With Celinde, a range of coffee tables with cross-shaped legs and an integrated serving tray, Lukas Klingsbichel celebrates urban coffee culture and becomes part of the World Wide Things Collection, a selection of design objects taken from the UNESCO Creative Cities Network. Here, the designer talks about his favourite pieces in the collection …

The BO Table Lamp is the result of a design collaboration between the Mexican design studio Bandido Studio and designer C. Núñez. Together they created a table lamp that interacts with its user through a tactile sensor. Their inspiration is based on iterative nature observations – how light reflects and gets absorbed through different elements, how nature transforms it through radiation or fracturing.

Share.Food Designer Bilge Nur Saltik’s intent is to incorporate culture with contemporary design. Pairing the old with the new, she works with traditional craftsmen–tapping into their age-old techniques and knowledge–and introduces them to new materials and fabrication processes. This intersection produces unexpected results and never-seen-before products…