Dutch design studio Tjep has designed the interior for new Dutch furniture brand VilaSofa, an up-market version of Ikea. It includes a till on wheels.

On Tuesday evening, we went to the Design Museum for the opening of the second Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition. Here’s a quick look at some of what we saw.

A little finger could lift this chair. Designed by recent Italian graduate Paolo Cappello, the IRI chair is so pared down it is better described as a stool with a handle.

Stefan Diez’s latest chair, for Wilkhahn, is manufactured using technology from the car industry. Watch the first prototypes being made, step by step.

Here comes the hive mind - a website with 30,000 users producing hundreds of thousands of interior designs using real furniture, voting for their favourites and blogging about design. It could be the future, says William Wiles.

Does form follow climate? Is there an atmospheric architecture? In icon 069, which is out now, we profile Philippe Rahm, the Swiss architect who takes the ethereal as his materials.

"There might be nowhere more important tonight than this building," said Deyan Sudjic at Metropolitan Works' opening party for its new £4.5 million site. High praise indeed - so what exactly is so important about the creative centre's new facility?

Stockholm turns itself into a melting pot of design events during the yearly Stockholm Furniture Fair and Design Week, the biggest event of its kind in Scandinavia. Here are some of the things we saw.

The first project to greet us as we arrived in Stockholm for the furniture fair was Swedish designer Monica Förster's installation Ominous at Nordic Light Hotel.

“High towers are like deserts for human interaction,” says Minsuk Cho of Korean architecture practice Mass Studies. With Boutique Monaco, he’s trying to combat this problem by injecting a more human quality into this high-rise in central Seoul.