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Dezeen Showroom: created for Italian brand Billiani and sold in the US via StyleNations, designer Cristina Celestino’s Raquette seating collection makes a feature of intertwined wood. Read more

The vernacular building techniques of north and south India combine in Hybrid House, a house with rammed-earth walls designed by Sketch Design Studio. Read more

Blocky volumes clad in roughly textured materials surround a series of courtyards at this home, which Northumberland studio Elliott Architects has created in a village in Yorkshire. Read more

Multidisciplinary Chinese artist Ai Weiwei tells Dezeen why he thinks all objects have political significance in this exclusive interview. Read more

The Dezeen Pinterest board for staircases is consistently one of our most popular boards. We round up eight of the most popular staircases with Dezeen’s followers on Pinterest. Read more

Dezeen Showroom: a faceted modular seating system informed by Rubik’s Cubes is among eight new products featured on Dezeen Showroom. Read more

Scientists from Texas A&M University and Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico have observed metal cracking and fusing back together, in a discovery that could pave the way for self-healing machines, vehicles and bridges. Read more

US studios Starling Architecture and Emily Lindberg Design have collaborated on a minimalist home clad in blackened wood in the Hamptons village of Amagansett that starkly contrasts the surrounding dunes. Read more

Architecture studio Ksa Studený designed this trapezoidal concrete and glass house to frame views of a forest near the village of Pernek in Slovakia. Read more

A kitchen with a statement oxblood-colour island and another with curved child-friendly counters feature in our latest lookbook, which spotlights eight worktops that are covered in tiles. Read more