HBL Retail: The Lollipop Shoppe pops up at Selfridges

Interiors retailer The Lollipop Shoppe has collaborated with Danish brand HAY to launch a pop up shop in London's Selfridges. The venture will remain in place for two months, selling textiles and furniture by HAY alongside a selection of other key pieces stocked by TLS.

HBL Analysis: Fontable

Designed by Alessandro Canepa and Andrea Paulicelli, the Fontable is a table made from sheet steel with anodized aluminium legs, available in each letter of the alphabet, both lower and uppercase, and in the numbers 0-9.

HBL Tradeshows: Live from Interior Lifestyle Tokyo

Equology at Interior Lifestyle Tokyo 2011

WGSN-homebuildlife highlights the key trends seen so far at this year's Interior Lifestyle show, Tokyo:

Silicone: Silicone emerges as the strongest new material direction for kitchenware in a wide range of colours and shapes.

Eco: The desire for reused and recycled products is stronger than ever, and designers step up to the challenge creating outstanding and resourceful products (pictured above).

Japanese heritage: Designers embrace their roots, celebrating traditional crafts while adding just a hint of contemporary design.

Plumen photos

Interior stylist Poppy Norton and photographer Ian Nolan have created a series of photos for Plumen which show the award-winning, energy-saving lightbulb in a domestic context.

HBL Colour: Your Rainbow Panorama by Olafur Eliasson

Studio Olafur Eliasson

Artist Olafur Eliasson's latest installation, Your rainbow panorama, is a viewing platform set on the rooftop of the ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark.

HBL Analysis: Japanese stationery

Dessert eraser set by Iwako

As back-to-school time fast approaches, we take inspiration from the latest stationery trends emerging from Japan, where cute faces reign supreme, and graphics are clean and friendly.

HBL Retail: Turner Pocock Cazalet

Zebra in blue/grey by Turner Pocock Cazalet

London-based interior design brand Turner Pocock has developed a range of wallpapers with illustrator Catherine Cazalet, available for sale now through The Secret Arcade.

HBL Retail: Safari interiors

Fleux, Paris

As safari styling takes over both menswear and womenswear this season, WGSN-homebuildlife notes how the African outdoors has also begun to enter the home, with exotic animal prints, ethnic patterns and a range of safari-style furniture coming to the fore.

HBL Guide: Seattle

Seattle

One of the US’s most literate cities, this seaport - named after a tribal chief - is the birthplace of Starbucks, Hendrix and grunge.

HBL Tradeshows: Global Melting at Hong Kong Premium & Gift Fair

Global Melting at Hong Kong Gifts and Premium Fair 2011

At this month's Hong Kong Gifts and Premium Fair, WGSN-homebuildlife came across Global Melting, a range from Hong Kong lifestyle brand Additude, launched to provide products that entertained city dwellers and encouraged curiosity of life.

HBL Analysis: iPad art and craft

A number of apps for smartphones and tablet computers now mimic the process and end result of traditional art and craft practices, and practitioners have quickly adapted their working methods to incorporate this new technology. WGSN-homebuildlife examines how the tablet computer is already changing the way art and craft practitioners work.

HBL Technology: Google unveils digital wallet

Google Inc has unveiled a ‘digital wallet’ that from this summer will enable US owners of Android smartphones to pay for goods and services by simply scanning their handset at checkout readers.