Eight wooden pieces that keep the knots, the cracks and the burl on show, image via Business of Home

Issue No. 08 · 26 August 2026

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

Southern Guild · Imiso Ceramics

Designer of the Week

Andile Dyalvane

Ceramics · Cape Town, South Africa

His solo show iNgqweji ran at Southern Guild Cape Town from November 2025, the same year he won at South Africa's National Arts and Culture Awards.

Andile Dyalvane treats clay as an ancestral language. Raised herding cattle in the Eastern Cape village of Ngobozana, he scores his large vessel forms with marks drawn from Xhosa tradition, turning pots into carriers of memory and healing. His work now lives in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Vitra Design Museum, yet it never loses its connection to the soil it came from.

Fired ClayUmhlaba EarthAsh GlazeNgobozana SoilBone Slip

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A weekly edit of what the design world is making and saying, and the people making it worldwide. Every image links to its source; every palette is our reading of the piece, and becomes a working board in one tap.

This week, in three

What caught our eye

Britany Simon's mood board, a moire wall drenched in Dedar against mirror-polished steel, image via Business of Home

WallpaperBritany Simon's mood board, a moire wall drenched in Dedar against mirror-polished steel

Christian Haas gives the Artis basin a pleated ceramic relief and lifts the vanity onto an open frame, image via Dezeen

FurnitureChristian Haas gives the Artis basin a pleated ceramic relief and lifts the vanity onto an open frame

A thatched tower at Houghton, built from reed the RSPB was cutting anyway, image via Dezeen

Talking pointA thatched tower at Houghton, built from reed the RSPB was cutting anyway

Chapter I · FabricClothThe fabric housesRead the chapter

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Fabric · August 2026

Doshi Levien stitch their first Hay collection from Indian embroidery

Dori, named for the Hindi word for thread, is the first textile accessories collection Nipa Doshi and Jonathan Levien have designed for Hay, a range of quilted organic cotton bedspreads, cushions and cushion covers in midnight blue, maroon and green that grew from a textile detail Mette Hay spotted on a visit to the pair's London studio, each piece carrying reversible two-tone colour fields and a contrasting embroidered grid that structures the surface and guides how it is placed. It earns its place as a bed layer, because a reversible quilt drawn by one hand can flip a bedroom's temperature without respecifying anything else in the room, and with pieces running from 69 to 349 euros it puts serious-studio textile design at high street money.

Midnight DoriDori MaroonStitch GreenOrganic CottonContrast Thread

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Business of HomeFabric

The diamond returns, and it is behaving like tailoring

Caroline Biggs has gathered ten new launches built on the diamond, led by Kirkby Design's Brent velvet in Jewel Beetle for Romo, drawn from the moquette of 1930s London Underground carriages, and running through Elitis's handmade braided abaca Trenza grass cloth, Armani/Casa's large-scale Hokkaido rhombus wallcovering for Thibaut, Casa Branca's roller-engraved Trellina Diamond that fakes real millwork, Donghia's Kuba-cloth Skuba jacquard for Kravet and Area Environments' Maple Seed Argyle mural by Mary Jo Hoffman.

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Business of HomeFabric

Ken Fulk gives Perennials and Sutherland an Old Hollywood wardrobe

Ken Fulk has drawn on the dramatic interiors of the 1930s and 1940s for Perennials and Sutherland, and the result runs to 22 textiles and seven outdoor furnishings, among them the boldly striped Wild Bengal fabric, the peacock-paisley Fine Feathered Friend wallcovering, the leopard-spotted Untamed rug and the lattice-framed teak Trellis lounge chair.

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Chapter II · WallpaperWallsPaper and patternRead the chapter

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Wallpaper · August 2026

Britany Simon's mood board, a moire wall drenched in Dedar against mirror-polished steel

In BOH's What I Love series, the Scottsdale designer Britany Simon builds a board around the tension between refinement and irreverence, mirror-polished stainless steel in a Studio Nawa table and a Henge bookcase, Atelier Biagetti's Flower Tower lamp she saw at Salone, a curved Garce Dimofski sofa in Dedar's Karakorum, and the piece she is actually specifying, Dedar's Amoir Libre moire wallcovering in Rose The, which she is pattern-drenching with its matching fabric. The transferable idea is the pattern-drench itself, running one moire across the wall and the coordinating fabric onto the drapery or a chair so the pattern reads as a deliberate envelope rather than a single feature wall, and it costs no more than choosing two unrelated things would.

Rose The MoireCafe au LaitMirror SteelModerne BrassKlein Blue

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Milton & King's Northland works checks and tartans into a hand-painted northern landscape

The Milton & King Studio has drawn Northland from untamed northern landscapes of mountain, forest and waterway, running wallpaper and fabric from abstract terrains and organic forms through to checks, tartans, plaids and structured motifs, all hand-painted or hand-drawn so the mark of the hand stays visible, in walnut, ochre, olive, clay, stone and deep charcoal with restrained monochrome colourways alongside.

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Chapter III · LightingLightMade to glow

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Lighting · August 2026

Nathan Orsman lights a Hamptons garage like a nightclub

Nathan Orsman, the New York lighting designer who has lit houses for Oprah Winfrey, Ina Garten, Stephen Colbert, Tommy Hilfiger and Marc Jacobs, has finished the Elle Mara Garage in Sagaponack as a sunken seven-car display room reached through a wine cellar, with resin-poured black walls, grey floors, a custom-stretched membrane panel crowning each car and surface-mounted Ketra fixtures washing the room from thick red to energetic blue, while the basketball court below it takes bulletproof acrylic disc fittings custom made by BlackLight. The lesson for a working scheme is the deliberate break, because Orsman set all of this against Tony Ingrao's white and creamy tones in the rest of the house rather than continuing them, and his own rule is the one worth quoting to a client who wants everything lit: pay attention to the negative space, and be specific about what you are lighting, because sometimes less is more poignant. The project appears in his 320-page Rizzoli book, Light: Illuminated Interiors and Architecture, out on 29 September 2026 with a foreword by Marc Jacobs.

Poured Resin BlackCourt GreyKetra Thick RedDescent BlueMembrane White

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Chapter IV · FurnitureFormPieces with a spineRead the chapter

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Furniture · August 2026

Eight wooden pieces that keep the knots, the cracks and the burl on show

Caroline Biggs pulls together eight solid-wood pieces that lean into their raw material rather than sanding it smooth, from Co.House Designs' mappa-burl Wesley bed in mango wood and RH's carved Valencia console by Formations after 17th century Moorish motifs, to Vanguard's bleached-mahogany Rendition table, Ginny Macdonald's lathe-turned Farington floor lamp for Lulu and Georgia, House of Leon's thick French white-oak Eik table, a Global Views accent table hung with dozens of iron rings, John Rosselli's hand-cerused Prairie 1 and Regina Andrew's round walnut Fraya. The transferable move is that one expressive piece of timber, chosen because a maker left the grain, fissures and burl visible, does the warmth and character a whole scheme sometimes reaches for, and it reads as considered precisely because it has not been made to look perfect.

Mappa BurlCognac Carved OakBleached MahoganyCerused GrainWalnut Slab

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DezeenFurniture

Christian Haas gives the Artis basin a pleated ceramic relief and lifts the vanity onto an open frame

Christian Haas has added two pieces to Villeroy & Boch's Artis range, a washbasin called Artis Sense whose premium ceramic carries a fine relief informed by pleated textiles, so light and shadow ripple across a surface that is usually dead flat, and Artis Frame, a washbasin cabinet reduced to a slim metal frame with an optional shelf, offered in metal, wood and coloured finishes that can be coordinated with the fittings.

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Wallpaper*Furniture

Remembering Charles Hollis Jones, who made acrylic behave like furniture

Architectural historian Adam Stech remembers the American designer who left Indiana for Los Angeles at sixteen, founded CHJ and built an entire career on Lucite, making pieces for Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Steve McQueen, Diana Ross and Muhammad Ali, collaborating with Arthur Elrod, Paul Laszlo and John Lautner on more than a dozen projects including the Palm Springs house that became a Bond location, and producing the 1970 Edison Lamp and the 1968 Wisteria chair of intersecting acrylic sheets.

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DezeenFurniture

Waka Waka curls factory metal into the Ribbon collection for Benex

Shinichiro Okuda of Los Angeles studio Waka Waka, whose signature material is Baltic birch plywood, has treated Japanese manufacturer Benex's steel and aluminium sheet the way he approaches ply for the Eetal project, producing a chair, table and stool plus a tray, clothes hanger and two clothes racks, all built from circles, squares and arches with glossy folded ribbon edges, in a blue lifted straight from Benex's standard factory colours and paired with Edo-period yellows, pinks and black.

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DezeenFurniture

IKEA puts collectible design under two hundred pounds

IKEA has launched Konstrunda, or Art Tour, a limited edition of 22 pieces by seven designers with nothing over £200, running from a £19 black and white vase by the Italian architect Emanuele Stamuli to a £149 side table by the London designer Andu Masebo wrapped in the chunky frame that made his Tubular Chair, plus mouth-blown glass vases by Lisa Reiser including a gummy-candy green, a pinewood stool and bent orange sculpture by Lisa Hilland, and cushions and a rug by Ingrid Leander and Igor Holtermann taken from Stockholm zebra crossings and caution banners.

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Made and the Barbican turn brutalist detail into a 23-piece home range

Made worked through the Barbican archives and the pioneering show homes Miriam Howitt created for the estate in the late 1960s to produce 23 pieces of furniture, lighting, textiles and accessories, so the estate's upside-down semi-circles turn up in the wooden side panels of the Dual accent chairs and the Plinth coffee table, the Concert Hall's tubular acoustic panels become the Curve lamps, and the coffered waffle ceilings become the Coffer ceiling and wall lights.

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Business of HomeFurniture

Lulu and Georgia runs its autumn collection through the rules of tailoring

Built on the line that your home should suit you, the autumn 2026 collection borrows from traditional suiting and takes bold silhouettes, luxurious fabrics, distinctive patterns and considered details across sculptural furniture, statement lighting and decor.

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Chapter V · Talking pointTalkWhat the trade is saying

Dezeen

Talking point · August 2026

A thatched tower at Houghton, built from reed the RSPB was cutting anyway

Cella Collective and Mitre & Mondays built the Water Tower for this year's Houghton Festival in Norfolk, a 5.5 metre timber frame with four openings and slanted walls layered in thatch, a thatched ring at the top and wooden seating running out from the inside walls beneath a circular opening in the roof, drawn from a water tower built for nearby Houghton Hall in 1772 and made with reed cut from reedbeds the RSPB manages, so the material is a by-product of conservation work rather than a global supply chain. The transferable idea is in how they worked, consulting the master thatchers Wayne Halfpenny and Steve Kelly and then adapting the design to the reed rather than the reed to the drawing, and in Ella Caldicott's line that you cannot learn that from books, you learn it through your hands and eyes, which is the argument for getting a maker into the room early on any scheme that leans on a natural material.

Cut ReedWeathered ThatchNorfolk TimberReedbed GreenShaded Interior

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Wallpaper*Talking point

Antxon Gomez on building an Almodovar interior, where the decoration is another character

Agnish Ray interviews art director Antxon Gomez, who has worked on thirteen Almodovar films across three decades, ahead of Bitter Christmas reaching UK cinemas on 28 August, and the specification is startlingly precise: the writer Raul gets a Gio Ponti Superleggera armchair and a Carlo Scarpa Cornaro sofa, an Antoni Arola Lamina ceiling light for Santa and Cole over the dining table, an Alvar Aalto Angel Wing floor lamp from Artek in the corner, Jaime Hayon's Explorer table and Multileg cabinet for BD Barcelona, red shelves set against a glass wall so that nothing is closed off behind him, and almost every artwork comes from Almodovar's own collection.

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Business of HomeTalking point

The LA sculptor who carves the door, the column and the fireplace on site

Caroline Biggs profiles Katrien Van der Schueren, the Leuven-born, Los Angeles based sculptor who spent years on custom fabrication for other people before launching her own studio in 2022, and now works in wood, plaster, resin and stone on hand-carved doors, columns that hide unsightly piping, liquid-metal ceilings and bespoke fireplace surrounds for Nicole Hollis and Martyn Lawrence Bullard, with her Embrace sconces and floor lamp in hand-folded concrete finished in brass and bronze, and hand-knotted rugs with Art and Loom to come.

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DezeenTalking point

Estúdio Campana weaves Tiffany & Co a jewellery box you can walk into

Humberto Campana has wrapped a Tiffany & Co pop-up on the ground floor of Sao Paulo's JK Iguatemi mall in an undulating synthetic-wicker skin in the brand's signature blue streaked with tan, described by him as a woven jewellery box that visitors can step into, with Sushi Collection chairs and mirrors and hand-woven custom stools inside, following the studio's flagship for the brand at Shopping Iguatemi last year.

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DezeenTalking point

The dopamine decor backlash arrives, and it is really about language

Julie Lasky, formerly deputy editor of the New York Times Home and Garden section, has written against dopamine decor, the candy-coloured maximalist trend that now carries two books, Rachel Varney's Dopamine Home in April and Maitri Mody's Dopamine Design in late August, arguing that it is icky to invoke brain chemistry in the marketing of a style, and citing the Brazilian architect Andrea de Paiva of NeuroAU, who warns that such rooms risk overwhelming the senses and producing fatigue, distraction or stress rather than joy.

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Shahar Livne makes furniture out of rubber's uncomfortable history

The Devil's Milk is two years of work by Shahar Livne, a scale, a cabinet and a log-like bench made from Indonesian natural latex, rubber-tree wood and the skin-like synthetic rubber used for film props, named after John Tully's social history of the rubber boom and the forced labour that paid for it.

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