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What if a teapot, a soap tray, and a bucket could tell stories about how we bathe? 🛁✨

At 3daysofdesign in Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explored bathing rituals through an unexpected lens: pairs.

Inspired by the idea that some things simply belong together—like bread and butter 🍞🧈—16 designers from different cultures and generations were invited to create two objects reflecting the rituals, memories, and traditions surrounding bathing.

And the results were surprisingly poetic.

Korean designer Hun Lee looked to a rainy-day ritual: drinking tea after a bath. ☕🌧️ His glazed blue teapot and cups sit alongside soft clay trays shaped like raindrops gathering on a window.

For Finnish designer Rasmus Palmgren, the sauna took centre stage. His wooden stool and soap tray are connected by traditional joinery that actually becomes stronger with water use—just like the ritual itself. 🪵💧

London-based John Tree turned a childhood memory into design. Remember being washed in a bucket as a kid? His 3D-printed stool is also the bucket, merging two objects into one playful form. 🪣

Maria Bruun brought a more intimate perspective. Her pitcher and washcloth reflect the everyday ritual of bathing her children—a series of small acts of care repeated over time. ❤️

Japanese designer Shizuka Tatsuno focused on the essential ingredient of every bath: water itself. Her glass vessel transforms water into something to observe and appreciate, capturing ripples, reflections, and shifting light. 🌊✨

And Seoul-based Studio Large Medium Small celebrated the social side of bathing culture with metal bowls inspired by Korean saunas, where sharing snacks can be just as important as washing. 🥚🥣

From Finnish saunas and Japanese bathing traditions to Korean jjimjilbangs and Danish harbour baths, Bread & Butter revealed how one of our most ordinary daily routines can hold memories, rituals, and cultural stories from around the world. 🌍🛁

📸 Photos by Bread & Butter.

A lamp powered by gravity. A lounger shaped like a spine. Furniture made from mussel shells. ✨

If there’s one exhibition proving that emerging designers are pushing boundaries in all the right ways, it’s Ukurant at 3daysofdesign 2026. 🇩🇰

Hosted inside the atmospheric Fabrikken for Art & Design, the independent platform gathered 26 international designers whose work sits somewhere between craft, experimentation, and pure curiosity. And honestly? We couldn’t stop looking. 👀

Among the highlights, Korean designer BAE SUBIN / 배수빈 expanded her Wood Welding series, creating timber pieces that appear welded together — except nothing is actually joined. The “weld” exists only as an illusion, turning a construction technique into a visual joke. 🪵⚡️

Lasse Sylvest Lilleør’s Lasse Sylvest Lilleør Dazing Devil could have crawled off a David Cronenberg set, its glossy black frame tracing the curve of a human spinal column. 🖤

Zenit floor lamp transforms gravity into a design feature. Adjustable weights bend the lamp’s stem while cast-iron discs keep everything balanced, creating a fixture that seems to float through space. 💡🌍

RUSSO BETAK presented lamps 3D-printed from discarded mussel shells reclaimed from the food industry, giving waste material an entirely new life. 🐚♻️

Elsewhere, .siri challenged the conventions of weaving with a mural that pushes colour and texture beyond the loom’s rigid structure, while Fomenta Rubber Tables turn stretched rubber into both decoration and support. 🎨

Anton Mikkonen’s pine and steel seating pieces embrace the unpredictability of materials, and with a recycled-leather stool whose final shape was determined entirely by the hide itself. ✂️

Proof that some of the most exciting ideas in design right now are coming from the next generation. 🚀

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📸 Photos by Maya Matsu Maya Matsuura

Imagine if Candy Crush was made entirely of mouth-blown glass. 🍬🎮✨

That’s exactly the energy Helle Mardahl Studio brought to Copenhagen with GAME ON — an exquisite installation where handcrafted glass meets the playful logic of digital gaming.

Visitors entered through a bright yellow door 💛 and stepped into a world where the usual rules seemed to disappear. Overhead, Mardahl’s signature Bon Bon pendant lamps floated in cascading pastel clusters, appearing to stack, bounce and collide like oversized game pieces suspended in mid-air.

The palette was pure sugar rush: Milky Rose, Champagne, Blueberry Ice Cream and Banana. 🍭 Each handcrafted piece became part of a larger visual game, while mirrored surfaces multiplied colours, reflections and shapes into dazzling kaleidoscopic scenes.

Presented during 3daysofdesign, GAME ON explored what happens when traditional craftsmanship borrows the language of pixels, levels and play. As Mardahl told Archipanic: “By translating digital forms into handcrafted glass, I wanted to create a space that feels childish and fun, yet still exclusive — a place where people can rediscover curiosity and joy.”

Throughout the boutique, shelves filled with vases, vessels and sculptural objects extended the candy-coloured fantasy, creating moments that felt equally playful, collectible and luxurious. ✨

More than an installation, GAME ON was a reminder that design doesn’t always have to be serious to be meaningful. Sometimes the most memorable spaces are the ones that invite us to play, explore and look at the world with a little more curiosity. 🌈

A delightful collision of gaming culture and glassmaking craftsmanship — and proof that growing up is highly overrated. 🎮🍬

📸 by Alastair Wiper, ©Helle Mardahl Studio.

Alastair Philip Wiper

🎶 What if music wasn’t just something you heard in a room — but something that helped design it?

At 3daysofdesign 2026, Fritz Hansen explores exactly that with Sound Club, a multi-space installation built around the relationship between sound, furniture and atmosphere — and it’s as good as it sounds. ✨

“Sound plays a direct role in how we experience space. It shapes how we move, where we pause, and how we relate to furniture, light and materials,” says Creative Director Els Van Hoorebeeck. In other words: the playlist matters as much as the furniture. 🛋️

Spread across the flagship store, a courtyard, and a series of listening rooms, Sound Club unfolds in collaboration with Japanese audio brand Technics. In the podcast lounge, Fritz Hansen soft seating fills a room where the brand’s new podcast series premieres live.

Next, the listening bar goes deeper — Bauhaus-era archive tables, limited-edition KAISER idell™ lamps and Technics turntables in burgundy, and an exclusive vinyl featuring original compositions by Kim C (Oviduct) and William de Waal (Willone). 🎶

Outside, a yellow kiosk hosts DJ sets while the outdoor collection sets the scene for lunch, coffee and freshly baked goods. ☀️

Inside the flagship, craft sounds layer into a furniture-making soundscape — the backdrop for Fritz Hansen’s Autumn 2026 Novelties, including new work by Cecilie Manz, nendo’s N02™ Recycle expansion, and a reimagined Superellipse™.

Sound Club also marks the KAISER idell™ 6631-T Luxus lamp’s 90th birthday 🎂 with a Fritz Hansen x Technics limited edition — lamp and turntable united in deep burgundy. Light and sound, on the same wavelength.

More than an installation, Sound Club taps on the growing appeal of listening bars and multisensory spaces, reminding us that great interiors aren’t just about what we see — they’re about what we hear, feel and experience. 🎶✨

Not a showroom. Not a concert. Something better. 🖤

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📷 All photos by Fritz Hansen.

From an anniversary pavilion celebrating Alvar Aalto’s iconic vase to sewing-machine craft, listening bars, and interactive installations — here’s your guide to the highlights of 3 Days of Design 2026 🇩🇰✨

Running from 10–12 June in Copenhagen, the festival’s tenth edition revolves around a timely theme: Make This Moment Matter. Rather than looking backwards or racing towards the future, it champions design that feels purposeful, relevant, and rooted in the present. Full guide on Archipanic.com 🔗

✨ After a year away, Ukurant returns with 26 experimental explorations of craft, material, and tradition inside Fabrikken for Art & Design— Photo by Maya Matsuura.

🧵 Meanwhile, VÆRKTØJ — Danish for “tool” — challenges leading designers including Erwan Bouroullec and Foster + Partners to create crafts using one the same instrument: the sewing machine - Photo by Peter Vinther.

🌀 Iittala celebrates 90 years of the Aalto vase with a striking seven-metre waterfront pavilion by TABLEAU CPH.

🌱 Material Matters gathers innovators working with everything from bacteria and waste to glass, textiles, wood, and rice husks - Photo by Micheal Levin.

🔊 At Tadao Ando’s Papirøen island, Deoron brings together 50 independent designers and brands, where sound becomes part of the design experience thanks to Alephalef’s boundary-blurring speakers – Photo by Emilio Stolorz.

🎶 Audio takes centre stage at Fritz Hansen’s Sound Club, pairing Technics turntables, limited-edition KAISER idell™ lamps, and the company’s Bauhaus-inspired furniture.

🪑Elsewhere, Max Lamb unveils the Min Chair for Hem, distilled to its most essential architectural form.

❤️Jaime Hayon transforms a lifelong question from his late mother — “Jaime, what are you doing?” — into a moving exhibition about memory, love, and creativity.

🍬 Helle Mardahl turns Candy Crush and Tetris into playful glass lighting.

⚡️ 22 System and Crosby Studios present Plug-It, an installation activated by visitors through colourful Bleu Connecté sockets — a playful reflection on how we power and reshape the spaces around us.

Let’s be honest: for all the conversations around sustainability, countless installations and pavilions built for design fairs are dismantled and discarded as soon as the crowds leave. This year at Salone del Mobile, QuadroDesign chose a different path. 👏

Instead of creating a stand destined for five days of glory and a quick trip to the skip, the Italian stainless-steel faucet manufacturer teamed up with designer Giacomo Moor to give its booth a meaningful second life ♻️

Once dismantled, the structure will travel more than 7,000 km to Masala, Zambia, where it will be rebuilt as a permanent public restroom serving the local coal market. 🚿🚻 The facility — complete with toilets, showers, and changing rooms — is expected to open in August 2026.

The impact could be significant. The market is largely run by women, many accompanied by their children, in an area where access to sanitary facilities and clean water remains limited. For many, this will be the first public restroom of its kind. ❤️

As QuadroDesign’s Enrico Magistro puts it, giving the stand a second life isn’t a symbolic gesture but “a concrete choice” that creates value from what would otherwise be waste.

Designed for reuse from day one, Moor’s structure is built around a modular timber grid connected by four-way metal joints and clad with panels that can function as partitions, shelving, or roofing. Standardised, expandable, and easy to replicate, the system was conceived to adapt long after the fair ends. 🪵✨

For Moor, the goal was to create “a true piece of architecture.” And perhaps that’s the most inspiring part of the project: instead of putting products at the centre, it puts people first.

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📸 by Luca A. Caizzi. Bela k and white photo of the Zambian bathroom mock uk by Omar Sartor. Project illustrations, Giacomo Moor – QuadroDesign.

✨ New York has always been a city of arrivals, and at NYCxDESIGN, Latinx creatives proved they’re helping shape what comes next.

The Espasso Apartment by Office of Tangible Space — a stunning showcase of Brazilian design heritage presented with ESPASSO. Think iconic furniture, contemporary voices, and one seriously beautiful interior. 🏡

🎭 Actor Julio Torres brought a personal story to design with All Other Passports, his collaboration with Sabai. Inspired by arriving in New York as a newcomer, the collection transforms memories of JFK, Manhattan bridges, and first apartments into furniture, lighting, and textiles. A love letter to starting over.

🛠️ At Maharam, Objetos de Hojalata para el Hogar reimagined traditional Mexican tinwork through the eyes of Cranbrook Academy students, guided by Leon Ransmeier and Fabien Cappello. The result? Playful watering cans and everyday objects that balance craft, history, and contemporary design.

🌎 At WantedDesign during ICFF, designers from across Latin America brought fresh perspectives. Ecuadorian studio ASET presented its modular Standard Shelf, combining small-batch production, craftsmanship, and industrial waste reuse. ♻️

🌿 From the Brazilian Amazon, Flavia Pereira’s Anduba collaborated with Indigenous artists to create wall coverings rooted in culture, memory, and land.

💡 Mexico City studio ¡pling! found beauty in overlooked materials, pairing corrugated roofing and industrial vinyl tarps with tropical hardwoods and handblown glass.

And beyond the fairgrounds, Roberto Lugo’s monumental sculptures have taken over Madison Square Park. A 15-foot fire hydrant and a towering urn celebrating Puerto Rican cultural figures bring craft, identity, and resilience into the heart of the city. ❤️

From heritage to experimentation, these projects showed a design scene that’s diverse, dynamic, and impossible to ignore.

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Paper sculptures, tactile beads and coffee-ground bricks — the 15th edition of Clerkenwell Design Week is transforming London’s most design-literate neighbourhood into an open-air festival of ideas. ✨ Archipanic is a proud media partner — here’s where to go 👇

🕍 St Bartholomew the Great returns as the Church of Design, hosting talks and furniture displays. Don’t miss Fung+Bedford’s Resonance — illuminated suspended paper sculptures whose folded geometry feels impossibly delicate against the weight of that ancient architecture. Fragility meets permanence. Stunning.

🌈 One Bite Design’s Fountain of Technicolour Beads addresses colour blindness with tactile differentiation — where colours blur, textures speak. A genuinely thoughtful piece of design thinking.

♻️ Alexane Quenderff’s five BinSight Benches are built entirely from waste materials deemed too difficult to recycle. Scan the QR code and guess the materials. Harder than it sounds!

☕ Studio Egret West’s Brew House pavilion is built from 600 bricks made with ~300 kg of waste coffee grounds from London cafés. Each brick uses 10% less clay and weighs 5% less than a standard one. Circular economy, beautifully executed.

🌿 In the Order of St John garden, LA ERRERÍA’s The Secret Garden for Tile of Spain evokes the four seasons — inspired, charmingly, by Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest.

🌱 And at Haberdashers’ Hall, watch chia seeds gradually sprout across two crescent shells over the course of the festival in The Pulse of Becoming. Living, breathing design.

☑️ Heidelberg Materials presents a sculpture by Ashley Cluer alongside a modular 3D-printed concrete installation — both made using a near-zero carbon captured cement.

💡 The underground House of Detention hosts Light, CDW’s dedicated lighting showcase — including Loom Light, a 3D-printed sculpture by MIMstudios at the entrance. Atmospheric.

🪑 Over at St James Church, the British Collection brings together some of the UK’s most exciting furniture and lighting brands. A must for anyone serious about homegrown design talent.

Full guide on Archipanic.com 🔗