Eight Surface Design Collections At Cersaie 2026: Earth, Craft and Fossil Traces
From Japanese exquisite imperfections to woven patterns and walls with ears, literally. Cersaie 2026 showcased the state of the art of ceramic surface design.
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.
South African Rising Talents Shine at Maison & Objet 2026
Women-empowering knitted lamps, bold chairs and furniture rooted in traditional weaving. Seven South African rising talents make their mark in Paris.
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.
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.
Le Grand Bouquet: Uchronia’s Ode To Joy Blooms Inside The Grand Palais
Rooted in the Parisian palace’s ornamental language, Le Grand Bouquet was brought to life through local craft and materials.
Burning Man 2026 explored the connection between different realms
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.
Minestrone Workshop Stages Design-in-Progress in Helsinki
Minestrone Workshop showcases the power of collaborative design. A pavilion of thin wooden sheets at the Habitare fair features a workbench-inspired bench, a cantilevered seat built on architects’ squares, and more.
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.
Homo Faber 2026: fine craftsmanship shines in Venice
Homo Faber 2026 brings together 700 handcrafted objects from artisans around the world, staged within Es Devlin’s immersive installations. At its core, the biennial showcase “explores the fundamental relationship between light, materials and the human hand.”
Design Miami Seoul 2026: Korean Architecture, Craft and Technology in ‘Resonance’
At Design Miami Seoul 2026, a new generation of South Korean collectible design fuses material memory and local craft, updating the traditional idea of home.
Eteläranta 6: Where Helsinki’s Architecture and Design Museum Warms Up
Eteläranta 6 turns a century-old Jugend apartment into Helsinki’s meeting point for design, community, and what comes next. A temporary, thoughtful prologue built on reuse, not replacement, waiting for JKMM Architects’ new Architecture and Design Museum.
Marimekko takes over Matti Suuronen’s iconic Futuro House during Helsinki Design Week
Marimekko brings its distinctive visual language to Matti Suuronen’s space-age icon, setting bold textiles and playful patterns against the Futuro House’s futuristic curves. It’s an unlikely but fitting dialogue between architecture, print and materiality.
Helsinki Design Week 2026: Ten Highlights In The Finnish Capital
A wild mushroom bar, a pavilion devoted to darkness, a Space Age house reimagined — Helsinki Design Week 2026 champions the creativity that sparks when people, ideas and places genuinely meet.
Euro Banknotes Redesigns Explore Europe’s Identity
Ten designs, one currency, a continent deciding how it wants to see itself. Whether it’s Maria Callas or a kingfisher on the note, Euro banknotes are about to get a lot more personal.
Inside Design Parade 2026: French Riviera’s Design Fest
Southern France thrives with creativity: Design Parade 2026 spotlights Magritte-inspired interiors, candle clocks, hybrid lamps, and Pre-Columbian Pokémons.
Crosby Studios’ ‘Home of Football: Home & Away’ exhibition explores soccer’s cultural legacy in New York
Pelé’s 1958 World Cup jersey, rare memorabilia and a bright green carpet: fashion, art, and design collide at the ‘Home of Football’ showcase, exploring soccer as a catalyst for identity, creativity and belonging.
The Design of the Match Ball of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Carries Three Flags
The Official Match Ball for the tournament layers embossed textures, host-nation colours and graphics, and is empowered by cutting-edge technology.
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.
Bread & Butter 2026: designers explore bathing routines through intimate pairings
Teapots, pitchers, soap trays, brush holders – In Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explores bathing rituals through design pairings across cultures.
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.
Genova Design Week 2026: Five Highlights in the Italian city
From a compact home in a shipping container to totemic sculptures 3D-printed from reclaimed marine plastic, Genova Design Week 2026 explored the theme Equilibrium through a thoughtful programme of sustainable installations.
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.
Melbourne Design Week 2026: Eight Exhibitions That Resonated
Champagne buckets, cutlery as philosophy, and 100 chairs. Melbourne Design Week 2026 celebrated craft, material, and process.