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ICFF 2026: Can design find common ground in a fractured trade world?
Apr 25, 2026by 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.
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UNICA MENTE by Technogym celebrates four decades of the multi-station trainer
Apr 21, 2026by 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.
Isola promises an evolving roster of novel, emergent designs at MDW 2026
Apr 18, 2026by 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.
The must-see immersive installations activating Milan Design Week 2026
Apr 16, 2026by 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.
Superstudio Design adopts a 'diffused maps' format at Milan Design Week 2026
Apr 14, 2026by 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.
Elif Resitoglu and Gabriele Cavallaro on the evolution of the Isola Design Festival
Apr 13, 2026by 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.
Fuorisalone calls for process-centric design thinking at Milan Design Week 2026
Apr 11, 2026by 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.
Tortona Rocks 2026 stages a cumulative rehearsal for the future of design systems
Apr 04, 2026by 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.
Brera Design District activates Milan with eclectic stories and spaces at Fuorisalone
Apr 03, 2026by 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.
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.
Maria Tyakina on narrating material journeys through balance and tension in design
Mar 24, 2026by 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.
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.
Ferréol Babin shapes landscapes in wood with his painted furniture at Friedman Benda
Mar 14, 2026by 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.
So Koizumi fuses disparate materials and forms in his latest furniture designs
Mar 10, 2026by 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.
Andrejs Sosenko on using ornamentation to fight modernism’s monopoly on design
Mar 09, 2026by 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.
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.
Activating space, objects and thresholds at ADFF:STIR Mumbai 2026 with LIVinSET
Feb 11, 2026by 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.
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.
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.
Shakti Design Residency’s second edition explored making and the afterlife of craft
Jan 22, 2026by Zohra Khan Jan 22, 2026
Conceived by interior designer Shalini Misra, the residency underscored collaboration as a critical practice and handmaking as a site of narrative accumulation.
SPASM Design ruminates on 30 years of practice with a Two Point Perspective
Jan 21, 2026by Jincy Iype Jan 21, 2026
With STIR as programme partner, SPASM Design’s ‘wordless’ retrospective mapped intuition-led practice, material craft and 30 projects realised over 30 years.
Inside Siemens’ vision for the intuitive home: A conversation with Saif Khan
Dec 31, 2025by BSH Home Appliances Dec 31, 2025
A walkthrough of the Siemens Experience Centre in Mumbai traces a century of engineering breakthroughs and the brand's vision for personal, intuitive living.
Collaborative highlights from Design Mumbai 2025 that embody design as dialogue
Dec 24, 2025by 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.
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.
Celebrating seven decades of excellence, Andreu World unveils its Mumbai outpost
Dec 09, 2025by 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.
Dana Harel on clothing the light to create a kind of soft architecture
Nov 28, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Nov 28, 2025
The founder of White Dirt speaks to STIR about tactility, ritual typologies, collaborative making and the shifting scales that anchor her cross-disciplinary approach
Cultural memory and material intelligence to take centre stage at Design Mumbai 2025
Nov 22, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Nov 22, 2025
The upcoming edition of Design Mumbai will present design as an act of participation through a series of installations by renowned ateliers, brands and artists.
The material stories of Manos y Materia by Nada Duele convey fragility and endurance
Nov 20, 2025by 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.
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.
Brands to renew focus on craft, technology and materiality at Design Mumbai 2025
Nov 15, 2025by 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.
Design Mumbai Exchange to explore how design builds with care and context
Nov 11, 2025by Aarthi Mohan Nov 11, 2025
From material intelligence to urban inclusion, the fair’s talks programme will reflect on how architecture and design engage with social, cultural and ecological contexts of our time.
Cold metal and natural matter embrace in Jakub Kubica's brutalist designs
Nov 01, 2025by 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.
Construing A Room of My Own with Nipa Doshi's cabinet of beauty, ritual and freedom
Oct 30, 2025by Jincy Iype Oct 30, 2025
Doshi's MECCA x NGV Women in Design Commission turns design into devotion—a shrine to the women who shaped her and a manifesto on why women create rooms of their own.
The Ahmedabad Cultural Week reactivates an underlying cultural infrastructure
Oct 18, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Oct 18, 2025
The inaugural edition brought established institutions together to showcase a collective creative identity, transforming the city into a living museum.
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.
Architecture Hunter Awards 2025 winners champion social and environmental impact
Oct 16, 2025by Bansari Paghdar Oct 16, 2025
For its sophomore year, the awards announced winners across 28 categories that forward a contextually and culturally diverse architectural ecosystem.
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.
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