This Just In: News From the Editors, August 2016

With Design Network Africa Eleven, 11 leading design companies from the continent will make their debut at Maison & Objet in Paris. The presentations include Djiguyaso Cooperative, a Mali-based cooperative founded by Aissata Namoko employees 100 women in the textile industry in Mali. The artisans use traditional bogolan tie-dying with indigo, crochet, weaving, spinning, and sewing to produce organic cotton cushions, bedspreads, curtains, dresses, handbags, tablecloths, throws, and scarves.

Brokis will debut two new collections at Maison & Objet 2016 in Paris, including Puro, a hand-blown pendant based on cigar shapes.

Designers Mimi Jung and Brian Hurewitz of Brook&Lyn are back with a brand-new name: Early Work. The Los Angeles studio specializes in creating custom environments for retail, hospitality, and corporate clients, like this space for fashion label Everlane.

Designed by Alberto Kalach, Mexico City art gallery Kurimanzutto is one of the city's most stylish spaces. Now you can shop their beloved book shop, Kurimanzutto Libros, online. Check out more than 200 titles, with a special introductory discount (with code: kmlibros), at www.kurimanzutto.com/en....

The Swiss Ambassador's residence in Hellerup, Denmark, features a trio of April side tables by Alfredo Häberli.

Danish graphic designer Kristina Krogh has just launched a series of 2017 calendars, featuring copper and gold foil typography.

Hanukkah Lamp, Menorah #7, by Peter Shire, 1986, painted steel, anodized aluminum, and chromium This holiday season, the Jewish Museum celebrates with the exhibition "Masterpieces & Curiosities: Memphis Does Hanukkah," which runs from September 16, 2016 – February 12, 2017. Peter Shire's modern menorah is the starting point for the show, which traces the L.A. designer's legacy and the current revival of interest in the Memphis design movement. Image courtesy of The Jewish Museum, New York

Insects were the inspiration for the Collifera collection, designed by Sergey Lvov for Ukrainian brand Nisha.

A model of True North, the new live-work community Edwin Chan of EC3 has designed for Detroit. The curved structures are based on military Quonset huts, and are quick and inexpensive to build. Expected to be completed by the end of the year, True North marks the architect's first solo project after more than 20 years working in the office of Frank Gehry. © Edwin Chan/EC3

Designed by Architecture Research Office, FilzFelt's new ARO Block is a series of modular acoustic tiles add sound control in a customizable, easy-to-install system. The collection arose out of a need to resuse post-industrial remnant material at FilzFelt’s manufacturing facility. This material is generated from FilzFelt’s CNC cut products and projects and tends to be narrow strips that require smaller or modular products.

London clockmakers ByShop head stateside with a debut at New York Now.

Luceplan's Mesh fixture by Francisco Gomez Paz. “I set out to create a lamp by starting with this capacity for spatial separation of LEDs, scattering them to optimize the spread of light, but above all with the aim of giving each of these points of light its own independence. I wanted to make a lamp that lets you control the position and the quantity of light, a flexible object to adapt to space and the needs of the user. To organize the breakdown of the luminous points I used parameters similar to those identified by Fibonacci in nature, like the arrangement of the seeds in a sunflower, the eye-shaped features of a male peacocks plumage, or the complex forms of a head of cabbage. A precise sequence that inspired me for the distribution of the lights in space,” the designer says.

Romy Northover on creating ceramic, like this piece from the Mountain Bolt collection: "As ceramics has such a drawn out process there are many times when you can be open to receive information. Applying too much pressure and control and having a too rigid preconceived idea of the end result would be a mistake, which is why I don’t like to make endless repeats but more individual custom works and limited edition series. There have been many times when unexpected outcomes have proved to be the most successful pieces. Clay to me represents a sort of freedom. It's not an exclusive material. Anyone can pick it up and make something there are no boundaries, no borders, no race, no gender, no beginning, no end."

To celebrate the return of Ready Made Go at the Ace Hotel London, designer Philippe Malouin has revealed a 2016 update to the stackable wooden stool he created in partnership with Modern Design Review for Ace Hotel London as part of last year’s London Design Festival. Photo by Jason Yates

Designed by France's Studio KO, the Musée Yves Saint Laurent Marrakech will pay homage to the legendary designer in his adopted homeland when it opens in Fall 2017. With attention paid to every detail, the museum will feature lavatory fixtures by Duravit.

For Fall/Winter 2016, online marketplace Tictail has released their first-ever lookbook. Its features a curated selection chosen from the platform's 125K sellers.

Cadillac's latest concept car, the Escala, features a curved OLED array, a hand-stitched interior blend of leather and tailoring fabric, and trimming that seamlessly transitions from wood to aluminum.

To celebrate the 40th anniversary of its top-selling POÄNG armchair—designed by Noboru Nakamur in collaboration with Lars Engman—IKEA has released six new cushion covers and a new frame style. When it was first released, the chair was called POEM.

Siba Sahabi designed three geometric side tables named after the Greek mathematician Euclid of Alexandria—also known as the father of geometry. Photo by Lisa Klappe