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.”
Craft x Tech Tokai Project: When Japanese Artisans Meet International Designers
The Craft x Tech Tokai Project exhibition at the V&A explores the future of traditional craft through cross-cultural collaborations, from translucent paper screens to porcelain furniture.
Studio Saar’s Pangolin Shield Pavilion Reflects On Britain And India’s Colonial Legacies
In London, the Pangolin Shield Pavilion features a bamboo grid covered with shields used both for protection and aggression.
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.
LANZA Atelier reveals visuals of Serpentine Pavilion 2026
In London, the Serpentine Pavilion 2026 takes shape around one of the most charming features of the English garden: a gently curving brick wall that forms one defining side of the structure.
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.
Comfort Lab by Pearson Lloyd: inside the unconventional design process of an embracing sofa
With the Comfort Lab exhibition, Pearson Lloyd and Cozmo reveal the ‘thinking through making’ approach behind the high-backed Hub sofa.
Material Matters 2025: Seven Sustainable Highlights in London
Designers experiment with salt, bioplastics, pine resin and algorithms at Material Matters 2025. Check out what we liked the most.
Beyond Foam: Aram Gallery Showcases A Sustainable Design Alternative to Polyurethane Foam
In London, EcoLattice’s Beyond Foam exhibition presents a recyclable 3D-printed solution for upholstered furniture and tasks emerging talents to rethink comfort in design.
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.
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.
Pictograms: How Japanese Design Shaped a Universal Visual Language
At Japan House London, a new exhibition celebrates the global impact of pictograms, those clever little icons we see everywhere, from street signs to smartphone screens, with a special focus on Japanese design.
2025 London Design Biennale: Ten Highlights at Somerset House
The 2025 London Design Biennale explores how design shapes and reflects our own experiences as well as the identities of countries.
The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion Blends Light, Memory and Community
A Capsule in Time, Marina Tabassum’s 2025 Serpentine Pavilion, celebrates summer park-going with a light-filled architecture inspired by traditional Bangladeshi gathering spaces.
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.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2025: Eight Must-Visit Exhibitions in London’s most vibrant design district
A rippling brick facade, a magnetic interactive installation in a former prison and a church-turned-design stage. The best of Clerkenwell Design Week 2025 is on Archipanic.
Collect fair’s Isobel Dennis on the new generation of collectors
“Younger collectors are particularly drawn to authenticity, personal narratives, and the deep artistic investment behind each piece,” Collect fair’s director Isobel Dennis told Archipanic in this exclusive interview.
Material Matters 2024 showcased the status of the art of sustainable material innovation
At Material Matters 2024 in London, designers worked with plant roots, hemp, fishing nets and human hair for a more sustainable future.
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.
Johnnie Walker presents the world’s lightest whisky bottle
The world’s lightest whisky bottle is also the protagonist of a mesmerising installation by Marshmallow Laser Feast at The Old Selfridges Hotel during London Design Week.
‘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.
Stefan Diez’s Vert pavilion is a ‘greening machine’ boosting urban biodiversity at London Design Festival
Within a courtyard at Chelsea College of Arts in London, the Vert pavilion is a cutting-edge, sustainable, modular urban-cooling timber structure designed to tune with cities’ infrastructure.
Pavilions of Wonder playfully highlight the link between Barbie’s homes and Palm Springs’ architecture
What do Albert Frey’s Mid-Century Modernist villas in Palm Springs and Barbie’s Dreamhouses have in common? Explore Nina Tolstrup’s playful ‘Pavilions of Wonder’ at London Design Festival.