D.154.2 armchair by Gio Ponti via Molteni&C

Dezeen Showroom: Furniture company Molteni&C is presenting a reissue of the D.154.2 armchair, which was one of several custom designs created by Italian architect Gio Ponti for his Villa Planchart. The D.154.2 has a distinctive, rounded shell that envelops a...

100 Women to Watch in Architecture

The future of architecture is female. That’s what last year’s A+Awards taught us, with more women than ever leading teams in conceptualizing, designing and delivering some of the world’s best architecture around the globe. Women were the creative force behind dozens...

Costume sofa system by Stefan Diez for Magis

Dezeen Showroom: Stefan Diez had to rethink sofa construction to create Italian brand Magis’s Costume system, which is easy to take apart, recycle and clean. Conventional sofas are typically difficult or impossible to separate into their component parts,...

Max Lamb crafts 60 handmade chairs in three days

As a performance, a game and a test of strength, British designer Max Lamb made 60 chairs by hand out of slabs of polystyrene over just three days. Aptly named 60 Chairs, the project was an experiment by Lamb to explore the difficulties involved in a human production...