Wallpaper* Exclusive June 2026 Special News / New York Design Week 2026: Live Updates From The Wallpaper* Team / By Adrian Madlener, Dan Howarth, Olly Mason, Anna Fixsen
Wallpaper* Exclusive June 2026 Special News / New York Design Week 2026: Live Updates From The Wallpaper* Team / By Adrian Madlener, Dan Howarth, Olly Mason, Anna Fixsen / Publisher Wallpaper * / Editing Press Releases wmwnewsglobal.com
New York Design Week 2026: Live updates from the Wallpaper* team
Design is taking over the Big Apple from 14-20 May – and our editors are here for the action. Here are the latest news, launches and goings-on from NYCxDesign
New York Design Week 2026 is back in full swing and the Wallpaper* team is here (including members from across the pond!) for the action. From 14-20 May, we’ll be criss-crossing the city to bring you live reportage from the hundreds of shows, debuts and parties popping up around the Big Apple.
If you’re in town, be sure to bookmark this page (and our handy-dandy map of happenings) for NYCxDesign, the city’s official design celebration, as well as news straight from the city’s hottest showroom and galleries; the convention floor ofICFF; plus the sophomore edition of Afternoon Light.
Also not to miss, our takeover of everyone’s favourite magazine store, Casa, with our newly-released travel guides, including a special edition devoted to New York. Get it while it’s hot.
Meet the editors
Anna Fixsen
Anna Fixsen is a Brooklyn-based editor and journalist with 13 years of experience reporting on architecture, design and more New York Design Weeks than she can count.
Olly Mason
For the last decade, Olly Mason has brought a unique design perspective to Wallpaper* through her styling work and oversight of the magazine’s interior section. Her longstanding relationships with designers and brands have provided invaluable insight into the global design culture and conversation.
Dan Howarth
Dan Howarth is a British design and lifestyle writer, editor, photographer and creative consultant based in New York City. His writing has appeared in Vogue, Architectural Digest, Wallpaper*, Galerie and Dezeen, as well as his own travel-focused newsletter, Far-Flung Corners.
Adrian Madlener
Adrian Madlener is a Brussels-born, New York-based writer covering architecture and design. He’s the author of Crafting Character, amonograph about Czech architecture firm Chybik Kristof, and a co-author of Vincenzo De Cotiis’s Interiors book. Madlener has also curated exhibitions on tool theory, contemporary glass and counterfeit culture.
Here’s what to see at NYCxDesign 2026, according to our editors
(Image credit: Gregory Wikstrom, courtesy of Afternoon Light)
New York Design Week is a multi-borough affair, making it tricky to decide what might be worth a look. To make your life easier, we’ve identified some of the top things to do and see during New York Design Week.
On view are Samuel’s signature furnishings like the Fort Credenza and Ledge Dining Table. She’s also launching a new group of stone tables, called Pop Pop, specially for the show. Guests at the opening were treated to chocolates from Detroit and flavoured tequilas. And as an added fun activity bonus, they were also invited to paint Samuel-designed tiles and take them home. – Adrian Madlener
196 West Broadway New York, NY 10013
(Image credit: Courtesy Sarah Sherman Samuel)
Devin Wilde and Astraeus Clarke team up for the season’s ‘it’ fixture
(Image credit: Courtesy Astraeus Clarke)
There have been several fortuitous designer collaborations launched at this year’s New York Design Week as independent studios and talents come together to complement each other’s expertise and intuition.
One of the highlights of the week is a new lighting collection from ceramic artist Devin Wilde and design studio Astraeus Clarke.
Friday night, the creative collaborators revealed Staccato, a new series of modular light fixtures that capture the allure of a sun-washed Italian villa, with a distinctly contemporary edge. Each fixture features Astraeus Clarke’s signature star-shaped shade holders topped with Wilde’s conical ceramic shades.
It’s the result of a shared aesthetic and a real friendship. ‘We both came to the table with ideas, sketches and instincts, but it quickly became clear that there was a shared sensibility, we weren’t forcing anything,’ says Jacob Starley of Astraeus Clarke.
‘The forms just made sense together.’ Equally logical? The Italian-style amaro that flowed during the launch party last night. – Adrian Madlener
(Image credit: Courtesy Astraeus Clarke)
A night (and some lights) in Venice
(Image credit: Courtesy In Common With)
The design crowd at large packed into In Common With’s Tribeca gallery, Quarters, Thursday for a celebration of the lighting brand’s debut foray into glassware.
The Lido Series, produced in partnership with Venetian glass atelier Laguna~B and made in Murano, comprises four lighting designs and two drinking glasses embellished with colorful floral patterns.
These were echoed in the impressive arrangements throughout the multi-room gallery, where the martinis (a common recurrence this week) flowed well beyond the scheduled closing time—a sign of a good party! – Dan Howarth
383 Broadway, Floor 2, New York NY 10013
(Image credit: Courtesy In Common With)
Gantri Wireless Launch Party at TIWA Select Gallery
(Image credit: TIWA Select)
(Image credit: TIWA Select)
Alex Tieghi-Walker’s Tribeca loft gallery-residence TIWA Select has a packed schedule this week, kicking off with the launch of California brand Gantri’s first collection of wireless lighting.
Designed in collaboration with San Francisco-based design studio Ammunition, the series of geometric lamps fall into three styles – Drift, Pier, and Eave – and draw their colours such as Spruce, Magnolia, and Lichen from the West Coast landscape.
These compact cordless lights were scattered through the space, tucked into nooks on the bookshelves, placed on side tables and desks, and positioned on the busy bar as if they belonged there all along. Writer: Dan Howarth
TIWA Select, 86 Walker Street, 5th Floor, New York, NY 10013
A Look Back at Tom Sachs’ DIY Designs at Salon 94 Gallery
(Image credit: Courtesy of Salon 94)
Collectible design gallery Salon94 has allocated its entire Upper East Side townhouse to a full retrospective of New York creative maverick Tom Sachs, known for cleverly combining salvaged items found on the street into prankish yet coherent furnishings.
Works on view include Crate Chair No. 6, created with wooden barriers used by New York energy company CoEd. The Furniture exhibit demonstrates how through his ‘bricolage’ D.I.Y. approach, the polymath deftly blends high and low materials (ceramics and natural stone with styrofoam and duct tape) in bold ‘democratic’ concept designs.
In doing so, he positions himself in a line of seminal ‘problem solvers’: Frank Gehry, the Eameses, Noguchi, Brancusi, and so on. As of 15 May,
the exhibition is also featuring wares by Satan Ceramics, a collective Sachs has been a part of for over a decade. Writer: Adrian Madlener.
Salon 94, 3 East 89th Street, New York, NY 10128
Watering Cans, and Other Rolled Sheet Metal Accessories, at Maharam
(Image credit: Maharam)
Students from the Leon Ransmeier-led industrial design program at Cranbrook Academy of Art spent a week in Guadalajara last October working with artist/designer Fabien Cappello to develop a series of watering cans produced by local craftspeople specialised in the hojalata technique: turning locally sourced tin into ornamental objects.
Rolling and embossing metal almost like paper, they created experimental yet products.
Presented at American heritage textile brand Maharam’s Manhattan showroom, as part of the Objetos de Hojalata para el Hogar exhibit, the dozen or so concept designs are as varied in shape as they are functionally configured. Writer: Adrian Madlener.
Maharam, 251 Park Ave S #15, New York, NY 10010
Soothe your senses with Suchi Reddy’s new wallpaper
(Image credit: Courtesy Calico)
For prolific New York-based architect and designer Suchi Reddy, light is much more than a visual effect – It has the power to influence one’s mood and wellbeing. A lot of her work lately has dealt with the emerging field of neuroaesthetics—a science exploring the biological and psychological effects of aesthetic experience.
Commemorated with an intimate dinner at Manhattan restaurant Bridges, her new Luminous wallcovering collection for Calico harnesses colour, pattern and various image-making techniques to help shape perception – how a space will look, but also feel. Catch the installation from 15-19 May. at Calico’s Tribeca showroom.–Adrian Madlener
57 Lispenard St, New York, NY 10013
(Image credit: Courtesy Calico)
Take in a peep show, Apparatus style
(Image credit: Apparatus)
At Apparatus’s midtown headquarters, a sumptuous ‘peep show’ offers viewers furtive glimpses of sublime Puiforcat tableware.
Through the exhibition, in which viewers sit on Apparatus’s tubular Episode chairs, visitors get the opportunity to contemplate each silver piece – the hours of craftsmanship revealed; the importance of time and dedication to each object celebrated. In addition to the peep show, pieces of furniture and lighting from Apparatus dot the space.– Olly Mason
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