Dezeen Showroom: Danish brand Frandsen has launched Peel, a range of lights by designer Sissel Warringa crafted from single sheets of steel. Warringa has designed three different Peel lights for Frandsen –a pendant light, a table lamp and a wall-mounted fixture. Frandsen has launched the Peel lighting range Each light has a shade formed from a continuous sheet of curved steel, doubling as a base and mounting plate for the table and wall-mounted iterations respectively. The sheets of metal direct light outwards from an opal glass inner shade, designed by Warringa to fit a typical GU9 LED, ensu ..read more

Ahead of this summer's Olympic Games in Paris, design offices Concepto and Studio 5.5 have installed 350 street lights made from salvaged scaffolding poles and lampposts in the athletes' village. The lighting project is part of a scheme overseen by the Olympic Games delivery authority Solideo with the aim to reduce carbon emissions by 47 per cent compared to a conventional project. Concepto and Studio 5.5 have designed street lights for the Olympic Village in Paris Landscape architecture firm Agence TER, which was responsible for master planning the public areas, collaborated with Studio 5.5 ..read more

Dezeen Showroom: first created for the TV show Denmark's Next Classic, designer Thomas Albertsen's Grasp portable lamp for Danish brand Frandsen has an innovative rechargeable bulb. Frandsen picked up the Grasp portable lamp after Albertsen debuted it on the reality TV competition Denmark's Next Classic, in which it was one of the best lighting designs. The Grasp portable lamp is designed for indoors and out The brand says it recognised the 'exceptional potential' of the design, which has a refined metal form made up of two cones – one for the base and one for the lampshade – connected by a s ..read more

Nendo founder Oki Sato broke two frying pans when creating the heated-up material for his colourful Hana-arashi furniture collection for Paola Lenti, which was shown as part of Milan design week. The designer, whose studio Nendo is known for its innovative but often pared-back and monochrome designs, created an unusually colourful collection for his collaboration with Italian design brand Paola Lenti. Called Hana-arashi, it was made from leftover material and offcuts from Paola Lenti's outdoor furniture as part of the brand's Mottanai series of projects that aim to reuse waste. The Hana-arash ..read more

Zaha Hadid Design, Heatherwick Studio and Foster + Partners were among the studios taking part in this year's Milan design week, with starchitecture product designs including a plastic-waste chair and mesh furniture. This year's edition of Milan design week felt like a return to form, with big brands sharing space with emerging designers and more experimental studios. Among the well-known names taking part in last week's event were a number of architectural heavy-hitters who launched new furniture pieces in Milan. While some chose to introduce their pieces at Salone del Mobile, the world ..read more

Dezeen Showroom: a collection of console tables and benches informed by kimonos are included among products on Dezeen Showroom that were presented during Milan design week. Leading designers and brands unveiled products and collections during this year's event, including a series of undulating lighting, an office chair with a deliberately bent metal structure and a credenza with dramatic proportions and refined materials. Milan design week took place from 15 to 19 April, attended by 300,000 visitors, and is a significant event in the global design calendar, featuring installations and events ..read more

Vancouver-based lighting company A-N-D has showcased two collections at Alcova during Milan design week, adapting its chandeliers to be placed on the floor to respect the historic setting. The lights flanked the walls of a room on the ground floor of Villa Bagatti Valsecchi, a 17th-century villa outside of Milan that is one of two locations for year's iteration of the Alcova design showcase. A-N-D has installed a series of pieces at a historic house outside of Milan The lights were presented alongside a colourful platformed rug by Italian brand CC Tapis and a blue fibreglass couch by Turkish ..read more

Dezeen Showroom: Italian architect Paola Navone collaborated with Venetian brand Lodes to create Oblò, a pendant light with a chromatic palette designed to recall "the sensations of the sea". Navone of Milanese practice OTTO Studio created the pendant light, which is characterised by a bulbous diffuser made from pyrex and silicone. Oblò was designed by Paola Navone for Lodes Each diffuser is finished in iridescent, transparent, azure steel, glossy smoke or silk white finishes. The light also comes in three globular shapes. The diffuser is suspended by a slender woven fabric cable with a ..read more

Copenhagen design duo Daydreaming Objects has developed a series of lights that combine reclaimed vintage lamp bases with "renewable and transformative" shades made from natural wax. Lighting designer Ruta Palionyte and architect Ieva Baranauskaite, who work together as Daydreaming Objects, created the Soft Solids collection to highlight wax's inherent renewability and light-diffusing properties. Soft Solids lighting features organic wax lampshades The self-initiated project aimed to identify a material that would complement various salvaged luminaires the designers had collected, which ..read more

Dezeen Showroom: the Australian coastline informed the curved, textural metal forms of the Bell lighting collection, created by design studio Aftr for lighting brand Rakumba. Lights in the Bell collection were designed by Aftr to have a timeless appearance, which Rakumba said is ideally suited to both indoor or outdoor environments. Aftr designed the Bell lighting collection "The Bell collection by Aftr is inspired by the texture and ocean-smoothed topology of Australia's iconic coastline," said Rakumba. "An artfully reduced geometry with an emphasis on scale and proportion, Bell contributes ..read more