I visited the incredible Galerie Van Der Straeten in Paris several years ago, and was immediately obsessed. French furniture designer Hervé Van der Straeten makes all of his unique pieces with his own hand, creating bold forms by using innovative materials with an exquisite execution. Read about his latest collection - Manipulations here.

Inspired by the work of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrva, Sarajevo designer Tea Petrovic has created a collection of awe inspiring shoes to add to the increasing collection of sculptural architectural shoes we've been hoarding here at Design Folio.

Japanese designer Tojukin Yoshioka will exhibit a glass window made of 500 crystal prisms at the forthcoming Museum exhibtion.  The eight meter high installation will create rainbows within the space as the light is refracted. It sounds beautiful.

There'll be no messing with me in the boardroom when I arrive for power meetings with my Guardian Angel bag. Business will get done my way. Finally.

Anyone hungry? These fleshy volumnous sculptures by artist Erwin Wurm would make the ideal corporate or delivery vehicle for McDonalds.

New from New Zealand designer Paul Wilding from Volex Style is the Martini table. Constructed in steel in the classic shape of a Bond era martini glass, the table goes into production in the coming months.

Artist Stuart Haygarth turns trash into treasure. In his new show at Haunch of Venison, pieces of debris scavenged from regular trips to flea markets, beaches and car boot sales, his found objects are meticulously sorted and graded by color and material and his resulting work invests seemingly banal, overlooked objects with a startling new significance, recalling the hidden stories and emotions they once held.

Thanks to The Selby, here's a sneak peek inside the New York studio of fashion designer of the moment Alexander Wang. The interior design is by new young thing Ryan Korban, and while there is nothing super new about this look, it still manages to tick all the right boxes by using a well edited selection of furniture pieces that give the space a unique character.

 D&ALab (Design and Art Laboratory) invites artists to conceive works using new techniques that balance art and design. Brussels based artist Dimitri Vangrunderbeek is the latest in a slew of artists to collaborate with D&ALab - producing a cabinet scattered with fold out people, exhibited at Object Rotterdam earlier this month.

Designer Ron Arad has extended his creative hand into the rug realm. The Shag is a Nepalese rug made from Tibetan wool.

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