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Emmanuelle Moureaux’s latest bank in Japan is just another example of how institutional buildings don’t always need to be sterile, dull and monochrome.

The Campana Brothers of Brazil have launched a line of wildly original table lamps using the colourful rubbery resin made famous by New York-based Italian designer Gaetano Pesce.

Denmark’s BoConcept and Montreal’s Jardin de Ville recently joined the slew of furniture showrooms in Toronto’s design district.

This fall, the Italian lighting manufacturer Foscarini will raise its North American profile with the opening of a flagship showroom on Greene Street in New York’s SoHo.

Dutch furniture manufacturer Arco shows off works by London’s award-winning Okay Studio – a collective that includes art-design maverick Peter Marigold and Raw Edges’s Shay Alkalay & Yael Mer – at Galerie Vivid in Rotterdam.

Salone del Mobile 2011 was packed with big, bold displays. But one installation along via Tortona – by Japanese lighting company Lumiotec – was so small that only five or six people could see it at once.

At the hotly anticipated biennial lighting expo, Fabbian, Catellani & Smith and Foscarini are set to debut fixtures that are both delicate and quirky.

At the Milan fair and beyond, the country’s top designers – including Julien de Smedt, Gauthier Poulain and Alain Berteau – will flaunt their talents.

This group show takes you inside the design and making process of Marcel Wanders, Angus Hutcheson, Takumi Shimamura and many other international designers.

Yesterday, the Brit Insurance Design of the Year award announced that it’s top prize goes to the Plumen 001 low-energy light bulb, by Samuel Wilkinson and product design company Hulger.