Latest articles by Hugo Macdonald
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A postcard from Stockholm Design Week 2025
Global design director, Hugo Macdonald, reports from the Scandinavian fair which, despite challenges, has much worth venturing into the Swedish winter for
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'A creative explosion' in the West End: Sarabande Foundation takes residency at Selfridges
Sarabande Foundation's ‘House of Bandits’ takes up residence with gusto in Selfridges for nine weeks
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This Flexform armchair, inspired by the uplifted lapels of a jacket, is a calculation in comfort
The ‘Eri’ armchair by Fumie Shibata for Flexform wins 'Best Comfort Zone' in the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025
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This curvy stovetop espresso maker brings a shot of artistry to your coffee ritual
‘The Anticline’ stovetop espresso maker by Cultivation Objects takes its name from a geological formation and wins a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025 for its curves
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Florim’s new ceramic surface collection is an ode to tactility
A primal pleasure, Matteo Thun and Benedetto Fasciana’s SensiTerre collection of ceramic flooring and cladding surfaces for Florim is a Wallpaper* Design Award winner
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Isabel + Helen on bringing the Wallpaper* Design Awards to life
Step behind the scenes of the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 cover. Designed by Isabel + Helen, it is a welcome reminder that we still have magic in our own minds and hands
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: Formafantasma revisits the masculine codes of modernist design
Formafantasma wins a Wallpaper* Design Award 2025, for its Milan exhibition ‘La Casa Dentro’, which took to task the inherent masculinity and conservatism at the heart of modernism
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We feel a growing passion for MycoWorks, the company inspiring beauty with fungal-based biomaterial
Reishi is a Wallpaper* Design Award winner, a new self-growing, biodegradable material by MycoWorks presented in a series of exquisite expressions of earthy and ethereal furniture, lighting and artworks
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Sleep happily ever after on Carl Hansen & Søn’s reissue of a Kaare Klint bed
Carl Hansen & Søn’s ‘Spherical’ bed is a worthy Wallpaper* Design Award 2025 winner, celebrating both the past and the future in one fell swoop
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Discover Interni Venosta, the new furniture label where craft and beauty speak for themselves
Interni Venosta, the new furniture label of Emiliano Salci and Britt Moran, is a perfectly pitched celebration of craft, quality and nostalgia- winning a Wallpaper* Design Award
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Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025: the best furniture and design objects for 2025
The Wallpaper* Design Awards 2025 present the best new furniture and interior accessories, while global design director Hugo Macdonald and head of interiors Olly Mason reveal what makes a winner
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Year in review: top 10 furniture launches of 2024, as selected by Wallpaper* global design director Hugo Macdonald
The furniture launches that wowed global design director Hugo Macdonald this year
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Christmas gift ideas for design lovers
Wallpaper* global design director Hugo Macdonald compiles his festive wish list – from Poltrona Frau's luxurious dog leads to Carl Aubock's wicker magazine wall rack
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Johanna Seelemann and Robert Damisch use design as a tool to carve a future for the craft community of their homeland
Designers Johanna Seelemann and Robert Damisch tell us about their 'fascination for unravelling the objects that we might take for granted' and finding an answer to unite both craft and design
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Complex and stimulating, Federico Stefanovich's industrial designs act like a bridge between culture and economics
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here Federico Stefanovich tells us about his increasing desire to find his own path
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Amelia Stevens' playful, minimalist design 'is geared towards beauty as a function of longevity'
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here we speak to Amelia Stevens about the multi-disciplinary joy of design
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Olorunfemi Adewuyi's community-oriented design honours local culture and tradition
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here we speak to Olorunfemi Adewuyi on his thoughts on how design has a social and democratic impetus
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Design practice Astraeus Clarke is inspired by cinema to tell a story and evoke an emotion
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here we speak to Chelsie and Jacob Starley the creative duo behind Astraeus Clarke
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For Agnes Studio 'what matters is the emotional part: how you connect with design and designed objects'
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here we speak to Agnes Studio about revitalising local traditions
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Stars ascending: 10 emerging designers to have on your radar
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. We profile ten creatives forging their own paths to success
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Alfred Lowe's joyful ceramics examine landscape and identity
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here we speak to Alfred Lowe about his colourful ceramics
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A theatrical and poetic vision meets minimalism in Pauline Leprince's interior design
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here Pauline Leprince tells us about utilising her imagination as a powerful design ally
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'I have to be hands on or I don’t understand the material potential' Marc Sweeney's tactile practice
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here we speak to Marc Sweeney about using design to inspire self-respect and motivation
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‘I began experimenting and haven’t really stopped,’ Miranda Keyes on working with glass
In a rapidly changing world, the route designers take to discover their calling is increasingly circuitous. Here we speak to Miranda Keyes about her forging her own path to success
