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.
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.
Sabine Marcelis’ Roll x cc-tapis moves beyond the two-dimensional rug
Inspired by the simple gesture of unrolling a carpet, Roll is a rug-turned-seat suspended between function and sculpture.
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.
Paris Deco Off 2026: Six Adventurous Textile Journeys
From lush French gardens to exotic forests and cosmic voyages, Paris Deco Off 2026 interweaves tactile patterns and adventurous storytelling in textile and wallpaper design.
The Lost Cloth Object: Stephen Burks and ALPI Reimagine Traditional Congolese Textiles in Wood
At Design Miami, The Last Cloth Object capsule collection translates textile traditions of the ancient Kuba Kingdom into innovative wood design.
Weaving The Landscape: Stitching Sustainable Design Stories
Through colour, thread, and craft, designers are weaving the landscape into a living, poetic narrative that brings people together.
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.
Umbra Pavilion Weaves Solar Power into Public Space
In Eindhoven, Pauline van Dongen’s innovative solar-powered fabric captures the sun’s energy and glows at her Umbra Pavilion, a kite-like architecture weaving light, technology, and care for our planet.
CHROMA multi-sensory exhibition celebrates Swiss design in NYC
The CHROMA exhibition is a “playground for the senses,” inviting visitors to touch, feel, and explore Swiss craftsmanship and design.
JoAnn Tan and Luca Nichetto design magical beasts for Bolon’s Exodus installation
At the Exodus installation, a serpent-like hybrid creature, oversized bugs, migrating birds, and a blue pangolin populate a historic Milanese house.
Masquespacio explores how spaces shape our feelings with the ‘Sensora’ exhibition
In Milan, Élitis welcomes visitors to a sensory journey in three acts, highlighting how colours, shapes, and textures influence our state of mind.
The Enfold Pavilion by DEOND is a “Holistic Embrace of Body and Technology”
Entirely crafted from corrugated cardboard, the Enfold Pavilion features an AI-infused ‘second skin’ fabric that “could help treat anxiety and de-accelerate the mind and body.”
Paris Deco Off 2024: 7 vibrant geometries and patterns debuting in the Ville Lumière
Paris Deco Off 2024: Archipanic selected seven fabrics and wallpapers debuting at the so-called ‘fashion week for interior design.’ Vibrant geometries are trending.
Collect 2023: highlights and contemporary craft & design trends
Textiles and ceramics, contemporary art jewelry, the African diaspora’s cross-cultural fertilisation, and K-Culture are among the key trends of Collect 2023.
Paris Déco Off 2023: seven textile and wall decor designs debuting in the French capital
Textured poetries in abstract paper compositions, matte splashes, and stripey cushions inspired by Texas’ craft markets. Check what we liked the most at Paris Déco Off 2023, the so-called ‘fashion week for interior design.’
TAKT PROJECT’s ‘AS IT IS – EQUILIBRIUM FLOWER’ exhibition blooms in a Milanese church
The AS IT IS – EQUILIBRIUM FLOWER exhibition features a field of delicate textile vessels highlighting the harmony between man-made and nature.
DAE Graduation Show 2021: 8 projects by Design Academy Eindhoven graduates
DAE Graduation Show 2021: from human-made clouds to musical tennis tables and trauma healing garments… 8 out-of-the-box projects by Design Academy Eindhoven graduates.
Dutch Design Awards 2021: sustainable archipelagos and virtual fashion
The winners of Dutch Design Awards 2021 mark a new impetus for the design world that thrives on change and cross-pollination and radiates hopeful optimism.
KNIT! phygital exhibition: international designers explore the potential of Kvadrat’s textiles
Vibrant interlocked convivial chairs, duct-taped blankets and ceramic tableware moulded with a fabric imprint are among the projects by international emerging designers on show at Kvadrat’s KNIT! phygital exhibition.
Paris Deco Off 2020: Lou Reed’s songs, indigo monkeys, and an Art-Deco take on the Death Star
10 unexpected fabrics and wall coverings on show at Maison & Ojbet and Paris Deco Off 2020 bringing Persian bazars and graphical edens and Venician rippling reflections into the room.
PLISSE’ free standing washbasin by Paolo Ulian for Antonio Lupi
Paolo Ulian’s PLISSE’ sink is the ultimate Antonio Lupi bathroom design combining water-jet technology with pleated textile aesthetics.
6 architectural patterns for textiles, rugs and wallpapers thriving in Paris
From Renaissance perspectives to CAD software visualisations. 6 architectural patterns building up a trend at Maison & Objet and Paris Deco Off.
moooi’s Museum of Extinct Animals pays tribute to those beings who never made it to the XXI Century
After digging the dustiest museum archives around the globe moooi presents The Museum of Extinct Animals, an exhibition and collection featuring drawings of lost species, trimmed by imagination.
Maison & Objet and Paris Deco Off 2018: 8 textile designs by Tom Dixon, Inga Sempé, Dimore Studio and more
Hand-knotted bi-dimensional universes, women-empowering knitted stools and hand-woven sacred geometries. In Paris, 8 textile designs celebrated the art of weaving.
2017 NYCxDESIGN: 7 stunning design patterns in New York
Textiles made by rain, quilted graphic design and responsive wallpapers. We picked up 7 stunning design patterns in New York.
Half bug, half samurai: Long Neck armchair by Färg & Blanche for Bolon shows off in Stockholm
“Innovators at Heart” exhibition at Stockholm Furniture and Light Fair showcases Färg & Blanche’s Long Neck armchairs nesting visitors with a textile armour.
Touch Base: Design Academy Eindhoven responds to digitalism with a tactile exhibition
As design world seems to be projected into digital culture, students of Design Academy Eindhoven reflects on the importance of tactile experience with the TOUCH BASE, an exhibition you can digit with your bare fingers… and a petting zoo to actually caress instead of watching YouTube videos.
#techstyle exhibition showcases the forefront of high-tech fashion design
Boston Museum of Fine Arts presents #techstyle, an exhibition showcasing the tech-side of future catwalks. From Ralph Lauren’s phone charging bag to Iris Van Herpen’s Water Splash Crystallization dress but also an artificial leg and clothes that hug or change colour.
Iittala and Issey Miyake present a home collection for everyday rituals
Minimal and simple home collection by Iittala with fashion designer Issey Miyake highlights Japan and Finland increasingly similar aesthetics.