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Let’s be honest: for all the conversations around sustainability, countless installations and pavilions built for design...
04/06/2026

Let’s be honest: for all the conversations around sustainability, countless installations and pavilions built for design fairs are dismantled and discarded as soon as the crowds leave. This year at Salone del Mobile, QuadroDesign chose a different path. 👏

Instead of creating a stand destined for five days of glory and a quick trip to the skip, the Italian stainless-steel faucet manufacturer teamed up with designer Giacomo Moor to give its booth a meaningful second life ♻️

Once dismantled, the structure will travel more than 7,000 km to Masala, Zambia, where it will be rebuilt as a permanent public restroom serving the local coal market. 🚿🚻 The facility — complete with toilets, showers, and changing rooms — is expected to open in August 2026.

The impact could be significant. The market is largely run by women, many accompanied by their children, in an area where access to sanitary facilities and clean water remains limited. For many, this will be the first public restroom of its kind. ❤️

As QuadroDesign’s Enrico Magistro puts it, giving the stand a second life isn’t a symbolic gesture but “a concrete choice” that creates value from what would otherwise be waste.

Designed for reuse from day one, Moor’s structure is built around a modular timber grid connected by four-way metal joints and clad with panels that can function as partitions, shelving, or roofing. Standardised, expandable, and easy to replicate, the system was conceived to adapt long after the fair ends. 🪵✨

For Moor, the goal was to create “a true piece of architecture.” And perhaps that’s the most inspiring part of the project: instead of putting products at the centre, it puts people first.

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📸 by Luca A. Caizzi. Bela k and white photo of the Zambian bathroom mock uk by Omar Sartor. Project illustrations, Giacomo Moor – QuadroDesign.

✨ New York has always been a city of arrivals, and at NYCxDESIGN, Latinx creatives proved they’re helping shape what com...
02/06/2026

✨ New York has always been a city of arrivals, and at NYCxDESIGN, Latinx creatives proved they’re helping shape what comes next.

The Espasso Apartment by Office of Tangible Space — a stunning showcase of Brazilian design heritage presented with ESPASSO. Think iconic furniture, contemporary voices, and one seriously beautiful interior. 🏡

🎭 Actor Julio Torres brought a personal story to design with All Other Passports, his collaboration with Sabai. Inspired by arriving in New York as a newcomer, the collection transforms memories of JFK, Manhattan bridges, and first apartments into furniture, lighting, and textiles. A love letter to starting over.

🛠️ At Maharam, Objetos de Hojalata para el Hogar reimagined traditional Mexican tinwork through the eyes of Cranbrook Academy students, guided by Leon Ransmeier and Fabien Cappello. The result? Playful watering cans and everyday objects that balance craft, history, and contemporary design.

🌎 At WantedDesign during ICFF, designers from across Latin America brought fresh perspectives. Ecuadorian studio ASET presented its modular Standard Shelf, combining small-batch production, craftsmanship, and industrial waste reuse. ♻️

🌿 From the Brazilian Amazon, Flavia Pereira’s Anduba collaborated with Indigenous artists to create wall coverings rooted in culture, memory, and land.

💡 Mexico City studio ¡pling! found beauty in overlooked materials, pairing corrugated roofing and industrial vinyl tarps with tropical hardwoods and handblown glass.

And beyond the fairgrounds, Roberto Lugo’s monumental sculptures have taken over Madison Square Park. A 15-foot fire hydrant and a towering urn celebrating Puerto Rican cultural figures bring craft, identity, and resilience into the heart of the city. ❤️

From heritage to experimentation, these projects showed a design scene that’s diverse, dynamic, and impossible to ignore.

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Paper sculptures, tactile beads and coffee-ground bricks — the 15th edition of Clerkenwell Design Week is transforming L...
20/05/2026

Paper sculptures, tactile beads and coffee-ground bricks — the 15th edition of Clerkenwell Design Week is transforming London’s most design-literate neighbourhood into an open-air festival of ideas. ✨ Archipanic is a proud media partner — here’s where to go 👇

🕍 St Bartholomew the Great returns as the Church of Design, hosting talks and furniture displays. Don’t miss Fung+Bedford’s Resonance — illuminated suspended paper sculptures whose folded geometry feels impossibly delicate against the weight of that ancient architecture. Fragility meets permanence. Stunning.

🌈 One Bite Design’s Fountain of Technicolour Beads addresses colour blindness with tactile differentiation — where colours blur, textures speak. A genuinely thoughtful piece of design thinking.

♻️ Alexane Quenderff’s five BinSight Benches are built entirely from waste materials deemed too difficult to recycle. Scan the QR code and guess the materials. Harder than it sounds!

☕ Studio Egret West’s Brew House pavilion is built from 600 bricks made with ~300 kg of waste coffee grounds from London cafés. Each brick uses 10% less clay and weighs 5% less than a standard one. Circular economy, beautifully executed.

🌿 In the Order of St John garden, LA ERRERÍA’s The Secret Garden for Tile of Spain evokes the four seasons — inspired, charmingly, by Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

🌱 And at Haberdashers’ Hall, watch chia seeds gradually sprout across two crescent shells over the course of the festival in The Pulse of Becoming. Living, breathing design.

☑️ Heidelberg Materials presents a sculpture by Ashley Cluer alongside a modular 3D-printed concrete installation — both made using a near-zero carbon captured cement.

💡 The underground House of Detention hosts Light, CDW’s dedicated lighting showcase — including Loom Light, a 3D-printed sculpture by MIMstudios at the entrance. Atmospheric.

🪑 Over at St James Church, the British Collection brings together some of the UK’s most exciting furniture and lighting brands. A must for anyone serious about homegrown design talent.

Full guide on Archipanic.com 🔗

New York never sleeps — and this year’s NYCxDESIGN is making sure the lights stay on 🌙✨ Ten eccentric lighting designs w...
18/05/2026

New York never sleeps — and this year’s NYCxDESIGN is making sure the lights stay on 🌙✨ Ten eccentric lighting designs worth knowing about.

At the Night Stand: What We Bring To Bed exhibition by American Design Club, Bang’s acrylic-layered sphere creates the illusion of subtle movement the moment it’s lit — reflections materialising like something half-remembered 🫧

The Future Perfect sets the tone with DUUD LITE, a collaboration between DUDD HAUS and Bocci uniting 120+ artists reimagining the night light as creative territory 🎨

At SHINE, Efecem Kutuk salvages broken carbon fibre hockey sticks and recasts them as floor lamps 🏒💡 A material so indestructible it demands a second life.

Also at SHINE, Annabelle Schneider’s pulsating bubble folds into itself — “an illuminating symbol as well as a quiet reminder to rediscover the magic within the folds of New York” 🌀

Stickbulb debuts Pleat at Afternoon Light, pairing salvaged wood from New York’s urban forest cuts with Japanese Kozo paper 🌿

Rarify, Gantri and Christian Borger follow with a modular lamp in plant-based polymer shades on aluminium — stackable and quietly brilliant 🔆

At ICFF, KĀDNS’ Horizon takes its cues from the shifting colours of sunrise and sunset, designed to resonate emotionally and bring calm ☀️

At WANTED DESIGN’s Launch Pad, Riccardo Toldo’s XY runs LED filaments across welded wire mesh 🕸️ “Perfect trajectories run along the X and Y axes, where the Z axis becomes the human gaze.”

Pelle studio’s Be Patient at The New York Edit — milled entirely from aluminium — references analogue machinery and car design 🤍

The sixth Head Hi Lamp Show at BOOM at The Standard Highline gathered 36 eccentric pieces 🎉 David Ruperti turned New York’s sticker culture — a collage of colourful, text-heavy stickers — into a table lamp 🏙️

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✨ BEST OF NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK — PART 2 ✨From silk sculptures to quirky furry beasts and warp lamps, here’s your guide t...
15/05/2026

✨ BEST OF NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK — PART 2 ✨
From silk sculptures to quirky furry beasts and warp lamps, here’s your guide to more unmissable shows at NYCxDESIGN 2026 🗽

🪑 Weight & Wonder – Sarah Sherman Samuel at Colony. One of North America’s most watched designers drops her debut monograph alongside her Weight & Wonder collection. Books and objects, perfectly paired.

💡 SHINE – The Seaport. 70 designers, one theme: light. Curated by Harry Allen, highlights include Benjamin Gillespie’s Warp lamp — its form inspired by gravitational distortion in space-time.

🏙️ The New York Edit – Design Hotel. Independent NYC studios selected by Simple Flair for Design Hotels and Lumens. Furniture, objects, and beautiful lighting. Very New York.

🇫🇷 OUI Design! Festival at Villa Albertine. French design takes over the Payne Whitney Mansion, with a scenography by Harry Nuriev and standout pieces woven in dyed wood by Alcaraz and Berlier.

🐾 Haas Brothers: Uncanny Valley – MAD Museum. Furry quirky beasts, cheeky furniture, and alien-like vessels. Twins Nikolai and Simon Haas deliver one of the most joyfully unhinged shows in town. Do not miss.

🧵 SVILA – Ana Kraš at Emma Scully Gallery. Silk — svila in Serbian — takes centre stage in this quietly gorgeous show. Functional and sculptural objects that shift and shimmer with every change of light.

🌿 Afternoon Light – Lower Manhattan. 80+ brands, studios, and emerging makers in one beautifully edited fair. Symbol and USM drop a new audio collection together. Worth the trip downtown.

🏆 WANTED at ICFF – Javits Center. The best of North American talent via the Look Book, Launch Pad, and Schools Showcase. Catch it while you can — from 2027, ICFF moves to November.

🤌 Bankston × FOR SCALE. Bankston reframes the door handle as a full sensory experience. Touch, it turns out, is a design language all of its own.

Full round-up at Archipanic.com 🔗

✨ BEST OF NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK — PART 1 ✨ From biophilic benches to listening bar consoles, NYCxDESIGN 2026 is shaping u...
14/05/2026

✨ BEST OF NEW YORK DESIGN WEEK — PART 1 ✨ From biophilic benches to listening bar consoles, NYCxDESIGN 2026 is shaping up to be unmissable. Here’s our round-up 👇

🎧 My Astral Mission – Slash Objects Inside a SoHo loft, Arielle Assouline-Lichten debuts the X Deck — a mirror-polished console that turns listening into an architectural experience. Sound meets light, beautifully.

🤝 Body Language – Bower Studios A group show exploring gesture, movement, and form with 16 artists including Chen Chen & Kai Williams and Chris Wolston. How do objects speak without words?

🛏️ One Night Stand – citizenM × American Design Club What lives on your bedside table? This poetic show unpacks the objects and rituals that fill the space between wakefulness and sleep. Surprisingly moving.

🌿 SYMBIO – Joris Laarman at Friedman Benda Plywood pushed into radical new shapes via biodegradable resin. Benches 3D-printed in carbon-storing concrete, slowly growing moss and lichen. This is what sustainable design actually looks like.

👽 Paraphernalia: ALIEN Legal designation. Political weapon. Design provocation. Co-curators Eliza Axelson-Chidsey and Jess Fügler invite designers to wrestle with one of the most loaded words of our moment.

⏳ Nothing Comes from Nothing – Office of Tangible Space Contemporary design paired with museum-quality historic pieces, inside a Tadao Ando–designed building in Brooklyn. A quiet argument for precedent and lived experience as creative fuel.

🐟 ReMUJI – Muji 30 fish banners handcrafted from reclaimed clothing, suspended at Muji’s Fifth Avenue flagship. Textile designer Reiko Sudo and exhibition designer Adrien Gardère turn secondhand fabric into something genuinely beautiful.

🏺 Alfarero del Barrio – Roberto Lugo A monumental vase-sculpture in Madison Square Park, painted with vivid Puerto Rican motifs. Public art at its most joyful and community-rooted.

🛋️ ICFF – Javits Center North America’s biggest contemporary design fair is back, with the Healthy Materials Lab, the INTERNI Lounge, and a Bauhaus archival exhibition among the highlights.

Full round-up at Archipanic.com 🔗

✨ Collectible design just got its own moment at Salone del Mobile — and it’s called Salone Raritas. 🪑🎨For the first time...
13/05/2026

✨ Collectible design just got its own moment at Salone del Mobile — and it’s called Salone Raritas. 🪑🎨

For the first time, unique pieces sitting at the crossroads of high-end craftsmanship, art, and collectible design entered the heart of the world’s most important furniture fair. Curated by Annalisa Rosso with exhibition design by Formafantasma, Salone Raritas signalled where the market is heading. 🙌

It connected Milan Design Week’s energy to the collectible global circuit which is reshaping its destinations: Miami, Paris, Dubai, Mexico City. With Milan firmly part of that conversation. 🌍
Here’s what caught our eye 👇

🩷 Sabine Marcelis presented Plume — pale pink, polymer resin, silicone oil — a piece that literally captures air moving through liquid. Endlessly shifting. Quietly mesmerising.

🪞 Nilufar Gallery brought a considered showcase with pieces by Maximilian Marchesani, Andrea Mancuso and more.

⚗️ Galerie Philia went full monochrome — aluminium, stainless steel, silver tones.

🪨 Matera — the new project by Manuela Rotta and Stefan Scholten — debuted its first collection in responsibly sourced marble and natural stone.

♻️ Parasite 2.0 x Bianco67 transformed industrial waste into something genuinely worth collecting. Their Secunda Natura showcase was sustainability done with real design intelligence.

💡 Draga & Aurel turned light into a medium with Affinity in Light, developed alongside historic Murano furnace Salviati. Glass + light = poetry.

🏛️ Marta Sala reminded us that great architects design everything — presenting furniture by Herzog & de Meuron. Neutra backed that up with Zaha Hadid Architects’ Erosion collection in stone.

🪵 Max Radford Gallery brought a solo show by Lewis Kemmenoe — patchwork chairs in multiple European timbers with that almost-camouflage energy.

🍬 Mouromtsev Design Edition flew in from Dubai with a candy-dispenser-inspired table, the furry Gentle Panther carpet, and a Gufram collab seat. Unexpected and completely compelling.

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Venice has always thrived on the improbable — built on water, sustained by myth. 🌊 The 61st Venice Art Biennale assemble...
12/05/2026

Venice has always thrived on the improbable — built on water, sustained by myth. 🌊 The 61st Venice Art Biennale assembles surreal architectures that feel less like installations and more like arguments: about migration, identity, and what it means to call somewhere home. Six that stopped us. 👇
🕍 Anna Kamyshan’s Nabatele — a Venetian synagogue drifting above the lagoon on a floating rock — floats at Arsenale Nord from July 16. It embodies Yiddishland: a country defined not by borders, but by people and the culture they carry. 🕊️
🧱 Hugh Hayden’s Huff and a Puff at San Giacomo is a real brick chapel tilted forty degrees forward — conjuring the blown-away houses of The Three Little Pigs, yet fit for ten people. “I worked with a rather archetypal church design to create a collage of Venetian architecture elements.” 😄
🚤 Philip Aguirre y Otegui’s Gaalgui Shelter draws on Senegalese fishing boats used for clandestine crossings to the Canary Islands. Sky-blue pigment, borrowed from those hulls, speaks of longing and belief. Surreal architectures of refuge, in elemental forms. 💙
🏚️ At the Negozio Olivetti, Leandro Erlich suspends a house with roots above Carlo Scarpa’s staircase — a miniature of Pulled by the Roots, originally a full-scale house dangling from a crane in Germany. History, modernity, the ground beneath us. 🌿
🖤 Anish Kapoor at Palazzo Manfrin: 100 models, fifty years, Vantablack. “Sculpture can once again become architecture, and architecture becomes a material to be pushed to its limits.” Some remain unbuilt — provocations, or waiting for someone brave enough. 🌑
🛺 The Bahamas Pavilion pays tribute to the late John Beadle — cardboard, Junkanoo remnants, sailcloth, and the Mobile Housing Scheme. “Whenever you go, you carry your home — it’s a wheelbarrow, a space of grounded humility, of labour, identity, and no pretence.” This one hits different. 🙏

📍 Which surreal architectures would you visit first? 👇


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The late Koyo Kouoh imagined Venice Art Biennale 2026 Biennale di Venezia as quieter and more sensorial — less spectacle...
11/05/2026

The late Koyo Kouoh imagined Venice Art Biennale 2026 Biennale di Venezia as quieter and more sensorial — less spectacle, more feeling. Yet the opening was overshadowed by protests and politics. Still, her vision endured. Across the Giardini and Arsenale, the most memorable works spoke softly through craftsmanship, ritual, and memory rather than scale or noise. ✨

India’s pavilion, Geography of Distance, is one of the Biennale’s most poetic experiences. Through suspended organic forms, stitched architectures, and papier-mâché homes, artists including Ranjani Shettar, Sumakshi Singh, and Skarma Sonam Tashi asks a question almost everyone carries inside them: where is home? Not the place on paper, but the place held in memory. In India cities expand at staggering speed. The result feels intimate, fragile, and deeply human. 🏠🧵

At the Saudi Pavilion, Dana Awartani creates a breathtaking floor of handmade clay tiles inspired by endangered heritage sites across Palestine, Syria, and Lebanon. Crafted with artisans from across the Arab world and South Asia, the installation feels both archaeological and painfully current — a meditation on beauty, destruction, and what conflict erases forever. 🕊️🧱

The Ukrainian Pavilion delivers one of the Biennale’s most powerful symbols. Zhanna Kadyrova’s concrete Origami Deer travelled from war-threatened Donetsk Oblast to Venice after being evacuated from Pokrovsk. Heavy yet impossibly delicate, the sculpture stands near the Russian Pavilion carrying the emotional weight of displacement, resilience, and survival. 🦌💔

In the Moroccan Pavilion, Amina Agueznay transforms weaving traditions into a suspended architectural skin. Threads become memory, ritual, and gesture all at once, creating a space that feels alive — somewhere between shelter, prayer, and performance. 🧶✨

And then there’s F**g Ahmed’s The Attention, where carpets spill across seven rooms near the Arsenale, climbing walls and reacting to visitors through quantum-generated data linked to cybersecurity. It’s one of the Biennale’s quietest yet most radical ideas: craft not as nostalgia, but as a living system responding to the present in real time. 🪢

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