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South African Rising Talents in Paris, Simphiwe Mlambo – Photo by ©Anne Emmanuelle Thion, courtesy of Maison & Objet. Design. Each year, Maison & Objet turns the spotlight on one country’s design scene, forecasting its next generation of creatives. This time round, the Parisian fair teamed up with Decorex, the leading platform for contemporary African design, and an international jury selected seven South African rising talents rooted in local heritage and forward-looking perspectives.

Parisian courtyards tour during PDW 2026. Joseph Walsh at Hôtel de Sully – Photo via IG by Alice Casenave, follow @josephwalshstudio. Design, Architecture. Paris Design Week offers the perfect excuse to rediscover stunning venues through the lens of contemporary design — and this year is no exception. Wandering through the Ville Lumière, we found ourselves mesmerised all over again. Joseph Walsh at Hôtel de Sully Photo by Grégoire Sevaz.

The Pangolin Shield Pavilion by Studio Saar at London Design Festival 2026 – Photos by Mark Cocksedge, courtesy of London Design Festival. Design, Architecture. At this year’s London Design Festival, the Pangolin Shield Pavilion brings striking storytelling to Strand Aldwych [Map].

Contrepoint, Anthony Guerrée at Museum Bourdelle – Photos by Francis Amiand. Design, Art. “Sculpture, in the end, is nothing other than drawing in every sense,” Art Deco master Antoine Bourdelle once said. From there, designer Anthony Guerrée has taken that idea and run with it, pulling the great Parisian sculptor’s lines, curves, tensions and counter-forms into furniture and objects made from wood, glass, textile and mixed clay.

Le Grand Bouquet by Uchronia at the Grand Palais – All photos are by © Romain Moriceau, unless stated otherwise. Design, Crafts. Le Grand Bouquet, Uchronia‘s installation for Paris Design Week, fills the Rotonde d’Antin at the Grand Palais with a single monumental bloom, conceived as a living extension of the hall itself. Its form draws inspiration from the mosaic floor’s floral motif and the botanical mouldings adorning the arcades.

The Man Pavilion by Alexander ‘Zander’ Rose at Burning Man 2026 – All photo are by Mark Fromson, unless stated otherwise. Art, Architecture. Every civilisation has reached for its own Axis Mundi — a fixed point and a mystical denominator connecting us with powers greater than ourselves. That was the main theme of Burning Man 2026, the festival that each year lifts a temporary metropolis out of Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, only to burn it back down to ashes by week’s end.

Temple of the Moon by James Gwertzman – Photo by Rand Larson. Architecture. There was real magnetism to a ‘blooming’ structure built for one purpose: to slow down. This year’s Burning Man main shrine, the Temple of the Moon, was the work of American artist James Gwertzman and his Moonlight Collective, taking its cue from one of the desert’s most fleeting spectacles — a cactus flower that opens after nightfall and withers before dawn. Temple of the Moon by James Gwertzman – Photo by Rand Larson.

London Design Festival 2026 – Courtesy Pentagram & LDF. Design. Eleven districts, three hundred events, and a citywide appetite for design that hasn’t been this loud since before the pandemic — London Design Festival 2026 is going big. From Soho to Mayfair, Shoreditch to the South Bank, this year’s edition reads like a love letter to the capital’s creative range. Here’s where to point your feet. Awakenings at the V&A Sept. 12-Oct. 18. Cromwell Road, SW7 2RL [Map].

Minestrone Workshop at Habitare 2026 – All photos are by Henri Vogt. Design. At Habitare, Helsinki’s furniture fair, Minestrone Workshop staged a pavilion that hovers between exhibition and lounge — deliberately so. The Helsinki collective built an immersive structure from 357 gossamer-thin spruce veneer sheets, each barely 2mm deep, milled from just three five-metre logs. Inside, the furniture spoke the same language as the framing itself: nothing polished, everything mid-thought.

Pierre Renart x Maison Parisienne at Paris Design Week 2026 – Photo by Benedicte Drummond, © Maison Parisienne. Design. From 10 to 19 September, Paris Design Week 2026 takes over iconic districts such as Le Marais, Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Opéra and Bastille, activating galleries, showrooms, schools and heritage spaces across the capital.