London Design Festival
Explore London Design Festival with Wallpaper* for the latest insights into its art, design, and cultural offerings.
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What to see at London Design Festival 2026Here's what to see at London Design Festival 2026 (12–20 September), where craft, architecture and technology meet across city-wide landmark installations and museum commissions
By Jamilah Rose-Roberts Last updated
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Isabel + Helen celebrate their studio's first decade with an exhibition that gives you glimpse into their creative process (and things you can buy)London Design Festival 2026: the creative world's literal movers and shakers, Isabel + Helen mark ten years of the studio at The Conran Shop with an exhibition (12-20 September 2026 ) titled 'Motion Sickness', looking back at a decade of experiential kinetic design
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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POoR Collective celebrates London housing estates in its debut rug design for Floor StoryFor its debut rug design, POoR Collective translates tower-block architecture into a joyful and optimistic flatwoven pattern
By Ali Morris Published
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Lee Broom’s hypnotic lighting installation creates a sultry atmosphereFor London Design Festival 2026, British designer Lee Broom expands his ‘Chant’ collection with varying compositions that are a nostalgic nod to the 1970s
By Tianna Williams Published
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The new 'Made x Barbican' collection features furniture and lighting inspired by sculptural BrutalismThe 'Made x Barbican' collection turns the London brutalist landmark's signature architectural elements into a series of contemporary furniture pieces
By Léa Teuscher Published
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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.
By Ali Morris Published
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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
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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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
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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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
By Ali Morris Published
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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
By Ali Morris Published
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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
By Tianna Williams Published
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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
By Emma Moore Published
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Material Matters: Grant Gibson reflects on his popular design fair, about to open at LDF 2025As Material Matters returns to London Design Festival from 17-21 September, we catch up with founder Grant Gibson to learn more about crucial material conversations in contemporary design
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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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
By Ali Morris Published
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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'.
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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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
By Clare Dowdy Published
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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
By Ali Morris Published
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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
By Henrietta Thompson Published
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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
By Maghie Ghali Published
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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
By Jack Moss Published
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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
By Francesca Perry Published
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What not to miss at London Design Festival 2025We bring you the best new installations, exhibitions and products to launch at London Design Festival 2025 (13–21 September)
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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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
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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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
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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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
By Jonathan Bell Published
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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
By Jonathan Bell Published
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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
By Anna Solomon Published


