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Events
Exhibitions and installations galore from Milan
Milan Design Week amounts to so much more than product launches, so here are a few installation and exhibition highlights that we stumbled across in 2025.
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Thought for Humans: Milan 2025 Preview
On the eve of Milan Design Week 2025, we take a look at some of the expected highlights across product launches, installations and events.
Events
Top ten launches from Milan Design Week 2024
From a modular armchair and statement lighting, to a table crafted from coffee waste and reissued classics, these are the best new products to launch at this year’s Milan Design Week.
Events
The 10 best things I saw at London Design Festival ’22
As Mandi Keighran reports, London Design Festival celebrated its 20th anniversary with immersive installations, shows and spaces that ran the gamut of playful through to thought-provoking. Here’s her top 10 moments.
Events
Benjamin Hubert releases new monograph, LAYER
All about Benjamin Hubert and his design agency, LAYER, this monograph provides candid insights into studio life, Hubert’s own life, and the projects that have put them on the global design map.
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Peeling back the layers: Benjamin Hubert’s new monograph
All about Benjamin Hubert and his design agency, LAYER, this monograph provides candid insights into studio life, Hubert’s own life, and the projects that have put them on the global design map.
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The best of London Design Festival 2019
London Design Festival 2019 was a celebration of creativity in the capital. The best projects put the spotlight on sustainability and activating public spaces – these are our favourites.
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Benjamin Hubert’s immersive installation
Immersion in a surface material is possible! Benjamin Hubert of LAYER shows us how with Dekton and light in a poetic installation for Cosentino in Milan.
Events
Benjamin Hubert’s Immersive Installation For Cosentino At Ventura Centrale
Immersion in a surface material is possible! Benjamin Hubert of LAYER shows how using Dekton and light in poetic installation for Cosentino in Milan.
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Milan Preview: Our Must-See Installations At Fuorisalone 2019
It’s almost here… Next week is Milan Design Week! Keep your finger on the pulse with this selection of must-see installations at the Fuorisalone.
Products
Moroso Tape: Benjamin Hubert Reuses Textile Waste With An Alternative Approach To Upholstery
Small pieces of textile are diverted from waste streams and ‘bonded’ with tape to upholster the modular Moroso Tape furniture collection.
Events
Top 9 Picks From London Design Festival
London Design Festival 2018 – 15-23 September – is one of the most anticipated events on the global design calendar. Here’s our pick of design inspiration.
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Top 9 picks from London Design Festival
London Design Festival 2018 – 15-23 September – is one of the most anticipated events on the global design calendar. Here’s our pick of design inspiration.
Products
Really Responsible: Kvadrat And Really Address Textile Waste In The Fashion Industry
A truckload of clothing wasted every second across the world. Kvadrat has been doing something about it with Really and a host of fabulous international designers.
People
Design empathy: Benjamin Hubert of Layer
In Benjamin Hubert’s world, having talent and vision is one thing, but to have empathy – that’s where the hard work begins. Hubert has devoted his practice and studio, Layer, to intimately understanding what users really need.
People
AXYL By Benjamin Hubert x Allermuir
Two years in the making, London-based Benjamin Hubert of experience design agency LAYER will launch the AXYL collection for UK furniture brand Allermuir at the 2017 London Design Festival (LDF) next week.
Events
Design for Tomorrow
Without a doubt, design innovation is opening new doors to the way we live, work and play. Come 29 June, leaders of the industry will be gathering at the Design for Tomorrow master conference in Bangkok to hear the latest ideas that are expanding the limits of possibility.
Products
A New Star by Benjamin Hubert
You would think 8,000 variations would be enough, but Fritz Hansen together with British designer Benjamin Hubert have just unveiled a new extension to the super adaptable Pair chair.
Events
Benjamin Hubert’s First Artistic Installation
Presented at the London Design Festival, Benjamin Hubert’s first artwork installation, Foil, is informed by the precision engineered shape of the Braun shaver foil.
Ideas
LDF in 2016 – A Utopia by Design
The addition of the London Design Biennale to London Design Festival in September makes it one of the industry’s most exciting and anticipated events of 2016.
Misc
Introducing The World’s First Customisable 3D-printed Wheelchair
Benjamin Hubert of experience design agency Layer has utilised 3D printing to develop a human-centric wheelchair prototype that is customised to the individual’s body shape and disability.