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1 week ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
We tend to be of the opinion that certain classics should be left alone. The wheel needs no reinvention, after all. But every now and then we eat our words when a canny collaboration emerges that makes us look anew at something we thought we already knew, inside out and upside down. Such is the case with the surprising, delightful collaboration between Swiss modular furniture brand USM and the London-based design practice Buchanan Studio.
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3 weeks ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
In recent years, car brands have become part of the furniture at Milan Design Week. Most roll in and out of town, happy to have promoted their design credentials during the week-long proceedings as part of a marketing exercise. 2025 bore news of an altogether different level of auto-engagement, however, with the announcement of an ongoing collaborative relationship between Maserati and Giorgetti, titans of design in cars and furniture, respectively.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
As long-time fans of the sculptural designs by Minnesotan artist and architect Jonathan Muecke, our antennae went to high alert when we heard he was working with Knoll on his first foray into manufactured furniture. The ‘Muecke Wood Collection’ consists of a dining table and chairs that beautifully express their construction with stacked cylindrical dowels, here shown with a walnut finish.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
Amidst the cacophony of Milan Design Week, there are a small handful of shows each year that set the agenda and become talking points for everyone attending. In the decade or so since Hermès first showed its homeware during the Milan fair, its exhibition quickly emerged as a bellwether, not just in the week, but in the annual calendar; Hermès shows appear on mood boards of design houses, years later.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
Minotti’s collaboration with Milanese multi-disciplinary design studio Hannes Peer continues to deliver the goods for us, and we’re making space in our piano nobile for this supremely handsome new sofascape, showcased during Milan Design Week 2025. ‘Riley’ is the quintessence of grown-up elegance, inviting one to lounge with dignity, whilst maintaining posture and decorum. Elevated on a recessed base in bronze or black chrome, the sofa appears reassuringly anchored but also as if it is floating.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
We have been enjoying the recent evolution of Turri. The brand, which celebrates its centenary this year, has in recent times been introducing furniture of a quiet-yet-confident modernity, matched by a fresh creative direction. Its launches during Salone del Mobile 2025 include the ‘Kenobi’ collection by Italian designer Marco Acerbis, and we have zeroed in on this smart, round dining table. It has an engineered precision, with the surface appearing to levitate on its slim legs.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
Lighting might not be what immediately springs to mind in the portfolio of the leather magnates at Poltrona Frau, but the company has in fact been developing research into the sector for some years. A new collaboration with the Argentinian digital artist Ezequiel Pini of Barcelona-based studio Six N. Five, has resulted in a table and floor lamp of hallowed, lunar beauty.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
The reissue of our dreams, no less. Afra & Tobia Scarpa originally designed the ‘Monk’ chair for Angelo Molteni in 1973. It was the first step of what would become a rich and fruitful relationship between the couple and the family manufacturer, and the chair quickly acquired legendary appeal among the design cognoscenti. The ‘Monk’ is a proudly handsome creature – with leather (or canvas) back and seat stretched over a tubular steel frame, resting on wooden legs, arranged perpendicularly.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
British designer Lee Broom has teamed up with the Valencia porcelain artisans at Lladró to design a range of lighting that takes its cues from the glowing translucency of paper lanterns – the most ancient of human-made light sources. Playing with the delicacy of porcelain to mimic the effect of flame through paper, Broom has developed a series of graphic, ribbed cylinders and demi-spheres that are suspended vertically and can be combined in different configurations.
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1 month ago | 
wallpaper.com | Hugo Macdonald
How do you solve a problem like Salone? How do you catch a crowd and pin it down? Even before the pandemic, the fair was facing, if not quite an existential crisis, then certainly a complex conundrum: how to maintain its relevance in a rapidly changing industry. How could companies justify the cost, not to mention the carbon footprint, for such a transient entity? After the financial crash of 2008, design was embraced by several sectors as a tool for progress.
