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13 hours 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.

1 day ago | dezeen.com | Alice Laycock

London firms Wet Studio and Studio Popelo put a contemporary spin on traditional Spanish aesthetics when designing La Camionera, a lesbian bar in Hackney. The bar was named after a Spanish slang term for butch lesbians and co-founded by Wet Studio's Clodagh Farrelly and jewellery designer Clara Solis, whose experience of living in both London and Spain informed the atmospheric interior.

2 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

2 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.

2 days ago | dezeen.com | Alice Laycock

Our spring edition of the Dezeen Showroom New Releases newsletter includes Murano glass tables made using three different glassblowing techniques. Subscribe to Dezeen Showroom New Releases now!Design brand Miniforms worked with Italian designer Matteo Zorzenoni on the colourful Striche tables, which comprise a bubbled, striped top sitting on a pedestal-shaped base, all made from Murano glass.