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Italian designer Enrico Marone Cinzano fuses natural perfection with industrial imperfection
Enrico Marone Cinzano's first solo show at New York’s Friedman Benda gallery debuts collectible furniture designs that marry organic materials with upcycled industrial components
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Postcard from Design Week Lagos 2024
Reporting from Nigeria’s capital during Design Week Lagos 2024, our correspondent shares his view from the streets and explores the role of design in economic evolution
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Design makes a welcome return to the Dakar Biennale, sounding a clarion call to Africa’s new creative generation
The Dakar Biennale 2024 (7 November – 7 December) includes design for the first time in 20 years; here are four designers to look out for and what the event means to them
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Hot metal: why shiny tableware is a holy grail of hosting
From a silvery modernist coffee pot to a perfectly poised stainless-steel candleholder, bring glimmer to dinner with shiny metal tableware
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Rug designer Sibylle de Tavernost’s homage to Fernand Léger
Abstract modern art, craft heritage and contemporary life fuse in Sibylle de Tavernost's new limited-edition rugs
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Brew were always on my mind: Pet Shop Boys release new tea set
As part of a new line of merchandise marking 40 years of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe celebrate the humble cuppa
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It’s the first-ever Design Mumbai: here’s what to see
At least 100 international and Indian brands will showcase at Design Mumbai, referencing India’s rich and storied heritage of craftsmanship and highly specialised craft clusters (6-9 November 2024)
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A landmark show by ‘the godfather of the modern collectible design movement’ opens at Ralph Pucci, New York
Parisian designer Hervé Van der Straeten unveils a large new collection at Ralph Pucci, celebrating his 20 years of collaboration with the New York master
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The Spirit of Paimio brings new life to the modernist landmark
The second edition of the Spirit of Paimio conference, ‘Reimagining Community’, brings together a group of architects, writers, designers, astrophysicists, and artists to think and talk about what it means to be in community at the sanatorium turned Modernist site
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The Acme Novelty Datebook is Chris Ware’s last volume of intriguing sketchbooks and thoughts
Chris Ware presents his ‘artisanal rewritings of personal conflict’, a third and final volume charting the American artist and author’s process
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Sceners Gallery is an unassuming secret design trove above a discount supermarket in Paris
Step inside Sceners Gallery and experience a 'conversation between pieces that we might not normally find together'
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Bedside lamps for illuminated nights
The Wallpaper* edit of the best design-focused bedside lamps and where to buy them: warm and bright autumn nights with this edit of bedside lamps for your room
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A new exhibition retraces 50 years of Pierre Paulin’s history around the table
‘Les Tables de Pierre Paulin’ shows a lesser-known side of the designer’s creative world, accompanied by a new book tracing his wife’s hospitality around his iconic table designs. ‘A creator is never alone in his creation…’
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New Light Pottery brings its Japanese designs to Denmark in a harmonious craft exchange
New Light Pottery will be showcasing its lights alongside PP’s Furniture at PP’s flagship store in Copenhagen, marking the first time New Light Pottery’s lamps are shown outside of Japan
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Back in the 70s, Loncraine Broxton came up with the balls that everyone wanted. This is their story
Loncraine Broxton: Innovations & Executive Toys is a delightful chronicle of the art, craft and novelty products of a small but influential British company
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The highlights from Design Miami.Paris
Design Miami.Paris returned to the Hôtel de Maisons, showcasing 24 galleries and 18 presentations of 20th-century and contemporary design. Here is what went on
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Texas, cowboys, and cacti: Douglas Friedman brings a dose of the wild west to new Lobmeyr glassware collection
Photographer Douglas Friedman has united with Austrian glassmaker Lobmeyr on a collection inspired by rural Texan tropes
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From self-care to sustainability: everything that happened at Tallinn Applied Art Triennial
At the Tallinn Applied Art Triennial, 27 artists from the Baltics and Nordics showcase a wealth of creative expressions inspired by the past, present and future
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'Showcase how neurotic you are': ATRA's furniture wants you to experiment beyond the care label
Design and architecture studio ATRA presents 'CARE INSTRUCTIONS', an exhibition of playful pieces whereby clients can 'wrap up' a sofa to meditate in an electromagnetic chair
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Five Ukrainian artisans to have on your radar
Discover the Ukrainian artisans creating unity by modernising traditions. Get a snapshot of the many visionaries shaping a cultural evolution
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New York exhibition celebrates Maria Pergay, the ‘pioneer’ of metal furniture
‘Precious Strength: Maria Pergay Across the Decades’ is on show at New York gallery Demisch Danant (until 30 November)
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One to Watch: Brooklyn studio Outgoing gives new meaning to the idea of world building
Life and creative partners Brett Gui Xin and Del Hardin Hoyle from Outgoing blur the lines between craft and concept in experimental designs that have the potential for greater application
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Elegant floor lamps to brighten autumn nights
The best floor lamps and where to buy them: switch on to subtle lighting with our edit of elegant standing lamps for your home
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Gufram’s red-brick punching bag is a total knockout
‘Punch a Wall’, the red-brick punching bag by Gufram and Studio Job, is now available in its unlimited version
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Discover this romantic Hollywood hideaway for a creative couple
Practising her own interiors motto, ‘good design works anywhere’, Mallery Roberts Morgan transforms a 1960s ranch-style house in the hills above Sunset Boulevard
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Discover the alchemy of American artists Philip and Kelvin LaVerne
The work of Philip and Kelvin LaVerne, prized by collectors of 20th-century American art, is the subject of a new book by gallerist Evan Lobel; he tells us more
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The life and work of designer Margaret Calvert celebrated in a new monograph from Unit Editions
‘Woman at Work: Margaret Calvert’ is an upcoming monograph on the designer’s celebrated graphic, typography and signage work
