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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
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The international design fairs shaping 2026Passports at the ready as Wallpaper* maps out the year’s best design fairs, from established fixtures to new arrivals.
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Six lighting designs we discovered at London Design Festival 20252025 was a year of great lights at London Design Festival: from leading lighting companies and emerging makers, here are six illuminating designs our team discovered across the city's exhibitions
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London Design Festival 2025: live updates from the Wallpaper* teamFrom 11-21 September, London is celebrating design in all its forms. Here's the latest news, launches and other goings-on from London Design Festival 2025, as seen by Wallpaper* editors
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‘Sleep is a fragile thing – we need to treat it as a precious commodity': Heatherwick on reclaiming bedtime from our phonesHeatherwick Studio and Tala debut 'Wake', a bedside light for a calmer start and end to the day
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Aram Gallery spotlights a pioneering material that could be upholstered furniture’s less toxic futureAt Aram Gallery for London Design Festival 2025, eight designers experiment with EcoLattice’s 3D-printed foam to showcase the material’s comfort, creativity, and everyday use
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Seven designers rethinking wood at London Design FestivalAt this year’s London Design Festival, wood proves itself anything but static. We highlight seven designers shaping, colouring, and engineering it in surprising ways
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Oliver Spencer’s orbiting installation offers a meditative shopping experience during London Design FestivalAt Oliver Spencer’s Shoreditch store, a sensory light installation by Studio Rhythmics offers a calming moment during LDF
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These benches are made from £2.5m worth of shredded banknotesYou could be sitting on a fortune this London Design Festival, as the Bank of England Museum explores the creative repurposing of waste with furniture made from decommissioned banknotes
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Explore the design and history of the humble camping tent in a new book‘The Camping Tent’ by Typologie reframes a familiar object, revealing its complexity and cultural weight – and invites us to look at it anew
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Insert here: London Design Festival gets intimate with design to go inside the bodyAt London Design Festival, Heirloom Studio showcases 36 objects – some life-saving, some pleasure-giving, all 'insertable'.
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Shop the best Japanese wares at Nakagawa's London pop-upJapanese craft retailer Nakagawa has made its European debut, with a pop-up unveiled in time for London Design Festival
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Is this the world’s most comfortable sofa? Cozmo and Pearson Lloyd invite you to find outPearson Lloyd and Cozmo lay bare the design process behind ‘Hug’, their new high-backed sofa design, at the eye-opening exhibition ‘Comfort Lab’ during LDF
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Feldspar's furniture is designed to make you smileFeldspar's furniture debut includes a dining table, side tables, a bench, a floor lamp and the possibility of a cheval mirror, all made in their workshop in Devon
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A family home turns into an immersive exhibition space for London Design FestivalCeramicist Emma Louise Payne displays design in domestic surrounds for group show ‘The Objects We Live By’
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Ramzi Mallat’s London Design Festival installation is a bittersweet ode to BeirutCreated as a memorial to the 2020 Beirut Port Blast, Mallat's ‘Not Your Martyr’ installation at the V&A (until 19 October 2025) is made of 260 colourful glass ma’amouls
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The story behind a one-of-a-kind Dieter Rams handbag, reborn by German leather brand TsatsasA new exhibition at Vitsœ’s London store celebrates the ‘931’ bag, designed by Dieter Rams for his wife Ingeborg in 1963 and reborn over half a century later in a collaboration between Rams and German leather accessories brand Tsatsas
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A travelling exhibition of chairs hits the road for London Design Festival 2025Organised by Design Everything, ‘A Seat at the Table’ travels to different venues in the city, where the chairs support communal events
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The David Collins Foundation celebrates creativity in all its forms at London Design FestivalThe David Collins Foundation presents ‘Convergence’ at the Lavery during London Design Festival 2025 (on view until 19 September), featuring works from the Arts Foundation’s annual Futures Awards
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'How creativity can transform our world': meet the winners of the 2025 London Design MedalsThe London Design Medals 2025 are awarded to Michael Anastassiades, Norman Foster, Sinéad Burke and Rio Kobayashi
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A new exhibition of Otl Aicher’s graphic work delves into the legendary designer’s processAs part of London Design Festival 2025, ‘Otl Aicher: The Legacy Archive’ explores rare items from the Aicher family collection as well as graphic art for sale
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Terence Woodgate and John Barnard create sculptural furniture from carbon fibreTwo legendary designers have brought the worlds of collectible design and motorsport together with a celebration of carbon fibre’s structural and sculptural qualities
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'I feel Terence would approve': Inside Francis Sultana's new collection for the Conran ShopThe line, launching just in time for the London Design Festival, marks a stylish return to the legendary store's roots
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Lee Broom’s brutalist-inspired ‘Beacon’ will light up London as Big Ben strikes the hourSet to pulse through London Design Festival 2025 (13-22 September) and beyond, the British industrial designer’s sculptural light installation on the South Bank draws on its surroundings
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Alex Tieghi-Walker unveils his plans for Brompton Design District 2025Ahead of London Design Festival 2025, we catch up with New York gallerist Alex Tieghi-Walker about his appointment as curator of the Brompton Design District programme
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‘At its best, it's all an act of love’: Apparatus’ Gabriel Hendifar on building a cult design brandFor our interview series with those lighting up London Design Festival 2024, Apparatus’ co-founder Gabriel Hendifar reflects on the New York brand's future, and its first year in London
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‘If there wasn't a demand for design that fits the psyche of the day, we'd still be sitting on Victorian furniture,’ Sheridan Coakley, SCP founderAs part of our London Design Festival 2024 interview series, Sheridan Coakley speaks about four decades of the fair
