From 28 May to 1 June, the third edition of Lisbon Design Week (LDW) celebrates design, craft and creativity, promising five days of design experiences to explore.
The 12th edition of Design Shanghai will explore the theme of ‘design for humanity’. Featuring leading brands from over 30-countries and spotlighting over 600 curated design pieces. The events will take place between June 4th-7th at the World Expo Exhibition Center.
The fifth edition of Southern Sweden Design Days, Malmö’s design festival, takes place between May 22-25. The annual event is organised by Form/Design Center and will feature over 160 program activities, 450 participants and 80 locations.
Inspired by alternative art fairs in New York, Brussels, and Bangkok, art dealer Patrick Mestdagh and gallerist Sébastien Janssen (Sorry We’re Closed) present The Rooms, a new Brussels-based art and antiques fair. Spazio Nobile will present a special exhibition curated by Lise Coirier and Giuseppe Simeone.
Brussels welcomes a new art fair, The Rooms Art Fair at Mix Brussels, featuring thirty galleries from a variety of genres, from contemporary ceramics to tribal art. Organized by Patrick Mestdagh and Sébastien Janssen, the galleries will transform guest rooms into unique creative spaces. From May 22-25th.
For the 2024 issue: TLmag40: The Ideal Home, curator Romy Cockx wrote about the relationship between fashion and interiors in an essay titled: Wearing the Home in Times of Anxiety. This is a subject which she explores more deeply in the current exhibition: Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair, currently on view at MoMu, the Fashion Museum in Antwerp. Fashion & Interiors: A Gendered Affair explores the interaction between fashion and interiors, with a focus on complex gender dynamics. The exhibition also examines the responses of several influential designers, with a particular emphasis on the visual fusion between these two forms of expression. Herewith is Cockx’s essay reproduced in full with images from the exhibition.
CCONTINUA + MAMT is a creative collaboration between Chiara Caselli and Francesco Carrasso. In the last four years, they have developed a singular collection of objects and accessories, and a partnership that is built on intuition and freedom to experiment. They recently showed their work in two exhibitions during Milan Design Week and at KunstRAI in Amsterdam with HAMA Gallery.
Mendes Wood Paris presents Sanam Khatibi, The Hunger, a solo exhibition of new paintings by the artist, who lives between Paris and Brussels. The exhibition is on view from April 3-May 17th, 2025.
The final days to see Matching Seats, an exhibition of unique, handmade chairs and fashion accessories from the legendary collector Galila Barzilai Hollander. Matching Seats closes May 3rd.
For the 2024 print issue of TLmag40: The Ideal Home, architect, design researcher and writer Ibrahim Kombarji interviewed Andrea Trimarchi and Simone Farresin of Formafantasma about the idea of ‘being home’.
Friedman Benda presents Voice of Silence, a solo exhibition of new work by Byung Hoon Choi. This is the gallery’s fourth solo exhibition with the Korean artist and master craftsman and it will be on view through May 23, 2025.
The Bourse de Commerce brings together over 100 works from the Pinault Collection to present the exhibition “Corps et âmes,” an exploration of representations of the body in contemporary art. The exhibition is on view through August 25th, 2025.