Events
Design events bring designers, brands, institutions and audiences together around new ideas, products and research. Design weeks, fairs, exhibitions, festivals and installations reflect the industry's priorities and emerging conversations across the international calendar. Coverage follows the projects, people and themes behind each edition, from major gatherings to independent initiatives, examining their contribution to contemporary design.
Smart homes step into the design conversation at ISE 2027
This February in Barcelona, Integrated Systems Europe will give designers, architects and builders a hands-on look at the technologies that will be part of our domestic life.
Dutch Design Week 2026: finding new ways of interpreting design
At this year’s Dutch Design Week, we saw everything from a wind sculpture to new biomaterials, showing what happens when design lets its ingredients, process, and people mix.
Sabine Marcelis builds rooms out of light for her first museum exhibition
At the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, the designer takes a career spent investigating the relationships between matter, colour, and light and turns it into a show you can…
SaloneSatellite carries 27 years of discovery to Jakarta
A chat with Marva Griffin Wilshire ahead of the SaloneSatellite Permanent Collection touring internationally for the third time, proving that a good idea, once given a stage, keeps…
Iris Ceramica Group’s new releases present surfaces you can read with your eyes closed
For its 2026 releases, Iris Ceramica Group pairs two new Reloaded Color Blocks by Diesel Living with new surfaces from Fiandre, Ariostea and Sapienstone.
A week of Estonian design: where a factory floor became a gallery
Hosted in a former industrial complex, Tallinn Design Festival filled its hangars with furniture, tools, and innovative products.
EDIT Napoli 2026: on the importance of conversation and community
Italy’s southern capital hosted the eighth edition of EDIT Napoli; a fair dedicated to editorial design, focused on the relationships between design and its makers.
CIFF Shanghai 2026: Italian design meets China through taste, not just products
The Italian Lounge at CIFF Shanghai 2026 gathered 14 Italian brands, a multisensory space and a talk program, showing what happens when design, food and conversation share the…
Raw, rebel, real: Dutch Design Week 2026 is coming back to the essence of design
From a full-scale printed house and a department store for living materials, DDW 2026 puts unpolished, experimental design at the centre of the city for 9 days.
The Bedrock: 4 ways of reading stone at Marmomac’s 60th edition
At Verona’s fair for natural stone, a new cultural pavilion gathers four curators to ask what one of the world’s oldest building materials still has to say about…
Maison&Objet Pulse 2026, beyond the fair and into the city
A look at the projects and emerging voices that animated the fair and Paris Design Week in September, moving between experimental materials, traditional savoir-faire, cultural heritage, self-building and…
EDIT Napoli and the making of a design city in the words of Domitilla Dardi
Historian and curator Domitilla Dardi, founder of the Neapolitan fair alongside Emilia Petruccelli, reflects on how EDIT has evolved over the years, transforming both the fair and its…