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Salone del Mobile.Milano 2026 highlights materiality as the genesis of design
Mar 28, 2026by 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.
What to expect as contemporary design takes the stage at Milan Design Week 2026
Mar 25, 2026by 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.
An exhibition in Togo amplifies the regional traditions and design voices of West Africa
Mar 20, 2026by 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.
Weaving myths of our more-than-human futures through The Craftocene
Mar 06, 2026by 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.
Inside Worldglimpsing: worlding and roleplay as rehearsals for the real world
Feb 20, 2026by 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.
What the Design section at India Art Fair signals for collectible design in India
Feb 17, 2026by 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.
100 Candleholders at Blunk Space is a meditation on design beyond utility
Feb 16, 2026by 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.
Anna Tsing on the mutinies and aberrant nobilities of FUNGI: Anarchist Designers
Feb 13, 2026by 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.
Patriotic prints and precious things at the 72nd Winter Show in New York
Feb 12, 2026by 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.
From the Upper Valley in the Foothills at Marta finds resilience in making
Feb 09, 2026by 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.
ZMMA leads a contextually reflective transformation for the Poole Museum
Feb 03, 2026by Anmol Ahuja Feb 03, 2026
A guided visit to the extensively redeveloped complex yields an accessible, immersive museum experience spanning centuries with a distinct urban identity.
Not just a chair: Urs Fischer elevates the banal through absurdity in Shucks & Aww
Jan 31, 2026by Bansari Paghdar Jan 31, 2026
The Swiss designer and artist brings humour, ambiguity and art-world provocation to design, where functionality gains abstract underpinnings.
Of motherhood as a continuum and things that make and break our births
Jan 30, 2026by Zohra Khan Jan 30, 2026
An embodied response to the exhibition Designing Motherhood: Things That Make and Break Our Births examines how design shapes care, access and maternal experience.
Joyce Lin spotlights furniture design's Hypernatural dimension in a New York show
Dec 22, 2025by 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.
Alice Gavalet transposes tartan patterns onto vibrant ceramics in Pattern Play
Dec 16, 2025by Chahna Tank Dec 16, 2025
STIR speaks with the French ceramic artist about her exhibition at the Twenty First Gallery, New York, exploring her vibrant palette, tartan motifs and the role of joy in her practice.
At BDNY 2025, design becomes a lens on influence, immersion and industry
Nov 27, 2025by Sunena V Maju Nov 27, 2025
This year’s trade fair revealed how boutique design has evolved beyond aesthetics into a powerful system of influence, emotion, experience and economic optimism across the industry.
Ways of being: At Home in the 17th Century at Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Nov 26, 2025by Chahna Tank Nov 26, 2025
Through nine diorama-like galleries, the exhibition reconstructs domestic life in the Netherlands during the Dutch Golden Age, foregrounding the global forces that sustained it.
Stephen Burks on the vital role of craft in imagining pluralistic, inclusive worlds
Nov 19, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 19, 2025
In conversation with STIR, the founder of Stephen Burks Man Made discusses the importance of recognising the role of indigenous communities in crafting inclusive futures.
Dubai Design Week 2025 exemplified how design can forge common ground
Nov 18, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Nov 18, 2025
Over six days, the annual design festival traced new forms of connection, showing how design can move beyond trends to embody context, care and continuity.
Geoffrey Bawa Trust’s exhibition engages in more active Ways of Knowing Lunuganga
Nov 10, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 10, 2025
The design exhibition in Colombo employs interactive formats to question how we interact with and understand our natural surroundings, with Bawa’s estate as its narrative spine.
Ursula K. Le Guin’s words and worlds, to hold people, landscapes and dragons
Nov 07, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 07, 2025
The Word for World, an exhibition and book cartographically charting the great American writer's fictional terrains, encourages readers to pay attention to the possibilities of fiction.
A Shared Scaffolding considers temporary frameworks sustaining enduring forms
Nov 06, 2025by Chahna Tank Nov 06, 2025
Drawing inspiration from the anatomy of a circus tent, the design exhibition by Jacqueline Sullivan Gallery x BRUISES presents works reflecting on structure and balance.
Jean Nouvel’s Fondation Cartier building fabricates avenues for the unexpected
Nov 05, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Nov 05, 2025
A radical rehaul of the interior spaces of a Haussmannian structure in Palais-Royal, Paris, underscores the French architect’s quest to rethink museum architecture.
Ryan Preciado on the dialogue between personal memory, history and heritage
Nov 03, 2025by 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.
Studio vit on how light carries information from the stars to the cells in our bodies
Oct 18, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 18, 2025
The London-based design studio takes inspiration from the elemental processes of the universe for an exhibition at Etage Projects in Copenhagen.
Clément Cividino makes layers of history visible with Tropical Pavilion at Terra Remota
Oct 17, 2025by 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.
Slowness as metaphor and blueprint at the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial
Oct 14, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 14, 2025
The inaugural edition of the festival in Denmark, curated by Josephine Michau, CEO, CAFx, seeks to explore how the discipline can move away from incessantly extractivist practices.
Masculinity, memory and myth find a Hero’s Wreck by Colin Knight at Superhouse Gallery
Oct 14, 2025by 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.
French furniture brand Liaigre debuts in India with a specially curated exhibition
Oct 09, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 09, 2025
At the æquō gallery in Mumbai, a curated presentation of the luxury furniture brand’s signature pieces evokes the ambience of a Parisian apartment.
UnBroken at Camden Inspire 2025 proffered salvaged stories and second lives in design
Oct 04, 2025by 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.
The Mindcraft Project 2025 situates design at the seams of nature and material enquiry
Oct 02, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Oct 02, 2025
This year’s edition of the annual design exhibition by Copenhagen Design Agency, on view at The Lab, Copenhagen, is curated by Pil Bredahl and explores natural systems and geometry.
Mayfair Design District 2025 professes converging cultures Beyond Boundaries
Sep 30, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Sep 30, 2025
From traditional craftsmanship to upcycling futures, the district’s 9th edition at London Design Festival 2025 united brands and disciplines for evocative, site-specific exhibits.
Richard Rogers: Talking Buildings and the architecture of activism and presence
Sep 24, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Sep 24, 2025
An exhibition by Ab Rogers at Sir John Soane’s Museum, London, retraced five decades of the celebrated architect’s design tenets that treated buildings as campaigns for change.
Landmark installations, district highlights and more at London Design Festival 2025
Sep 13, 2025by Anushka Sharma Sep 13, 2025
London is set to become a playground for design with special commissions, exhibitions and district-wide programming exploring the humane and empathetic in creative disciplines.
Louis Vuitton: Visionary Journeys gives the Maison’s trunk a spatial presence
Sep 09, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Sep 09, 2025
OMA partner Shohei Shigematsu stages the Maison’s codes and crafts as a sequence of inhabitable spaces at the Nakanoshima Museum of Art in Osaka.
Spanning creative spectrums, LDF reveals winners of the 2025 London Design Medals
Sep 09, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Sep 09, 2025
This year’s London Design Festival honours Michael Anastassiades OBE, Lord Norman Foster, Sinéad Burke and Rio Kobayashi, highlighting innovation and inclusivity in design.
FIND Design Fair Asia 2025 to explore Pan-Asian cultures and collective identity
Aug 25, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Aug 25, 2025
The upcoming edition looks forward to offering a layered, multidisciplinary series of presentations and dialogues examining Pan-Asian design within a transnational landscape.
Nous, le Climat at BAP! Île-de-France: sensing climate at the table
Aug 05, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Aug 05, 2025
French landscape collective TER’s installation at the Potager du Roi coalesced architecture and environmental data, making sensors like heat, water and wind part of the experience.
Eco-social designer Henriette Waal on design that thinks with bioregions
Aug 01, 2025by Mrinmayee Bhoot Aug 01, 2025
STIR speaks to the co-founder of Atelier LUMA and artistic director of Veenweide Atelier on her approach to biodesign and the relevance of peat landscapes today.
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