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Architecture and design journalist and editor. My book, All Together Now: the co-living and co-working revolution, is out now!
Articles by Amy Frearson
Isabel + Helen showcase their "obsession with movement" with kinetic models at The Conran Shop
British designer duo Isabel Gibson and Helen Chesner have filled The Conran Shop's gallery with colourful, kinetic models for their London Design Festival exhibition, Motion Sickness. Spinning orbs, flapping wings and wheeled devices all feature in the exhibition, which marks 10 years since the founding of their London-based art and design studio, Isabel + Helen.
Collate Lobby curates fictional 1930s hotel suite to launch its first editions collection
Over 30 designers, makers and studios have created limited-edition and prototype furniture and objects for Lobby, a new design platform launched by recruitment agency Collate Form during London Design Festival. Collate Lobby's debut exhibition takes the form of a fictional hotel suite and foyer, inspired by the fashion and interiors of the 1930s.
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Piercy & Company introduces curves and cutouts in guesthouse Apartment 21
London studio Piercy & Company has taken over an apartment in the north of the city and given it a new interior featuring custom timber joinery and a mysterious curved corridor. Apartment 21 was conceived by Piercy & Company as a space for hosting private events and exhibitions, or for accommodating guests. Piercy & Company plans to host dinners and events in the apartment The design brings complexity to what was previously a highly minimal, open-plan home.
Tatjana von Stein blends Jugendstil style with 1980s glamour for The Dean Munich
French-German designer Tatjana von Stein designed hundreds of bespoke lights and furnishings for this hotel in Munich, drawing on the city's art nouveau style and its exuberant nightlife history. The Dean Munich is the latest offering from the Irish hotel chain, with 281 rooms and suites, three bars, and a signature Japanese restaurant named Ibasho.
Youth avoids Manchester cliches for city's first Cubitts eyewear store
British eyewear brand Cubitts has unveiled its first shop in Manchester, designed by locally based studio Youth to reflect the city's industrial and musical history without resorting to the obvious. Youth co-founders Oliver Collinge and Liam McGroarty planned the interior to reflect the present and future of the British city, with subtle references to the past rather than cliches.
Uppercut unveils summer exhibition in the stately rooms of Chateau de Spycker
Antwerp-based gallery Uppercut is presenting the works of six contemporary designers in the ornate halls and salons of a neo-gothic villa near Bruges. Elaborate glass vessels by Danish designer Alexander Kirkeby and melted polystyrene furniture by French designer Nicolas Zanoni are among the pieces on show inside the rooms of the 19th-century Chateau de Spycker in Sint-Kruis.
Blond launches Solaris lamp designed by 12-year-old Sol Rybakken Kallin
The young daughter of Norwegian designer Daniel Rybakken has developed a table lamp for Swedish lighting manufacturer Blond. Twelve-year-old Sol Rybakken Kallin presented her design, Solaris, as part of the 3 Days of Design exhibition Design Starts On Paper, a collaboration between Blond and fellow Swedish brands Hem and Baux. Blond launched Solaris during 3 Days of Design The lamp consists of a curved box frame, with a hollow centre that offers space for displaying small objects.
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Rubber thorns, rocky lumps and haunting faces all feature in a collection of cups by more than 30 different artists and designers, presented at Copenhagen's Cafe Sommersko during 3 Days of Design. Tableau founder Julius Værnes Iversen was commissioned by Sovino Group to curate the show, simply named Cups, together with artistic director Liv Vaisberg, founder of the Collectible fair in Brussels and co-founder of Design Biennale Rotterdam.
Mitre & Mondays creates forest installation to reveal the five stages of responsible timber production
British studio Mitre & Mondays has collaborated with Benchmark and the American Hardwood Export Council on a 3 Days of Design installation revealing the value of sustainable forest management. Presented in Copenhagen as part of the Material Matters design fair, Wood for the Trees aimed to recreate the experience of an American hardwood forest.
Sell Out Show offers designer-made objects for sale out of a vending machine
An unusual vending machine popped up in a Copenhagen kiosk during 3 Days of Design, offering affordable limited-edition design objects ranging from a butter knife to a three-metre-long candle. Sell Out Show, which was shown outside of the official 3 Days of Design festival, was an initiative by designers Guillaume Gindrat, Frederik Buchmann, Massimo Scheidegger and Bruno Pauli Caldas to give emerging designers an opportunity to sell work during the design festival.
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Copenhagen-based Tableau has many projects for this 3 Days of Design, including a pavilion shaped like the iconic Aalto Vase. Founder Julius Værnes Iversen tells Dezeen why architecture was the next step for his multi-hyphenate studio. Tableau has evolved rapidly since Værnes Iversen launched it in 2018. Initially a gallery showcasing design objects and flowers, it has morphed into a creative studio with a diverse output of design, curation and creative direction.
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Following the release of Home for Now: Living Well Without Staying Long, a book spotlighting interior design for rental homes, authors Paul Firmin and Niko Dafkos talk Dezeen through eight of the most inspiring examples. As founders of Earl of East, a London-based lifestyle brand specialising in scent products, Firmin and Dafkos wanted to show that it is possible to inject warmth and personality into homes, even if they're only temporary.
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Dutch designer Linde Freya Tangelder has partnered with Italian brand Cassina on a Milan exhibition featuring furniture and lighting made from blown glass, cast bronze, sheet metal and lacquered wood. Presented at 10 Corso Como during Milan design week, the Fluid Re-Collection show featured an array of designs by the Belgium-based designer, founder of the studio Destroyers/Builders.
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British designer Bethan Laura Wood has created a modular version of a 175-year-old crystal-glass chandelier, described as "somewhere between a science-fiction wormhole and the interlacing of Elizabethan garters". Wood's Mille Fleurs chandelier was the showpiece of Crystal Crypt, the Milan design week exhibition of historic French crystal house Baccarat.
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The foundational principles of 3D drawing provided the cues for Geometriæ, a furniture collection unveiled at Milan design week by Swedish studio Front and Italian brand Moroso. The pieces are made up of intersecting cuboids and cylinders, upholstered in woven jacquard textiles that replicate the hand-drawn light and shadow effects of 3D perspective drawings.
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Sticks, pasta and braille all feature in an exhibition of chopsticks, presented at Milan design week by a new platform that brings together design from Japan, China and South Korea. Chopsticks is the debut exhibition from S—3, an initiative from Yoko Choy of Cultural Associates and design fair Manifesto, aiming to connect East Asian design with a global audience.
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Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby have become the first British designers to headline a retrospective show at the Triennale Milano. In an exclusive interview, the pair reflect on their 30-year journey from "reprobates" to trailblazers. Open as part of Milan design week, the Alphabet exhibition features over 230 objects and prototypes that trace the evolution of the Barber Osgerby studio over four decades, including icons like the Tip Ton chair, the Bellhop lamp and the London 2012 Olympic Torch.
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Italian trattoria meets Irish country house in Day Studio's interior for Burro, a sister restaurant to London's popular Trullo. The Covent Garden restaurant is the new offering from Belfast-born chef Conor Gadd, who is also Trullo's head chef and co-owner.
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Unstabilised rammed earth forms the walls of a country house designed by Tuckey Design Studio in Wiltshire, England, revealed here in an exclusive video by photographer Jim Stephenson. Built on the site of a former brickworks, Rammed Earth House was constructed from both the clay underfoot and an aggregate made from crushed demolition waste.
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A spate of new design galleries has opened recently in London, Copenhagen, New York and more. We've rounded up seven that are well worth a visit. Photos are by Cronje Strøm D142 Oslo, Norway Iranian-born photographer and stylist Neshat is behind D142, a gallery in Oslo's Grünerløkka neighbourhood conceived as a platform for young and emerging creatives across art, design and culture.
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Africa is experiencing a mini-boom in skyscraper construction, with new towers rising in Egypt, Ethiopia, Ivory Coast and more. But are they symbols of progress or just vanity projects? Dezeen editor-at-large Amy Frearson investigates. The Tour F in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, will soon become the continent's tallest building, expected to reach its full 421-metre height later this year.
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London studio Archmongers has injected new materials, colours and details in the renovations of three homes from the 1950s and 60s, all located on the Dulwich Estate in southeast London. The three projects follow on Little Brownings, another refurbishment on this renowned mid-century estate, which won Archmongers the top prize at the Don't Move, Improve awards in 2022.
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Swedish-Danish fragrance brand En Doft has opened its inaugural store in Stockholm, designed by sister company All Matters Studio with an emphasis on precisely crafted details. Located in Södermalm, in a creative neighbourhood that is home to other design-led brands, it will serve as both a retail space and a venue for exhibitions and events.
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Japanese studio ICADA has completed a house in Saitama, Japan, that combines inventive storage solutions with a structure of rough-sliced cedar logs. Live Sawn House features exposed wall and floor structures formed of cedar planks, which were milled as simply as possible with the edges left raw.
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Heatherwick, MVRDV and Mecanoo among shortlisted designs for "new world wonder"
Dutch social venture Shift has revealed the five shortlisted designs in a competition to design "a new wonder of the world" to promote action against climate change. Heatherwick Studio, MVRDV, Mecanoo, Office for Political Innovation and Ecosistema Urbano are all competing to design the €240 million landmark in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The brief calls for " a 100 per cent sustainable landmark" that inspires people to take action against the climate and biodiversity crisis.
MXarchitecture installs back-to-back homes in Paris suburb
Paris studio MXarchitecture has built 2in1 Houses, a pair of three-bedroom homes that butt up against each other on a suburban plot in the east of the French capital. The 2in1 Houses at Noisy-le-Sec were designed as family homes, each with three storeys and a basement. Both have a balcony and a separate driveway and entrance, although the rear-facing home is the only one with a garden.
Underground House of the Future reinvents Chinese cave home
University of Hong Kong professors John Lin, Olivier Ottevaere and Lidia Ratoi have worked with students to overhaul an underground house in northern China, suggesting a new future for these traditional dwellings. Underground House of the Future is a complete rebuild of a house in Zhangbian Township, a village in the Loess Plateau in Henan Province, where people traditionally dig their homes out of the earth.
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Jihyun Kim uses gloop glaze to create Salty Fairy Ring ceramics
South Korean ceramic designer Jihyun Kim combines elements of myth and magic in her multi-coloured vessels, which she is showing at the Collect 2026 fair at London's Somerset House this week. Salty Fairy Ring is a series of slip-cast ceramic salt vessels featuring mushroom-inspired forms, raised on gloopy stems so they appear to defy gravity.
Studio Bark unveils larch-clad Orchard House built on green belt in Cheshire
London-based Studio Bark used the so-called "country house clause" to gain permission for this wooden house, which was self-built by its owners on a former orchard in the north of England. The larch-clad Orchard House is located on green belt land in Cheshire, on a site where the client's grandparents first tried and failed to get planning permission back in 1955.
Andrei Saltykov installs house with diagrid roof on London backland
Crisscrossing planks of glulam timber form the sculptural roof of Arbour House, a family home designed by London-based architect Andrei Saltykov. Saltykov, who leads the studio Andrei Saltykov and Partners, completed the two-storey, semi-subterranean house on a backland plot surrounded by residential gardens in Crouch End, north London.
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An exhibition during 3 Days of Design showcased the vast archive of Jens Quistgaard, who is one of Denmark's most successful designers, despite being relatively unknown. More
Decancq Vercruysse reorganises mid-century Belgian bungalow around fireplace
A blocky fireplace and a fold-down desk both feature in this rework of a 1960s home on the outskirts of Ghent, designed by Kortrijk studio Decancq Vercruysse. Decancq Vercruysse oversaw a complete refurbishment of the mid-century Bungalow Sint-Martens-Latem, which is located in a woodland in Sint-Martens-Latem.
Bernadotte & Kylberg designs signature suites in Stockholm's Clarion Hotel Sign
Stockholm's largest hotel has unveiled three suites designed by Carl Philip Bernadotte, better known as Prince Carl Philip of Sweden, and Oscar Kylberg, featuring new furniture inspired by the building. The Bernadotte & Kylberg founders took cues from the angular architecture of the Clarion Hotel Sign when designing the Stratum Suites, which major on reflective surfaces and angular geometries.
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Pale brick, clay-fired tiles and ash carpentry were used to bring tactility and warmth to this Victorian terrace house in London, extended by local architecture studio TYPE. More
Form Us With Love unveils four-month show following Stockholm Design Week cancellation
Instead of its usual week-long Stockholm Design Week exhibition, Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has transformed its studio into an experimental showroom that will be open for four months. With Stockholm Furniture Fair and the affiliated Stockholm Design Week postponed until 2027, Form Us With Love wanted to offer an alternative to the "compressed, high-intensity" feel of a design week show.
Enrico Sassi uses Le Corbusier colours in revamp of 1970s house overlooking Lake Lugano
Architect Enrico Sassi has refreshed a mid-century house in Ticino, Switzerland, with new windows, a stainless-steel kitchen and a colour palette dictated by Le Corbusier. Lugano-based Sassi oversaw a complete renovation of the 1972-built house, originally designed by German studio Unterlöhner + Waibel and located on a hillside in Vernate, overlooking Lake Lugano.
"Obelisk-like" columns rise through Pezo von Ellrichshausen's restaurant for botanical garden
Chilean studio Pezo von Ellrichshausen has installed a restaurant at Les Jardins de Médongaule, in South Korea's Gyeonggi Province, featuring 16 huge green concrete columns. Providing a roof terrace as well as a restaurant, the towering structure is the latest addition to a new botanical garden complex located northeast of Seoul.
Penadés creates "archipelago" of tiled objects for Tokyo Camper store
Camper shoes are displayed on curvaceous clay-tiled blocks in this overhaul of the brand's store in Chiyoda, Tokyo, designed by Jorge Penadés' studio. Madrid-based Penadés described the design for Camper Shin Maru as "an archipelago" of terracotta-tiled furniture, set against a contrasting aquamarine-coloured backdrop. The clay-tiled display stands incorporate seating The tile-covered elements include display stands with integrated seating and a cash desk.
Svenskt Tenn reskins Josef Frank cabinets in horsehair
For Stockholm Creative Edition, Swedish heritage brand Svenskt Tenn has unveiled an exhibition of cabinets by design icon Josef Frank, including a new edition of his Cabinet 522 in horsehair fabric. On show in Svenskt Tenn's flagship Stockholm store, Standing Tall showcases six cabinets designed by the late Austrian-born architect and designer in the 1930s, 40s and 50s.
Steel-panelled fireplace forms heart of renovated 1950s townhouse
The co-founder of Belgian studio Decancq Vercruysse has overhauled a mid-century townhouse in Kortrijk, Belgium, adding oak panelling, birch joinery and a patinated stainless-steel fireplace. The aim of architect Emiel Vercruysse and partner Marie Ingelbeen, who works in the textile industry, was to create a home that would offer them a sense of calm and cosiness.
Templeton Ford builds multigenerational home that reinterprets archetypal Sussex brick houses
A curvy three-tiered roof tops the red brick and tile walls of Clay Rise, a house designed and built by the founders of British studio Templeton Ford in southeast England for their own family. Architect Andre Templeton Ford and interior stylist Jessica Templeton Ford designed the residence in a village in West Sussex for themselves, their young children and Andre's parents.
TiggColl's modular Float House makes life on water more accessible
London studio TiggColl has put a new spin on the houseboat, creating a bright and spacious family home that is step-free and easy to maintain. Float House offer solutions to many of the challenges of typical narrowboats, showcasing new approaches to accessibility, privacy and maintenance.
Schack Arkitektur converts Danish barn into studio for artist
Danish painter Michael Kvium has moved his studio into a historic barn in the south of Zealand, Denmark, following a major upgrade by architect Martin Schack. The Schack Arkitektur founder oversaw a sensitive restoration of the 300-year-old shed, while also incorporating clever new features that include a pair of huge sliding walls.
Errante Architetture injects new life into "anonymous" 1960s house in northern Italy
An unremarkable mid-century house is now bursting with character following a radical renovation and extension by Rome-based Errante Architetture. Rather than demolishing the "anonymous" 1960s property, Errante Architetture founders Sarah Becchio and Paolo Borghino opted to restructure the building and add an extra block alongside it.
Brightland rethinks children's shoes to support development of young feet
British brand Brightland has worked with design studios Onward and Blond to launch a range of eco-conscious footwear based on scientific research, to support children in their first years of walking. Rather than just creating scaled-down versions of adult shoes, Brightland consulted with healthcare professionals to ensure its shoes provide the right support and cushioning for young feet at key stages of development.
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