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Helsinki Design Week returns August 28, September 6, showcasing Nordic design's shift from minimalism to sustainability, accessibility, and cultural problem-
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A color-saturated immersive retrospective marks 100 years since Panton's birth.
Finland's flagship design festival kicks off August 28 with a program focused on how design shapes shared urban spaces and collective futures.
The museum's sweeping new exhibition explores how postcolonial African architects reimagined civic space and national identity through radical design.
A new gathering at the Museum of Contemporary Art brings architects and designers together to rethink how cities meet the ocean.
Finland's capital transforms into a sprawling design laboratory each year, proving that good design isn't confined to white-box galleries.
The Swiss affordable-watch brand partnered with luxury horological royalty for a surprisingly accessible piece that had collectors scrambling within hours.
Gem and precious metal sales jumped 19% as wealthy Gen Z shoppers and international tourists flood department stores.
The German city will host the biennial title all August, anchoring its program around design's role in civic life and political systems.
The automaker's chief designer and Elon Musk are signaling the long-delayed supercar demo is finally about to drop.
Finland's most vital design gathering opens August 28 with a curated theme that signals a shift toward experimental, rule-breaking work across the region.
Cold gas thrusters from SpaceX might actually make the next-generation electric supercar levitate, and Elon just proved he's not done pushing physics.
After the Omega playbook proved the formula, Swatch brings another Swiss institution down to earth with a full-scale collaboration.
At 850 horsepower and stripped to pure mechanical controls, Hennessey's new flagship rejects every digital shortcut.
Bugatti's custom commission program unveils its most daring creation yet at Monterey Car Week.
The house's fall 2026 pre-collection reimagines the pencil case as a black calfskin status symbol for kids who summer in Capri.
The Danish hypercar maker's dual-engine V12 duo lands stateside for its biggest American statement before 2027 production begins.
Franz von Holzhausen just gave us the most concrete timeline yet for the electric supercar that's been teased since 2017.
A 2003 Enzo becomes the headline lot at Broad Arrow's Monterey auction, offered without reserve for the first time.
Bugatti's custom commission program unveils its most daring creation yet at Monterey Car Week.
Denmark's hypercar maker brings its track and road versions of the Aurora to California, signaling serious US ambitions before 2027 delivery.
The British marque ditches the public circuit for an ultra-exclusive hideout designed to court the world's wealthiest collectors.
Season 2 of the Irish designer's Guinness collaboration ditches logo worship for something far stranger: actual wearable mood.
The Nordic festival's latest edition pivots to urgent questions about community and collaboration in cities, centering a theme that challenges designers to think beyond individual practice.
Germany's financial powerhouse trades the trading floor for the drawing board, hosting a month-long global design conversation rooted in democracy and civic imagination.
A new exhibition spotlights how the world's most celebrated architects are designing spaces that heal.
At Monterey, the British engineer unveiled the spiritual successor to his most legendary machine, and it's exactly as obsessive as you'd expect.
The ultraexclusive hotel brand opens its most ambitious Mexican resort where desert cliffs meet the Pacific, trading minimalist restraint for maximalist architecture.
A slate of high-profile exhibitions across Europe this month reframes contemporary architecture around human-centered design and social responsibility.
Designer Tatjana von Stein reimagines a brutalist 1970s structure as a maximalist playground where Munich's belle époque grandeur collides with neon-soaked new-wave nights.
Mies van der Rohe's modernist masterpiece opens Fertile Ground on August 23, an exhibition designed around the iconic architecture rather than against it.
Scandinavia's biggest design festival enters its 21st year by centering community, encounter, and the urban stranger.
A total solar eclipse in August is driving unprecedented demand for premium flights across the continent, with bookings up more than half and first-class cabins already full.
The annual festival plants design interventions across the metro to examine how the Pacific Northwest city is reshaping itself.
The legendary Venetian palace hotel reopens August 26 as Four Seasons' fourth Italian outpost, rebuilt from the inside out.
As the genre-bending series launches its fourth season, the streamer's bet on sci-fi that talks like prestige drama is paying off.
Three iconic structures turn July into a design pilgrimage that proves immersive installations beat passive tourism every time.
High-fashion cinema meets everyday streetwear as Kith celebrates the franchise's hotly anticipated sequel.
LA's legendary art deco cafeteria is betting big on soccer fever, luring crowds with free entry and late-night DJ sets.
François-Henri Bennahmias, the mastermind behind Audemars Piguet's global ascent, is burning 30 million Swiss francs to build a new mechanical watch house with a master enamelist and zero nostalgia.
Bjarke Ingels Group's Copenhagen office proves that radical material honesty doesn't require sacrifice on aesthetics or function.
A Tate Modern collaboration channels Frida Kahlo while a Hackney newcomer brings LA diner culture to East London.
The luxury house colonizes an Athenian Riviera resort through October, signaling that immersive brand experiences have officially eclipsed traditional fashion weeks.
The Swiss watchmaker is taking Big Tech to court, arguing Samsung's digital designs ripped off its iconic playbook.
The French luxury conglomerate and hospitality giant Accor are bringing the storied rail brand's golden-age mystique to ultra-premium yachting.
Snøhetta is breathing new life into one of Finland's most celebrated modernist buildings while preserving its original spirit.
The Korean label expands its signature sun faded aesthetic into home design with a limited anniversary release.
The nostalgic accessory transforms the original 1994 PlayStation console into a slim everyday carry solution for laptops and tablets.
The new Berlin gallery debuts with “Partie Une,” an exhibition that blends iconic design, emerging talent and immersive storytelling.
Studio KO transforms a legendary Paris nightclub into a highly tactile boutique hotel, blending brutalist architecture, cinematic interiors, and music-inspired details throughout every space.
To celebrate 90 years of the legendary Aalto Vase, Iittala is bringing one of design’s most recognizable forms to life on a monumental scale.