Design Events
The best of the year's design events calendar, compiled by Wallpaper*
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Inside the Cooper Hewitt's star-studded National Design Awards galaThe annual celebration served up cakes shaped like design icons and dished out subtle rebukes
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Our favourite things presented at Afternoon Light this yearFrom rare reissues to bespoke listening rooms, these are the best presentations and launches at the New York design fair, now in its sophomore year
By Adrian Madlener Published
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Inside Wallpaper's epic New York Design Week party with Hello Human and Public RecordsWe headed to Brooklyn Friday night to celebrate New York's diverse creative scene – and dance the night away
By Tianna Williams Published
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Five things to see at London Craft Week 2026With an emphasis on keeping heritage crafts alive, London Craft Week 2026 (11-17 May) offers a city-wide programme of exhibitions to discover artisanal excellence from established and emerging makers
By Francesca Perry Published
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Here’s what to see at NYCxDesign 2026, according to our editorsMark your calendars and start your engines, because New York's biggest design celebration is back, 14-20 May. Here's what to see
By Anna Fixsen Published
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Joris Laarman is reimagining design’s relationship with natureThe Dutch designer’s exhibition at Friedman Benda in New York (until 24 July 2026) suggests a future in which furniture can provide a resting place for non-human life, too
By Malaika Byng Published
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The late, great Pauline Deltour is honoured with an exhibition at the newly revamped MADD BordeauxDesigned by Konstantin Grcic and Caroline Perret, ‘Pauline Deltour: An Apparent Simplicity’ (until 21 September 2026) is one of the inaugural exhibitions of the reborn Musée Des Arts Décoratifs Et Du Design
By Minako Norimatsu Published
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Discover Andrea Branzi through the eyes of his friend, Toyo Ito, at a major new exhibitionBespoke Partnership
Conceived by Branzi’s long-term friend and collaborator, the exhibition at Triennale Milano offers a fluid, personal reading while tracing a career that reshaped contemporary design
By Gavin Hastings Published
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Milan Design Week by night: the best parties from a week of designFrom a dinner on the stage of La Scala to a late party with Honey Dijon on the decks, these are some of our favourite after-dark happenings at Milan Design Week 2026
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Giacomo Moor gives this Salone del Mobile fair booth a second lifeThe Milan-based designer Giacomo Moor has devised a novel construction system that will allow QuadroDesign’s Salone del Mobile 2026 booth to be repurposed as a public restroom in rural Zambia
By Laura May Todd Published
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Seven experiential installations to see, hear, smell and interact with in MilanAttention please, these spaces populated by self-playing instruments, a pink maze, a mythical garden and wafting foliage are all trying to tell us something at Milan Design Week
By Ifeoluwa Adedeji Published
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Rosewood’s ‘Objects That Speak, a conversation continued with Andrea Branzi’ gets Milan Design Week talkingBespoke Partnership
Rosewood’s immersive installation explores design as a reflection of place, bringing together works by Andrea Branzi and a global roster of contemporary designers, artists and makers
By Gavin Hastings Published
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What is Contract? Everything you need to know about Salone 2027’s biggest innovationSalone Contract 2027 was announced earlier this year as one of Salone del Mobile’s major shake-ups under the presidency of Maria Porro; here, we explain everything about the global design fair’s newest project, led by OMA
By Ellie Stathaki Published
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Rosewood’s Milan Design Week debut offers calm amid ‘the craziness’, says curator Deyan SudjicA quiet installation honouring Andrea Branzi traces the hotel group’s evolving relationship with design
By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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The female creatives defining Milan Design Week 2026For Milan Design Week 2026, we look at the work of nine leading female designers, curators and entrepreneurs who are defining creativity during design’s most exciting week of the year
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Ikea reveals new furniture, teases a meatball lollipop and feeds design fans at Milan Design WeekThe Swedish brand blends gastronomy and design in an immersive showcase, ‘Food for Thought’, at Spazio Maiocchi
By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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‘I had to build my own hotel to get a room in Milan’: Tom Dixon gets into beds with VispringThe two British brands showcase the results of their collaboration with a takeover of the Mua Mua Hotel on Milan’s Mulino Estate
By Ifeoluwa Adedeji Published
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Alcova transforms a modernist villa and military hospital for Milan Design Week 2026A previously unseen Albini armchair, an immersive chapel installation and the fact that these venues are rarely open to the public make them two of the most talked-about stops of the week
By Anna Solomon Published
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Paper logs, paper chairs and eerie sculptural forms have landed at Issey Miyake in MilanDuring Milan Design Week 2026, ‘The Paper Log: Shell and Core’, at the Issey Miyake Milan flagship store, explores the potential of paper as a three-dimensional material
By Danielle Demetriou Published
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Design adventures in glass mark 70 years of Gallotti & Radice at Milan Design Week 2026As Gallotti & Radice turns 70, it reflects on its past, present and future as a glass pioneer, and showcases new work by female designers in Milan
By Laura May Todd Published
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12 designers draw on Uzbek craft for a mesmerising Milan Design Week showUzbekistan’s intricate traditional bread stamps, local flora and suzani tapestries inspire contemporary creations by international designers, on show now in Milan
By Marwa El Mubark Published
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Ai Weiwei redefines textile art with Rubelli at Milan Design Week 2026An immersive installation in Milan weaves together history, activism and experimentation with precious threads; we speak with Ai Weiwei about his first foray into silk
By Cristina Kiran Piotti Published
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Kwangho Lee creates his first woven leather works at Bottega Veneta’s Milan store‘It’s just like playing,’ says the designer of creating the Milan Design Week installation in situ, a twisting mass of leather cords, swooping around the store’s water feature like vines
By Ali Morris Published
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Dive into USM’s bubbly breathing space at Milan Design Week 2026Developed with experience designer Annabelle Schneider and Snøhetta, the installation invites design week visitors to slow down for a bit
By Adrian Madlener Published
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Lose yourself in Lina Ghotmeh’s pink maze within Milan’s Palazzo Litta courtyard‘Metamorphosis in Motion’ for MoscaPartners is a labyrinth designed to slow visitors down during a busy Milan Design Week
By Ifeoluwa Adedeji Published
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Rethinking the bathroom experience with Villeroy & Boch Group’s multisensory installation in MilanBespoke Partnership
Milan Design Week will see the group bring together two of its power brands in an installation exploring the bathroom as a continuously evolving ecosystem
By Gavin Hastings Published
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DesignSingapore Council presents ‘Prototype Island’ at Milan Design Week 2026Bespoke Partnership
Fifteen works by Singapore-based designers showcase the nation’s evolving approach to solving global challenges through design and technology
By Gavin Hastings Published


