
London Design Festival 2026: Seven Debuts Across the Thames
An aluminium 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.

An aluminium 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.
Hype-free architecture and design.

From a broken Eiffel Tower balanced between collapse and hope, to a sinking Titanic staging nightly fire spectacles, and a gothic folly built with no doctrine at all — Burning Man 2026 proved that the desert can still summon architecture with a pulse.

Paris Design Week 2026 features exhibitions and installations reimagining the Arc de Triomphe and La Bastille, while historic courtyards and gardens frame mesmerising showcases.

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.

Five architects, one shared idea: the stacked house, reinvented as hotel, gallery, tower and neighbourhood in miniature.

The best of interior design from retail to private homes... As long as it is conceived for everyday lives.
