The exhibit includes the Shoki Collection (back left), the ASA-NO-HA Lamp (back wall), and an array of Nakashima originals.

To lure visitors into an exhibition at San Francisco's Museum of Craft and Design, Wilson strung up solar-powered phosphorus-coated wires, creating a glowing path to the museum's front door.

Van Dijk's framed pictures stacked on the floor form an impromptu point of visual interest.

The exhibition graphics employ a customized headline typeface developed by Project Projects. The painted floor graphic shows the shape of Roosevelt Island (in orange) and the extent of the pneumatic tube system (in white).

A demonstration pneumatic tube system ran throughout the exhibition, so visitors could better understand the technology.

The firm's work also includes exhibition and logo design. They handled both for the exhibition 'Fast Trash,' which spotlights the pneumatic trash disposal system used on Roosevelt Island since 1975.

A few of the tables exhibited at last year's show.

Riffing on "the graciously swinging blue bellflower of the mountains of Norway," Andreas Bergsaker's Petiole lamp boasts a shade that can be rotated to direct light wherever one desires. Made of birch, it has an aluminum base.

The Daydreams mirror is a reverent departure from the designer’s interest in imperfection.

Objects from the Super Normal exhibit at twentytwentyone in 2006.

Perriand's photographs are on display next to her Berger and Méribel stools at the Cassina showroom in New York City. Photo by Federica Carlet.

A day-glo set of chairs exhibited at the 2011 IDS Toronto.

One of the more impressive outdoor exhibits was this upside-down helicopter.

Kristian Knobloch, a designer based in Munich and London, created the modular Babel shelf.

Also by Ateliers J&J, a shelf that fits into corners.

Amsterdam-based designer Ingrid Hulskamp's Mirror Unknown infuses Dutch whimsy with a typical household object. In a somewhat OCD-like manner, Mulskamp was inpsired by "the guilty pleasure of tearing paper off." Over 50 sheets of painted paper are glued to the mirror and can be torn off layer by layer, creating an abstract motif.

Taiwan studio KiMU Lab marries traditional paper fans with a powder-coated metal frame for its New Old Divider.

Barcelona-based designer Alex Ortega exhibited these crimped metal display shelves. They might not be able to handle your weightiest tomes, but we were smitten with their simplicity and vibrant colors.

Frida Erson and Martin Eckerberg, co-founders of the Stockholm firm Formellt, designed an easy chair with upholstery that envelops the frame like a cocoon.

While Carrara marble has been on-trend for years now, black stones are coming to the fore. Büro Famos, a studio located in Berlin, uses black cora marble and an interlocking ash-veneer base for its Mil coffee table.

Ivo Pannaggi's Speeding Train (Treno in corsa), 1922.Oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm Fondazione Carima–Museo Palazzo Ricci, Macerata, Italy Photo: Courtesy Fondazione Cassa di risparmio della Provincia di Macerata

Fortunato Depero's Heart Eaters (Mangiatori di cuori), 1923.Painted wood, 36.5 x 23 x 10 cm Private collection © 2014 Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / SIAE, Rome Photo: Vittorio Calore

Mino Somenzi, ed., with words-in-freedom image Airplanes (Aeroplani) by Pino MasnataFuturismo 2, no. 32 (Apr. 16, 1933) Journal (Rome, 1933), 64 x 44 cm Fonds Alberto Sartoris, Archives de la Construction Moderne–Ecole polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne EPFL), Switzerland Photo: Jean-Daniel Chavan

The steps and exterior are lined with Finnish brick; a mix of vertical and horizontal patterns add visual interest.

The mix of plywood helped save on costs, adds visual interest to the space, and serves as an example for Tim’s clients.

This graphic clock is another product made from karuun, further illustrating the diverse applications of the material.

Dwell's Kyle Blue in front of the Modern World Awards exhibit at Dwell on Design.

The exhibit packed up nicely to transport from city to city with relative ease.

Assorted objects and posters from the Everything Design exhibit at Design Museum Zurich.

The owners of this home selected a geometric-patterned glass tile backsplash by Island Stone. The glass tile keeps the space bright, and the pattern adds interest.

Out for Space, a multidisciplinaty design collective, sought to reimagine rattan as a furniture-building material and produced this lounge chair using karuun, a stronger, engineered version.

"My interest started with the buildings," said Biernat. "I'm drawn to self-contained structures so it started out as an interest in the structures. But I didn't want to be the photographer with the zoom lens shooting across the street. So I wanted to come in and talk to the girls and then to photograph them. They really wanted to be photographed."

The garage exhibits the same black steel cladding and stained cedar siding as the main structure. Flat dormer windows on the house provide natural light and add visual interest to the overall shape.

Kitchen exhibits at The IKEA Musuem in Älmhult.

Built in 1948 and named 'Toyhill' by Wright himself, this Usonian home is considered an artistic masterpiece and shows Wright's early interest in overlapping circular masonry, which would become an innovative and iconic treatment found in his later work—including the Guggenheim Museum.