Furniture and lighting from Minforms' catalogue are on Dezeen Showroom

Dezeen Showroom: Italian design brand Miniforms has published several of its new furnishings and lighting designs on our furniture directory in 2025. Read on to find out more about them.

The result of one of multiple collaborations between Miniforms and Italian design studio E-ggs, the Nami table features a crimped base made from steam-bent wood.

All tables in the range are made from flamed oak, canaletto walnut or black ash, and can be left in their natural state or finished in 13 different block colours.

Users can select between circular, rectangular and barrel-shaped tabletops, in a...

A Magnetically Self-Coiling Charging Cable

Back in the days of corded landlines, everyone had a phone in the kitchen. It was desirable for the cord to be long, so users could still move around the kitchen as they chatted. Telephone manufacturers provided a built-in way to keep cords long, yet manageable:

Image: Al Butler

Those are called retractile cords, and they were made on purpose-built coiling production lines. First copper is drawn and annealed into wires. These wires are individually insulated (so they don't mix signals), then wrapped together in a plastic sleeve, either PVC or polyurethane. Next the cords, which are still...

"Lofty white" Cloud Dancer named Pantone Colour of the Year 2026

Colour specialist Pantone has announced Cloud Dancer as its 2026 colour of the year – an understated, greyish white hue chosen to signify a yearning for "a future free from toxicity and excess".

Pantone 11-4201 Cloud Dancer was described by the Pantone Colour Institute as similar to a blank canvas.

"Cloud Dancer is a lofty white that reads like a breath of fresh air," said Pantone Colour Institute vice president Laurie Pressman.

"It speaks of our desire to live in a world that's balanced, kind, and deeply human," she told Dezeen.

42UP School Extension / AR Studio d'Architectures

© Florent MICHEL_©11h45 architects: AR Studio d'ArchitecturesLocation: Paris, FranceProject Year: 2025Photographs: Florent MICHEL_©11h45Area: 9025.0 m2

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EFFEKT wraps student housing in Denmark with red accordion-like facade

A zigzagging facade of sit-in bay windows defines Harmonikahusene, a pair of curved housing blocks for students and young professionals in Frederiksberg, Denmark, by architecture studio EFFEKT.

Named Harmonikahusene, or The Accordion Houses, after their concertinaed exteriors, the blocks were created for developer Nrep to provide 519 student flats and 158 apartments alongside communal facilities for residents and locals.

Copenhagen-based EFFEKT took cues from the red-brick buildings common in Frederiksberg for the reddish-brown shade of the buildings, achieved with a mixture of coloured aluminium and glossy fluted ceramic tiles.

"Although...

The best architecture of 2025

Continuing our Review of 2025, Dezeen's editorial team members have each picked their favourite buildings of the year, including new cultural institutions, homes, hotels, skyscrapers and even an architecture school.

The Grand Ring, Japan, by Sou Fujimoto
chosen by Cajsa Carlson, deputy editor

"Standing in front of The Grand Ring, architect Sou Fujimoto's immense wooden structure, was a breathtaking experience that introduced visitors to Expo 2025 Osaka.

"The world's largest wooden structure, The Grand Ring encircled the exhibition space and let visitors walk along it to see the pavilions on show from above.

"While its size was impressive – the ring had...

Ichio Matsuzawa creates "one-of-a-kind" Tokyo bar out of undulating acrylic glass

Architect Ichio Matsuzawa has designed the pop-up AWT Bar for the annual Art Week Tokyo, using transparent acrylic sheets that were heated and turned into three-dimensional walls.

The bar, located in Tokyo's central Aoyama area, featured see-through walls that resembled sheets of water cascading down from the ceiling.

Matsuzawa chose to work with the transparent shapes because he wanted the space to have a unique feel, he told Dezeen.

"The concept is to create a one-of-a-kind space in each moment through constantly changing reflections and distortions produced by transparent, warped partitions," the architect said.

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Design chief Gerry McGovern departs Jaguar

Jaguar Land Rover chief creative officer Gerry McGovern has reportedly departed the company a year after the unveiling of the radical Type 00 concept car that captured global attention.

British automotive designer McGovern was reportedly asked to leave the company on Monday after 21 years at the brand, reported Autocar and Autocar India.

He departs within months of Jaguar Land Rover appointing PB Balaji as chief executive.

One of the world's leading car designers, McGovern recently oversaw the controversial rebranding of Jaguar, which aimed to mark a "complete reset" for the brand.

Details of McGovern's departure are unknown and...

Forest Edge House / Marc Thorpe Design

© Clay Banks architects: Marc Thorpe DesignLocation: Roscoe, United StatesProject Year: 2025Photographs: Clay BanksArea: 1500.0 ft2

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