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One of our favourite West Coasters, Commune, unveiled a furniture collection for Environment in New York this week. The collection includes a dining table, coffee table, chairs and a daybed, which allude to easy California living

New York Design Week 2013

Design 22 May 2013

Shanghai design studio Neri & Hu's furniture collaboration with De La Espada made its debut in New York during ICFF in a special installation housed within the new luxury apartment building 345 Meatpacking by DDG

Design studio Neri & Hu launches furniture collection with De La Espada

Design 21 May 2013

Mikkeller & Friends, Copenhagen, Denmark

Mikkeller & Friends, a contemporary beer hall located in Copenhagen's Nørrebro district, is the slightly unorthodox collaboration between a former maths and physics teacher and two of his pupils from one of the city's colleges. Tutor Mikkel Borg Bjergsø and students Tobias Emil Jensen and Tore Gynther started brewing beer in the school’s facilities after classes, going on to establish the wildly popular Danish microbreweries Mikkeller and To Øl. They aim to brew up something new with their latest venture, Mikkeller & Friends, a modern take on the Bierstube that offers 40 beers on tap. Turquoise floors, walls and bar top contrast with the custom-made wooden bar, seats, tables and lights assembled by Kristian Lillelund of carpentry studio Rum4. Designer Karsten K Lülloff's vision was of an informal, masculine setting, so he left the blond wood untreated and kept the furniture freestanding, enabling customers to congregate in their own intimate groups.

Stefansgade 35, Copenhagen, Denmark; tel: 45.33 31 0415; www.mikkeller.dk

Writer: Micha van Dinther

May travel news: editor's picks

Travel 20 May 2013

Line Vautrin at home in 1989; The solo exhibition of the artist's work at Maison Gérard in New York. Photography: Robert Levin

'Line Vautrin: 100 Years of Magnitude' at Maison Gerard, New York

Art 20 May 2013

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Celebrating Richard Meier & Partners' 50th anniversary, Fondazione Bisazza presents the exhibition entitled 'Richard Meier: Architecture and Design'. On top of a retrospective exhibition that includes material from the firm's existing portfolio, the foundation is also unveiling a new site-specific installation, pictured here

Richard Meier exhibition and installation at Fondazione Bisazza

The new Maggie's Cancer Caring Center in Newcastle by British architect Ted Cullinan sits between two post-war buildings within the grounds of the Freeman Hospital

Architect Ted Cullinan designs new Maggie's Centre in Newcastle

Bodrum House is the first completed property of an ambitious, 155,000sq ft housing complex on the Bodrum peninsula, designed by Richard Meier & Partners. The gleaming white building stands out within the dramatic natural landscape; next to it an outbuilding hosts the garage and a guesthouse

Bodrum House by Richard Meier & Partners

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Southern Guild is presenting the 'Lala' cabinet by Johannesburg-based studio Doktor & Misses. Its pattern is inspired by painted decorations often seen on tribal houses

Collective Design Fair launches in New York

'Tip Ton' chair by Edward Barber and Jay Osgerby for Vitra

The Design Guild Marks for 2013

The best new brands launched at the Salone del Mobile

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Louis Vuitton has launched a new collection of 'Travel Books', with each city presented as a travel journal told through the eyes of a visiting artist. © Louis Vuitton. Photography: Laurent Teisseire

Louis Vuitton illustrates the art of travel in a new book series

The new Christian Louboutin boutique in Harrods, designed by Lee Broom, is inspired by the city of London

Lee Broom designs the new Christian Louboutin boutique in Harrods, London

While Italy's furniture companies don't typically dabble in fashion, the reverse - fashion designers dipping their toes into design - occurs with ever increasing frequency. There's no better stage for this activity than the Salone del Mobile, a six-day champagne-drenched, design extravaganza. On the one hand, there are brands like Giorgio Armani, Fendi, Versace, Kenzo, Missoni and Hermès, who show off a huge range of wares to press and buyers from their fully dedicated home lines. But the fair has also enticed fashion brands with no formal Casa departments to get in on the furniture action with spruced up store windows, one-off furniture designer collaborations and special events. The cross-pollination also filters down to the designers themselves: industrial design whiz Tom Dixon donned his fashion trousers this season with the full-scale collection he designed for Adidas, while Turkish fashion designer Dice Kayek put down his scissors and picked up a scalpel to create a marble sculpture. Here's a round up of the best fashion-meets-design activity of the week.

Pictured: Armani Casa's latest collection

Writer: J.J. Martin

Fashion brands take on the Salone del Mobile

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Hauser & Wirth are devoting their entire Spring programme to Paul McCarthy, via three interrelated exhibitions and a new outdoor sculpture, 'Balloon Dog' (pictured) at Frieze New York's Sculpture Park. Courtesy John Berens/Frieze. Photography: John Berens

Hauser & Wirth dominates the New York art scene this season

Gert and Uwe Tobias in their Köln studio, standing in front of a woodcut work and the poster/invitation created for a Whitechapel Gallery-curated show first mounted at Florida's Windsor Gallery and now at the Whitechapel Gallery in London

Twin Engine: Gert and Uwe Tobias at Whitechapel Gallery, London

'Tokyo Story', 1989. Courtesy of Michael Hoppen Gallery/Taka Ishii Gallery. © Nobuyoshi Araki

Nobuyoshi Araki exhibition at Michael Hoppen Gallery, London

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To mark its 20th anniversary, Design Hotels has launched a giant version of its annual tome, which comes complete with its own pedestal in the form of Alvar Aalto's celebrated Stool 60 and table

Design Hotels launches a collector's edition of its annual book

Barmini, Washington DC, USA

The man behind the award-winning Minibar restaurant, molecular Spanish chef José Andrés is adding to his Washington DC empire with Barmini. Offering concoctions like the 'Salt Air Margarita' invented over 15 years ago, Andrés brings us his first ever chef-driven cocktail concept, reinventing classics and bringing forgotten techniques to capital city diners. Spanish architect and designer Juli Capella, along with Georgetown-based architecture and design firm CORE and Forrester Construction Company, have created an inviting space that marries hard and soft surfaces. Guests sit at white pod counters, looking onto shelves behind the bar filled with antique glassware (some dating back to the 1930's), vintage barware and classic cocktail books. Cerruti Baleri's cactus sofa and fruit pouffes add a pop of colour to the stark black and white interiors.

Barmini, 855 E Street, NW, Washington D.C; www.minibarbyjoseandres.com

Writer: Carole Dixon

February travel news: editor's picks

#Bunk, Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul's only design-led hostel chain #Bunk recently opened its first property in the bohemian district of Beyoğlu. Comprising 32 beds arranged over 11 rooms, which include dormitories and a handful of small double rooms (some of which are ensuite), the hostel features stunning ceiling motifs based on mosque interiors, and marble bathrooms. Hang out in the café, or soak with new friends in the rooftop hot tub called the #bunkbath. Another, much larger #Bunk hostel with 170 beds, a pizzeria, bar and sundeck is due to open in June in Istanbul. The reasonable rates also include wifi and breakfast.

Balik Sokak No.7, Kramer Hatun Mh, Istanbul, Turkey, 34435; Tel: 90.212 244 8808; www.bunkhostels.com

Writer: Sevil Delin

The latest crop of designer hostels

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Studio Job's Art Defender, pictured at the Gerrit Rietveld-designed Weaving Mill De Ploeg in Bergeijk, The Netherlands. The car is shown in the late stages of its construction. Photography: Sylvie Zijlmans

The Art Defender by Studio Job

Milan's new 'motor show' at the Salone del Mobile

The new 2014 Range Rover Sport made its debut at the New York Auto Show this week

The new Range Rover Sport

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End...Link Beauty Salon, Osaka, Japan

Salons are popping up across Japan faster than you can say Konnichiwa. And the design community is as key to their inception as the grooming world. Osaka's newest beauty atelier, End...Link, showcases a minimalist architectural aesthetic with intriguing functional features. Owner Tomohiko Masuda wanted to create a space that could be modified to suit his staff's needs and enlisted the expertise of Japanese designers Yasunari Tsukada to do so. The designers chose to work with light wood and white for the interior to keep the narrow space feeling airy and uncluttered. The three-dimensional wooden lattice walls are a functional accomplishment, with glass panel inserts that can be rearrange to alter the layout of the shelves.

2F, 1-13-24 Kyomachibori Nishi-ku, Osaka, Japan: www.endlink.jp

Writer: Romy van den Broeke

May beauty news: editor's picks

In 'Things Come Apart', Canadian photographer Todd McLellan disassembles machines, arranges the parts meticulously in groups and photographs the inventory, turning them into works of art

'Things Come Apart' by Todd McLellan

Drawing: Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
By Cornel Windlin

Wallpaper* has been big on the Bouroullecs since the designer duo’s earliest days in the industry. Their latest publication, Drawing, is an insight into the design process, a collection of hundreds of drawings, from conceptual scribbles through to more realised final sketches. Taken from notebooks and sketchpads over the past seven years, it has been lovingly compiled into nearly 900 pages by the designer Cornel Windlin and is available in English for the first time.

Published by JRP Ringier, €25

Writer: Jonathan Bell

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The BlackBerry Z10 features screen quality, sound and speed to match its rivals

BlackBerry Z10: a sharp update for the ultimate business tool

Miniature people, 3D-printed at creative lab PARTY's photo booth in Tokyo

Print your own mini-me at the Omote 3D photo booth

The 'Freehand', by ECAL student Cleo Jacquet, attaches itself to household objects with its twin suction cups, transforming anything into a remote control

EPFL + ECAL Lab pushes our buttons with its 'Lazy Bytes' project

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Designed for a couple of London-based fly-fishing enthusiasts seeking a weekend retreat in the English countryside, Mayfly Cottage is a new residential project by London-based architects Stiff + Trevillion

Mayfly Cottage by Stiff + Trevillion, UK

Architecture 20 May 2013

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