This week on Dezeen, , a pet collection based on the “four most common activities that cats and dogs do in the home.”
The collection, which IKEA said focused on “eating, sleeping, playing and hiding”, contains 29 pieces and was released in collaboration with rehoming centre Woodgreen Pets Charity.
It is being showcased in two catalogues – the “Cat-alogue” and “Dog-alogue” – and includes cat and dog beds, scratching posts, blankets, pet bowls and toys.
Annual design week , with showrooms and venues across the city displaying furniture, product design and craft pieces.
Among them was the (above), which showed lamps by 54 different designers, and an .
In other design news, France’s post office in their ink and smell like baguettes when scratched.
The stamps, which were designed by illustrator Stéphane Humbert-Basset, celebrate the baguette as the “bread of our daily life, symbol of our gastronomy, jewel of our culture,” La Poste said.
We continued our series by looking at .
“I don’t think there is a dominating scope of design, it’s siloed and really spread out depending on where you focus,” American Institute of Graphic Arts president Ron Bronson told Dezeen.
“There is a strong maker and craft culture that is unique to PDX in scale relative to other places, there are so many niches and subcultures and ways it manifests, especially for the size of city,” he continued.
Architecture studio OMA unveiled two new projects this week. In Detroit, USA, it , which is punctuated by 1,000 windows.
The studio also designed the . OMA, which is also behind the Potato Head resort itself, added a sprung dancefloor and optimised the acoustics for the nightclub interior.
British levelling up minister Michael Gove announced that and Bastion House.
This means the buildings, designed in the 1970s by architecture studio Powell & Moya, will be demolished to give way for the London Wall West project by architecture studios Diller Scofidio + Renfro and Sheppard Robson.
Popular projects this week include an , an and .
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