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US firm Charlap Hyman & Herrero has mixed glossy red tiles with Queen Anne-style furniture inside a store for perfume brand Nonfiction, in Manhattan's Lower East Side. Nonfiction founder and creative director Haeyoung Cha worked with Charlap Hyman & Herrero to create a space that reflected the neighbourhood, while also evoking the brand’s home

A cluster of stacked shipping containers has been coated in a layer of poured earth to create this restaurant in Tamil Nadu, India, designed by local studio Wallmakers. Named Petti, meaning box in Tamil, the 439-square-metre restaurant is located on a narrow site in Tuticori, an industrial port city in which discarded shipping containers are T

There's a lot of buzz around servant robots, with 2026 billed as the year automatons will begin to make housework a thing of the past. In the meantime, here are five current products that aim to turn domestic chores into domestic bliss. C-200 by Seattle Ultrasonics This ultrasonic knife vibrates more than 30,000 times per second, The post Five

This week on Dezeen, we previewed Milan design week by highlighting the must-see installations and exhibitions taking place. Looking ahead to the most significant week in the design calendar, we rounded up the 29 key events taking place across the city. These included a mindfulness space by Zaha Hadid Architects, interior designer Kelly Wearst

Contemporary Shoji screens and hanging fabrics have been used to evoke Tokyo izakayas at the Mitsu Japanese restaurant in London. The recently opened restaurant in Shoreditch, east London, was designed by Barcelona-based Astet Studio to reflect Japan's street culture and urban nightlife. In particular, the studio wanted to create the feel of a

An exhibition highlighting the 25th anniversary of the Program of Media + Modernity seminar at Princeton University has been installed at the architecture school there, with a silver fabric curtain displaying the seminar posters over the years. Curated by a scholar and long-time director of the programme, Beatriz Colomina, alongside Foivos Ger

Dezeen Showroom: US brand PoliLam has developed a collection of translucent, clear-edged surfaces that allow light to diffuse through both the planes and edges. Seamless HPL Translucent Surfaces deviate from conventional laminates by replacing usual dark edges with ones that match the surface, and giving it a low opacity that allows light to p

International architecture studio GBBN has renovated a 1960s library at the University of Pittsburgh, in Pennsylvania, USA, adding a stacked-glass extension, to act as a central hub for students. The new 230,000-square-foot (21,365-square-metre) Hillman Library opened in 2025, transforming a 1968 design by local mid-century studio Celli-Flynn