Job of the week: head of design at the V&A Museum

Micaella Pedros explains how to make furniture using discarded plastic bottles



Graduate shows 2016: design graduate Micaella Pedros demonstrates how heat-shrunk plastic bottles can be used to create stable furniture joints in this movie filmed by Dezeen for the Royal College of Art (+ movie). (more…)

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OMA uses coloured mirrors and aluminium foam for Repossi Vendôme store interior



An aluminium foam staircase doglegs up the centre of Italian jewellery brand Repossi’s flagship store, designed by Dutch architecture firm OMA on Paris’ exclusive Place Vendôme (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Z4Z4 commissions sci-fi photoshoot for half-sunken house in Madrid



Three corrugated cylinders are raised on stilts above subterranean living spaces and gardens to form this Madrid house by Z4Z4, which is captured in a science-fiction-inspired photoshoot (+ 360-degree videos). (more…)

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George Riding’s Wire Series coffee table comes with integrated accessories



Graduate shows 2016: this coffee table by Northumbria University graduate George Riding features objects that nestle into the furniture’s metal framework (+ slideshow). (more…)

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OOPPEA builds wooden Periscope Tower beside lake in Finland



This lakeside observation pavilion by Finnish studio OOPEAA doubles as a giant periscope, so visitors don’t have to climb to the top to enjoy the view (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Jean Verville creates black fairytale-like cottage in a Quebec forest



Jean Verville Architecte has designed cabin in rural Quebec with dark metal cladding and pointy roofs that “seems to emerge from a children’s story” (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Viktor & Rolf’s Vagabonds wear haute-couture garments made from scraps of recycled fabrics

Viktor & Rolf AW16 haute-couture fashion collection

Dutch fashion house Viktor & Rolf has used fabrics leftover from past seasons to create the haute-couture garments in its Autumn Winter 2016 collection. (more…)

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Noah’s Ark theme park opens in Kentucky as flash floods hit the US



A biblical theme park contained within a huge ark – billed as the world’s largest timber-frame building – has opened in Kentucky, just as the US state has been hit by severe flooding (+ slideshow). (more…)

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Es Devlin creates meandering Louis Vuttion catwalk around Oscar Niemeyer museum



British set designer Es Devlin has created a twisting pathway around the Oscar Niemeyer-designed Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Niterói for the Louis Vuitton Cruise Collection catwalk show (+ slideshow). (more…)

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