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.
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.
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.
Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ kinetic installation blooms and glows in Venice
A poetic choreography of suspended luminous flowers dances with the waves in Studio DRIFT’s ‘Shy Society’ installation during the Venice Art Biennale.
ALMA WATER: Sara Ricciardi pays tribute to the sea of Sardinia
ALMA WATER transformed Milan’s Cavallerizze into a maternal embrace of billowing fabric, resonant drums, and the eternal rhythm of the sea.
Methamorphosis in Motion: getting lost in Lina Ghotmeh’s pink maze
The Metamorphosis in Motion installation takes over a stunning Milanese courtyard with vibrant colour, bringing people together.
Inverse Ruin: Gijs Van Vaerenbergh’s Impossible Temple Is Suspended in Time
The ‘Inverse Ruin’ installation reimagines an ancient temple from the top down as a floating structure — and reframes the way we look at ruins altogether.
Chatai: A convivial Japanese design tea space in Dubai
With the Chatai pavilion, Nikken Sekkei and Sobokuya bring Japanese tea rituals and culture to Dubai within a handcrafted architecture, blending tradition and community.
The Space Within: Crafting Architecture from Desert Sand
ARDH Collective’s ‘The Space Within’ installation reimagines desert sand and date seeds as an elegant celebration of sustainability at Dubai Design Week.
Stories of the Isle and the Inlet: weaving Bahraini ecology
Through texture, pattern, and memory, the Stories of the Isle and the Inlet installation in Dubai reminds us that design can preserve what time seeks to erase — one stitch at a time.
Designlab Experience designs a ‘woven forest’ floating and glowing in Dubai
Step into this unexpected Woven Forest in the heart of the Emirati metropolis. Light weaves through bamboo and steel, creating a poetic dance of craft, nature, and contemporary design.
Duette Creates an Ephemeral Garden of Light in Dubai
Duette transforms fleeting winter blooms into a luminous, mesmerising experience, where design meets poetry and wonder.
The Ripple Effect: Alicja Patanowska Reflects on Water and Shared Responsibility at the V&A in London
For The Ripple Effect installation, Alicja Patanowska crafts a space for rest and reflection on our relationship with natural resources. Through craft, “even discarded matter can be given new meaning and life.”
London Design Festival 2025: Five Key Installations at the V&A
From futuristic garments to AI-empowering stones, these five key installations highlight themes of peace, ecology, identity, and community.
Lee Broom’s Beacon installation glows like an urban chandelier on the Thames
Inspired by London’s Southbank Brutalist architecture and street lamps, Beacon pulses with the city’s pace with sustainable innovation.
Paul Cocksedge invites Londoners to see ‘What Nelson Sees’ in Trafalgar Square
The British designer’s “What Nelson Sees” installation invites visitors to experience London’s skyline from the Admiral’s perspective, as well as watch an AI-generated film on the city’s transformation from the past into the future.
POMPEII-X by Jimmy Delatour is a design glitch merging Ancient echoes with futuristic visions
POMPEII-X furniture collection blends ancient Roman aesthetics with a contemporary twist. Inspired by Quantum Physics theories, parallel realities, and how new technologies can alter history and facts, the collection wasn’t purposely AI-generated to highlight today’s new paradox.
Maison&Objet Shines a Spotlight on Seven German Talents
These seven German talents offer a glimpse into the future—where heritage and modernity blend into something truly inspiring.
Spinning Around: Sophia Taillet Designs a Hypnotic Dance of Mirrors in the Heart of Paris
Nine rotating mirrors choreograph a silent ballet under the open sky in the courtyard of the Bibliothèque Historique de la Ville de Paris.
Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau’s ‘Labyrinthe’ in Paris is half fairytale, half design playground
Get lost in a maze of design at the Hôtel de la Marine. Jérémy Pradier-Jeauneau created a whimsical ‘Labyrinthe’ of fabrics, myths, and treasures in the courtyard and halls of an 18th-century palace.
Burning Man 2025: architecture and design highlights from Black Rock City
A fractured black rock shrine, a cosmic light show, and a Brutalist pyramidal tower glowing in the desert — here’s what we loved most at Burning Man 2025!
Folie: A Multisensory Pause for the Mind at Hôtel de Sully
At Paris Design Week, the Folie installation blends design, fragrance, and sound into a haven for mental well-being.”
London Design Festival 2025: sixteen not-to-be-missed installations and exhibitions
An urban chandelier glowing along the Southbank and a city view from Admiral Nelson’s perspective in Trafalgar Square—London Design Festival 2025 is full of surprises. Think visionary sustainable materials, AI co-designed self-portraits, camping tents, and a legendary 1980s nightclub.
Sculpting Solitude: Faire le vide Brings Art and Architecture to a Remote Island in Quebec
Luca Fortin and Atelier mock/up’s ‘Faire le vide’ is a hidden secret alcove in a quiet conversation with the surrounding forest and water.
Water flows inspire Arthur Mamou-Mani’s Harmonic Tides installation in London
Architect Arthur Mamou-Mani unveils ‘Harmonic Tides’, a glowing, wave-like 3D-printed corridor for Clerkenwell Design Week 2025.
Alex Chinneck’s ‘A Week at the Knees’ installation features a rippling facade that’s simply had enough
Commissioned by Clerkenwell Design Week, ‘A Week at the Knees’ brings a playful twist to the London festival. Indeed, this is no ordinary building.
Robert Wilson sculpts with light the unfinishedness of Michelangelo’s masterpiece
Salone del Mobile presents Mother, a poetic installation by acclaimed light artist Robert Wilson in dialogue with Michelangelo’s Pietà Rondanini at Castello Sforzesco.
Es Devlin creates a rotating ‘Library of Light’ during Milan Design Week
The Library of Light is an 18-metre diameter revolving cylindrical sculpture formed of illuminated bookshelves containing over 3,000 volumes.
The ‘Light in Motion’ exhibition pushes the boundaries of art, design and technology
Futuristic kinetic blooms, glowing celestial bodies, and glowing tech crafts. London-based designers, artists, and engineers explore Light in Motion, bringing forward ideas about space, movement, and time.