The Homebuildlife Blog has relaunched!

The new Homebuildlife.com has launched today as the unique industrial and interior design trends website within the WGSN Group, with significant upgrades to technology and user experience.

In the spirit of "better together" we’re excited to announce a new location for our blog, too: visit www.wgsn.com/blogs/homebuildlife to catch our daily blog posts.

Summer 2014: the outdoor life by Seletti

Seletti’s summer 2014 advertising campaign is focused on a special way of outdoor life, conceived to present the brand's new Festival collection using a selection of traditional products with a contemporary twist.

Salon de Parfums: Harrods to launch new fragrance space

High-end British department store Harrods will unveil a brand new fragrance retail concept in September. Salon de Parfums will feature exclusive bespoke perfumes and personalised services in an elegant, immersive retail space.

Homebuildlife subscribers can read our preview of the space here and see our report on how the fragrance retail experience is evolving here.

Meet The Makers: behind-the-scenes at Selfridges' food halls

Selfridges has announced an eight-week summer campaign that will introduce customers to the artisans and producers behind the delicacies available in its Food Hall.

Launching on Monday, Meet The Makers will include special food tours and demonstrations as well as Meet the Michelin, a dinner series hosted by Michelin-starred chefs, and Make My Magnum, a dessert bar in which you'll be able to customise your own Magnum by dipping it into chocolate and applying a range of coatings such as chilli and rosebuds.

Nest announces developer programme

Smart thermostat brand Nest has announced a new developer programme and partnerships with industry leaders including Whirlpool, Jawbone and Mercedes-Benz. By connecting Nest with wearable technology, cars and home appliances, the company hopes to bring about a "conscious home" with appliances talking to each other to seamlessly respond to consumer needs.

Homebuildlife subscribers can read more about the possibilities of the connected home in our CES 2014: Home & Lifestyle report.

HEMA opens in London

Dutch interiors and lifestyle chain HEMA has opened its first shop in London near Victoria station, offering a range of affordable homewares, fashion, beauty and food products.

Ekocycle Cube by Will.i.am & 3D Systems: 3D printing from Coke bottles

Musician and entrepreneur Will.i.am has collaborated with 3D Systems to launch a 3D printer that uses filament recycled from used Coca-Cola bottles.

Available later this year, the Ekocycle Cube will retail at $1,199 and will be supplied with 25 print designs selected by Will.i.am. The printer will be able to create objects up to 6 inches cubed, using filament made of 25% recycled plastic.

The Perfume Society

New fragrance organisation The Perfume Society connects users with the history of perfumery and key ingredients as well as updates on perfume houses, fragrance experts, fragrance families and product launches. Later this month, the brand's website will launch FR.eD, an online fragrance advisory service based on the preferences of the user.

Homebuildlife subscribers can read our full report on The Perfume Society here, and see our report on the retail experience of personalised fragrance here.

Macarons Veloutés by Pierre Hermé

French patissier Pierre Hermé has announced a new collection of macarons themed around the flavour of yoghurt.

Waitrose launches bubblegum berries

UK supermarket brand Waitrose has launched the Bubbleberry, a berry that looks like a strawberry and tastes of bubblegum, for a limited-edition run of five weeks.

Selfridges launches Fragrance Lab

Photo by Hufton+Crow

Selfridges today launched The Beauty Project, a ten-week celebration of all definitions of beauty, which includes an experiential in-store installation called Fragrance Lab that promises to match customers with their own character, distilled into scent.

Dominique Ansel launches Waffogato

New York-based pastry innovator Dominique Ansel has announced a new creation, the Waffogato, which reimagines the classic Italian affogato (a vanilla ice cream with espresso pour-over) with maple syrup, Belgian waffle bits, tapioca balls and a pinch of salt.

World's 50 Best Restaurants 2014: winners announced

Noma

The World 50's Best Restaurants announced its 2014 winners last night, with Copenhagen-based Noma returning to the top spot.

La Trésorerie: Paris' new concept store

Literally named "the place of treasures", Parisian concept store La Trésorerie just opened its doors in the 10th arrondissement. Faithful to the beliefs of its three founders, it offers "beautiful, useful and respectful" objects for the home, made with love, sold at fair prices and environmentally conscious.

S.Bensimon x La Redoute: exclusive x mass-produced

Serge Bensimon, founder and owner of avant-garde design space Gallery S.Bensimon in Paris, has partnered with La Redoute to create a collection of high-end yet affordable furniture and objects.

FireChat: messaging off-the-grid

New iPhone app FireChat enables users to send messages even when they have no phone signal or internet connection. Described as "a new way to chat: off-the-grid", the free app uses Bluetooth to transmit messages to people nearby. The range increases as more users log on to the app, acting as 'nodes' to connect and expand the network. Messages can also be sent anonymously if the user so chooses.

Champagne & Blintzes pop-up, Melbourne

Melbourne-based bar The New Gold Mountain will continue its pop-up series with a Champagne and Blintzes pop-up, opening next Thursday April 3rd on the bar's Red Level. Pairing Perrier Jouët Champagne and classic champagne cocktails with blintzes by Jabili Mchawala - which include combinations like sweet and sour beetroot with orange, dill and creme fraiche - the pop-up follows the trend of unusual food and drink pairings.

Read about London's Bubbledogs, which opened in 2012 and pairs hot dogs with Grower champagne, here.

Google partners with Luxottica to redesign Glass technology

Google has formed a partnership with Italian eyewear giant Luxottica to make its wearable Google Glass technology more fashionable and broaden its appeal. The two corporations will establish a team of experts devoted to working on the design, development, tooling and engineering of Google Glass products to bring together high-fashion, lifestyle and innovative technology, they said Tuesday.

Homebuildlife subscribers can see our full news report here, and read about the future for wearable tech in our Big Idea reports from CES and SXSW Interactive.

Inventables announces Easel, a beginner's system for CNC design

3D printing hardware store Inventables announced an intuitive new program for CNC designing today at South By Southwest Interactive.

Called Easel, the platform will simplify the process of designing a file for computer manufacture, making it possible for novices to create a 2D shape, apply it to a 3D material such as wood, and visualise how factors such as bit size and material will affect how the final product looks.

Nahm tops Asia's 50 Best Restaurants

A restaurant in Bangkok that serves dishes sourced from Thai memorial books has topped S. Pellegrino's list of Asia's 50 Best Restaurants. Headed by Australian chef David Thompson, Nahm has moved up from second place last year, replacing Tokyo's Les Creations de Narisawa in the top spot.

See the full list here.