Kelly Wearstler is often hailed as contemporary interior design's most recognisable name. In this interview, she tells Dezeen about crafting her textured and eclectic style. American interior designer Wearstler has been dressing rooms since her mid-twenties, rising to become one of the discipline's most significant names. "I'm obsessed with nuance," she told Dezeen. "I view design as boundless and undefined, but if I had to choose a single word to describe my approach it would be 'mixology'." Top: Kelly Wearstler designed the interiors for the Austin Proper hotel. Photo by Ingalls Photography ..read more

There's still time to get listed in Dezeen Events Guide's digital guide to the 12th anniversary of NYCxDesign, the annual festival located in New York City. Running this year from 16 to 23 May 2024 and located across the city's five boroughs, the festival hosts an eight-day programme of talks, exhibitions, installations, open studios, product launches and tours. Among the events are International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) and WantedDesign Manhattan, which take place from 19 to 21 May 2024 at the Javits Center. The interdisciplinary festival explores a range of mediums, including desi ..read more

Dim lighting and dark tones define the interiors of the second Smith & Mills restaurant in New York, recently completed by architecture studio Woods Bagot. Situated in New York's Rockefeller Center, the restaurant's interiors were designed by Woods Bagot in collaboration with New York City-based hospitality management consultancy Neighborhood Projects. To enter the space, guests walk through a snug hallway covered with vintage elevator-cab panels. Architecture studio Woods Bagot has completed the Smith & Mills restaurant in New York "It was very important to us that we created a trans ..read more

Experimental furniture and nostalgic films combine in Diurno, a Milan design week installation exploring the past and future of the living room. Curated by Gianmaria Sforza, the show features the work of Lausanne-based design studio Panter & Tourron and Italian video artist Davide Rapp. Purple curtains framed an octagonal room It saw a Milanese studio apartment transformed into a "speakeasy-style secret lounge" where a limited number of guests were invited into an octagonal room surrounded by purple curtains. Once they had swapped their shoes for slippers, guests were encouraged to get co ..read more

Shades of green, red and yellow run throughout this lookbook, which collects nine home interiors enlivened by colourful window frames. Whether painted wood, plastic or metal, opting for colourful window frames is an easy way to brighten a residential interior. The examples in this lookbook demonstrate how they can be used to create a focal point in a pared-back space, draw attention to a view or simply help establish a colour theme. This is the latest in our lookbooks series, which provides visual inspiration from Dezeen's archive. For more inspiration, see previous lookbooks featuring organi ..read more

Mexico City studio MYT+GLVDK has designed a fast-casual restaurant where exposed concrete walls are covered in wavy green metal mesh. The office led by Andrés Mier y Terán and Regina Galvanduque completed both the architectural and graphic identities for Órale Milanga, located in the city's upscale Polanco neighbourhood. The Órale Milanga restaurant is designed to have a relaxed atmosphere, which is channelled through both its interiors and branding The restaurant celebrates the "comforting and beloved" dish, the Milanese – which many countries claim to have birthed – in a new concept by Vene ..read more

In this lookbook, we collect eight kitchens that contrast rough and smooth textures, glossy and grainy surfaces, and a variety of colours for an overall eye-catching interior. The kitchens in this roundup exemplify how a combination of seemingly clashing materials can create a rich and interesting palette. Some opted for contrasting a number of cool-toned colours with warmer hues, while others made a striking impact by setting colours on opposite sides of the colour wheel side-by-side, like greens with pink or red. Here are eight kitchens with eye-catching material palettes made up of contras ..read more

Artist Patrick Carroll has used recycled yarn to create hand-knitted painting-style pieces for the Days textile exhibition at JW Anderson's Milan store during Milan design week. Carroll presented translucent artworks that look "as if they are paintings", which were made using a 1970s flatbed domestic knitting machine and displayed on wooden stretcher bars – the skeleton of a traditional art canvas – in the store. Days is a textile exhibition by Patrick Carroll "My stuff is a little bit transparent – you can see the architecture of it all," Carroll told Dezeen at the JW Anderson flagship store ..read more

Jumbo poppies synonymous with Marimekko cover the floor of Bar Unikko, a pink-hued pop-up cafe created as a Milan design week pit stop to mark the print's 60th anniversary. Named after Unikko, the recognisable poppy pattern designed by Maija Isola in 1964, the cafe is a pop-up project at Bar Stoppani in Milan. Bar Unikko is a collaboration between Marimekko and Apartamento magazine Marimekko purposefully left the interior layout of the cafe, which is a collaboration with interior design magazine Apartamento, largely untouched to create a contrast between the Finnish brand's design language an ..read more

Cultural institutions Triennale Milano and Fondation Cartier are hosting a retrospective show of Italian designer Alessandro Mendini at this year's Milan design week, showcased in this video produced by Dezeen for Triennale.   The exhibition takes place at Trienalle Milano Triennale Milano partnered with the Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain to host the exhibition, which explores Mendini's work across the fields of architecture, art, design and theory. Titled Io Sono Un Drago (I am a dragon), the show brings together over 400 different works and intends to explore Mendini's ..read more