Architect Tony Fretton on his love of cycling and his Dutch bike

Paris gets sparkling new fountains, designed by the Bouroullec brothers

UniFor celebrates 50 years of Italian design and creative collaborations

Why the artist behind the UK’s biggest bronze sculpture chose a woman as the subject

London Design Biennale reveals theme and artistic director for 2020 event

Grace Wales Bonner discusses her Serpentine exhibition, crossing cultures and her ultimate ambition

What is the Independent Group?

Karl Lagerfeld dies at 85, leaving design legacy in fashion, photography and furniture

Tate Modern to host major retrospective of iconic, punky artist Franz West

Seven designers for the future from Stockholm Design Week 2019

London Mayor Sadiq Khan launches plan to provide affordable artists’ studios

Five big ideas that changed design

From Modernism to Ikea mugs, how universality shaped design

Reinventing the chair: Martino Gamper interview

Designer explores our fractured world, using everything from barbed wire to burkhas

Hussein Chalayan searches for ‘blind spots’ between design, fashion and sculpture

Discover the work of the Design Museum’s new class of designers in residence

Olafur Eliasson’s Ice Watch comes to London

Cities switch on to a new era of smart lighting

Designer Ximi Li talks Shanghai’s multicultural past, changing present and prosperous future

Eating in virtual reality: Fantasy restaurants and nightmarish meals