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.
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.
Stockholm 2025: Ten Design Collections debuting in the Swedish Capital
Stockholm 2025 design collections: From modular sofa systems to geometric glassware, 3D-printed table lamps inspired by gelato, and more.
Salone del Mobile.Milano 2025 focuses on human-centred Design
With over 2,000 Italian and international exhibitors, Salone del Mobile Milano 2025 will explore design as a human-driven project. It will feature an exhibition by Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino, the Euroluce lighting design show, and more.
Stockholm Design Week 2025: 10 must-visit exhibitions across the Swedish capital
Stockholm Design Week 2025: a breathing textile installation glowing in the dark, recycled pieces with a punk attitude and a flower shop design takeover.
Maison & Objet 2025: neo-surrealism or rational minimalism?
Tableware reinterpreting surrealist art vs seats with an essential silhouette. Check out what we liked at Maison & Objet 2025.
Womanifesto: Faye Toogood’s exhibition at Maison & Objet 2025
Faye Toogood’s Womanifesto showcase explores the designer’s creative process as a woman in an industry ruled by men.
Maison & Objet 2025: seven Korean ‘rising talents’ shine in Paris
At the Parisian fair, seven Korean ‘rising talents’ worked with raw stones, fully threaded bolts, horse hair and recycled newspapers.
Best Design of 2024: responsible chairs, inclusive furniture and Olympic torches
Best Design of 2024: an armchair inviting its owner to optimise laundry sustainably, school furniture that allows children in the autistic spectrum to express themselves freely, a 100% fossil-free chair acting like a tree, and more.
Alessandro Ciffo’s ‘Table of P.’ exhibition is a golden journey made of silicone
At the Rossana Orlandi Gallery, the Italian artist, designer, and manufacturer reflects on his career through the ‘Table of P.’ exhibition, which introduces pieces crafted from regenerated silicone from upcycled production waste.
Design Academy Eindhoven – DAE Graduation Show 2024
DAE Graduation Show 2024: vessels inspired by mathematic equations, non-religious funeral spaces, fences turned into urban furniture and more.
Ten Unconventional Chairs at Dutch Design Week 2024
A bench made from upcycled wood chips, a seat that prevents unnecessary laundry, and more. Check out these unconventional chairs debuting in Eindhoven.
Dutch Design Week 2024: fifteen must-visit destinations in Eindhoven
Dutch Design Week 2024: bio-sensitive concrete encouraging spontaneous urban moss growth, a choir of AI robots, and more.
Edit Napoli 2024: Twelve Editorial Design Highlights at the Neapolitan Fair
Edit Napoli 2024: a library doubling as a herbarium, 3D-printed Mediterranean vessels, sculptural ping pong tables, beyond bold textiles, and more.
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.
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.
Noma Projects blends food and design in Copenhagen
During 3 Days of Design, Noma Projects opens the doors of the pioneering food lab of René Redzepi’s famed restaurant in the Danish Capital.
The Teenage Dreams exhibition explores teens’ design spaces
Festival tents, biogenetic materials, and selfie backdrops. The ‘Teenage Dreams’ design exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center shows what teenage bedrooms will look like.
3 Days of Design 2024: eight furniture collections debuting in Copenaghen
From sculptural wooden patchworks to crafted plastic furniture and lightweight coffins. We selected 8 eclectic furniture collections debuting in Copenaghen.
3 Days of Design 2024: Ten must-visit exhibitions in Copenhagen
Teenagers’ bedrooms, knitted Icelandic pizzas, and trainers in a pastel-coloured Nordic palette. Copenhagen’s 3 Days of Design 2024 celebrates the future of Danish creativity and beyond.
WANTED 2024: Eight highlights at the ‘Look Book’ design exhibition
WANTED 2024: Postmodern apocalyptic furniture, repurposed lobster cages, Arab lighthouse-inspired lamps, and more.
ICFF 2024: Seven highlights at ‘The Crossroads’ exhibition dedicated to responsible American design
ICFF 2024: A design tool kit upcycling unwanted t-shirts, Meccano-like furniture, seats harnessing the sustainable culture of cork production, and more.
Under Present Conditions: New Sustainable Design Perspectives from New York
Paul Cocksedge, Max Lamb, Estúdio Campana, Erez Nevi Pana, and other designers explore unconventional furniture-making techniques at Friedman Benda’s ‘Under Present Conditions’ exhibition.
‘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.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2024: Ten Highlights at London’s buzziest design district
Clerkenwell Design Week 2024: a whimsical helter-skelter, quirky gatekeepers under a medieval gatehouse and an audiovisual installation in a former prison.
NYCxDESIGN 2024: 15 design highlights in New York City
NYCxDESIGN 2024: New York gears up for a healthy design dose. The metropolis-wide creative festival takes over the city. Check out what we like the most!
Ten convivial table design projects at Milan Design Week 2024
The joy of sharing a meal took centre stage in Milan. We selected ten convivial table design installations, projects, and exhibitions.
Designers ‘On the Trestle’: Secondome challenges six Italian designers
A deceiving throne, a table inspired by flowing lava, a totemic geometric structure, shelves and consoles with moulded Murano glass sheets, and an introspective cage-like design. Six designers work with wood, exploring the concept of the trestle.