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2 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Italian architect Giuseppe Porcelli sought to bend gender norms when transforming this Milanese apartment into an "intimate homoerotic" backdrop for his inaugural furniture collection. Porcelli's interior scheme was influenced by the history of garçonnières or bachelor pads – traditionally masculine apartments inhabited by single heterosexual men.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Local studio OPA has designed Plumbago, a garden shed-style restaurant in Mexico City's Cuauhtémoc neighbourhood, clad in corrugated polycarbonate sheet. Plumbago is spread across a duo of gabled volumes constructed next to each other in a compact infill plot in bustling Cuauhtémoc, sandwiched by contrasting multistorey buildings. Plumbago is clad in corrugated polycarbonate sheetOPA designed the first, larger structure with corrugated polycarbonate siding.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Traditionally reserved for cafes and restaurants, banquette seating can dramatically transform home kitchens. Our latest lookbook collects eight examples, from Australia to the Netherlands. Named after the French word for a bench, a banquette is built-in upholstered seating that can be straight or curved and is typically placed against a wall.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
British artist Stuart Semple says that he "pulled an all-nighter" to create his Yolo paint in a colour that imitates one a group of American scientists claim to have just discovered. Semple, who previously developed the "flattest, mattest, black acrylic paint in the world", made the paint to replicate the colour scientists at the University of California recently announced as a new hue that no one had ever seen before.
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3 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
This week on Dezeen, we exclusively showcased a number of Expo 2025 Osaka Pavilions, including the Bahrain Pavilion by architect Lina Ghotmeh. In the lead-up to the event, we looked at 10 standout pavilions from Expo 2025 Osaka, including the France Pavilion, designed by studios Coldefy and Carlo Ratti Associati and fronted with a giant copper staircase.
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1 month ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield |Dan Howarth |James Parkes
New! Dezeen Agenda US Sent on alternate Fridays, this US edition of Dezeen Agenda is a fortnightly newsletter rounding up everything you need to know from America, featuring news, projects and interviews with industry figures. Plus occasional updates and invitations to Dezeen events. New! Dezeen Showroom New Releases A quarterly newsletter rounding up a selection of recently launched products by designers and studios, published on Dezeen Showroom.
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1 month ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Italian architect Carlo Ratti has revealed Essential, a pair of deliberately pared-back iridescent torches that will carry the Olympic and Paralympic flame at next year's Milano Cortina Winter Games. Essential is a design collaboration between Ratti's studio Carlo Ratti Associati, energy company Eni and chemicals company Versalis, with engineering by Cavagna Group.
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1 month ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Designers including Patricia Urquiola, Faye Toogood and Misha Kahn looked to rolling hills and slabs of butter when creating these chubby seating projects, revealing a trend for the lumpy and chunky at this year's Milan design week. Bread and Butter by Faye Toogood for TacchiniBritish designer Faye Toogood was influenced by a slab of butter and a fat loaf of bread when designing her squishy sofa and accompanying console table for Italian brand Tacchini.
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1 month ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Stark white minimalism takes centre stage at Hermès's latest installation for Milan design week, which was created as a pensive backdrop for the brand's contrastingly colourful homeware collection. A staple of Milan design week, Hermès's annual installation is once again on display at La Pelota – a former 1940s sports court and the location of previous projects including illuminated water tower-style paper structures and a stone-and-clay floor sculpture.
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1 month ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Clothing brand A-Poc Able Issey Miyake and design studio Atelier Oï have unveiled delicate lighting at Milan design week, fashioned from wire and a single piece of off-white cloth. Opening today at Milan's flagship Issey Miyake store, the TYPE-XIII Atelier Oï project exhibition brings together two lighting collections – the O series and the A series.
