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1 day ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
The medal for this year's best overall contribution to the London Design Biennale has gone to the Malta pavilion, which is presenting an expandable spherical urn designed to enshrine the ashes of multiple people together. Called Urna, the project was commissioned by Arts Council Malta in response to the country's landmark legalisation of cremation in 2019. Traditionally, funerary urns house the ashes of a single person after they die.
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3 days ago | 
msn.com | Jane Englefield
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3 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Yrjö Kukkapuro, the Finnish furniture and product designer who dreamt up ideas "until the very end" over more than 70 years of creating, has passed away at his home in Kauniainen at the age of 91. More
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3 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
The distinctive 1960s self-designed home and studio of the late designers Yrjö and Irmeli Kukkapuro in Finland is being transformed into a museum. The renovation project is being led by the couple's daughter and granddaughter, who told Dezeen what the unusual building means to them. "I felt like it was a different planet," said producer Isa Kukkapuro-Enbom, considering the architecture of her parents' home in Kauniainen where she grew up.
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5 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Pirelli rubber flooring, raw MDF and galvanised steel define this renovated 1970s Madrid apartment, which the founder of local architecture studio Hanghar designed as his own home. More
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5 days ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Pirelli rubber flooring, raw MDF and galvanised steel define this renovated 1970s Madrid apartment, which the founder of local architecture studio Hanghar designed as his own home. Spread over one compact floor, the apartment is defined by industrial materials instead of more typically homely soft furnishings.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
New York design studio Earth to People has swapped synthetic glue for tree sap to bind its debut furniture collection, which features monolithic chairs hand-crafted from centuries-old cedar. Called Salvage and Sap, the collection includes eight pieces of furniture and lighting made from a mixture of reclaimed aluminium and wind-felled cedar sourced from Squamish, British Columbia. The pieces were glued together with pure tree sap instead of polluting synthetic binders.
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1 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Cajsa Carlson |Jane Englefield
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 week ago | 
dezeen.com | Jane Englefield
Le Corbusier's Maison La Roche provides a rich historical backdrop for the first international show from Brazilian design exhibition Aberto, on display at the World Heritage-listed home in Paris. Aberto/04 is the fourth iteration of the platform's art and design show, which has been staged in a range of modernist buildings, including a 1970s brutalist house in São Paulo by architect Chu Ming Silveira that hadn't previously been open to the public.
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2 weeks ago | 
dezeen.com | Ella Jessel |Jon Astbury |Jane Englefield |Starr Charles
Architecture studio Cadence Architects has completed the concrete K-Home, which was designed to frame views of the city and hills surrounding its site in Krishnagiri in the state of Tamil Nadu, India. More
