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...

“It’s time to abolish the architecture critic”

Newspapers’ largely white, male architecture critics are a reflection of the structural inequalities of the built environment and are not equipped to deal with our current time of crisis, says Mimi Zeiger. On 8 January, just days after insurrectionists stormed...

Arch side table by Elan Atelier

Dezeen Showroom: the top of the Arch side table by international furniture brand Elan Atelier looks like stone but is actually parchment-wrapped bronze. All of the brand’s bronze items, including the Arch table, are cast using the lost wax technique and finished...

Bruda bench by Elan Atelier

Dezeen Showroom: the Bruda bench by international furniture brand Elan Atelier is cast in bronze from a single mould and polished to a gleaming gold colour. Described as a “contemporary sculptural form in bronze”, the Bruda is a signature piece from the...

Khetan bench and console by Elan Atelier

Dezeen Showroom: international furniture brand Elan Atelier has designed the Khetan bench and console table to look like “functional sculptures”. The Khetan range is cast in bronze from a single mould, giving the pieces a fluid, continuous silhouette. Like...