Chinoiseries collection by Nicolas Cheng

Inspired by the balance between mass-produced and hand-crafted, Nicolas Cheng has designed a collection of detachable vessels with a cloisonné centrepiece and a darkened stainless steel outer shell.

Valentines by Baccarat

The Harcourt Glass with red button is one of three new pieces from Baccarat for Valentine's Day this year. Homebuildlife subscribers can see our product round-up of Valentines gifts for 2013 here.

Form Us With Love Market at Stockholm Design Week 2013

Swedish design studio For Us With Love has opened a pop-up shop and exhibition for Stockholm Design Week. 

Love Shack at The Conran Shop

The Conran Shop's Chelsea flagship has dedicated the whole of its event space, the Blue Room, to romance. From now until 18th March, the space will host Love Shack, a display of 800 gift ideas ranging in price from £10 to £10,000 and themed according to the six different types of love.

Marshmallow Apothecary by The Robin Collective

A new pop-up store in London will prescribe flavours of marshmallow according to visitor's needs and ailments this month, tackling everything from winter colds to romantic disappointment.

Valentines Pop Up by Anatomical Snuffbox

This weekend will see a Valentine's pop up with a twist open in Bethnal Green, east London. Specialising in anatomically correct products, the shop has been organised by Anatomical Snuffbox, an alternative events company founded by creative director Miss Cakehead and medical illustrator Emily Evans.

Retro radio by Ionna Vautrin

Mezzo radio by Ionna Vautrin for Lexon

Lexon has released a new radio by French designer Ionna Vautrin. With its simple controls, rounded shape and retro colour combinations, the Mezzo radio looks as familiar and comforting as an old transistor, and is available in four cheerful colourways.

Architecture to be loved at villa Noailles

Manuel Aires Mateus, EDP head office, Lisbon, Portugal, in progress. © Manuel Aires Mateus 

The villa Noailles center for the arts, in southern France, will soon open its new exhibition To Love, To Love, To Love: To Build. In celebration of the tenth year of its architecture exhibitions, villa Noailles has invited ten renowned architects to give a personal interpretation of their production, past, present and future. 

Pieces at Stockholm Design Week

Swedish design brand Pieces is presenting a characterful new collection at this week's Stockholm Design Week, in collaboration with Evert Lindelöf.

Designed by Gabriella Gustafson and Mattias Ståhlbom of TAF architects, the updated Trotters collection includes cabinets, birch sideboards and side tables, each with oversized feet. Presented alongside the collection is A Piece of Mind, a limited-edition print by Kyuhyung Cho.

Oki Sato at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair

Oki Sato, founder of Japanese studio Nendo, is this year's guest of honour at the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. The designer has created an installation and lounge for the fair's main entrance, which was inspired by snowcapped mountain peaks and combines lasercut plastic foam sheets with pieces of furniture created by his studio.

The Food Project at Mart Rovereto: exploring the shape of taste

Jelly St Paul's Cathedral by Bompas & Parr. Photo Greta Illieva

Creations by a large range of food designers are at the centre of The Food Project: The shape of taste, the next exhibition at Mart (Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto). Curated by Beppe Finessi, the exhibition explores the art of industrial projects and experimental design applied to food, and runs from 9 February - 2 June 2013.

The artist & the window: 500 years of art

Henri Matisse, Nice, cahier noir, 1918
Hahnloser/Jaeggli-Stiftung, Winterthur
Photo Reto Pedrini, Zurich
© Succession H. Matisse / 2013, ProLitteris, Zurich

The Swiss Fondation de l'Hermitage, in Lausanne, is currently hosting an exhibition called "Windows, from the Renaissance to the Present. Dürer, Monet, Magritte...". Artists have long been fascinated by the window, with painters using it to guide the eye towards beautiful landscapes and bring light in, or to blur the boundaries between inside and outside space. It is often seen as a subject in itself rather than a simple architectural or decorative element.