De Le Cuona reaches for faded European grandeur with Rugged Revival, image via de Le Cuona

Issue No. 12 · 21 September 2026

THE
EDIT

The design world this week: new cloth, new colour, and the makers worth knowing, gathered by the studio in Ponteland. 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. Every image links to its source, and where we have a view on how a piece would live in a real house, the studio says so.

This week, in three

What caught our eye

Khoy strips the folding mechanism out of the sofa bed, image via Dezeen

FurnitureKhoy strips the folding mechanism out of the sofa bed

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

FurnitureSebastian Herkner makes Tubes a radiator out of Impruneta terracotta

GenCork lets an algorithm cut the relief into a black cork wall, image via Dezeen

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

Chapter I · FabricClothThe fabric housesRead the chapter

de Le Cuona

Fabric · September 2026

De Le Cuona reaches for faded European grandeur with Rugged Revival

Eight new fabrics in wool, linen and hemp: textured jacquards, cotton velvets and embroidered sheers, in faded colours running from chalk through burnt umber to a deep wine red. There are weights for curtains, sheers and upholstery, so you could do a whole room from the one collection.

From the studio

Lovely weights for curtains in an older house, and colours soft enough to live with for years. It launched in America first, so ring us before you set your heart on it.

Titian ChalkBurnt UmberChateau VineyardPalazzo SandstoneTitian Indigo

Read at de Le Cuona Talk to us about it

Thibaut Fabric

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

Ten fabric and wallpaper designs taken from the Arts and Crafts botanicals of the late 1800s and redrawn at large scale in lighter colours. There is a panoramic mural of lilies and cranes, woodblock prints, trailing watercolour florals and an embroidered stripe to tie a room together.

From the studio

Big botanical pattern that doesn't feel like a museum piece. It would look at home in a Victorian or Edwardian house in Jesmond or Gosforth.

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Chapter II · WallpaperWallsPaper and patternRead the chapter

Dezeen

Wallpaper · September 2026

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

A wall panel in expanded black cork, milled into a three-dimensional relief whose pattern is recalculated by an algorithm to fit the actual wall. The cork is bonded by its own resin with no added glue, and the bark is harvested without felling the tree.

From the studio

Cork is warm and quiet, and kind to a room where sound bounces off a hard floor. We like the idea of it in a study or a snug.

Expanded Black CorkMilled ReliefCork DustQuarry LimeBark Shadow

Read at Dezeen Talk to us about it

Molly Mahon Wallpaper

Molly Mahon marks ten years of block printing with Wanderlust, four old friends and two new prints

Ten years of hand block printing, marked by four favourite designs back in earthy new colours and two new prints, Ophelia and Audrey. The blocks are carved in Farrukhabad and the cloth woven in Kannur; the wallpapers are £215 a roll.

From the studio

Hand block printing is never perfectly even, and that is the charm of it. Lovely in a cottage bedroom or a snug.

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Chapter III · ColourColourOn the paint card

Farrow & Ball

Colour · September 2026

Farrow and Ball add nine colours and bring three back from the Archive, Etruscan Red among them

Nine new colours, from Scallop to Duster, and three brought back from the Archive: Etruscan Red, Broccoli Brown and Sap Green. Twelve in all, made in Dorset, weighted to the earthy end of the card with five in the dark tones.

From the studio

Earthy colours like these usually behave well in northern light. Paint a big sample on the actual wall and look at it in the morning and again in the evening before you decide.

Scallop No. 311Sizing No. 314Etruscan Red No. 56Sap Green No. 199Broccoli Brown No. 198

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Edward Bulmer Natural Paint Colour

Octavia Dickinson and Edward Bulmer plant three new natural paints in an English Garden Palette

Three new natural paints made with the designer Octavia Dickinson: Hedge Mustard, Dahlia Pink and Rambling Rose. They sit beside nine existing Edward Bulmer shades as a twelve-colour English Garden Palette, meant to be used together inside and out and to sit quietly behind pictures, antiques and pattern.

From the studio

We like Octavia Dickinson's tip: Hedge Mustard on the woodwork in a boot room or utility, where a bit of mud won't show.

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Chapter IV · LightingLightMade to glow

Porta Romana

Lighting · September 2026

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

Launched at the Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour during London Design Festival, Traces reworks Porta Romana's best-loved shapes rather than starting again: lamps, wall lights, chandeliers and tables, with the Blob Lamp in a long run of glazes from Marmalade to Tuxedo.

From the studio

Lamps start at £1,668, so these are pieces to plan a room around rather than an afterthought.

Fired SteelBlob MarmaladeBlob DenimBlob BasilAntiqued Brass

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Chapter V · FurnitureFormPieces with a spineRead the chapter

Dezeen

Furniture · September 2026

Khoy strips the folding mechanism out of the sofa bed

No folding mechanism at all. Two upholstered slabs of foam unzip and open flat like a book into a floor bed, from single to king size, and it arrives vacuum packed so it will go up a narrow stair. Twelve fabrics, from soft neutrals to terracotta and ocean blue.

From the studio

Good news for a small spare room. It looks like a proper sofa, and it will actually get up the stairs.

Soft BeigeChanterelle YellowTerracotta BrownOlive GreenOcean Blue

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Dezeen Furniture

Sebastian Herkner makes Tubes a radiator out of Impruneta terracotta

Sebastian Herkner's first radiator for Tubes is made from Impruneta terracotta from Tuscany. The clay is the body, not a finish over metal: one tall fired form in five glazes, with an electric element inside, and an optional marble shelf or towel rail.

From the studio

We usually spend our time hiding radiators. This is one we would happily put on show, in a kitchen or next to a bath.

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