Fourteen highlights at Paris Design Week 2026
Our guide to Paris Design Week 2026 features exhibitions and installations reimagining the Arc de Triomphe and La Bastille, while historic courtyards and gardens frame mesmerising showcases.
Crosby Studios’ ‘Home of Football: Home & Away’ exhibition explores soccer’s cultural legacy in New York
Pelé’s 1958 World Cup jersey, rare memorabilia and a bright green carpet: fashion, art, and design collide at the ‘Home of Football’ showcase, exploring soccer as a catalyst for identity, creativity and belonging.
GAME ON: Helle Mardahl Casts Candy Crush in Glass
In Copenhagen, the Danish designer’s GAME ON installation brought mouth-blown glass to life through colour, symmetry, and the irresistible logic of play.
Bread & Butter 2026: designers explore bathing routines through intimate pairings
Teapots, pitchers, soap trays, brush holders – In Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explores bathing rituals through design pairings across cultures.
Ukurant Makes Space: eight highlights by emerging designers in Copenhagen
From a lamp using gravity to shine and a lounger tracing the arc of a spinal column. This year’s Ukurant exhibition blurs craft and function.
Fritz Hansen’ SOUND CLUB makes some noise in Copenhagen
A listening bar, DJ sets in the courtyard, and a podcast lounge — music and design speak the same spatial language at Fritz Hansen’s Sound Club. The 3daysofdesign installation explores what great interiors are truly for: composed around people, not objects.
Form Follows Seam: Designers Show What A Sewing Machine Can Do In Copenhagen
Stitched lamps, enfolded chairs, a leather sling suspended in steel — Erwan Bouroullec, Foster + Partners, and more work with the sewing machine for the VÆRKTØJ exhibition at 3DaysOfDesign.
3DaysOfDesign 2026: Copenhagen’s Design Celebration
From Alvar, the 90th-anniversary pavilion for Aalto’s vase, to sewing-machine craft and listening bars — here is everything worth seeing at 3DaysOfDesign 2026.
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.
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.
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.
Hybrids: Where Scarpa’s Architecture dialogues with Leandro Erlich
At Venice’s Negozio Olivetti, houses grow roots, corals mimic cities, and marble melts — in Erlich’s Hybrids, the impossible feels wonderfully real.
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.
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.
NOMAD St. Moritz 2026: high-altitude collectible design
NOMAD St. Moritz 2026 transforms an Alpine villa into an ephemeral home where art, design, and architecture converge. The showcase returns to the Swiss city for its ninth flagship edition.
Azul y Verde: Lanza Atelier Unveils Architectural Furniture in Mexico City
The Mexican studio experimented with contrasts, reused materials and design for the ‘Azul y Verde’ exhibition.
Unique Design X: Eclectic Design Shines in Mexico City
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.
Ung Svensk Form 2026: Swedish next-gen design debuts in Stockholm
Modular tiles shaped by mathematics and oil-absorbing wool fabrics. The Ung Svensk Form 2026 exhibition invites you to sneak a peek into tomorrow’s Swedish design.
Testing Ground: Form Us With Love rethinks the design showroom in Stockholm
What is a showroom today? And what should it do? The ‘Testing Ground’ showcase and living space is a four-month experiment in physical design.
Stockholm Creative Edition 2026 showcases Swedish design talent
From memory-infused wool rugs to 3D-printed seats with shimmering wood coatings, Stockholm Creative Edition celebrates the next generation of Swedish design talent.
Fragmentos De Mar: davidpompa Explores the Poetry of Shell, Light and Memory
A discarded shell composite translates marine rhythms into multisensory narratives in the Fragmentos De Mar exhibition in Mexico City.
‘WHITE OUT’ Exhibition Explores Winter Sports’ Design in Milan
The WHITE OUT exhibition at Triennale Milano explores how design has shaped the evolution of winter sports—and how winter sports, in turn, have driven innovation in design.
Elizabeth Leriche’s ‘Archaeology of the Future’ explores decor trends
Conceived as a design journey across eras, the What’s New in Decor exhibition unfolded as an Archaeology of the Future: from neoclassical to Art Deco and neo-futurism.
Harry Nuriev’s Transformism exhibition highlights the power of design-[re]thinking
What if we reinvented instead of inventing? At the designer’s ‘Transformism’ showcase in Paris, past and future meet, beginning with ordinary objects dressed in a metallic finish.
Tabula Rara: architects and designers reimagine the Christmas table at Rossana Orlandi Gallery
From fluo Bohemian glassware to Ibizan underwood crafted in resin… The Tabula Rara exhibition in Milan reminds us that design truly comes alive when shared.