From a resonating ping-pong table to a chandelier composed of a thousand porcelain soldiers, the Unique Design X exhibition during Mexico City Art Week challenged conventional notions of what design can be.
Fairy tale elephants, luminous pigeons, perforated creatures, and a rabbit-bird-fish. Quirky beasts thrive at Design Miami Paris 2025.
Framed by Zaha Hadid’s sinuous architecture, the ‘Illuminated: A Spotlight on Korean Design’ exhibition invites you on a journey through the country’s creative DNA.
An urban chandelier glowing along the Southbank and a city view from Admiral Nelson’s perspective in Trafalgar Square—London Design Festival 2025 is full of surprises. Think visionary sustainable materials, AI co-designed self-portraits, camping tents, and a legendary 1980s nightclub.
Design Miami 2024: ten optimistic and out-of-the-box exhibitions shining a light on design that exceeds expectations.
DesignMiami Paris 2024 features over twenty renowned international design galleries in dialogue with the Parisian mansion’s stunning interiors and gardens.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery traces 75 years of Brazilian design with the ‘Turning Tides’ exhibition featuring works by Joaquim Tenreiro, Sergio Rodriguez, Lina Bo Bardi, Oscar Niemeyer, The Campana Brothers, and more.
Designer, artist, architect, and academic, Andrea Branzi was a pioneer of a radical design ideology. He passed away on October 9, 2023.
London Design Festival 2023: a sound-responsive blade of light in Saint Paul Cathedral, sustainable materials on the South Bank, a peaceful garden/playroom by Lego®, and more.
The Golden Age is the main theme of Design Miami 2022. We explored the fair and detected five trends: from ancient folklore revamp to phygital utopias.
DesignMiami/ 2020: from Shakers objects to Black Live Matters-inspired works, but also Native Indian textiles, the new generation of immigrant American designers and dinosaurs’ skeletons. Aric Chen curates DesignMiami/ Podium, the fair’s major phygital exhibition.
Paul Cocksedge ‘slumped’ tables, Tom Dixon glassblower geometric barware and Thomas Heatherwick’s verdant table forests are among the 8 British furniture designs we liked the most debuting in London.
A library of exile in Venice Jewish Ghetto and a supermarket where to shop Hillary Clinton’s emails but also Fornasetti’s dreamlike installation at Fondaco Tedeschi and Dante’s Inferno, Russian style! We selected 6 architecture and design-related exhibitions inaugurating at Venice Art Week 2019.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery and Lombard Odier inaugurate the DYSFUNCTIONAL exhibition at the Galleria Giorgio Franchetti at the Ca’ D’Oro in Venice. On show, works by international designers such as Virgil Abloh, Nacho Carbonell and Matthieu Lehanneur which seek to forget functionality whilst celebrating the power of artistic expression and extraordinary craftsmanship.
Copper and gold vessels mirroring dysfunctional relationships, furniture made with discarded flowers, a re-interpreted windowless office for Russian interns and Walt Disney’s 1930’s animation studios. 12 out-of-the-box designs at DesignMiami 2018, starting from an installation supporting immigrants’ families divided at the US-Mexico Border.
DesignMiami/ 2016 kicked off. We selected ten unexpected creatures on show: from Nordic leprechauns to golden mammoth skeletons but also funky African monsters and in-wonderland cabinets.
