‘Enemy aliens’ interned on the Isle of Man in the first world war crafted his pieces

An installation made with Swarovski crystal has been unveiled on the Champs-Elysées

Grants for emerging female jewellery designers changed the life of an injured veteran

How dark metal and stones helped him feel more emboldened as a black actor in Hollywood

‘Politics does not define us — humanity does’

Gold-plated brass orbs and lacquered veneer top create a unique statement piece

The computer-generated images used as off-plan marketing tools are increasingly picture-perfect

Asia’s largest design event is growing as China embraces new materials and contemporary forms

Items to help you watch television in style

How the experimentalist ideals of the design school became the essence of the modern age

An overdue project is under way in Italy’s design capital

The products on show at Scandinavia’s biggest interiors fair indicate trends in one of the most influential design regions

If you haven’t made it to the slopes this year, channel your own alpine chalet with these designs

Early computers fetch high prices at auction as Silicon Valley’s collectors indulge their nostalgia — as does our writer

Artists and architects have joined forces to reprise an era-defining postwar exhibition

Works depicting the endangered animal go on sale to raise money for conservation

Trained by Bauhaus masters and the creative and entrepreneurial force behind Knoll Associates, the modernist designer remembered

Venue at edge of Barbican, with 2,000 seat main auditorium, will cost almost £300m

A century on from the school’s founding, its designs are still covetable and influential

Oscars and Cannes Film Festival boost sales for top designers

Designers are turning pineapple leaves and fungus root into chairs, sofas and lampshades