A hymn to motherhood crafted in ceramic, Lebanese resilience through light, and collectible showcases from Mexico City to Abu Dhabi, from Milan to the Hamptons. Craft stories with a human-based approach.
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.
Playful lamps, quirky recycled seats, artificial anemones, and an ode to MDF. Crafts and Technology Blur at Isola Design Festival 2025.
“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.
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.
With the ‘Uprooted’ exhibition and collection, Spanish designer Jorge Penadés explores olive wood’s design potential, valuing deep material research over industrial standardisation.
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: 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: furniture made from upcycled olive roots, textiles rethinking wool production and mesmerising lighting designs.
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.
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: Mirror games in Place des Vosges, scented fountains and a monumental and flamboyant master bed in a palace’s courtyard.
Homo Faber 2024 celebrates craftsmanship and life with a metaphorical journey at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on San Giorgio Maggiore island in Venice.
Dundee Design Festival reveals eclectic bookends inspired by the world’s first female foreign correspondents.
Tongue-in-cheek female Morish head vases by Vanessa Semaino “address the social issues and disparities women face in contemporary society.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
With the Indian Tiny Mega Store project, Gunjan Gupta brings to Milan the ambiance, perfumes and colours of typical Indian supermarkets.
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: A lamp reflecting an air-fending light beam, a bulbous tactile vase, a chandelier made from aerospace materials and more.
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.
Spiky cabinets, iridescent bed sculptures and pleated paper furniture. Design goes up to high altitude at Nomad St. Moritz 2024.
Iridescent 3D printed sculptures and high-tech materials. At Maison & Objet, seven rising talents blend savoir-faire and digital technology.
Edit Napoli 2023: Pompeii-inspired wallpapers, colanders derived from lost pasta, volcanic lava stone materials, and more.
NOMAD Capri 2023: Murano blown-glass floors climbing the walls, vibrant bulbous creatures, Mediterranean-inspired turquoise design, and more.
Milan Design Week enters the famed San Vittore prison, where inmates who joined a circular design workshop crafted upcycled furniture and tableware and presented it at the ‘Without Invitation’ behind-bars exhibition.
For the Hayama furniture collection, Patricia Urquiola took inspiration from traditional Japanese Haori jackets that are worn over a kimono.
Rossana Orlandi, the good mother of Milan Design Week, has opened the doors of her gallery hosting brilliant furniture designs going beyond sustainability in the name of ‘Responsibility.’ We talked with Rossana and selected Seven highlights at Rossana Orlandi Collectible 2023.
Mexican Studio Davidpompa unveils the Ambra Toba light sculptures made of volcanic dust and aluminium.
