One Dezeen reader has serious envy for one of the 24 projects shortlisted in a competition to find London's best house extensions. …

Wei Zhou

The Cages, 2016, necklace; silver, wood, parchment, thread

MARZEE GRADUATE PRIZE

The Marzee International Graduate Show is an annual event and the highlight of our exhibition calendar. In organizing this unique event, we hope…

Viennese design duo Mischer'Traxler explain why they filled a room at London's V&A Museum with hundreds of fluttering insects in our latest movie for Champagne brand Perrier-Jouët.

Five Artists Reflect on their Waning Powers. Paul Spooner, 1983

A Curious Turn, an exhibition by Crafts Council at Habitat, explores the resurgence in automata making over the last 30 years and features works by the leading makers of these amazing moving mechanical…

The London Design Festival is an annual event, held to celebrate and promote London as the design capital of the world and as the gateway to the international creative community. The next Festival will be held 17-25 September 2016.

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KICKBACK, SCOOTCHIE AND THE SUNDANCE KID

Stylist: Emma Slade Edmondson

Photographer: Rachel Manns

MUA & hair: Nat Van Zee

Set Designers: Spenser Walton…

Way to go Britain: A new passport is launched in Britain every five years with updated security and anti-forgery features. The UK Passport Office just unveiled its latest version, …

Mad Kid's Bedroom Wall Pot, Grayson Perry, 1996. Image © Nick Moss

Grayson Perry was never motivated by a desire to work in clay as such, but chose pottery because studio ceramics was in ‘thrall to a formal idea’. Having gained pottery skills at evening classes,…

25 April – 27 September 2015

A V&A and Crafts Council Exhibition

What is Luxury? interrogates how luxury is made and understood. Luxury has a long history of controversy. More recently, the increase in prominence and growth of…

I expected to love my visit to these two exhibitions, to see gorgeous things and return inspired. Instead I have been left with a sense of ambivalence and uncertainty. The …

A sequence of light, sound and movement on show at Barbican. This exhibition is on till June 2014.…

The London Design Festival 2013 came to an end on Sunday 22nd September. This a small selection of what I saw running between shows and attending my own. I was hugely impressed by this striking installation made for Established and…

Endless Stair, a striking sculpture composed of 15 Escher-like interlocking staircases made from American tulipwood cross-laminated timber, is the Landmark Project for London Design Festival 2013. Hosted by Tate Modern.

Vertical light…

This was the final city to be visited for this stage of the You Are (the) Here project. Although I had been to London on two previous occasions, I reasoned that a significant enough period of time had elapsed for me to be able to see the city afresh. However, there was still a familiarity due to similarities of language and culture that rendered much of London less remarkable than the previous three cities by comparison. This is not to say that I did not…

Over the last few years there has been a significant revival of interest in enamel with a number of contemporary jewellers developing new ways of working with enamel that enable them to create exciting and innovative work.



This exhibition showcases the work of thirty jewellers of international standing who, through a varied set of practices, take enamel well beyond…