Emilio Carrara

Something is quietly changing at Salone del Mobile. The fair still looks like a showcase of objects, but increasingly it behaves like a platform for systems.

Milan Design Week 2026 in progress. Serotonin in Brera, Gucci and Louis Vuitton installations, Miu Miu’s Literary Club, and a city that forces you to decide what counts.

Design Miami 2025's 21st edition, curated by Glenn Adamson around the theme Make. Believe. A Nakashima bench, a Harry Nuriev scenography for Kohler, and a Seoul studio's debut.

Takashi Murakami's eight-metre octopus on the Champ-de-Mars, a Louis Vuitton commission for Art Basel Paris 2025's public programme, reviewed. On handbags, public sculpture, and a return to large-scale work.

Design Miami/ Paris 2025 at L'hôtel de Maisons. Goyal and Tolaas's scent garden, Yves Macaux's Best Gallery Presentation, Lalanne's tortoise, and a fair two editions into maturity.

The Fondation Cartier's new home opens at 2 Place du Palais-Royal. Jean Nouvel, Haussmannian fabric, five mobile platforms, 600 works. A note from the opening night.

Frieze Masters 2025 at Regent's Park, reviewed. Ben Brown's turfed Lalanne booth, a Park Seo-Bo retrospective at Johyun, and a Gabriele Münter at Hauser & Wirth that moved.

Art Basel's 56th edition: Katharina Grosse spray-painting the Messeplatz, Nicola Turner's horsehair sculpture in Unlimited, Miriam Cahn at Meyer Riegger, and Parcours crossing the river.

The 2025 Serpentine Pavilion by Marina Tabassum opens 6 June. Four wooden capsules, one kinetic, a translucent acrylic skin, and a first Serpentine by a Bangladeshi architect.

Inside Santa Maria Ausiliatrice, the Vatican handed its 2025 Architecture Biennale pavilion to a working restoration crew. The artwork was the building becoming itself, slowly, for six months.

Carlo Ratti's Intelligens, with the Giardini's Central Pavilion shut for renovation, pushed the 19th Architecture Biennale out across the city. The show recovered where the national pavilions took over.

Craft x Tech's Curio at Design Miami/ Basel paired six international designers with Tohoku artisans. Sabine Marcelis with Kawatsura-shikki, Ini Archibong with Tsugaru-nuri. A review.

A Basel of quieter sales and better hanging. The speculative middle got taken down to the basement. Unlimited still delivered.

Design Miami/ Basel's 18th edition opened with a Pesce memorial in the entrance hall. Inside, Ben Storms flooded his floor, Maxime Flatry made a booth of air, and Craft x Tech brought fifty coats of lacquer from Akita.

On Archie Moore's Australian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale, the first to win the Golden Lion. 65,000 years of family, chalked onto a wall that will be painted over in November.

Bawwaba at Art Dubai 2024, under Emiliano Valdes, themed Sanación. A review centred on Mirna Bamieh's working Palestinian kitchen at NIKA Project Space.

On Terra, the Brazilian Pavilion at the 2023 Venice Architecture Biennale, winner of the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. A pavilion that put the ground back in the room.

Salone del Mobile 2023 gave Euroluce a plan that borrowed from Italian towns: piazzas, alleys, shop windows. For the first time in thirty years the lighting sector read like a place.