London Design Festival 2026: Seven Debuts Across the Thames
A steel bench shaped by air pressure, anodised, riveted furniture and a console made of crafted wooden skipping stones: our picks from this year’s London Design Festival.
One Tool, One Stool: RCA Students Take On a Design Challenge in London
For the ONE TOOL, ONE STOOL exhibition at the Brompton Design District, students were tasked with creating a stool using only a single tool.
MADE x Barbican: celebrating a Brutalist icon with design
The MADE x Barbican homeware collection aims “to bring one of Britain’s most iconic estates into the heart of the contemporary home.”
South African Rising Talents Shine at Maison & Objet 2026
Women-empowering knitted lamps, bold chairs and furniture rooted in traditional weaving. Seven South African rising talents make their mark in Paris.
Parisian Courtyards Reimagined By Contemporary Design
Historic architecture meets contemporary design in Parisian courtyards, gardens and palaces, with highlights ranging from a perfume-and-design encounter to art cars and voluptuous benches.
Minestrone Workshop Stages Design-in-Progress in Helsinki
Minestrone Workshop showcases the power of collaborative design. A pavilion of thin wooden sheets at the Habitare fair features a workbench-inspired bench, a cantilevered seat built on architects’ squares, and more.
London Design Festival 2026: Fifteen Highlights Across The Thames
Our guide to London Design Festival 2026 takes in AI’s creeping influence at the V&A, the Barbican reimagined as a furniture collection, and a temporary library for queer design history.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rossana Orlandi tasks architects and designers to rethink the door archetype
The famed Milanese gallerist tasked Patricia Urquiola, Maarten Baas, Kiki van Eijk, and more with creating statement doors that respond to the issues of our time.
FORMA Design Fair: collectible design thrives in Madrid
Vibrant tubular furniture and a sculptural twisting table are among the highlights that caught our eye at the first edition of FORMA Design Fair.
Madrid Design Festival 2026: Seven Highlights in the Spanish Capital
Spain’s first collectible design fair, coiled-metal seats, and embracing dives. Check out our guide to Madrid Design Festival 2026.
Six designer rocking horses to enter the Chinese New Year of the Horse with playful chivalry
Happy New Year of the Horse! These brilliant toys reinterpret a childhood classic, balancing functionality, material experimentation and unexpected aesthetics.
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.
Vitra reveals Verner Panton’s Heart Cone Chair Anniversary Edition
This limited-edition Heart Cone Chair comes in two beautifully contrasting shades of blue. We delve into the story of a true icon for design lovers.
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.
Sabine Marcelis’ Roll x cc-tapis moves beyond the two-dimensional rug
Inspired by the simple gesture of unrolling a carpet, Roll is a rug-turned-seat suspended between function and sculpture.
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.