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View online | | | Neri Oxman's Mediated Matter Group at MIT has designed an installation using the skin pigment melanin — and says it will inevitably be used in architecture. Read more › | Swedish design studio Form Us With Love has created a range of affordable, minimal chairs based on a single wooden shell for French furniture brand Alki. Read more › | Dezeen promotion: Samsung has launched a minimalist monitor that has no untidy wires and can fit flat against the wall to increase desk space. Read more › | A gallery, interpretation space, restaurant and shop designed by Feilden Fowles has opened at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park in northern England. Read more › | Read more › | Dutch designer Richard Hutten has enlisted nine leading designers, architects and artists from the Netherlands, including himself, to create an eclectic collection of rugs. Read more › | Young Georgian designer Lado Lomitashvili has completed a bookstore-cum-cafe in Tbilisi, which he hopes will "raise the quality of taste" in the city. Read more › | Architecture firm BIG has unveiled a proposal to overhaul a portion of New York City's Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, known as the BQE, with a public park that covers a subterranean roadway. Read more › | Husband and wife design duo Jon and Maša Kleinhample drew on dinner parties held in their Belgium home to create the homey aesthetic of this restaurant in Los Angeles. Read more › | Icelandic design studio Flétta turns disused trophies into totemic tables and lighting, in an attempt to restore junked items to their former glory. Read more › | Read more › | Read more › | At 320 metres high, the Bestseller Tower, designed by Danish firm Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter for the small town of Brande in Denmark, will be the tallest in western Europe. Read more › | | You have received this because you are subscribed to Dezeen Daily. Unsubscribe | Forward to a friend Dezeen Limited, 8 Orsman Road, London N1 5QJ, UK Contact us | Submit a story | Advertise | |