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10/09/2026

🇬🇧 Our guide to London Design Festival 2026 takes in AI at the V&A, the Barbican reimagined as furniture, immersive sound, new materials and emerging designers.

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At the V&A, Awakenings explores AI’s creeping influence on culture. Craft x Tech pairs Philippe Malouin, Lanzavecchia + Wai (pictured) and more with artisans from Japan’s Tokai region. 🤖
Ph by Noritoshi Kuroki.

Expolight’s Mykola Kabluka brings two audiovisual works to St. Paul’s cathedral. Soul traces a thought becoming physical; Point of Unity imagines a meeting between earth and sky, spirit and matter. ✨

MADE.COM’s 23-piece collection draws on the Barbican’s original layouts and Miriam Howitt’s work, turning brutalist details into furniture, lighting, textiles and accessories.

L-Acoustics takes over the 1890 Hydraulic Power Station with immersive sound installations. Max Cooper’s Feeling Is Structure meets Chris Watson’s sonic journey down the Humber. 🔊
Ph by Philipa Gedge.

Materials Matter’s fifth London edition lands at UNLOCKED Shoreditch, exploring growing materials, reimagined waste, wood and craft. Pani Jurek focuses on light, colour, form and perception - Ph by Tomo Yarmush.

At Aram Gallery, Design Everything recreates a young designer’s flat in London, filled with work by 102 emerging practitioners. Each piece explores the realities of space, time, budget and access — beyond the glossy veneer of design.

Brompton Design District’s second edition takes on Perfectly Imperfect. Alex Tieghi-Walker’s Reading Room explores q***r design, creativity and cultural history through objects, books and furniture. 📚

At Cromwell Place, Azaz Architects take palm weaving from craft into art, architecture and product design, connecting heritage, sustainability and the future.

Making its LDF debut, Soho Design Week celebrates one of London’s most colourful neighbourhoods. Stüdyo Akdoğan presents GUDU (Instinct), four sculptural pieces inspired by primitive instincts.

At Strand Aldwych Studio Saar and Atelier One create The Pangolin Shield, a bamboo grid shell beneath woven Indian rain shields, reflecting on ecology, migration, colonial legacies and power. 🌿

08/09/2026

🪵 What does design look like before it’s finished?

At Habitare in Helsinki, Minestrone Workshop turned that question into a pavilion — part workshop, part lounge, part experiment.

The Helsinki collective built the structure from 357 wafer-thin spruce veneer sheets, each just 2mm deep, milled from only three five-metre logs. Inside, the furniture feels equally open-ended: less like finished products, more like ideas caught in motion.

🛠️ A workbench becomes a chair. An architect’s square becomes a cantilevered seat. A pegboard turns into a perch. Broom heads become a chair, sandpaper becomes a tabletop, and a dust-extraction hose becomes a lamp.

“We wanted to bring a space to the fair that shows design before it becomes finished,” the designers told Archipanic.

It couldn’t be a better fit for Habitare’s 2026 theme, Plot Twist — a celebration of accidents, experiments and unexpected turns.

And there’s a final twist: the pavilion is designed to disappear. After the fair, it will be dismantled and its timber reused in future work.

✨ Nine designers, one shared workshop, and a refreshing reminder that sometimes the most interesting part of design is the bit before it becomes polished.

📸 Henri Vogt – Courtesy of Minestrone Workshop.

05/09/2026

🇫🇷✨ This September, Paris Design Week spreads across the city — from the Arc de Triomphe and La Bastille to museum gardens, historic courtyards and grand interiors.

📅 10–19 September — our guide is on Archipanic.com

Here’s a glimpse of what’s happening 👇

🪵 At the Hôtel de Rohan, Pierre Renart works in Moabi wood, translating the garden’s ornamental scrollwork into poetic urban furniture for Maison Parisienne.

🌳 At the Hôtel de Sully, guest of honour Joseph Walsh brings his sculptural language to the orangery, gardens and courtyard, with ash forms that seem to curve against gravity.

🌸 Inside the Grand Palais, Uchronia’s Julien Sebban creates Le Grand Bouquet, an immersive floral composition that echoes the building’s historic décor, realised with French craft houses.

🌪️ Jeremy Pradier-Jeauneau’s La Tempête takes visitors from the base of the Arc de Triomphe to its summit, using the journey to reconsider the monument’s architecture and history.

♻️ At La Bastille, Claire Renard and Jean-Sébastien Blanc wrap the July Column in La Re-prise de la Bastille, made entirely from clothing recovered through Refashion’s recycling network.

📜 At the Hôtel de la Marine, Hanjimania places traditional Korean hanji paper in conversation with French design, bringing together designers, artisans and craft traditions.

🚗 In the Cour de l’Intendant, Maison Lacmé presents an Art Car combining leather, porcelain, onyx and lacquer.

🏛️ At Musée Bourdelle, Anthony Guerrée responds to Bourdelle’s sculptures through wood, glass, textiles and mixed clay, with the parcours extending into the garden.

💥 At Gaîté Lyrique, Tout Est Chaos brings together 75 architects and designers, asking what wonder might look like beyond mass production, obsolescence and accumulation. Curated by Pli Office, design exhibition by Paf Atelier, 10–13 September.

🌿 At the Hôtel de Soubise, Johanna de Clisson revisits the formal French garden with a dozen sculptural white stoneware planters.

Paris, seen through design. ✨

04/09/2026

🌙 What if craftsmanship could become a world of light?

Like a rising moon, a giant circular shelf filled with moon jars emerges from a pool, glowing in soft blue. It’s the perfect opening image for An Island of Light, the theme of Homo Faber 2026, now transforming Venice’s Fondazione Giorgio Cini on San Giorgio Island until 30 September. ✨

Artistic Director Es Devlin has imagined 15 scenographies using light, water, mirrors and movement — creating a journey where the real protagonists are not just the objects, but the hands and stories behind them.

The exhibition opens inside a recreated artisan studio, before moving into a room where objects become a language of their own. Light projects the silhouettes of pieces from a rotating cylindrical bookshelf onto the wall, turning their shadows into hieroglyphs — a poetic text written entirely in shape. 🔤✨

In A Rainbow of Forms, mirrored shelves and a mirrored ceiling send vivid ceramics and purple glass spiralling into apparent infinity. 🌈

In the Palladian Cloister, A Great Turning combines a reflecting pool with a kinetic mirror that catches the changing Venetian light. Nearby, An Infinite Birdsong transforms the architecture into a glittering aviary inspired by the city’s arched windows and canal reflections. 🕊️

Then comes A Feast of Light: a shaft of light cuts through the Palladian Refectory, illuminating a table of pristine porcelain, glass, textile and paper sculptures beneath a floating canopy of delicate papercuts.

And hovering overhead in A Luminous Ark is a glowing white swallow. Created by master artisan Qiuwen Wen, it combines centuries-old lantern-making and paper-cutting traditions with a hand-forged metal skeleton and hand-cut Tyvek. Every feather comes alive when the light hits. 🪽

For Devlin, the point is simple: to make us look beyond the finished object and discover “the hands that make them and the conditions in which they are made.”

In an age when technology can imitate almost anything, Homo Faber 2026 makes a compelling case for the things that only human hands can truly make. ✨

📸 Sophia Bennet, Giuglio Ghirardi, ©Es Devlin Studio, ©Michelangelo Foundation.

03/09/2026

Design Miami Seoul 2026 is here, and its theme says it all: Resonance 🌊 Design isn’t just objects in a room — it carries memory, feeling and place with it.

Curator Hyeyoung Cho built this fair as a real conversation, seating Korean design at the same table as international galleries 🤝

🏡 Start with the Hanok, the traditional Korean house. Jungmo Kwon’s el Techo reimagines its window in layered hanji paper, walnut and brass, glowing softly from within. Hwan Tae Kim’s Chimi Chair distils a roof ornament into pure minimal form. Teo Yang Studio adds a third take within the partner programme.

✨ Process took centre stage too. LEJE’s ME-IN pairs a 3D-printed base with hand-applied mother-of-pearl and natural lacquer — 300+ hours of handwork on one piece. Console Table 02 by Saerom Yoon, is cast entirely in acrylic, so clear it nearly dissolves into the room.

🔧 Craft meets tech as co-conspirators: Hyunhee Kim rebuilds Korean material language in aluminium and acrylic via digital fabrication. Samsung Electronics paired Korean artists with custom frames for its OLED TV S95H. Japanese ceramic artist Yuki Nara puts ceramic tradition in dialogue with digital design.

🌍 From London, Charles Burnand Gallery brings Jan Waterston’s Primitive Excavations in bronze and stone, its weathered surface echoing this year’s theme. SIDE GALLERY’s Seoul Signs – Itaewon by Gyuhan Lee is an illuminated sculpture built from Seoul’s own storefront signage.

📍 Design Lab 1F, Dongdaemun Design Plaza — until September 6.

In partnership with Seoul Design Foundation and Seoul Metropolitan Government 🙌

📸 by Design Miami Seoul 2026, courtesy of Ilda Kim.

02/09/2026

🏛️ Helsinki is getting a brand-new architecture & design museum!

JKMM Architects has won the international competition for one of Finland’s biggest cultural projects in years. 🇫🇮✨

Set on the South Harbour, the museum is conceived as a bold yet warm addition to Helsinki’s cultural waterfront.

It’s all about bold geometry: a sculptural form wraps around a triangular atrium, with sloping recycled-brick façades pierced by geometric windows. 🔺🧱 An outdoor terrace will wrap the upper level, while a design library adds another layer to the experience.

The museum will rise on the very site once earmarked for Helsinki’s Guggenheim, a project that was famously scrapped in 2016.

Now, the waterfront has a new future. Construction begins in 2027 with completion due in 2030. 🏗️

Until then, the museum continues at Korkeavuorenkatu 23 — while at Eteläranta 6, a century-old Jugend apartment has been transformed into Helsinki’s meeting point for design, community, and what comes next.

JKMM Architects Architecture & Design Museum Helsinki Helsingin kaupunki

30/08/2026

🚀 What happens when a 1960s flying saucer gets a Marimekko makeover?

Until 6 September, Helsinki’s Kaisaniemi Botanic Garden is home to a very Finnish kind of space-age fantasy: the iconic Futuro House by architect Matti Suuronen, designed in 1968 and now reimagined inside by Marimekko. 🛸🌸

Originally conceived as a lightweight, prefabricated ski cabin that could be airlifted into the mountains, Futuro was never meant to become a design icon. Its elliptical shell, glossy plastic construction and spaceship-like silhouette, however, captured the 1960s dream of technology, mobility and new ways of living.

Now, guided by architectural heritage expert Jan van Dijs, the Futuro has landed in Helsinki for Helsinki Design Week, with Marimekko bringing its own joyful language into the futuristic capsule. 🎨

Inside, the compact home unfolds across three zones: kitchen, dining-and-work space, and lounge-cum-sleeping area. Textile artist Vibeke Rohland created the project’s custom prints after spending more than a year in Marimekko’s Artist in Residence programme at the brand’s Helsinki textile factory.

Working alongside Marimekko’s designers and artisans, Rohland explored the brand’s rich tradition of hand-printing, colour and material — creating a playful new dialogue between textile, pattern and Suuronen’s sculptural architecture.

Retro-futurism, but make it Marimekko. ✨

Discover more about Helsinki Design Week on Archipanic.com

📸 Marimekko
Helsinki Design Week Marimekko Vibeke Rohland

19/08/2026

- What if a boarding house became a stack of tiny homes, connected by one giant red staircase? 🏠⬆️❤️

In Bogor, Indonesia, Stack By Step Red Zone by Ismail Solehudin Architecture turns a tiny 178 sqm site into a compact vertical co-living world.

Instead of the usual corridors, the architects created a hanging steel staircase that zigzags through the building. 🪜 It’s circulation, meeting point and social space all in one.

Then come the 11 “stacked houses”: each 10.3 sqm, with its own bathroom and mini walk-in closet. Their sloping roofs follow the structural grid and can accommodate future mezzanine additions.

The whole building is wrapped in vivid red corrugated metal, giving it a bold presence in Bogor’s dense urban landscape. Inside, exposed brick, concrete floors and red metal surfaces keep things robust and relatively easy to maintain. 🔴

The design also responds to the tropical climate with passive cooling strategies. And at ground level, the open space beneath the building becomes a shared zone for parking, laundry and a pantry.

Small footprint, big personality. 🌆

Stack By Step Red Zone shows how a tight urban site doesn’t necessarily mean thinking small — sometimes, you just have to build up.

📸 © Mario Wibowo Photography MW | Architectural Photographer

ismail solehudin architecture

18/08/2026

- What if you took 70 Dutch houses… and stacked them into a hotel? 🏠🏠🏠⬆️

Welcome to Zaandam’s famous “Lego building” — a 40-metre-high architectural mash-up by Wilfried van Winden’s WAM Architecten. 🧩

Across 11 storeys, nearly 70 traditional Dutch-style houses appear to be piled on top of each other, from tiny workers’ cottages to grand townhouses and local farmhouses.

And yes, it looks as wild as it sounds. 👀

The facade mixes four shades of traditional “Zaans green” with crisp white details, creating a giant three-dimensional collage of Zaandam’s architectural heritage.

But look closer and you’ll spot a surprise: 💙 a single bright-blue house near the top.

It’s a playful tribute to Claude Monet’s The Blue House, painted during his stay in Zaandam in 1871.

The result? Part hotel, part architectural fantasy, part giant LEGO set — but also a clever reinterpretation of local tradition.

As architect Wilfried van Winden explains, the project connects “present and past, tradition and innovation, high culture and low.”

And honestly, how could this building exist anywhere else? 🇳🇱✨

WAM architecten Inntel Hotels Amsterdam Zaandam

📸 Roel Backaert & Peter Barne, Bas Banga Photography

17/08/2026

Five architects, one wild idea: what happens when a house gets stacked, twisted and turned into a vertical world? 🏠⬆️

At the Vitra Campus in Weil am Rhein, Germany, Herzog & de Meuron’s VitraHaus takes the familiar shape of the pitched-roof house and piles it up — 12 barn-like volumes across five stories, creating a building that feels part home, part gallery, part architectural puzzle. 🧩

The charcoal-grey exterior is strikingly restrained, but step inside and things get much more playful. Rooms are designed like real domestic spaces rather than neutral exhibition halls, while huge panoramic windows turn the surrounding landscape into part of the display. 🌳

Then come the unexpected moments: winding staircases slice through the stacked volumes, overlaps create double-height rooms, balconies appear between levels, and sightlines constantly connect one space to another. 👀

As Herzog & de Meuron put it, “By stacking, extruding and pressing” — industrial processes transform simple house shapes into complex spatial configurations where inside and outside begin to merge.

Completed in 2010, VitraHaus is a clever reminder that sometimes the simplest architectural archetype can become the most unexpected when you simply… stack it. 🏠🏠🏠

📸 Iwan Baan.

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