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‘Precision with soul’: Cubitts sets up shop in Manchester with a store that celebrates the cityThe eyewear company collaborates with Manchester design studio Youth to create a shop that respects the building’s past while reflecting the city’s future
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‘The Nue Black Aesthetic’ maps the diasporic voices shaping design todayThe Design Museum in London announces a new exhibition (6 November 2026 to 8 August 2027) bringing together 16 contemporary Black designers; guest curator Charlene Prempeh tells us about exploring identity, the diaspora and who gets to shape the design canon
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The New Balance factory is updated with a restorative outdoor space for workersNew Balance and jewellery designer Bleue Burnham collaborate on a new horticultural project for its factory in Cumbria, a reflection of the footwear brand’s belief that exceptional craftsmanship begins with happiness
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Yinka Ilori’s new book gives his celebrated chairs a voice‘Chairman’ reveals how one of design’s most familiar objects became the starting point for more than a decade of work
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Island Records and EMI’s London HQ is designed like an art museumAt the new Island Records and EMI King’s Cross office, works by Annie Leibovitz, Thierry Noir, Jeremy Deller, Corbin Shaw, and Anton Corbijn are housed in a space by Interesting Projects
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‘Cinephiles are the best storytellers’: inside the LA offices of Neon Rated, designed to capture the ethos of filmmakingThe offices of boundary-pushing LA film production company Neon Rated by Studio Muka reference old Hollywood and cinematic storytelling through a design lens
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The Design Drop: 12 launches we love this monthFrom a redressed 1970s sofa to the scent of the summer, we round up the design objects we couldn’t stop thinking about this month
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This finely crafted bookstand by Marc Newson is the ultimate showcase for heftier tomesThe designer and longstanding Taschen collaborator’s bookstand weighs 14 kg and is the perfect tool to display the publisher’s oversized volumes
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Meet Trone, the brand creating sculptural toilets worth spending a penny onThe toilet is design’s last taboo. Trone founder Hugo Volpei is on a mission to change that – turning this most overlooked of objects into an object of desire
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Blue Green Works experiments with Murano glassThe latest lighting collection from Blue Green Works, sculpted in Murano glass, is an emotional ode to heartbreak, loss and vulnerability
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The ‘Mah Jong’ sofa has officially entered pop cultureWhat's a ‘Mah Jong’ sofa? Inspired by Charli XCX's shopping list in 'Card Declined', we take you on a deep dive into the history of one of contemporary design's most eclectic pieces of furniture
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Pirajean Lees’ Formentera retreat is designed for barefoot livingThe husband and wife founders of London design studio Pirajean Lees have transformed a neglected 1960s house in Formentera into their own relaxed island home
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This private art collection offers a chronicle of queer life across two centuriesMuch of the work in Ron Zuckerman’s San Francisco flat was illegal in midcentury America, so was created, printed and distributed privately, only existing to this day thanks to a host of tenacious and courageous collectors
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These five design studios embody a new kind of American DreamHailing from India, Vietnam, Korea, China and Poland, these creatives represent a new generation of global creatives that consider the US a meeting point of creative minds
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Design studio Kawabi’s lighting gives Chinese heritage a contemporary twistChinese folklore is reinterpreted in fresh takes on the lantern by New York studio Kawabi, part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
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This pine-shrouded Marseille villa is Eurosummer distilled to its most stylish formOn the Mediterranean coast, Sandrine Sarah Faivre reimagines a seaside villa built around the trees it refused to disturb
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Meet Minjae Kim, the designer who makes tradition feel tantalisingly contemporarySeoul-born, New York-based Minjae Kim has developed a practice that discreetly dips into his heritage to create a new contemporary language; he is part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
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The Sagrada Família’s final sculpture is lit by what ‘feels like pure magic’As Andrea Mastrovito’s monumental ‘Agnus Dei’ installation at the Sagrada Família is unveiled, Studio Waldemeyer illuminates the sculpture through invisible technology
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Resembling Dutch flower paintings, Dominik Tarabański’s photographs sit at the cusp of ‘synthetic and organic’The natural world is reinvented in the work of Polish-born, New York-based photographer Dominik Tarabański, part of our ‘American Dreams’ series of five US studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives
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Orior gives the humble foosball table a high-design makeoverThe Irish furniture house trades pub-tastic plastic for handcrafted luxury, turning a games room staple into a collectible design object
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‘A rug helps ground a room’: Design Within Reach’s new collection is more central to a space than a piece of artDesign Within Reach has collaborated with interior designer Little Wing Lee on a rug collection inspired by tradition and broken geometry
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How Soft Geometry's work reflects its founders' Indian legacyBased in LA, design studio Soft-Geometry's work embodies its founders memories of home in India, at the same time 'uncovering the underlying philosophies and natural behaviours that inform subcultures.' The profile is part of our American Dreams series, exploring the work of five American design studios whose founders embody a new generation of global creatives.
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Remembering Teruo Kurosaki, a creative entrepreneur who embodied Japan in the 1980sWallpaper* celebrates the legacy of Teruo Kurosaki, founder of the Tokyo-based furniture company Idée and custodian of aspiring designers from Marc Newson to Philippe Starck
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14 logos that defined American graphic design historyThis summer, our Anatomy of a Logo series looks at 14 examples of how creative ingenuity combined with design and brilliant marketing to give birth to some of the world's most celebrated logos
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‘We all need a little madness’: Mario Cucinella brings a living garden to Palermo’s Festino di Santa RosaliaA towering garden chariot designed by MCA takes centre stage at Palermo's centuries-old Festino di Santa Rosalia – a celebration of life, faith, liberation and belonging
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Federico Stefanovich looks under the sea for his ethereal new lighting collectionPresented by Mexico City gallery Ago Projects, Stefanovich’s Salina Collection harnesses the structural quality of marine organisms in fibreglass and bronze
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What we know so far about London Design Festival 2026London Design Festival 2026 (12–20 September) unveils its first projects, where craft, architecture and technology meet across city-wide landmark installations and museum commissions
