Design: Design Shows
Thinking Aloud: curated by sculptor Richard Wentworth - the first thoughts of artists and designers, from Joseph Paxton's scribblings of the Crystal Palace to Walt Disney's drawing of Pluto.
Camden Art Centre, Arkwright Road, London NW3, 9 April to 30 May
Wearable Art: eight theatrical, cutting-edge jewellery and clothes makers.
At Contemporary Applied Arts, 2 Percy Street, London W1 (0171-436 2344), 16 April to 29 May
Modern Britain 1929-39: Thirties design in Britain - lots of deliciously sleek interior and product design.
Design Museum, Shad Thames, London SE1 (0171-403 6933), to 6 June
Centenary exhibition of the Ruskin Pottery, notable for experimental, gorgeously coloured glazes.
Geffrye Museum, Kingsland Road, London E2 (0171-739 9893), 13 April to 27 June
Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture, furniture and art.
Glasgow Art Gallery & Museum, Kelvingrove, (0141-287 2000) ends tomorrow
The Earth is (not) Flat: Knoll celebrates its 60th anniversary again (celebrations were originally held last year) with an almost abstract furniture collection by Maya Lin.
Mission, 45 Hereford Road, London W2 (0171-792 4633), 21-29 April
Mish-mesh: breaking the weaves - contemporary international basket-making.
At Whitworth Art Gallery, Oxford Road, Manchester 16 April to 6 June and at the Crafts Council, 44a Pentonville Road, London N1 17 June to 15 August
Furniture and ceramics by followers of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.
Millinery Works, 85-87 Southgate Rd, London N1 (0171-359 2019), 13 April- 2 May.
The Pleasures of Peace The crafts in Britain from just after the war to the 1960s.
Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, University of East Anglia, to 18 April (01603 593199)
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