A collection of flowery tables and chairs, a revolving chandelier and a super minimal task light are all part of Moooi’s new collection, displayed in their new Zona Tortona showroom in Milan.

"The paint was still drying," explains Petter Skogstad of his last-minute touches to his new collection of furniture a day before cramming the pieces into a van to go to Milan, where he showed his latest works at Salone Satellite two weeks ago.

The collected works of Herbert Muschamp, the last heavyweight architecture critic, is exhilarating.

The British furniture brand that made its name by working with some very big-name designers launched a collection of anonymous products at the Milan furniture fair.

During the Milan furniture fair last week, the city was covered in posters saying “The newest Maarten Baas for only 99c”. It turned out the Dutch designer's latest launch was an iPhone app.

It’s all "me me me" at the Guggenheim, as the museum asks artists and architects how they might fill the emptiness in its heart. Mimi Zeiger takes a look.

Chairless will be one of the talking points of Milan: it's a chair with none of the attributes the word implies. Designed by Chilean architect Alejandro Aravena for Vitra, this non-chair must be the most affordable launch the furniture fair has seen for a while - it costs €20.

Some more of our must-sees during the Milan Furniture Fair, which opens in Milan tomorrow.

Mint design store exhibits a retrospective of notable Czech designer Maxim Velcovsky in London this month.

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Nottingham Contemporary probes the space race in the imagination of communist Europe.

The Milan Furniture Fair starts next week. To make the navigation of the design world’s most important event a little easier, we have trawled through press releases and images to select some exhibitions that we think you should visit.

At the heart of the jam-packed May issue of icon – out now – is a cable-car in Caracas. Urban Think Tank’s dramatic new transport link climbs a mountainside to connect a neglected slum with the centre of the Venezuelan capital

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