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Dezeen’s top 11 architecture and design books of 2022

December 15, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Continuing our review of 2022, we look at 11 page-turning books published on design and architecture this year, including a tome on the century’s best British houses and a “cookbook” of experimental food designs. The selected titles represent many of the major themes and hot-button topics of the last 12 months, from the role of

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Design Brut: Philia & Kids showcases sculptural furniture designed by “rather wise” children

December 14, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

Designers Antoine Behaghel and Alexis Foiny have created sculptural olive wood furniture based solely on drawings by children for a Galerie Philia exhibition. Design Brut: Philia & Kids is the inaugural programme of a non-profit initiative conceived by international art gallery Galerie Philia that aims to engage children in design. The project’s first edition invited 19

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Marcus Fairs given lifetime achievement award by British Society of Magazine Editors

December 5, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

Dezeen founder Marcus Fairs, who passed away earlier this year, has been honoured posthumously at the BSME Awards for his “massive contribution to magazine journalism”. Fairs was awarded the Mark Boxer lifetime achievement award by the British Society of Magazine Editors (BSME), which is voted for by members of the society’s committee, at a ceremony last week.

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This week we announced Dezeen Awards grand prize winners

December 3, 2022 Tom Ravenscroft 0

This week on Dezeen, we revealed the overall architecture, design and interiors winners of the 2022 Dezeen Awards at a party in London. At the ceremony, Argo Contemporary Art Museum and Cultural Centre by Ahmadreza Schricker Architecture North was named architecture project of the year, Ecole Camondo Méditerranée by Émilieu Studio won interiors project of the year,

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Architects and designers from around the world celebrate at Dezeen Awards 2022 party

December 2, 2022 Elisa Barkan 0

Dezeen Awards judges joined architects and designers from all over the world for this year’s Dezeen Awards party where this year’s overall winners were revealed. The event at One Hundred Shoreditch hotel in London welcomed guests from Australia, Mexico, India, Iran, USA, China, Brazil and Japan to celebrate 50 winners. The three overall project winners, which

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Yinka Ilori draws on “unapologetic” architecture of Burkina Faso for debut pop-up shop

December 2, 2022 Jennifer Hahn 0

Modular display stands modelled on buildings in Burkina Faso feature in the first brick-and-mortar shop that London-based designer Yinka Ilori has created for his self-titled homeware brand. Taking over a compact retail space in Shoreditch in the leadup to Christmas, the pop-up shop features a colour-block interior designed to match the products on sale, as slime-green

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Five architecture and design events in December from Dezeen Events Guide

November 30, 2022 Sophie Chapman 0

Everything Architecture, Designed in Hackney and Amsterdam Light Festival are among the architecture and design events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month. Other events taking place in December include the exhibition Willy Guhl – Thinking with Your Hands and the in-person and online summit Business of Design Week. Read on for this month’s highlights

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Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi’s “common design philosophy” showcased at Helsinki Design Museum retrospective

November 29, 2022 Jane Englefield 0

A vivid orange Helsinki subway seat and an iconic timber sauna stool are among the pieces in this exhibition of work by design duo and couple Antti and Vuokko Nurmesniemi. Various works by the late interior architect Antti Nurmesniemi and textile designer Vuokko Nurmesniemi are presented in this eponymous exhibition at Helsinki Design Museum, which

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The Facade Of This Cafe Holds Recycled Beer Bottles

November 26, 2022 Erin 0

Design firm Spacecraft co. has completed Early BKK, a cafe in Bangkok, Thailand, that has a unique facade. Kaytita Chaisuksiri of Early BKK wanted to have a cafe that would introduce recycling and green concepts to visitors and neighbors. Since the statement of Early BKK was very clear, Spacecraft started researching upcycled materials and trash […]

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Design Museum’s Objects of Desire exhibition explores “what surrealism is and why it matters now”

November 23, 2022 Amina Amber 0

Curator Kathryn Johnson explains the story behind surrealism and its impact on design in this video Dezeen produced for the Design Museum about its latest exhibition. Titled Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today, the exhibition features almost 350 surrealist objects spanning fashion, furniture and film. The exhibition, which was curated by Johnson,

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