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by Chahna Tank Jun 22, 2026
Conceived by DUDD HAUS, the open-call exhibition in New York brings together over 130 designs exploring hidden possibilities within an overlooked domestic object.
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 19, 2026
These curated conversations from Milan Design Week 2026 gather the convictions and experiences of leading creative voices, including Maria Porro, Lina Ghotmeh and more.
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 Jigyasa Sharma, Zohra Khan Jun 02, 2026
Presented in collaboration with People Places Ideas, London Design Festival’s global design discourse—held outside London—attracted the passerby as much as design specialists.
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 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 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 Bansari Paghdar May 18, 2026
Designed by id | arkosis, the residence in Costa Rica features definitive geometric volumes and a relatively simple layout while reinterpreting the material identity of its neighbourhood.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 Bansari Paghdar Mar 11, 2026
Conceived by Pentaspace Design Studio, this cuboidal volume of exposed concrete and glass pegs movement as integral to the learning experience.
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 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 Bansari Paghdar Feb 23, 2026
Located within Rothera Research Station, the UK’s largest research facility on the continent, the new building consolidates several functions under a resilient envelope.
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 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 Aarthi Mohan Jan 26, 2026
LDH Design approaches cultural regeneration through interior architecture that prioritises use, proportion and spatial clarity in Wuhan, China.
by Chahna Tank Jan 23, 2026
STIR explores how Olympic medals have evolved from symbolic rewards of athletic victory into meticulously commissioned design artefacts of global significance.
by Bansari Paghdar Jan 20, 2026
Located in a mountainous landscape of Karjat, Maharashtra, the giant cocoon-like home features a 100-feet-long suspension bridge, covered in thatch and mud.
by Aarthi Mohan Jan 19, 2026
From neighbourhood-based projects to broader urban questions, this year’s design festival foregrounds how design engages identity, material and responsibility across Toronto.
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 Zohra Khan Nov 26, 2025
As the event’s media partner, STIR reports on the most compelling designers, studios, brands, conversations and special projects set to shape this year’s edition.
by Aarthi Mohan Nov 20, 2025
Chanelling ancestral skill and honest materiality, the design studio proffers contemporary designs which become a testimony to endurance and care.
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