features textured surfaces made from embossing. Adding to the brand's existing 10 Emboss designs, the collection aims to imbue a sense of creativity in interiors through its range of panel designs, varying from solid colours to prints that look
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Aeroplane seat covers designed for neurodivergent passengers and a knitted landscape filled with giant mushrooms were among the designs showcased at this year's Dundee Design Festival, Scotland's largest design event. The festival, which took place from 23 to 29 September, celebrated the 10th anniversary of Dundee's UNESCO City of Design status with installations and designs
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American architect Germane Barnes aims to illustrate aspects of the African Diaspora by reimagining the three classical columnar orders at her Columnar Disorder exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago. Named Columnar Disorder, the show comprises a series of models and drawings developed by Barnes around three aspects of the African experience during the Diaspora, especially
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Architecture studio Snøhetta has completed the Far Rockaway Library in New York, which is wrapped in fritted, orange ombre glass covered with thin, white script by Brooklyn artist José Parlá. Located in the Far Rockaway neighbourhood of Queens, the building replaces a former library on site and doubles its size. At 18,000 square feet (1,672
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Dezeen School Shows: an aircraft to be used as a police vehicle is featured in Dezeen's latest school show by students at the American University in Dubai. Also included is an aircraft intended to serve as a school bus for children and another to be used for tourism in Dubai. American University in Dubai Institution: American
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