Underappreciated in her lifetime, the career of late Irish architect and designer Eileen Gray is the subject of a timely new exhibition at The Bard Graduate Center Gallery in New York. Jennifer Goff, curator of the Eileen Gray collection at the National Museum of Ireland, tells us more.

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Extra: Eileen Gray

British designer Ilse Crawford discusses her appetising revamp of Helsinki's Alvar Aalto-designed Savoy restaurant. Plus: we meet Pakistani architect Yasmeen Lari, and Josh Fehnert discusses malls and the future of retail.

Ilse Crawford, Yasmeen Lari and Vienna’s mall maestro

'Cars: Accelerating the Modern World' is an exhibition at London's V&A museum examining the shifting role of the automobile in everything from social style to mechanics. We speak to its curator, Brendan Cormier.

Extra: 'Cars: Accelerating the Modern World'

We talk improvised urbanism in Lahore and how the kimono influenced the world of fashion. Plus: Josh Fehnert interviews Yvonne Farrell and Shelley McNamara, winners of this year’s Pritzker prize for architecture.

Lahore, the kimono and the Pritzker prize

The National Park Service spans hundreds of sites across the US, including monuments, seashores, memorials and parks. Brian Kelley and Jesse Reed survey the design history of the agency's visual identity.

Extra: Wayfinding: a design history of the National Park Service

Designer Willo Perron talks about creating a stage-show that pops for everyone from Jay Z to Florence and the Machine. Plus a word with Design Miami’s curatorial director and a documentary maker on her latest film all about Mexican architect Luis Barragán.

Meeting Willo Perron, Aric Chen and Jill Magid

How can nature help us when it comes to building products that last? Enter seaweed, silk and cellulose. And how about a few design tips taken from the humble mushroom? Monocle’s Christy Evans unearths some answers.

Extra: Fungus among us

We’re focusing on the small but mighty nation of Austria and delving into the country’s craft and design clout. Josh Fehnert grills our design editor Nolan Giles on the alpine nation’s high design, we visit an exhibition on Austrian fashion in Vienna and we talk to fashion designer Lena Hoschek.

Designing Austria

The banks of Oslo’s Akerselva River are experiencing a wave of change. Landscape architect and planner Ola Bettum explains how to redesign a riverside.

Extra: Go with the flow – riverside revival

Oli Stratford of Disegno joins us for the design headlines. Plus, a visit to “The Porcelain Room” exhibition in Milan, and we speak with the design minds behind family-run Italian furniture business Living Divani.

Headline design

Director of Los Angeles’s Corita Art Center, Nellie Scott, tells us more about the ethos of artist, educator and designer Corita Kent, who worked in LA and Boston and was an influential figure in the pop art movement.

Extra: Who was Corita Kent?

We meet some of the brightest up-and-coming designers at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. Plus: a discussion with Sweden’s first national architect, Helena Bjarnegård, and we talk to Luca Nichetto and Robert Acouri, two of the minds behind new Paris-based brand and boutique La Manufacture.

Sweden’s design future

In the 1960s and 1970s, groups of emerging designers across the globe began experimenting with architectural forms. Matthew Butcher and Luke Pearson tell us more about some of the playful projects by the avant-garde practitioners of the time.

Extra: Does architecture always have to be a building?

We speak to Foster + Partners’ art director Narinder Sagoo about the process of sketching new buildings. Plus: we visit the Danish Architecture Centre, and meet two friends channelling nostalgia into the design of Brooklyn’s Turk’s Inn restaurant.

Drawing inspiration

Marjorie Allen was a postwar pioneer of the Adventure Playground movement in the UK. Her story features in “Play Well”, an exhibition at London’s Wellcome Collection. We meet the exhibition’s curator, Shamita Sharmacharja, to learn more.

Extra: Rules and risk

Everything you need to know about the world of design, from furniture to fashion and craft to architecture. Expect fresh stories, new finds and designers and all the latest news from the world’s most exciting studios.

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