Design Parade 2025: creativity blossoms on the French Riviera

Best of Design Parade 2025: solo exhibitions by Jaime Hayon and Harry Nuriev, as well as furniture collections by emerging talents, and a celebration of children’s design.
Furniture, textiles, graphic design, and more. Inspiring projects from around the globe.

Best of Design Parade 2025: solo exhibitions by Jaime Hayon and Harry Nuriev, as well as furniture collections by emerging talents, and a celebration of children’s design.

From soft glows to gentle motion, these outdoor lighting designs seamlessly blend with nature to transform gardens and terraces into enchanting landscapes.

With the new A/W25 collection, Iittala invites us to slow down, tune in to seasonal shifts, and find beauty in everyday rituals.

Alvar Aalto’s furniture designs for Artek are reinterpreted with Marimekko’s bold patterns: a Finnish fusion unveiled in Copenhagen.

The ‘Reishi in the Nordic Light’ mycelium-based collection brings together Danish design legacy with bio-innovation.

Recline, look up and dream a little. Lise Vester’s Dream View Bench “reminds us to reconnect with those fleeting moments of beauty.”

Palma Pouf invites people to gather, lounge, perch, and connect. It’s casual, a little unconventional, and endlessly welcoming—just like a good friend.

Check out our design guide for 3 Days of Design 2025 in the Danish capital. From cutting-edge sustainable materials to a floating textile installation, unexpected design pairings, and more.

LGBT+ project Design Dysphoria and Gotham join forces to explore design space through a queer perspective at the Give Them Fantasy group exhibition.

Lisbon Design Week 2025 brought together the city’s vibrant creative community with honest, rooted craftsmanship.

From a hand mirror with the ergonomics of a river stone to a real-time depiction of our solar system. At the ‘Paraphernalia: Desire’ showcase, even the smallest objects can hold our biggest emotions.

Creative platform Colony reaffirms its commitment to empowering a design community with ‘The Independents’ exhibition during NYCxDESIGN.

Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani unveils ‘Harmonic Tides’, a glowing, wave-like 3D-printed corridor for Clerkenwell Design Week 2025.
A rippling brick facade, a magnetic interactive installation in a former prison and a church-turned-design stage. The best of Clerkenwell Design Week 2025 is on Archipanic.

Best of NYCxDESIGN 2025: a tribute to independent designers, a provocative showcase questioning misinformation, miniature dioramas, a poetic take on wood, and more.

The CHROMA exhibition is a “playground for the senses,” inviting visitors to touch, feel, and explore Swiss craftsmanship and design.

Inequalities, the Triennale’s 24th International Exhibition, invites us to rethink our future—from urban injustice to microbial design.

Socket boards become skyscrapers, biscuits become furniture, and Times Square is made of rubber stamps. The ‘small MUJI’ exhibition is about serendipitous ingenuity.

A mass timber structure welcomes visitors to the United States Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. The exhibition explores the porch as a powerful architectural and cultural space of welcoming, community, and imagination.

Whisky meets architecture on the eve of the Venice Biennale. Ben Dobbin’s design highlights the perfectly balanced nature of The Dalmore as well as the ebb and flow of Scotland’s landscape. The sculpture is the third chapter of the Luminary Series project co-curated with V&A Dundee.

From Zaha Hadid Architects’ marble dust mixture for architecture to creative solutions upcycling worthless off-cuts, we selected innovative projects, products, and collaborations rethinking marble.

Refined yet humble craftsmanship, genuine storytelling, and an honest upcycling attitude defined the Magnificat exhibition, which highlighted the human-centred and materials research-driven values of independent designers.

The playful Conscious Objects exhibition in Milan engaged visitors through multiple senses, allowing them to hear, play, touch, taste, interact, and sometimes even become part of the experience.

The Last Pot project and exhibition features urns by Daniel Liebeskind, Philippe Stark, Michael Anastassiades, Naoto Fukasawa, and more.

At the Muuto Milan Design Apartment, a colourful interior design featured the brand’s new collections.

Euroluce 2025: tiny car lamps racing on an electric toy track, a creasable luminous tapestry, a ‘messy’ chandelier in total white, and more.

Essential is a pair of iridescent, sleek, cylindrical, lightweight torches “stripping away superfluous design to truly highlight the Olympic and Paralympic flame,” explains Carlo Ratti.

At the Exodus installation, a serpent-like hybrid creature, oversized bugs, migrating birds, and a blue pangolin populate a historic Milanese house.

Lachlan Tuczan’s Google installation makes the invisible visible through luminous veils rippling through the mist. Shifting environments blur the boundaries between the tangible and intangible.

In Milan, Élitis welcomes visitors to a sensory journey in three acts, highlighting how colours, shapes, and textures influence our state of mind.