Arte cuts, stitches and embroiders leather into its spring 2026 wallcoverings, image via Modern Luxury

Issue No. 09 · 31 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.

Tomás & Cristina Vera

Designer of the Week

VERDI

Textiles & weaving · Bogotá, Colombia

In 2025 the studio wove SANTUARIO, an immersive handwoven installation for One&Only Mandarina, extending collaborations with Cartier and Fendi.

Founded in 2010 in honour of their late father, this atelier weaves natural fibres such as fique, baby alpaca and plantain into textiles that read as contemporary art with deep traditional roots. More than fifty master artisans work the looms, reinventing the Colombian mochila and dressing luxury interiors worldwide.

FiqueAndes ClayAlpaca Cream

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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

Dezeen picks fourteen shows to see at London Design Festival, from Ham House to a Wapping power station, image via Dezeen

Talking pointDezeen picks fourteen shows to see at London Design Festival, from Ham House to a Wapping power station

Pierre Frey opens Galerie 14 Mail, its first showroom given over entirely to furniture, image via WWD

FurniturePierre Frey opens Galerie 14 Mail, its first showroom given over entirely to furniture

Valspar names Cottage Door, a grayed blue, its 2027 Colour of the Year, image via Valspar

ColourValspar names Cottage Door, a grayed blue, its 2027 Colour of the Year

Chapter I · FabricClothThe fabric housesRead the chapter

Business of Home

Fabric · August 2026

Samuel & Sons carves velvet into a new passementerie category with Velaré

Samuel & Sons has unveiled Velaré, a passementerie collection built around an entirely new category it calls the framed appliqué border, rendering velvet as sculptural ornament through embroidery, appliquéd cording, cutwork and sculpted pile, with mitred corners that let patterns such as Ornature, Heliara, Lennox, Trelliane and Laurentia flow cleanly around a frame, rooted in classical architecture and the decorative arts of the 18th century. Trimming remains the cheapest way to make plain cloth look bespoke, so a framed velvet border run along a headboard, a cushion or the leading edge of a curtain reads as custom detailing without the cost of custom furniture, which is a useful lever when a budget wants richness in a few precise places.

Ornature TarragonSculpted BronzeCutwork RoseAppliqué CreamCording Ink

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Chapter II · WallpaperWallsPaper and patternRead the chapter

Modern Luxury

Wallpaper · September 2026

Arte cuts, stitches and embroiders leather into its spring 2026 wallcoverings

The Belgian wallcovering house Arte has built its spring 2026 launch around material rather than pattern, with Allures lacing hand-cut brushed suede over nineteenth-century French motifs, Corium embroidering over precisely stitched caprine leather in a process studio design manager Frederik Decoopman says can run to five steps across three production studios, Les Tapisseries rebuilding fourteenth to eighteenth-century tapestry imagery in velour and jacquard, and Memphis, Zephyr and Indienne pressing Egyptian relief into a velvet-like 3D textile, mixing sisal with suede and metallic foil, and making vinyl behave like linen. These are finishes specified by touch and by raking light rather than by pattern repeat, so the working rule is to get a physical sample onto the actual wall before anything is approved, and Indienne is the quiet one to remember when a client wants the look of linen walls somewhere a real linen would not survive.

Ramage TapestryDuctia GiltCorium LeatherAmarna TerracottaReliure Suede

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Zoffany Wallpaper

Zoffany revives its founding restoration as the Endpapers wallpaper collection

Zoffany has revived the restoration project that founded the house as Endpapers, a wallpaper collection drawn from the fragments hidden behind later papers in historic English homes and from the decorated endpapers of antiquarian books, led by Diamonds and Flowers, a design dated around 1750 to 1770 that Zoffany found as a fragment at Temple Newsam in North Yorkshire, and running on through the sixteenth-century Domino Paper, the archival Floral Tracery and the in-house Semper, every design rotary screen printed in England for a wood-block texture and colour-matched to the chalky Zoffany paints.

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Business of Home Wallpaper

Phillip Jeffries marks fifty years with Journey, a textural fall wallcovering collection

Phillip Jeffries has marked its fiftieth year with Journey, a fall wallcovering collection that leans hard into surface and hand, running from grasscloth and raffia designs like Riviera Raffia and Raffia Atelier through woven cork couture and boucle to quieter textured vinyls such as Vinyl Melange and Vinyl Strata for the walls that have to take real wear.

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Paul Montgomery paints a Nantucket harbour into a scenic mural for the Caitlin Wilson collection

Paul Montgomery's The Mural Source has added Nantucket to its Caitlin Wilson collection, a hand-painted scenic mural in which sailboats drift across a quiet New England harbour beneath historic lighthouses, threaded with blooming hydrangeas and weathered cedar homes and offered in a soft Classic colourway.

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Morris & Co. Wallpaper

Morris & Co. revives the C.F.A. Voysey archive as Voysey House Volume I

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Chapter III · ColourColourOn the paint card

Valspar

Colour · September 2026

Valspar names Cottage Door, a grayed blue, its 2027 Colour of the Year

Valspar has named Cottage Door, a grayed blue warmed with soft undertones, as its 2027 Colour of the Year, launching it under a Soft Minimalism direction and pairing it with a creamy pink called Apricot Blush and a soft grey called Moon Shot so the trio reads gentle and uplifting rather than cold. The transferable read for a working scheme is that a mid-tone blue-grey is the low-risk way to put colour on the parts of a room that take it best, a front door, a run of cabinetry or panelled joinery, because it behaves like a warm neutral against wood and stone yet still gives a flat white room somewhere for the eye to rest.

Cottage DoorApricot BlushMoon ShotWarm GreigeTrim Slate

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Marketplace Colour

The colour recession, and why the client keeps asking for greige

Amogh Dimri of The Atlantic has named the slow drain of colour out of houses and cars the colour recession, and told Kai Ryssdal on Marketplace what is actually driving it: when colour becomes less an expression of personal taste than an investment, people are afraid of getting that investment wrong.

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Farrow & Ball Colour

Farrow & Ball brings back Archive shades alongside nine new colours

Farrow & Ball has added nine new shades, Scallop, Dibber, Reduced Green, Sizing, Naperon, Marmelo, Kakelugn, Douter and Duster (numbers 311 to 319), and for the first time brought back three Archive favourites alongside them, the deep Etruscan Red, the earthy Broccoli Brown and the mossy Sap Green, all handcrafted in Dorset under the theme the extraordinary ordinary.

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Chapter IV · LightingLightMade to glow

Wallpaper*

Lighting · August 2026

Nathan Orsman lights a Hamptons garage like a nightclub

Nathan Orsman, the New York lighting designer who has lit houses for Oprah Winfrey, Ina Garten, Stephen Colbert, Tommy Hilfiger and Marc Jacobs, has finished the Elle Mara Garage in Sagaponack as a sunken seven-car display room reached through a wine cellar, with resin-poured black walls, grey floors, a custom-stretched membrane panel crowning each car and surface-mounted Ketra fixtures washing the room from thick red to energetic blue, while the basketball court below it takes bulletproof acrylic disc fittings custom made by BlackLight. The lesson for a working scheme is the deliberate break, because Orsman set all of this against Tony Ingrao's white and creamy tones in the rest of the house rather than continuing them, and his own rule is the one worth quoting to a client who wants everything lit: pay attention to the negative space, and be specific about what you are lighting, because sometimes less is more poignant. The project appears in his 320-page Rizzoli book, Light: Illuminated Interiors and Architecture, out on 29 September 2026 with a foreword by Marc Jacobs.

Poured Resin BlackCourt GreyKetra Thick RedDescent BlueMembrane White

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Chapter V · FurnitureFormPieces with a spineRead the chapter

WWD

Furniture · September 2026

Pierre Frey opens Galerie 14 Mail, its first showroom given over entirely to furniture

Pierre Frey, the century-old family-run Paris fabric house, has opened Galerie 14 Mail opposite its historic Rue du Mail showroom, a 5,382 square foot gallery designed by Sandrine Sarah Faivre as a run of adaptable apartment-like salons for rotating furniture by Constance Guisset, Christophe Delcourt, Christian Haas, Guillaume Delvigne, Tristan Auer and Garnier and Linker, with art on loan from Triode Gallery, a materials library of fabrics, woods and finishes, and a lower level of exposed stone, lacquer and mirror. The transferable read for a working designer is that a fabric house now expects to sell you the sofa as well as the cloth on it, so a scheme can be specified as one coherent hand from upholstery to case goods, and the salon format itself is worth copying for any client presentation, showing pieces in rooms rather than in rows.

Rue du Mail StoneSalon OakLacquer InkFrey BordeauxMirror Silver

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Dezeen Furniture

IKEA puts collectible design under two hundred pounds

IKEA has launched Konstrunda, or Art Tour, a limited edition of 22 pieces by seven designers with nothing over £200, running from a £19 black and white vase by the Italian architect Emanuele Stamuli to a £149 side table by the London designer Andu Masebo wrapped in the chunky frame that made his Tubular Chair, plus mouth-blown glass vases by Lisa Reiser including a gummy-candy green, a pinewood stool and bent orange sculpture by Lisa Hilland, and cushions and a rug by Ingrid Leander and Igor Holtermann taken from Stockholm zebra crossings and caution banners.

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Willo Perron gives Knoll its first bed in decades, built to look like a stack of pillows

Picked out in Jane Englefield's Dezeen roundup of the month's best furniture and lighting, the Perron Pillo Bed by Canadian designer Willo Perron for Knoll is a generously proportioned bed that reads as a freestanding stack of soft pillows you want to collapse onto, the latest in Perron's lineup of deliberately bloated pieces for the brand and, notably, the first bed Knoll has produced in several decades.

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Chapter VI · Talking pointTalkWhat the trade is saying

Dezeen

Talking point · September 2026

Dezeen picks fourteen shows to see at London Design Festival, from Ham House to a Wapping power station

Gabriella Wong's pick of this year's London Design Festival, running 12 to 20 September and called the strongest programme since the pandemic, takes in Playfool's AI commission and Aziza Kadyri's Uzbek embroidery at the V&A, SCP's move into a five-storey Clerkenwell townhouse with a new lighting collection by Blue Green Works, Max Radford Gallery taking over Christopher Farr's Shoreditch showroom, Material Matters with its salvaged brutalist oak and bacteria-grown tiles, Kingston MA graduates filling seventeenth-century Ham House, and a bamboo pangolin pavilion by Studio Saar on Strand Aldwych. The useful part for a working designer is that almost all of it is free and walkable across two or three days, so a week of showroom appointments can be hung around it, and the self-organised shows (Aram's flat furnished by 102 emerging makers, All Ears at Hackney Downs, 2LG at Shoreditch Town Hall) are where new suppliers get found before their prices catch up with them.

Ham House MarquetryCoade StonePangolin BambooWapping HydraulicSalvaged Oak

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Dezeen Talking point

The dopamine decor backlash arrives, and it is really about language

Julie Lasky, formerly deputy editor of the New York Times Home and Garden section, has written against dopamine decor, the candy-coloured maximalist trend that now carries two books, Rachel Varney's Dopamine Home in April and Maitri Mody's Dopamine Design in late August, arguing that it is icky to invoke brain chemistry in the marketing of a style, and citing the Brazilian architect Andrea de Paiva of NeuroAU, who warns that such rooms risk overwhelming the senses and producing fatigue, distraction or stress rather than joy.

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Business of Home Trend

The autumn collections all land at once, led by Arhaus at 40

Caroline Biggs's weekly Business of Home preview caught the season's biggest launches arriving together, led by Arhaus marking its 40th anniversary with 630 new artisan designs including the book-matched mahogany Frances bed, alongside Anthropologie's 200-plus fall pieces, Made Goods' 128-piece collection with its petrified-wood Aspen table, and VSP Interiors' antique-inspired debut with Oficina Inglesa.

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