Lisbon Design Week 2025: A Celebration of Craft, Community, and Conscious Creation
Lisbon Design Week 2025 brought together the city’s vibrant creative community with honest, rooted craftsmanship.
Ancient Future: Bhutanese Craft Meets Robotic Precision in Venice
Artisans and machines work hand in hand at BIG–Bjarke Ingels Group’s ‘Ancient Future: Bridging Bhutan’s Tradition and Innovation’ showcase.
Saudi Arabia Pavilion in Osaka mimics a traditional desert village
Foster + Partners captured the vibes, sounds, and flavours of a traditional desert village at the Saudi Arabia Pavilion for Expo 2025 Osaka.
Philippines Pavilion in Osaka celebrates the country’s ‘woven’ craftsmanship bringing people together
The Philippines Pavilion at Expo 2025 is wrapped by a woven facade that combines the skills and narratives of over 200 Filipino workshops and communities.
Italy Pavilion at Expo 2025 Osaka celebrates the country’s ‘Ideal City’
Inspired by the Renaissance vision for the Ideal City, the Italian Pavilion by Mario Cucinella Architects invites visitors to experience the country’s art, architecture, science, and technology.
Polish crafts and design shine at the ‘Romantic Brutalism’ exhibition in Milan
The ‘Romantic Brutalism’ exhibition in Milan brings together 24 Polish designers who present crafts and collectable designs that connect their country’s history to the present day.
LAYER’s 101010 exhibition and collection envision design solutions for the future
From a rainwater collecting tower to a garment that adapts to climate extremes, Benjamin Hubert’s LAYER studio unveils visionary crafts tackling global challenges at the 101010 Milan exhibition.
Isola Design Festival 2025 explores human-centred design in Milan
Playful lamps, quirky recycled seats, artificial anemones, and an ode to MDF. Crafts and Technology Blur at Isola Design Festival 2025.
Collect fair’s Isobel Dennis on the new generation of collectors
“Younger collectors are particularly drawn to authenticity, personal narratives, and the deep artistic investment behind each piece,” Collect fair’s director Isobel Dennis told Archipanic in this exclusive interview.
Collectible Fair 2025: Six Design Highlights in Brussels
Check out what we liked the most at the Collectible Fair 2025: luminaries inspired by ancestral piled-stone monuments, a tongue-in-cheek ‘poodle’ armchair mixing Jeff Koons’ sculptures with Bauhaus, and more.
Uprooted: Jorge Penadés crafts furniture from neglected olive roots
With the ‘Uprooted’ exhibition and collection, Spanish designer Jorge Penadés explores olive wood’s design potential, valuing deep material research over industrial standardisation.
Oro Blanco exhibition: Contemporary design meets craft heritage in support of Spain’s endangered wool sector
For the Oro Blanco exhibition, textile designers Inés Sistiaga and Regina Dejiménez joined forces with Wool4Life to create a capsule collection and an architectural installation crafted from wool from different species of native Spanish sheep, some of which are at risk of extinction.
Collect 2025: contemporary craft goes on display in London
Collect 2025: a jewellery collection honouring the resilient spirit of women fighting breast cancer, a furniture design collection exploring the subterranean realm of fungi, and more.
Madrid Design Festival 2025: Six Highlights in the Spanish Capital
Madrid Design Festival 2025: furniture made from upcycled olive roots, textiles rethinking wool production and mesmerising lighting designs.
African ceramic art and design shine in Miami
Twelve leading African ceramic artists and designers blend ancient traditions and progressive approaches at Southern Guild’s exhibition. The showcase comprised furniture, sculpture and vessels intertwining mythologies and rituals with new techniques, timeless patterns and contemporary narratives.
Lake Como Design Festival 2024 celebrates ‘lightness’ through design
Until September 22, Lake Como Design Festival 2024 invites you to discover art and design exhibitions across the Italian city of Como and around its lake.
Paris Design Week 2024: 10 Highlights under the Eiffel Tower
Paris Design Week 2024: Mirror games in Place des Vosges, scented fountains and a monumental and flamboyant master bed in a palace’s courtyard.
Homo Faber 2024 reveals how craftsmanship is woven into the fabric of our lives
Homo Faber 2024 celebrates craftsmanship and life with a metaphorical journey at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on San Giorgio Maggiore island in Venice.
Humble and adventurous designer bookends from Scotland
Dundee Design Festival reveals eclectic bookends inspired by the world’s first female foreign correspondents.
Vanessa Semaino reinterprets traditional Sicilian crafts with an ironic twist empowering women
Tongue-in-cheek female Morish head vases by Vanessa Semaino “address the social issues and disparities women face in contemporary society.”
Nomad Capri 2024 blurs art and design with a view of the Mediterranean Sea
Sardonic Sicilian ceramics, illusory fibreglass design collections, beeswax cityscapes, and Nordic-Mexican furniture… Nomad Capri 2024 presented unique pieces at the intersection of architecture, collectible design and contemporary art.
Design Shanghai 2024: highlights from the Chinese metropolis
Emerging talents, international brands, and a special focus on Japanese and Chinese connections. Design Shanghai 2024 explored the collaborative synergy between Eastern and Western design philosophies.
‘A Year Without a Kiln’ Simone Bodmer-Turner at Emma Scully Gallery
Emma Scully Gallery presents the ‘A Year Without a Kiln’ exhibition, a non-ceramic translation of Simone Bodmer-Turner’s sculptural practice featuring furniture and other functional objects.
The first Taiwan Pavilion in Milan poses design-driven questions for a sustainable future
A chair made from digitally crafted bamboo, bricks made from upcycled wheat husks from local breweries, and more. Milan’s first Taiwan Pavilion poses questions for sustainable design.
At her Indian Tiny Mega Store Gunjan Gupta presents exquisite crafts for everyday rituals
With the Indian Tiny Mega Store project, Gunjan Gupta brings to Milan the ambiance, perfumes and colours of typical Indian supermarkets.
COLLECT 2024: “Women lead the craft business”
Archipanic looks back at COLLECT 2024, the only gallery-presented fair for contemporary craft and design, focusing on female creativity. “Women will always be, and remain, a critical voice in the crafts market,” Fair Director Isobel Dennis told Archipanic. We have selected eight women-powered stories.
Collectible 2024: six design highlights on show in Brussels
Collectible 2024: A lamp reflecting an air-fending light beam, a bulbous tactile vase, a chandelier made from aerospace materials and more.
The ‘Turning Tides’ exhibition pays tribute to Brazil’s design legacy
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.
Nomad St. Moritz 2024: design serendipity in the Swiss Alps
Spiky cabinets, iridescent bed sculptures and pleated paper furniture. Design goes up to high altitude at Nomad St. Moritz 2024.
Seven rising talents bringing tech-craft to the very next level
Iridescent 3D printed sculptures and high-tech materials. At Maison & Objet, seven rising talents blend savoir-faire and digital technology.