Design Events
The best of the year's design events calendar, compiled by Wallpaper*
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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
By Mazzi Odu Published
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Prague’s Designblok 24: what’s on at design’s most playful festival
Prague’s Designblok festival (2-6 October 2024) celebrates the playful spirit of design, at venues including Prague City Museum. Here’s what we saw
By Ellen Himelfarb Published
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'Joyful, historical, psychedelic' Myles Igwebuike takes us through his 'Ukara' Technogym design in three easy steps
The Sotheby’s Milan charity auction in aid of UNICEF takes place tomorrow, including 15 designs from the "Design to Move; 40 Creations by 40 Designers for 40 Years of Technogym" exhibition at Milan Design Week.
By Caragh McKay Published
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Postcard from Helsinki Design Week 2024
The Finns lead the way when it comes to integrating design into everyday life, as they deftly demonstrate during Helsinki Design Week 2024
By Hugo Macdonald Published
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Olympics opening ceremony: a little Gaga, a lot of spectacle, and universal uplift
How Paris 2024’s Olympics opening ceremony set spirits – and much else – soaring, embracing the Seine, the streets and the skies. Craig McLean reports
By Craig McLean Published
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Salone del Mobile: tickets, timings and locations for Milan Design Week
Here is your expert guide to Salone del Mobile and Fuorisalone: how to get to the fair, and what to see across the city
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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9 things to see at Melbourne Design Week 2023
Melbourne Design Week 2023 (18 – 28 May 2023) follows a theme of ‘Design The World You Want’
By Elias Redstone Published
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Salone del Mobile 2023: highlights from Milan Design Week
In pictures: our highlights from Milan Design Week, held during the 61st Salone del Mobile 2023 (18-23 April)
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Last chance to see: the fantastic world of Jaime Hayon on show in Valencia
Part of World Design Capital Valencia 2022, ‘InfinitaMente’ charts the past 20 years of Jaime Hayon’s work (on show until 16 April 2023)
By Blaire Dessent Last updated
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Prada Frames 2023: Milan programme announced
Programme announced for Prada Frames 2023 at Milan Design Week, the annual symposium curated by Formafantasma at Luigi Caccia Dominioni's Teatro Filodrammatici from 17 to 19 April
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Faye Toogood brings new life to Matisse’s legacy
Milan Design Week 2023: tapped by Maison Matisse, the London-based designer has taken inspiration from the French master’s forms to create a collection of heirloom-worthy objects
By Sam Rogers Published
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Paris Design Week 2023: the highlights
Your essential guide to Paris Design Week 2023, from Maison & Objet to Paris Déco Off, and the best things to see in town as part of Maison & Objet City
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Alessi Occasional Objects: Virgil Abloh’s take on cutlery
Best Cross Pollination: Alessi's cutlery by the late designer Virgil Abloh, in collaboration with his London studio Alaska Alaska, is awarded at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2023
By Rosa Bertoli Published
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Design Miami 2022: highlights from the fair and around town
Design Miami 2022 (30 November – 4 December) aims at ‘rebooting the roots of our relationship with nature and collective structures, ecospheres, and urban contexts’
By Sujata Burman Last updated
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Kvadrat’s flagship New York showrooms encompass colourful design codes
Industrial designer Jonathan Olivares and architect Vincent Van Duysen have worked with Danish textile brand Kvadrat on the vast new space, also featuring furniture by Moroso
By Hannah Silver Last updated
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Designart Tokyo transforms the city into a museum of creativity
Designart Tokyo presents global design highlights through a series of exhibitions involving global creative talent and traditional Japanese craft
By Danielle Demetriou Last updated
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Salon Art + Design 2022: design highlights not to miss
Wallpaper* highlights from Salon Art + Design 2022, New York
By Tilly Macalister-Smith Last updated
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Design Week Lagos 2022 celebrates creativity and innovation in West Africa and beyond
Curated by founder Titi Ogufere, Design Week Lagos 2022 is based on a theme of ‘Beyond The Box’
By Ugonna-Ora Owoh Last updated
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Pop-up design shows and galleries from around the globe in 2016
Temporary spaces are arriving all around the world. Many studios and galleries experiment by making the move to pack up and travel across seas or outside to accomplish a new design territory via a pop-up. From an inaugural concept store, to a summertime gallery that bathes in the sun, keep checking back to see the pop-up spaces stopping us in our tracks...
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Stylist’s eye: Michael Reynolds’ photo diary of Design Miami and Art Basel Miami Beach 2014
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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The Modern Danish Warehouse, London
By Malaika Byng Last updated
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Auction house Piasa inaugrates its new Parisian HQ with a sale of designer Peder Moos’ unknown works
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated
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Explore Dutch Design Week 2022
We bring you the best of Dutch Design Week 2022, from exhibitions to experimental design presented over the ten-day festival in Eindhoven
By Giovanna Dunmall Published
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The highlights and hidden gems from Vienna Design Week 2014
By Yoko Choy Last updated
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Pockets of Paris showcasing diverse design at the D’days festival
By Amy Verner Last updated
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The legend of the Ritz: Artcurial Paris announces spring auction curated by Vincent Darré
By Jessica Kiddle Last updated
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Cover stories: a new exhibition traces Wiener Werkstätte’s book designs
By Rosa Bertoli Last updated