Koket's Women of Art Deco is a 38-piece answer to the client who asks for glamour, image via Business of Home

Issue No. 05 · 3 August 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.

Andu Masebo

Designer of the Week

Andu Masebo

Furniture & product · London, United Kingdom

Named Emerging Designer of the Year at the Dezeen Awards 2025 for making design feel accessible through storytelling, not spectacle.

Andu Masebo builds objects the way a good writer builds a sentence, with nothing wasted. His work foregrounds the processes of making rather than hiding them, from modular tables and stools to a co-curated exhibition of birdhouses. The result is furniture that carries a quiet social intelligence beneath its restraint.

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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.

This week, in three

What caught our eye

Clients are starting to find designers through chatbots, and the fix is duller than it sounds, image via Business of Home

Talking pointClients are starting to find designers through chatbots, and the fix is duller than it sounds

Tan France's debut homeware line for Castlery is held together by a scalloped arch, image via Dezeen

FurnitureTan France's debut homeware line for Castlery is held together by a scalloped arch

Barrie Benson Studio marks ten years with Highland House on a European-leaning range, image via Business of Home

FurnitureBarrie Benson Studio marks ten years with Highland House on a European-leaning range

Chapter I · FabricClothThe fabric housesRead the chapter

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Fabric · August 2026

Donghia's Scirocco carries one palette from the drawing room out onto the terrace

Donghia has built Scirocco as an indoor-outdoor performance collection named for the Saharan winds, running upholstery-weight stripes, textured plains and small-scale jacquards from crisp rattan-like weaves through soft chenille to dimensional boucle, with Kuba-cloth and Moroccan references woven quietly through. For a working scheme it settles the perennial terrace problem in a single book, because the same colours and constructions carry an indoor sofa and an outdoor cushion, so a room can run from the drawing room to the loggia without the fabric story breaking.

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Chapter II · WallpaperWallsPaper and patternRead the chapter

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Wallpaper · August 2026

The Tempaper sisters launch 111 Mercer, a trade-only wallcovering house

Julia Au and Jennifer Matthews, the sisters behind peel-and-stick pioneer Tempaper, have launched 111 Mercer, a trade-only line of traditional unpasted wallcoverings and printed grasscloths made in their New Jersey facility across cottons, silks, suedes and velvets, named for their set-designer aunt's old SoHo address. For a working scheme the useful part is the grasscloth murals priced and printed by the square foot with short lead times, because it puts a made-in-house, trade-exclusive mural within reach of a project timeline that cannot wait months for a bespoke panel.

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Business of Home Wallpaper

Vanbrugh debuts with Garden of Eden, a hand-painted mural turned wallpaper and cloth

New British fabric and wallcovering house Vanbrugh has launched with Garden of Eden, translating an elaborate hand-painted mural by Cotswolds artist Su Daybell into a plasterwork-inspired design available as both paper and upholstery, in two pattern scales and six earthy colourways from Papyrus to Blau.

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Chapter III · FurnitureFormPieces with a spineRead the chapter

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Furniture · July 2026

Koket's Women of Art Deco is a 38-piece answer to the client who asks for glamour

The 38-piece line leads with the fringe-covered Lucienne dining chair, the walnut burl veneered Eleanor armoire and Florence, a mirrored bar cabinet with a glass mosaic clad interior. Unashamedly decorative and priced accordingly, it is a useful reference point for how far a single statement piece can be pushed when a client wants drama rather than calm.

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Dezeen Furniture

Tan France's debut homeware line for Castlery is held together by a scalloped arch

Tan France, the former Queer Eye host, has designed his first 18-piece homeware collection with Singapore brand Castlery, running warm oak and a palette of earthy oranges and greens from a modular Kagan sofa and an egg-like accent chair to turned-wood side tables and a low tea table with scalloped arches etched into its legs, the arch a nod to his South Asian and British heritage.

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Barrie Benson Studio marks ten years with Highland House on a European-leaning range

Charlotte designer Barrie Benson's tenth-anniversary collection for Highland House draws on European interiors and Scandinavian restraint, running a burl-veneer coffee table, a faux-parchment dining table, a carved oak bed and the sculptural, 1970s-spirited Selena sectional through timeless forms, refined proportions and American craftsmanship.

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Dezeen Furniture

ZHA and Nagami 3D-print the Echo Chair from recycled plastic

ZHA, formerly Zaha Hadid Architects, has worked with Spanish 3D-printing specialist Nagami on the Echo Chair, a single continuous form printed from recycled PET including reclaimed medical plastics, with a ribbed surface that reads closer to stone than to plastic.

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Chapter IV · Talking pointTalkWhat the trade is saying

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Talking point · July 2026

Clients are starting to find designers through chatbots, and the fix is duller than it sounds

Business of Home reports that chatbot recommendations have become a steady trickle of real enquiries for design firms, and that in one visibility study up-and-coming practices with a strong online presence outranked AD100 and Elle Decor A-List names who were quieter online. The practical takeaway is unglamorous: roughly ninety percent of generative engine optimisation is ordinary SEO, and writing pages that answer the questions clients actually ask beats chasing keywords.

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