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.
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.
Beyond the Obvious: Hazel Villena on Latin Design Identity
Being a Latin designer in a city as open-minded as New York comes with fewer barriers than one might expect — yet, as Hazel Villena notes, there remains a quiet pressure: “expectation that our work should look visibly Latin.”
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.
Light Fantastic: Twelve eccentric lighting designs shine in NYC
NYCxDESIGN 2026: the eccentric lighting designs turning New York’s nights into something worth staying up for.
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.
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.
Richard Yasmine’s wartime-crafted Vessels of the Intangible collection
“It has never been so difficult to be in Milan,” shares Lebanese designer Richard Yasmine, whose Vessels of the Intangible collection was crafted with local artisans amid conflict.
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.
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.
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.
IKEA and Sabine Marcelis reimagine the iconic VARMBLIXT at CES
The updated VARMBLIXT features colour-shifting and dimmable light, letting the atmosphere at home evolve and transform.
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.
In Action! Kiki & Joost Celebrate 25 Years of Design
From Tapestries to Lighting, Kiki & Joost opened their studio for the In Action exhibition and shared insights on design, collaboration, and their creative journey.
Six Nature-Inspired Outdoor Lighting Designs That Bring Poetry to Summer Nights
From soft glows to gentle motion, these outdoor lighting designs seamlessly blend with nature to transform gardens and terraces into enchanting landscapes.
Euroluce 2025: twelve unconventional lighting designs shining at Salone del Mobile
Euroluce 2025: tiny car lamps racing on an electric toy track, a creasable luminous tapestry, a ‘messy’ chandelier in total white, 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.
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.
‘The Sun, My Heart’ installation synchronises your heart with solar rhythms
‘The Sun, My Heart’ evocative installation by Marjan van Aubel in London aims to expand awareness of our relationship with the celestial body.
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.
Design Wanted Manhattan 2023: seven standing out furniture and lighting designs
Ghost limb furniture and yellow-coated plate steel totemic lamps. Seven highlights at Design Wanted Manhattan 2023.
Pic-a-stic lamp by Andreas Walther for Ingo Maurer
The playful Pic-a-stic lamp by Ingo Maurer GMbH continues the poetic and playful design language of the late brand’s founder Ingo Maurer.
Five unconventional chandeliers shining at Milan Design Week 2023
A total blue Venetian chandelier, ‘desacralized’ cascades of light, luminous balances interweaving nature with technology, and more. Five unconventional chandeliers reimagining The Great Classic with contemporary values.
The Crystal Beat installation by Preciosa Lighting synchronises light and music
At Salone del Mobile, Preciosa Lighting invites visitors to experience the Crystal Beat installation featuring a grid of hand-blown crystal tubes glowing along with music.
Euroluce 2023: 16 lighting designs shining in Milan
A giant cloud chandelier, a signature-like lamp, a Wassily Kandinsky-inspired fashionable hat turned into a light, a glowing grid pulsing with music, and more. Sixteen out-of-the-box lighting designs at Euroluce 2023.
Wand lamp by Martinelli Luce
Light, geometrical and neat. The wand lamp is the perfect portable table lamp by Martinelli Luce for indoor and outdoor spaces.
Knit lamp by Meike Harder for Vibia
Defined by tensed textiles and organic forms, the Knit lamp by German designer Meike Harde diffuses an intimate glow in the room.