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Issue No. 16 · 21 October 2026

THE
JOURNAL

The design world this week: real makers, real collections, real conversations, and the people worth knowing. Curated daily, released weekly, everything sourced.

Georgia Merritt, Sculptural furnitureGeorgia Merritt
Designer of the Week

Georgia Merritt

Sculptural furniture · London, UK (showing in Hackney)

Dezeen covered her second solo show, Refrain, on 19 October 2026; it runs at M Kardana, 188A Hackney Road, London, until 31 October 2026.

Georgia Merritt is an emerging designer who completed a gilding apprenticeship in 2020, where she developed the hand-painting technique she now uses to give timber a trompe l'oeil faux marble finish. Refrain brings together five pieces inspired by 18th-century architectural mouldings and musical staves, including the Underscore bench in sapele, a wire-framed floor lamp with a silk organza and gazar shade, and mirrors with black lacquered doors on piano hinges. She describes the work as furniture but equally sculpture, and says its identity may shift depending on where it is placed.

Gallery WhitewashPiano LacquerGazar IvoryGlass Edge Green
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Box 9 clads a Soho Turkish grill restaurant in brick made from recycled construction waste, image via DezeenTalking pointBox 9 clads a Soho Turkish grill restaurant in brick made from recycled construction wasteVikram Goyal stages Wings and Tales, a Ramayana-inspired furniture and textile collection, in a Mayfair townhouse, image via Wallpaper*FurnitureVikram Goyal stages Wings and Tales, a Ramayana-inspired furniture and textile collection, in a Mayfair townhouseObjects with Narratives shows collectible design that looks "found rather than fabricated" at PAD London, image via DezeenTrendObjects with Narratives shows collectible design that looks "found rather than fabricated" at PAD London
Chapter I · FabricClothThe fabric housesRead the chapter
De Le Cuona reaches for faded European grandeur with Rugged Revival, image via de Le Cuonade Le Cuona
Fabric · September 2026

De Le Cuona reaches for faded European grandeur with Rugged Revival

Rugged Revival is de Le Cuona's newest fabric collection for the American market, eight heirloom-quality textiles across the brand's Curtaining, Sheer and Upholstery weights, built from wool, linen and hemp into richly textured jacquards, cotton velvets and embroidered sheers in a faded, European-grandeur palette running from bleached chalk through burnt umber to a deep vineyard wine. The line worth carrying into a client conversation is the brand's own one, refined beauty meeting the bold character of a room that actually gets lived in, which makes this the specification for a brief that wants heritage weight without the stiffness of a period reproduction, and a collection wide enough to dress a whole room from a single story rather than piece by matched piece.

Titian ChalkBurnt UmberChateau VineyardPalazzo SandstoneTitian Indigo
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Thibaut pulls the Arts and Crafts botanical off the museum shelf in Fairhaven, image via ThibautThibautFabric

Thibaut pulls the Arts and Crafts botanical off the museum shelf in Fairhaven

Fairhaven is one of the two collections Thibaut leads its Fall 2026 launch with, a fabric and wallcovering range that reaches back to the late 1800s Arts and Crafts movement and reworks period botanical artworks at large scale in fresh, lifted colour so the patterns read as transitional rather than strictly heritage.

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Chapter II · WallpaperWallsPaper and patternRead the chapter
Carnovsky's RGB-Not wallpapers turn enchanted forests into contemporary frescoes, image via DezeenDezeen
Wallpaper · October 2026

Carnovsky's RGB-Not wallpapers turn enchanted forests into contemporary frescoes

The Milan duo Francesco Rugi and Silvia Quintanilla revisit their 2010 RGB idea of overlapping, transparent images in three digitally printed scenes of dreamlike jungle in sienna, forest green, dusty pink and cobalt blue. It is made to order on non-woven rolls 100cm wide, which suits a single feature wall rather than a whole room.

Cobalt FrondSienna PrintForest ShadowDusty PinkFresco Stone
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GenCork lets an algorithm cut the relief into a black cork wall, image via DezeenDezeenWallpaper

GenCork lets an algorithm cut the relief into a black cork wall

This is a wall covering in cork rather than paper.

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This is a wall covering in cork rather than paper.

Chapter III · LightingLightMade to glow
Louis Poulsen reissues Poul Henningsen's clef-shaped PH Piano lamp for one season only, image via Wallpaper*Wallpaper*
Lighting · October 2026

Louis Poulsen reissues Poul Henningsen's clef-shaped PH Piano lamp for one season only

The PH 1/1 Piano table lamp, first drawn in 1931 and not made since the late 1930s, returns with an aged brass frame, a dark brown fabric cord and three mouth-blown opal glass shades in dusty terracotta. It is on sale from 1 October to 31 December 2026 at £1180, so a client who wants one has a short window to decide.

Aged BrassDusty TerracottaOpal MilkCord BrownSand-blast White
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Michael Anastassiades hands his lighting catalogue to Flos after closing his own brand, image via Wallpaper*Wallpaper*Lighting

Michael Anastassiades hands his lighting catalogue to Flos after closing his own brand

Having announced earlier this year that he would close his eponymous lighting brand, Anastassiades is moving several of his best-known pieces, including Frame, Tip of the Tongue and Relay, into the Flos portfolio, with Flos taking on manufacture and distribution.

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Apparatus draws on Persian mythology for Act V: Afsaneh, its first full collection in five years, image via DezeenDezeenLighting

Apparatus draws on Persian mythology for Act V: Afsaneh, its first full collection in five years

Gabriel Hendifar names the collection for the Persian word for fable, and for his mother, and builds it from sconces in blown glass and lacquer (Esfand), fibreglass and aluminium pendants (Gol) and a serpent-like modular chandelier with onyx and tiger's eye rings (Rahvi).

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Gubi brings back Carlo Nason's 1969 Lotus lamp in mouth-blown glass, image via Wallpaper*Wallpaper*Lighting

Gubi brings back Carlo Nason's 1969 Lotus lamp in mouth-blown glass

Gubi is reissuing Carlo Nason's 1969 LT305, nicknamed Lotus by collectors, with four individually mouth-blown shades in bubbled pulegoso glass over a compact steel structure.

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Studio Waldemeyer swaps the flame for patented electronics in Lumeable, its rechargeable candlelight, image via A1 Lighting MagazineA1 Lighting MagazineLighting

Studio Waldemeyer swaps the flame for patented electronics in Lumeable, its rechargeable candlelight

Lumeable is Studio Waldemeyer's rechargeable candlelight, a hand-formed glass vessel set over the founder's patented electronic flame, sold as a family of five sizes with several brightness levels and a replaceable battery, and it lit St Stephen Walbrook for London Design Festival on 15 September with a live jazz set played by candlelight.

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Porta Romana calls its London Design Festival collection Traces, familiar silhouettes reworked, image via Porta RomanaPorta RomanaLighting

Porta Romana calls its London Design Festival collection Traces, familiar silhouettes reworked

Traces is the collection Porta Romana launched at its Design Centre Chelsea Harbour showroom during London Design Festival, described by the brand as shaped by forms that have endured and ideas that have evolved, which the brand glosses as familiar Porta Romana silhouettes reimagined, an evolution of the house classics rather than a clean-sheet range, and the collection page runs to two pages of product, the Apple Lamp from 1,668 pounds, the Florence Wall Light from 1,992 pounds, the Blob Lamp from 2,700 pounds in a long run of glazes including Marmalade, Denim, Basil, Olive, Turquoise and Tuxedo, the Forest Triad Side Table from 3,612 pounds, Bonny and Edith chandeliers, Rose and Jack portable lamps, Brook and Arbour ceramic lamps, Sillides, Marilena, Terrazza and Bosco tables, Stanley counter and bar stools, the Laurel mirror, and a Harding exterior seating and dining range upholstered in Perennials cloth alongside Laurie, Hedera and Etienne exterior lights.

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Chapter IV · FurnitureFormPieces with a spineRead the chapter
Vikram Goyal stages Wings and Tales, a Ramayana-inspired furniture and textile collection, in a Mayfair townhouse, image via Wallpaper*Wallpaper*
Furniture · October 2026

Vikram Goyal stages Wings and Tales, a Ramayana-inspired furniture and textile collection, in a Mayfair townhouse

The New Delhi designer, known for repoussé metalwork, set the collection in a Georgian townhouse at 7 Grafton Street as a baithak, a formal Indian drawing room, with animal motifs and materials including hand-embroidered silk, velvet and brocade, repoussé brass and silver, and mother-of-pearl. The show closed on 16 October, but it is a useful reference for how richly worked metal and textile can sit against pale panelled walls.

Panelled PlasterRepoussé BrassRamayana EmeraldBurnt MarigoldVelvet Oxblood
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Khoy strips the folding mechanism out of the sofa bed, image via DezeenDezeenFurniture

Khoy strips the folding mechanism out of the sofa bed

Khoy's flagship sofa bed does away with the usual folding mechanism altogether, two upholstered slabs of polyurethane foam that unzip and open flat like a book into a floor bed, sized single to king and shipped vacuum packed for easier handling up a tight stair or into a lift.

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Sebastian Herkner makes Tubes a radiator out of Impruneta terracotta, image via DezeenDezeenFurniture

Sebastian Herkner makes Tubes a radiator out of Impruneta terracotta

Terre is the Italian heating brand Tubes' first radiator in terracotta, designed by Sebastian Herkner from the clay of the Impruneta quarry in Tuscany, and the clay is the structural body rather than a finish applied over metal, extruded through a special mould into one continuous vertical form of 1120 by 140 by 1400 millimetres, fired and glazed in five glossy options, Transparent Glazed Terracotta, Vitreous White, Bark Brown, Mineral Grey and Ocean Blue, with an integrated electric element in recycled aluminium and two accessories, a marble or lacquered shelf and a metal towel rail.

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Chapter V · Talking pointTalkWhat the trade is saying
Box 9 clads a Soho Turkish grill restaurant in brick made from recycled construction waste, image via DezeenDezeen
Talking point · October 2026

Box 9 clads a Soho Turkish grill restaurant in brick made from recycled construction waste

London studio Box 9 joined two former units on a Soho corner into Kid, a modern Turkish mangal grill restaurant, and used Kenoteq K-Briq, a brick made from at least 90 per cent recycled construction and demolition waste, on every surface from the central grill to the wine room. The studio says the brick needs no firing and releases a tenth of the carbon of a traditional one, which makes a single humble material feel both warm and defensible when a scheme has to hold a hospitality or kitchen-led space together.

Mangal BrickHearth SootVictorian MortarEmber OrangeCellar Wine
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Dutch Design Week 2026 takes "raw" as its theme, with Teun Zwets showing fifty new chair designs, image via DezeenDezeenTalking point

Dutch Design Week 2026 takes "raw" as its theme, with Teun Zwets showing fifty new chair designs

Dezeen's ten picks for the Eindhoven festival, which runs from 17 to 25 October, include Echo's aluminium offcut products by 14 designers, almost 100 collectible furniture pieces in Forward Furniture and Zwets's New Studio Super Show.

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Kelly Wearstler's first H&M Home collection sells out within hours, and the trade should take note, image via Wallpaper*Wallpaper*Talking point

Kelly Wearstler's first H&M Home collection sells out within hours, and the trade should take note

H&M Home's first-ever collaboration with a named designer is Kelly Wearstler's, unveiled at Milan Design Week inside Palazzo Acerbi and landing online and in select stores on 3 September: modular lounge chairs, lamps, vases, side tables and trays in wood, ceramic, marble and metal, priced at H&M's own level, with several pieces already sold out within hours.

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Twelve names who do not usually make lighting take on the Murano chandelier, image via Wallpaper*Wallpaper*Talking point

Twelve names who do not usually make lighting take on the Murano chandelier

Venice Glass Week's headline show, Murano Illumina il Mondo, fills St Mark's Square with twelve chandeliers made by names who do not normally touch lighting, each paired with a Murano furnace and on view until 1 November: architect Norman Foster's Hydra for Salviati spreads twenty frosted-glass arms using the Rigadin technique, artist Cerith Wyn Evans threads neon through Idea Murano's glass for G=A=R=L=A=N=D, and designer Bethan Laura Wood works barrel-shaped filigree into Taiko with Gambaro and Tagliapietra, alongside nine further furnace pairings running from Componenti Dona to Seguso Gianni.

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Independent and emerging talent from around the world, chosen for the Journal. Every one links to their studio.

Adriana Meunié, Textile art & tapestryTextile art & tapestryAdriana MeuniéCala Llombards, Mallorca, SpainTessa Silva, Textiles & furnitureTextiles & furnitureTessa SilvaLondon, United KingdomAndile Dyalvane, CeramicsCeramicsAndile DyalvaneCape Town, South AfricaAndu Masebo, Furniture & productFurniture & productAndu MaseboLondon, United KingdomNastia Mirzoyan, Interior & spatialInterior & spatialNastia MirzoyanKyiv, UkraineNada Debs, Furniture & productFurniture & productNada DebsBeirut, Lebanon