Outline chair by Formiing

Dezeen Showroom: Hong Kong-based design brand Formiing aimed to combine timeless design with everyday comfort in the stainless steel-framed Outline chair.

Designed by Formiing's co-founder and creative director Jinglan Fan, the Outline chair is made to facilitate long periods of sitting while capturing attention with its original design.

The chair features a distinctive tubular stainless steel frame, which flows and curves into a minimalist structure that brings a sense of lightness with its presence.

This is accompanied by a generous upholstered seat and backrest, allowing the chair to support hours of sitting around a dining table.

Versa58: A Modular System for Adding On to Your Swiss Army Knife

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What if you could modify your Swiss Army knife with modules of your choice? That's what Las-Vegas-based EDC company Keyport is enabling with their Versa58 system. It's named for the keychain-sized Swiss Army Knives that are 58mm in length.

Once you pop the knife's press-fit handle sides—called scales—off, you attach an interface plate, and then the Versa58 modules can be magnetically attached to that.

Thus far they offer an LED flashlight, a slide-out ballpoint pen and a USB-C flash drive. They also offer their own aluminum scales, with or without a pocket clip.

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Felt completes "house for life" for retired couple in Belgium

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The 130-square-metre home in Ghent's suburbs was designed for a couple with the goal of "ageing-in-place", which informed its accessible, level-access and single-storey design.

Housed within a barn-like volume, Heifort has tall, open living spaces divided by exposed cross-laminated timber (CLT) walls.

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Dezeen launches new weekly podcast. Listen now!

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Dezeen has launched a brand new podcast that will see our journalists discuss the key design and architecture stories of the week, with the first episode now available for listening.

Called Dezeen Weekly, the podcast offers a handy briefing on significant developments across the world of design, architecture, interiors and technology.

In the first episode, Dezeen features editor Nat Barker and design and environment editor Jennifer Hahn consider what a project for the largest airport in Africa (if not the world) says about aviation design in 2026.

Then, they weigh up whether a new autistic Barbie is cynical or sincere, and relay architects' concerns over...

Full-scale paper replica of Renée Gailhoustet apartment installed at London's Architectural Association

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Titled Renée Gailhoustet: A Thousand and One Ways of Living, the retrospective exhibition explores the work of the late architect, who was awarded the Royal Academy Architecture Prize in 2022 for her lifelong commitment to improving French social housing.

The exhibition was curated by Architectural Association (AA) tutor Nichola Barrington-Leach, who wanted to spotlight the 1970s Le Liégat social housing project – Gailhoustet's former home and best-known project.

"We need a version with a chewed up end" says commenter

In this week's comments update, readers are discussing an outsized, light-up version of the iconic Bic Cristal ball-point pen, unveiled by designer Mario Paroli and Italian brand Seletti at Maison&Objet.

Designed to mark the end of the brand's celebrations for Bic Cristal's 75th anniversary, the Bic Lamp is 12 times the size of the standard pen and comes in pendant, wall and floor variations in a choice of red, blue or black.

"I'd buy one"

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Berlin apartment designed to be "Berghain in a homely context"

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Set within a building in the city's Kreuzberg neighbourhood, the home was designed as the "Berlin base" for an American couple.

When conceiving the interior, Thomas Karsten and Alexandra Erhard of local practice Studio Karhard drew on their 2003 experience of designing the interiors of Berghain – the German capital's renowned techno club set within a former power plant.

"The apartment reflects the clear design language and...

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Steel-panelled fireplace forms heart of Emiel Vercruysse's renovated 1950s townhouse

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The aim of architect Emiel Vercruysse and partner Marie Ingelbeen, who works in the textile industry, was to create a home that would offer them a sense of calm and cosiness.

Eschewing white walls, the Townhouse VI interior combines exposed timber, natural stone and textural fabrics with a palette of dark and muted colour shades.

"Our goal was to create a true sanctuary," Vercruysse told Dezeen. "We wanted a...