The Vault Creative turns a collector's found objects into its first wallpaper, image via House Beautiful

Issue No. 08 · 24 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.

James 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

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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

Lapalma rebuilds its whole palette as a 16-shade chromatic alphabet, image via Dezeen

ColourLapalma rebuilds its whole palette as a 16-shade chromatic alphabet

IKEA and Xbox make gaming furniture built to disappear into a normal living room, image via Dezeen

FurnitureIKEA and Xbox make gaming furniture built to disappear into a normal living room

Lee Broom grows Chant into a hypnotic smoked-glass chamber for the London Design Festival, image via Wallpaper*

LightingLee Broom grows Chant into a hypnotic smoked-glass chamber for the London Design Festival

Chapter I · WallpaperWallsPaper and patternRead the chapter

House Beautiful

Wallpaper · August 2026

The Vault Creative turns a collector's found objects into its first wallpaper

In House Beautiful's Design Debrief, Carisha Swanson picks out The Vault Creative's first wallpaper collection, nine graphic patterns that each begin with a found piece, a vintage textile or a collected detail from designer Elizabeth's own world and are then printed in Chicago, so Vault Vases turns a group of vessels into an almost abstract arrangement, Fringe, Quilt, Tile and Tracks play with texture, geometry and rhythm, and Houndstooth gives the menswear check a bolder, more graphic life. The transferable move is the one that costs nothing extra, starting a paper from the objects a client cannot stop bringing home, because a pattern drawn from their own collection reads as personal and considered rather than off the shelf, and it puts the things they love on the wall without framing another shelf of them.

Vault Vase PurpleOutlined CreamHoundstooth InkCuriosity OchreQuilt Faded Rose

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Business of Home Wallpaper

Milton & King's Northland works checks and tartans into a hand-painted northern landscape

The Milton & King Studio has drawn Northland from untamed northern landscapes of mountain, forest and waterway, running wallpaper and fabric from abstract terrains and organic forms through to checks, tartans, plaids and structured motifs, all hand-painted or hand-drawn so the mark of the hand stays visible, in walnut, ochre, olive, clay, stone and deep charcoal with restrained monochrome colourways alongside.

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Britany Simon's mood board, a moire wall drenched in Dedar against mirror-polished steel

In BOH's What I Love series, the Scottsdale designer Britany Simon builds a board around the tension between refinement and irreverence, mirror-polished stainless steel in a Studio Nawa table and a Henge bookcase, Atelier Biagetti's Flower Tower lamp she saw at Salone, a curved Garce Dimofski sofa in Dedar's Karakorum, and the piece she is actually specifying, Dedar's Amoir Libre moire wallcovering in Rose The, which she is pattern-drenching with its matching fabric.

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Chapter II · ColourColourOn the paint card

Dezeen

Colour · August 2026

Lapalma rebuilds its whole palette as a 16-shade chromatic alphabet

Raffaella Mangiarotti has researched Lapalma's historic use of colour and rethought seven existing shades, Bianco, Tortora, Mattone, Celeste, Pistacchio, Perla and Nero, then added nine new ones, Sabbia, Limone, Corallo, Borgogna, Cannella, Oltremare, Alloro, Calce and Gru, each engineered to hold true across metal, wood and plastic. The brand calls it colour as language rather than decoration, and the practical gain is real: seating and tables of different forms and materials can now be specified in one shade and actually match, which is the failure point in most mixed-material furniture schedules.

Sabbia SandCoralloOltremareAlloro BayCalce Lime

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Interior Design Colour

Behr names Grounded, a mossy olive, its 2027 Colour of the Year

Behr has named Grounded (T27-01), a mossy olive green with subtle brown undertones, its 2027 Colour of the Year, and Interior Design quotes the brand's head of colour Kayla Kratz on what it signals, a move away from clean beige, white and grey towards earth tones that cocoon, in a green that reads olive in bright light and deepens into its brown undertone as the light drops.

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Chapter III · LightingLightMade to glow

Wallpaper*

Lighting · August 2026

Lee Broom grows Chant into a hypnotic smoked-glass chamber for the London Design Festival

For London Design Festival, Tianna Williams reports that Lee Broom has grown his portable Chant light, a pure glass cube with a circular indentation, into an immersive installation called The Chant Chambers, expanding the collection into oversized chandelier compositions, sculptural wall lights, linear pendants and architectural lighting structures, and giving it a new smoked glass finish whose darker tones deliberately echo a late 1970s interior of mirrors and wall-to-wall carpet. Broom traces the glass block to two moments, its Art Deco arrival and its late-seventies revival, filtered through a modernist lens, and his own line, that he loves lighting which can inhabit a space rather than simply sit within it, is the one worth borrowing, because it is the argument for letting a single repeated sculptural fitting do the atmosphere in a room instead of a ceiling full of downlights, and the chambers are open to the public from 15 to 20 September on Rivington Street in Shoreditch.

Smoked GlassCircular Indent ClearLit Amber CoreSeventies Bronze MirrorSultry Chamber Black

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Dezeen Lighting

Sabine Marcelis presses light-on-water ripples into the glass itself for Iittala's Unda

Unda, Latin for wave, is Sabine Marcelis's first collaboration with the 145-year-old Finnish glassworks Iittala, a three-piece set of mouth-blown glass, a cylindrical table lamp and a vase also offered in a half-metre jumbo in a limited edition of 500, whose ripple is pressed into the inside of the glass using welded metal grids so the wave reads as part of the material rather than something laid over it, and the lamp's pattern only fully arrives once it is lit.

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Chapter IV · FurnitureFormPieces with a spineRead the chapter

Dezeen

Furniture · August 2026

IKEA and Xbox make gaming furniture built to disappear into a normal living room

Unveiled at Gamescom in Cologne, Yxstaby is Xbox's first gaming furniture, a nine-piece range designed by paired IKEA and Xbox designers and built, in the words of IKEA's Philip Dile, to be furniture people want in their home rather than furniture they accept because they need it to game, so a controller thumbstick becomes a tilting stool with the same grippy tessellated edge, the D-pad becomes a green cushion and a stainless-steel platter, and the rest is timber and muted black, white and grey with only a flash of the brand's green marking the storage. The part that matters on a working scheme is IKEA's first TV stand since 2012, set on casters with hidden compartments, and the wider signal that a gaming room no longer has to mean black-and-red RGB gear, so a family living room that doubles as a game station can now be specified without a single piece that shouts about it.

Xbox Signature GreenThumbstick GreyCasing WhiteController BlackWarm Timber

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Business of Home Furniture

Lulu and Georgia runs its autumn collection through the rules of tailoring

Built on the line that your home should suit you, the autumn 2026 collection borrows from traditional suiting and takes bold silhouettes, luxurious fabrics, distinctive patterns and considered details across sculptural furniture, statement lighting and decor.

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Eight wooden pieces that keep the knots, the cracks and the burl on show

Caroline Biggs pulls together eight solid-wood pieces that lean into their raw material rather than sanding it smooth, from Co.House Designs' mappa-burl Wesley bed in mango wood and RH's carved Valencia console by Formations after 17th century Moorish motifs, to Vanguard's bleached-mahogany Rendition table, Ginny Macdonald's lathe-turned Farington floor lamp for Lulu and Georgia, House of Leon's thick French white-oak Eik table, a Global Views accent table hung with dozens of iron rings, John Rosselli's hand-cerused Prairie 1 and Regina Andrew's round walnut Fraya.

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Dezeen Furniture

Christian Haas gives the Artis basin a pleated ceramic relief and lifts the vanity onto an open frame

Christian Haas has added two pieces to Villeroy & Boch's Artis range, a washbasin called Artis Sense whose premium ceramic carries a fine relief informed by pleated textiles, so light and shadow ripple across a surface that is usually dead flat, and Artis Frame, a washbasin cabinet reduced to a slim metal frame with an optional shelf, offered in metal, wood and coloured finishes that can be coordinated with the fittings.

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Wallpaper* Furniture

Remembering Charles Hollis Jones, who made acrylic behave like furniture

Architectural historian Adam Stech remembers the American designer who left Indiana for Los Angeles at sixteen, founded CHJ and built an entire career on Lucite, making pieces for Frank Sinatra, Lucille Ball, Steve McQueen, Diana Ross and Muhammad Ali, collaborating with Arthur Elrod, Paul Laszlo and John Lautner on more than a dozen projects including the Palm Springs house that became a Bond location, and producing the 1970 Edison Lamp and the 1968 Wisteria chair of intersecting acrylic sheets.

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Chapter V · Talking pointTalkWhat the trade is saying

Wallpaper*

Talking point · August 2026

Mingei at 100, and why the beauty of utility keeps coming back

Coined in 1925 by the philosopher Soetsu Yanagi with the potters Shoji Hamada and Kanjiro Kawai, and shaped by Yanagi's sympathy with Ruskin, Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement, Mingei named the wholesome beauty of practical objects made in quantity by anonymous artisans, and the Japan Folk Crafts Museum in Tokyo now holds around 17,000 of them. Naoto Fukasawa, the museum's director, argues that people are drawn to the uncontrollable inconsistencies a machine cannot replicate, which is a hundred-year-old answer to the question every client is asking now about what is worth paying a person to make.

Folk Craft IndigoKokutani EnamelTsutsugaki CreamTwisted PaperBrazier Ash

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Dezeen Talking point

A thatched tower at Houghton, built from reed the RSPB was cutting anyway

Cella Collective and Mitre & Mondays built the Water Tower for this year's Houghton Festival in Norfolk, a 5.5 metre timber frame with four openings and slanted walls layered in thatch, a thatched ring at the top and wooden seating running out from the inside walls beneath a circular opening in the roof, drawn from a water tower built for nearby Houghton Hall in 1772 and made with reed cut from reedbeds the RSPB manages, so the material is a by-product of conservation work rather than a global supply chain.

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Business of Home Talking point

The LA sculptor who carves the door, the column and the fireplace on site

Caroline Biggs profiles Katrien Van der Schueren, the Leuven-born, Los Angeles based sculptor who spent years on custom fabrication for other people before launching her own studio in 2022, and now works in wood, plaster, resin and stone on hand-carved doors, columns that hide unsightly piping, liquid-metal ceilings and bespoke fireplace surrounds for Nicole Hollis and Martyn Lawrence Bullard, with her Embrace sconces and floor lamp in hand-folded concrete finished in brass and bronze, and hand-knotted rugs with Art and Loom to come.

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Wallpaper* Talking point

Antxon Gomez on building an Almodovar interior, where the decoration is another character

Agnish Ray interviews art director Antxon Gomez, who has worked on thirteen Almodovar films across three decades, ahead of Bitter Christmas reaching UK cinemas on 28 August, and the specification is startlingly precise: the writer Raul gets a Gio Ponti Superleggera armchair and a Carlo Scarpa Cornaro sofa, an Antoni Arola Lamina ceiling light for Santa and Cole over the dining table, an Alvar Aalto Angel Wing floor lamp from Artek in the corner, Jaime Hayon's Explorer table and Multileg cabinet for BD Barcelona, red shelves set against a glass wall so that nothing is closed off behind him, and almost every artwork comes from Almodovar's own collection.

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Wallpaper* Trend

Six bathroom directions the Wallpaper* editors pulled out of this year's fairs

Rosa Bertoli's forward look at 2027 sets the bathroom up as the most precious room in the house rather than the most practical one, and every direction is specified down to the SKU: brushed stainless steel against marble with Laufen's Rivo washbasin and Vincent Van Duysen's Flora levers for Fantini, a bold two-colour tile scheme in Florim's SensiColore in Vino and Muschio around a sunken bath, Canaletto walnut wall panelling that makes the room read as a cabin rather than a utility, and Patricia Urquiola's Cenote bath for Agape alongside Formafantasma's FFQT mixers for Quadro Design.

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