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Dezeen Showroom: Italian brand Poltrona Frau has presented a selection of furniture on Dezeen Showroom, including a leather sofa with smile-shaped armrests and a bookcase with panels that users can slide to create geometric patterns. Read more

Dezeen Courses: interested in obtaining a design degree in London? We’ve rounded up five courses available at the University of East London. Read more

Nigerien architect Mariam Kamara‘s studio Atelier Masōmī has revealed visuals of the Bët-bi museum in Kaolack, Senegal, which will draw on the area’s ancient megaliths. Read more

Ecuadorian studio Leppanen Anker Arquitectura took cues from traditional haciendas to create a sculptural house in the Andes Mountains that is made of stone, wood and clay. Read more

The latest edition of our weekly Dezeen Agenda newsletter features a plant-covered building in Silicon Valley by Kengo Kuma. Subscribe to Dezeen Agenda now! Read more

American studio CLB Architects has created a circular wood-and-steel « chapel » in New York City’s Times Square to mark the return of the city’s annual NYCxDesign festival. Read more

Promotion: now in its ninth year, Dubai Design Week‘s Downtown Design trade show has been instrumental in helping the emirate to establish its own contemporary design language, according to local creatives. Read more

Rumpl and Poketo had a baby. I like it.

“I’m a writer, and everything I write is both a confession and a struggle to understand things about myself and this world in which I live. This is what everyone’s work should be…whether you dance or paint or sing. It is a confession, a baring of your soul, your faults, those things you simply cannot …

Hey there, beauty.