•make your fridays matter with a well-read weekend
by Pranjal Maheshwari Jun 20, 2026
Founder Doruk Kubilay’s latest collections, Resonance and Mother and Daughter, transform cultural heritage, craftsmanship and material experimentation into collectible designs.
by Jincy Iype Jun 08, 2026
From material-led investigations to ritual, participation and sensory encounters, STIR picks showcases that embody 3daysofdesign 2026's call to make this moment matter.
by Pranjal Maheshwari Jun 06, 2026
The furniture fair in New York City engaged its global audience with expanded programming and critical conversations reinforcing the position of design as a connective force.
by Sunena V Maju May 30, 2026
From IKONstudio's Halston revival to USM's Food Form Function, NYCxDESIGN 2026 asked the questions that mattered most: Does design still matter, and will any of it last?
by Chahna Tank May 28, 2026
Gaetano Pesce: The Chiat\Day New York Project revisits a visionary workplace that heralded the advent of the flex office, through surviving furniture, doors and archival material.
by Pranjal Maheshwari May 27, 2026
With Symbio, the Dutch designer demonstrates two radical material visions: biophilic concrete as a carbon sink and biodegradable resin redefining the material limits of plywood.
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 Mrinmayee Bhoot May 15, 2026
An exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts in Bilbao, Denise Scott Brown: City, Street, House, focuses exclusively on the American architect’s influential contributions to urban analysis.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Bansari Paghdar Jan 31, 2026
The Swiss designer and artist brings humour, ambiguity and art-world provocation to design, where functionality gains abstract underpinnings.
by Bansari Paghdar Jan 29, 2026
The London-based studio’s debut furniture collection, inspired by human movements and nature, is conceived in 3D-printed sand and metal to evoke the tactility of stone.
by Jincy Iype Jan 23, 2026
The pavilions at the second edition of ADFF:STIR Mumbai responded to curator Aric Chen’s brief, Mumbai Transcripts, to become activated micro-sites of movement and reflection.
by Srishti Ojha, Harshali Pagare Jan 22, 2026
STIR speaks with the Ghanaian artist on his large-scale installation, Parliament of Ghosts, at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale 2025 and the colonial histories of everyday materials.
by Bansari Paghdar Dec 27, 2025
Designed by Bose Krishnamachari and inspired from da Vinci’s The Last Supper, the pavilion features 13 unique pillars and chairs, marking a space for reflection at Jaquar Pavilion Park.
by Zohra Khan Dec 24, 2025
These projects at Design Mumbai 2025 illustrate how collaboration and plural perspectives are shaping contemporary design in India and beyond.
by Chahna Tank Dec 22, 2025
STIR speaks with Houston-based artist and sculptural furniture designer about her exhibition at R & Company that bends reality and bypasses material limitations through imitation.
by Andreu World Dec 09, 2025
The Spanish furniture brand opens its new space in Mumbai, positioning design as a cultural and social tool through its curated spaces.
by Bansari Paghdar Nov 26, 2025
With a revitalised London flagship store and a new collection by Giuseppe Bavuso, the Italian furniture brand explores modernity through a 'formal quality' rooted in craftsmanship.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 17, 2025
New York-based spatial designer Ceren Arslan transforms the visual aesthetic of video games and digital realms into a playful, modular design collection.
by Jincy Iype Nov 15, 2025
The second edition of Design Mumbai is set to unite distinguished global and Indian designers, brands and studios at Mumbai’s Jio World Garden for a four-day trade event.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 03, 2025
In an interview with STIR, the Los Angeles–based designer, artist, and curator discusses how both the Memphis school and his Chumash heritage inform his creative vision.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 01, 2025
Exploring humanity’s relationship with nature, the Berlin-based creative’s work centres on aluminium furniture, contrasting its clean surface with stone or leather.
by Bansari Paghdar Oct 17, 2025
While peeking into his latest offering at the Spanish vineyard, STIR further delves into the French collector’s annual restorations that generate discourse on adaptable architectures.
by Bansari Paghdar Oct 14, 2025
In his solo show, the American artist and designer showcases handcrafted furniture, lighting and products made from salvaged leather, beeswax and sheepskin.
by Asmita Singh Oct 04, 2025
Showcased during the London Design Festival 2025, the UnBroken group show rethought consumption through tenacious, inventive acts of repair and material transformation.
by Anushka Sharma Sep 15, 2025
Turning discarded plastic, glass, textiles and bamboo into functional objects, the collection blends circular design with local craft to reimagine waste as a material of the future.
by Aarthi Mohan Sep 08, 2025
A screening of E.1027 – Eileen Gray and the House by the Sea (2024) turned into a meditation on power and a flawed architectural history as Kadri delivered a searing ~epilog(ue).
by Jincy Iype Aug 27, 2025
Neither concealed nor diminished, an incongruous structure is deconstructed into four ‘quartets’ by TEAM_BLDG, shaping China’s first contemporary rural art museum for weaving.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 16, 2025
Korean designer Jaeho Lee’s recent furniture designs explore the possibilities of extravagance in form and honesty in function, to question what we value as 'normal'.
by Almas Sadique Apr 12, 2025
The design exhibition, on view at BasicVillage within the Isola Design District, encapsulates objects that stimulate the mind, vision, touch, movement and emotions of visitors.
by Mrinmayee Bhoot Apr 10, 2025
Highlighting its theme for Milan Design Week 2025, 'armonie invisibli', STIR presents a selection of the best projects that strike a balance between functionality and art.
by Dhwani Shanghvi Apr 05, 2025
The exhibition by Phantom Hands and the Geoffrey Bawa Trust explores how collective authorship and material evolution shape the reinterpretation of Bawa’s iconic designs.
by Bansari Paghdar Mar 28, 2025
In a conversation with STIR, Canadian studio Zenga Bros talks about skateboarding, design and community, showcasing furniture designs that transform into skating equipment.
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