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by Bansari Paghdar May 23, 2026
The founder of Valencia-based Kutarq Studio introduces sculptural forms of a floor lamp, a music stand, a coffee table and three stools, crafted from folded metal sheets.
by Pranjal Maheshwari May 22, 2026
The Czech-based designer talks to STIR about honing material craft by blending intuition, manual tools and digital workflows with folklore to create objects that are ‘grown, not made’.
by Sunena V Maju May 22, 2026
STIR in conversation with Ralph Pucci and Eric Schmitt discovers how the former’s journey mirrors the latter’s belief that great design quietly outlasts its own time.
by Sunena V Maju May 21, 2026
The first design retrospective of the visionary American sculptor to appear in 25 years challenges everything we thought we knew about his work.
by Pranjal Maheshwari May 19, 2026
Returning to London for a landmark 15th edition, CDW adds new venues, brand interventions and material cultures to showcase the best of contemporary design from across Europe.
by Pranjal Maheshwari May 16, 2026
25 years after Gotham’s debut, the new variable typeface system extends its adaptability across digital interfaces, branding systems and contemporary design environments.
by Sunena V Maju May 09, 2026
The gold winners of the prestigious design award made the case that in the era of artificial intelligence, the human factor remains the only true differentiator.
by Aarthi Mohan, Pranjal Maheshwari May 08, 2026
STIR talks to the London-based artist and spatial designer about navigating contribution, care, and ownership when creating for and with the people.
by Chahna Tank May 06, 2026
STIR speaks with the studio's founders, Toluwalase Rufai and Sandia Nassila, about the collection’s conceptualisation and how materials and craft shape the experience of light.
by Bansari Paghdar May 02, 2026
This group show assembles five creatives whose uncanny, otherworldly ceramics project a future a century ahead, shaped by ecological, technological and biological systems.
by Pranjal Maheshwari May 01, 2026
The Mexico-based designer talks to STIR about evidencing presence and routine in his sculptural works that disrupt the utilitarian perception of furniture.
by Pranjal Maheshwari Apr 27, 2026
The fourth edition of the prestigious international awards at MDW 2026 felicitated projects that acknowledge the responsibility and humaneness of the design process.
by Pranjal Maheshwari Apr 27, 2026
The Madrid-based industrial designer renders the traditional drafting board with a distinct industrial aesthetic for the American artist’s charcoal and graphite explorations.
by Sunena V Maju Apr 25, 2026
As tariffs reshape global design trade, ICFF returns to New York with a timely call for dialogue, collaboration and shared values.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 24, 2026
In an exclusive conversation with STIR, the curator of the ambitious pavilion When Apricots Blossom discusses how it centres design and craft as regenerative tools of culture.
by Pranjal Maheshwari Apr 23, 2026
For its 15th edition, the globally acclaimed design award celebrated emerging design practices that leveraged craftsmanship as a catalyst for technological innovation.
by STIRworld Apr 22, 2026
The globally renowned furniture brand sets up its Milan showroom to stir conversations around manufacturing a better world through sustainable design and material innovation.
by Chahna Tank Apr 21, 2026
The group exhibition at the New York gallery explores the idea of labour and adornment as central to craft, reframing making as a ‘contemporary form of thought’.
by STIRworld Apr 21, 2026
Presenting a video art installation for Milan Design Week 2026, the wellness brand is set to donate 40 units of the 1986-designed UNICA to schools and charities to mark the occasion.
by Almas Sadique Apr 18, 2026
With the theme, TEN: The Evolving Now, Isola Design Festival returns to Milan with retrospective exhibition designs and novel, experimental design outputs.
by Zohra Khan Apr 17, 2026
With the theme Design Dialects, the open call invites submissions that write from within design’s dispersed grammars as sites of ongoing transformation.
by Sunena V Maju Apr 16, 2026
From Moooi’s theatrical environments to Lina Ghotmeh’s site-specific intervention, these immersive installations shift focus from products to spatial, multisensory experience.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 15, 2026
Connecting the city, people and design, the district is set to unveil four key installations and a talks programme under the theme Design Hospitality – Milan Style at MDW 2026.
by Chahna Tank Apr 14, 2026
STIR speaks with Laura Vella, head of Superstudio Design, discussing this edition's expanded format, curatorial frameworks and key highlights across Milan.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 13, 2026
On the advent of Isola's upcoming edition themed TEN: The Evolving Now, its co-founders reflect on community-building, curatorial experimentation and global expansion.
by Almas Sadique Apr 11, 2026
From Brera to Isola and 5VIE, Fuorisalone activates Milan Design Week with immersive, dynamic and evolving showcases and discourses shaped by its theme, Be the Project.
by Pranjal Maheshwari Apr 09, 2026
Porta Venezia Design District advocates for a vision of design beyond production, embracing it as a valuable gesture that fosters relationships, visions and new possibilities.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 07, 2026
5VIE Design District positions design as a subjective, highly personal encounter, where ceramics, textiles and spatial interventions provoke self-reflection.
by Bansari Paghdar Apr 04, 2026
At Milan Design Week 2026, the 11th edition moves beyond spectacle to examine how design operates across systems of production, perception and lived experience.
by Almas Sadique Apr 03, 2026
The expansive Brera Design Week is set to host its 17th edition during Milan Design Week 2026 with dynamic designs and discourses amid the neighbourhood’s historic core.
by Almas Sadique Mar 28, 2026
The upcoming edition of the design fair urges creatives to decenter the image of the final design to focus on its materiality, process and craftsmanship.
by Jincy Iype Mar 25, 2026
From Salone del Mobile.Milano to Fuorisalone, Superstudio to Porta Venezia; STIR presents a comprehensive guide through Milan Design Week’s most compelling offerings this year.
by Pranjal Maheshwari Mar 24, 2026
The Netherlands-based designer explores the duality of natural forces and geological journeys of materials to shape furniture and objects.
by Bansari Paghdar Mar 20, 2026
Staged at the Palais de Lomé, Design In West Africa: Unity in Multiplicity fuses the ancestral heritage of several West African regions with contemporary design.
by Sunena V Maju Mar 14, 2026
In his first New York solo exhibition, Babin merges painting, sculpture and furniture-making to translate the rhythms of the French countryside into objects of everyday use.
by Bansari Paghdar Mar 10, 2026
The Japanese designer's latest works, including As, bespoke lighting Nave and sculptural ladder Resonique, explore overlaps and mediation between materials and medium.
by Chahna Tank Mar 09, 2026
STIR speaks with the Latvian designer about his furniture practice and interest in introducing contemporary ornamentation as a storytelling technique.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Mar 06, 2026
An exhibition by London-based Superflux at the Weltmuseum, Vienna, considers the vital role of craft and craft thinking for our precarious present and derelict future.
by Domus Academy Mar 02, 2026
Presenting the Master's in Design Futures and Design x AI, two innovative pathways to train leaders capable of shaping future scenarios, between speculative vision and ethical AI.
by Chahna Tank Mar 02, 2026
Conceived by Mexican architect Brenda Isabel Pérez, the research-driven board game draws on the writings of Mexican women authors to question gendered norms embedded in domestic life.
by Zohra Khan Feb 20, 2026
In Down Under, Formafantasma lends nature an assertive, lyrical voice, unsettling the assumption that the more-than-human world is silent or unseen.
by Bansari Paghdar Feb 20, 2026
At ArkDes in Stockholm, the design exhibition positions collective imagination as a civic and political act and design as a method of rehearsing hopeful futures.
by Jincy Iype Feb 17, 2026
Indian designers, including Ashiesh Shah, Gunjan Gupta and Vikram Goyal, reflect on scale, craft and why collectible design now demands its own space at the art fair.
by Chahna Tank Feb 16, 2026
The design exhibition marks the second iteration of Blunk Space’s ‘100’ series, bringing together 100 designers to reimagine the candleholder through various sculptural forms.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Feb 13, 2026
Regarded for her work on matsutake mushrooms, Tsing speaks to STIR about the design exhibition co-curated with Feifei Zhou at the Nieuwe Instituut that builds on this.
by Sunena V Maju Feb 12, 2026
At New York’s Park Avenue Armory, gleaming silver, Tiffany glass and framed constitutional prints quietly reveal the comforts and contradictions of elite collecting.
by Bansari Paghdar Feb 11, 2026
The experiential product gallery at the recent Architecture & Design Film Festival staged a series of encounters including culinary experiences and other cultural programming.
by Chahna Tank Feb 09, 2026
For the exhibition, 22 Los Angeles–based designers responded to the 2025 wildfires through furniture and objects that explore care, resilience and renewal, using salvaged wood.
by Akash Singh, Zohra Khan Feb 06, 2026
At Pinakin Patel’s 50-year retrospective at the Nilaya Anthology in Mumbai, STIR spoke to the polymath about a journey spanning decades, disciplines and daring ideas.
by Cristina Mateo Feb 05, 2026
As social spaces erode and immersion rises, we explore how fourth spaces can turn immersive design into a catalyst for presence, play and belonging.
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