Melbourne Design Week 2026: Eight Exhibitions That Resonated
Champagne buckets, cutlery as philosophy, and 100 chairs. Melbourne Design Week 2026 celebrated craft, material, and process.
After the Fair: QuadroDesign repurposes its Salone del Mobile booth as a public toilet in Zambia
From a five-day fair stand in Milan to a permanent architecture. The QuadroDesign booth by Giacomo Moor is set to provide toilet facilities alongside a coal market in Africa.
Beyond the Obvious: Hazel Villena on Latin Design Identity
Being a Latin designer in a city as open-minded as New York comes with fewer barriers than one might expect — yet, as Hazel Villena notes, there remains a quiet pressure: “expectation that our work should look visibly Latin.”
The Latinx Designers You Need to Know from New York Design Week
From monumental park sculptures to arrival-inspired furniture, Latinx designers brought some of the most compelling work to this year’s NYCxDESIGN.
Open House Milano 2026: Where Creatives Thrive
Open House Milano 2026: Explore where Milan’s ideas take shape, from architecture offices, co-working spaces and designers’ homes.
Resonance: Fung+Bedford’s origami lighting shines in a London church
Resonance is a luminous, large-scale installation that finds its home — and its foil — in one of London’s most ancient and atmospheric Norman churches.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2026: Your Essential London Guide to EC1
Paper sculptures, tactile beads and coffee-ground bricks: Clerkenwell Design Week 2026 proves good design is anything but ordinary.
Light Fantastic: Twelve eccentric lighting designs shine in NYC
NYCxDESIGN 2026: the eccentric lighting designs turning New York’s nights into something worth staying up for.
Joris Laarman weaves craft and technology at Friedman Benda’s Symbio exhibition
In New York, the Dutch designer’s Symbio and Ply Loop collections merge computational design and biodegradable materials.
Inside Uncanny Valley: The Haas Brothers’ Wildly Hybrid World
At the Haas Brothers’ Uncanny Valley exhibition, zoomorphic creatures, algorithmic landscapes, and hand-built ceramics collide.
Six highlights at the inaugural Montreal Design Week
From repurposed convent benches to serendipitous sloping dinner sets and a design exploration of softness. The first edition of Montreal Design Week marked a turning point for the Quebec capital, confirming its status as an evolving UNESCO Design City.
NYCxDESIGN 2026: seventeen must-visit exhibitions in New York City
Biophylic benches, quirky creatures, listening bar consoles, and more. We rounded up some of the best exhibitions and installations at NYCxDESIGN 2026.
Five Pavilions ‘In Minor Keys’ Where Art Meets Craft at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia
No protest, no political noise. These pavilions at the 2026 Biennale di Venezia show how, through crafts, art can hold a mirror to our most pressing concerns.
Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ kinetic installation blooms and glows in Venice
A poetic choreography of suspended luminous flowers dances with the waves in Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ installation during the Venice Art Biennale.
Marea by Melissa McGill: Painting the Tides of a City Under Pressure
The American artist transforms a Venetian back alley into a breathing, community-made meditation on water, tide, and urban resilience against mass tourism and climate change.
JŌMON: Noe Kuremoto’s crafts celebrate the joy and hardships of motherhood
Rooted in JŌMON Japanese rituals, Kuremoto’s cracked and imperfect vessels hold what no words quite can: the full, unfiltered complexity of becoming a mother.
ALMA WATER: Sara Ricciardi pays tribute to the sea of Sardinia
ALMA WATER transformed Milan’s Cavallerizze into a maternal embrace of billowing fabric, resonant drums, and the eternal rhythm of the sea.
DEORON Returns to Milan with a Curated Industrial Edge
Indie design talent showed off at the DEORON exhibition in Milan. From cutting-edge speakers to brutalist coffee machines.
Salone Raritas: Collectible Design debuts at Salone del Mobile.Milano
Salone Raritas: For the first time, collectible design at the crossroads between unique pieces, high-end craftsmanship and art entered the heart of Milan furniture fair.
Masterly 2026: Dutch design thrives during Milan Design Week
Masterly 2026 marks a decade of Dutch design in Milan — and this year, the conversation centres on sustainability and well-being. Founder and curator Nicole Uniquole shares her seven standout picks.
100 Things Not to Forget: Milan’s World War II Bunkers Trigger Reflection
Repubblica del Design presents 100 Things Not to Forget, an exhibition that repurposes World War II shelters as contemporary cultural spaces.
Edible Reveries by Studio Yellowdot x Artisia is a dream made of pasta
Artisia, the world’s first 3D-printed pasta, debuts at Milan Design Week with Edible Reveries, an exhibition by Studio Yellowdot where you can lounge on pasta-inspired furniture and savour hand-crafted, algorithmically designed finger food.
Disco on Mars: Atelier Biagetti designs a Space Age experience for MCM
MCM’s Disco on Mars exhibition in Milan mesmerises with Robot DJs, retro-futuristic clubbing, collectible design, and opera singing clash.
Renaissance of the Real: Annabelle Schneider’s mindful installation in Milan
The ‘Renaissance of the Real’ by Annabelle Schneider for USM with Snøhetta invites to slow down and step back from digital overload.
Qeeboo turns 10 and tasks designers to reinterpret its iconic Rabbit chair
Happy birthday, Qeeboo! Marcel Wanders, Nika Zupanc, Marco Oggian and more play with Stefano Giovannoni’s iconic Rabbit Chair.
Methamorphosis in Motion: getting lost in Lina Ghotmeh’s pink maze
The Metamorphosis in Motion installation takes over a stunning Milanese courtyard with vibrant colour, bringing people together.
Chefs and designers team up at IKEA’s ‘Food for Thought’ exhibition in Milan
How are our eating habits and social rituals reshaping the spaces we call home? IKEA’s Food for Thought exhibition features food-centred living environments, a vibrant Swedish food market, new product launches and meatball-flavoured lollipops.
Milan Design Week for Foodies: From Espresso to Negroni Sbagliato
Underground breakfasts, designer listening bars, Swedish food markets, and joyful champagne installations. The ultimate Milan Design Week guide for foodies.
Rossana Orlandi tasks architects and designers to rethink the door archetype
The famed Milanese gallerist tasked Patricia Urquiola, Maarten Baas, Kiki van Eijk, and more with creating statement doors that respond to the issues of our time.
Best of Milan Design Week 2026: Your Essential Guide
From Polish Modernism to Uzbek crafts, US White House interiors, unconventional chopsticks and 3D-printed pasta. Gear up for Milan Design Week 2026.