Thirty of Norway’s most celebrated designers and makers reflected their country in Everything Is Connected at Ventura Lambrate.

Narrative-based design duo Studio Swine collaborates with Swedish fashion brand Cos to mount New Spring; an interactive installation that expressed the ephemerality of changing seasons by emitting fragrances filled balls from a tree-like tube structure.

Italian furniture brand De Castelli only showed work by female designers at this year’s Milan Design Week.

Spanish designer and artist Jaime Hayon speaks about following his intuition and enjoying doing whatever feels right.

Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin are taking Formafantasma in a more industrial direction, starting with a set of two lamps for Flos.

A striking installation and photography project for Sunbrella shows the continued significance of high-performance textiles.

Faye Toogood, Oeuffice, Pedro Paulo Venzon, Philippe Malouin and Jonah Takagi have created elegant work for American label Matter Made.

Experimental Dutch design collective Envisions teamed up with Spanish heritage wood manufacturer Finsa on a new series of wildly haptic, colourful, innovate and speculative forms; showcased at Palazzo Clerici during Milan Design Week.

Dispelling the notion that objects are inert, Danish textile artists Hanne G develops The Duet for Mindcraft 17 as both an object and sound-based interactive installation.

Translating age-old construction technology into the suggestion of a modular furniture, interdisciplinary Danish duo MBADV developed Bricks of Time for Mindcraft 17.

For Mindcraft 17, young talents Emil Krøyer and Mads Sætter-Lassen developed Plinth, a cantilevered table combining various noble materials including locally sourced Blue Rønne granite. Championing the material’s haptic qualities, the duo devised an architectonic construction with strategic contrast.

Anita Hackethal spoke to Jean-Marie Massaud, whose work marries high-tech qualities with timeless elegance, lightness and comfort, about materials.