Wallpaper*'s June Design Drop: craft heritage meets flat-pack, image via Wallpaper*
Issue No. 02 · 13 July 2026

THE
EDIT

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

James Cherry, LightingJames Cherry Studio
Designer of the Week

James Cherry

Lighting · Los Angeles & New York, USA

Named to Sight Unseen's 2025 American Design Hot List after a year lighting half the rooms worth photographing in New York.

James Cherry makes light look handmade. His lamps expose their internal grid structures, then soften them under resin-coated fabric and small cedar accents, a tension between engineering and glow. Commissioned by interior designers from Jamie Bush to Studio Shamshiri, he has quietly become one of the most in-demand lighting makers working today.

Warm GlowResin FabricCedar

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.

This week, in three

What caught our eye

Chapter I · WallpaperWallsPaper and patternRead the chapter
House of Hackney's UNTAMED makes animal print pay its way, image via House of HackneyHouse of Hackney
Wallpaper · February 2026

House of Hackney's UNTAMED makes animal print pay its way

The UNTAMED Collection, House of Hackney's SS26 trade launch, treats animal print as authorship rather than trend, with 1% of collection sales going to World Land Trust to protect the habitats the patterns are drawn from. A maximalist statement paper with a conservation story attached.

Leopard OchreJungle GreenRosette CharcoalBlush HideBone Ivory
Chapter II · LightingLightMade to glow
Porta Romana lets the glass stay molten in Flow, image via Porta RomanaPorta Romana
Lighting · Spring 2026

Porta Romana lets the glass stay molten in Flow

Flow, Porta Romana's new seasonal collection, is built around motion held in solid form: handblown glass that reads as still molten, locally forged metalwork and surfaces shifting from raw to reflective, including the Edna Pendant and Boudica lamps. A dependable source of sculptural statement lighting from a newly B Corp certified English maker.

Molten AmberVerdigrisOld RustDecayed PlasterForged Bronze
Chapter III · FurnitureFormPieces with a spineRead the chapter
PINCH greets the year with First Light, image via PINCH LondonPINCH London
Furniture · Spring 2026

PINCH greets the year with First Light

First Light is the newest collection from Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon, gathering the Tove circular dining table, the Glover drinks cabinet, Soren and Pium pendants and the Ellery bedside into one warm, pared-back release. PINCH remains the reference point for quiet British furniture that photographs like sculpture.

Bleached TimberBlown WhiteBrass DetailInk BrownPlaster
Chapter IV · Talking pointTalkWhat the trade is saying
Wallpaper*'s June Design Drop: craft heritage meets flat-pack, image via Wallpaper*Wallpaper*
Talking point · June 2026

Wallpaper*'s June Design Drop: craft heritage meets flat-pack

Anna Solomon's round-up of eleven June 2026 launches runs from Georg Jensen silver to IKEA flat-pack and slow tech, published 30 June. The most current single snapshot of what crossed the design press's desk this month, worth scanning before any new-season sourcing trip.

Gallery WhiteJensen SteelFlat-Pack BirchBottega GreenSignal Orange
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