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What did Mies van der Rohe mean by less is more

The aphorism is one of the most used (and abused) in design and architecture Detlef Mertins, author of an exceptional new monograph on the master architect, reveals how it came about and what it meant to him

Koons, Schnabel and Hadid create Faberg eggs

Artists, architects, photographers and designers contribute eggs to the jewellers annual charity Easter egg hunt

Adri dish inspires award-winning water packaging

Designers draw upon the elBulli chefs use of membranes to produce Ooho!, an edible water carrier

When Danny Lyon was just two dogs in

The photographers 1962 work, shot in the South, was an early example of a burgeoning confrontational style

Ai Weiwei sends 6000 stools to Berlin

Artist references a seminal 1913 Marcel Duchamp readymade in huge new Berlin installation opening this week

Ren Redzepis Tokyo Story

The chef will relocate Noma to the Japanese capital for two months at the start of 2015

Classic John Lautner Hollywood house restored

Garcia Residence, star of TV, film and music video and key work of LA architecture gets a sympathetic fix

Ten questions for Nan Goldin

The Eden and after photographer on addiction, Robert Pattinson, motherhood and collecting human skulls

The Photobook III on show in Madrid

Throughout April the Ivorypress bookshop will display rare titles featured in Martin Parr and Gerry Badgers book

Inside the Texas Department of Corrections 1968

In the 1960s Danny Lyon moved to a cattle ranch in Texas Nearby was the Texas Department of Corrections, a prison complex whose past inmates had included Leadbelly - these are some of the photos he took there