What current products have the interests of designers across the globe? Check out our top five most-viewed products this week.

A wealth of new products shone in every category at the semi-annual design show in Paris this week. Here’s the crème de la crème of the crop.

The visionary architect gets a retrospective, this time in the Bay Area.

Sydney Teegarden, interior designer Wilson Associates, spoke to us about honoring inner creativity, exotic locations, and hurricanes.

For the first year of her three-year term, Allen will co-chair with David Rockwell, who has been Chairman of the New York-based organization for 12 years.

Cologne’s furniture fair is enjoying a renaissance. Once a “can’t miss” event, in recent years, its popularity has waned, a victim of Milan’s powerful Salone del Mobile. But it has now gotten back into the game. A host of new products were on view. Here are our picks of the best of them.

For the ninth year running, Koelnmesse, the parent company of IMM Cologne, staged a contest for young designers called D3, and provided a showcase at the fair for the winners to display their talents.

At last week’s 2012 Consumer Electronics Show, the designer debuted the XO-3 tablet, designed in conjunction with founder and chairman emeritus of Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte.

Breathing new life into their former Ideal House program, the tradeshow launched "Das Haus - Interiors on Stage" with the London-based husband-wife design duo yesterday.

The architect's 70,000-square-foot addition to the museum has already garnered much industry praise. Now what will the public say?