For this year’s Mindcraft exhibition – Milan Design Week: 4 to 9 April – celebrated Danish duo, Eske Rex and Maria Mengel, debuts Day Bed; an exploration of the transition from sleep to activity, time spent traveling, and how both contemporary conditions can be expressed in the formal reference of the rising sun.

For Mindcraft 17, Japanese-Danish silversmith Yuki Ferdinandsen explores the concept of time in her meticulous and meditative mastery of the age-old arare hammering technique. The result is a series of monumentally curvaceous vessels with highly detailed surfaces.

Staged like a contemporary temple, Johan Creten’s exhibition 8 Gods shows at Almine Rech Gallery in Brussels until April 8.

Jaime Hayón reflects on his Stockholm Furniture Fair pavilion and gives TLmag a taste of what he’s working on now.

French designer and artist Pierre Bonnefille’s bronze beauties headlined Leclaireur’s recent Design Days Dubai debut.

Philippe Parreno, whose collaboration with Bas Smets was recently featured in TLmag 26, has used repetition and variation to structure his exhibition at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art in Porto until May 1.

Designer Isaac Monte tells TLmag about the years of research that went into his work on display in Crystallized, at Spazio Nobile in Brussels until April 15.

New York’s Carpenters Workshop Gallery mounts a solo show of celebrated Italian craftsman Vincenzo de Cotiis and debuts the new Archeo Black collection.

Robert Stadler tells TLmag about his first survey exhibition, which included curating the Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden archive and reflects on a society that automatically clicks “Like”.

Friedman Benda and Beatrice Trussardi will present Paul Cocksedge’s EXCAVATION: Evicted series in Milan from April 4 to 9.

A pioneer of 3D-woven textiles, Aleksandra Gaca will present her first solo exhibition in Milan as part of the Dutch pavilion, Masterly.

Ahead of Milan Design Week, catch a sneak peek of some of Kartell by Laufen’s newest releases at ISH from March 14 to 18.