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This beauty studio sets dark wood furnishings and polished metal details against vanilla-toned walls, creating a restrained interior through warm material contrasts.

Interior design by Redduo Studio x Esteà - Centro Estetico📍Milan, Italy


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Reframing a hearing aid as a visible wearable, this device gives its circular form a brushed-gold face with radial grain and two subtle curved grooves.

Hear by Vorsprung


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The pulse of design: Maison&Objet unveils its new identity
👉 https://designwanted.com/maisonobjet-pulse-new-identity-september-2026/

Maison&Objet returns to the French capital with Pulse in Motion, a new theme celebrating creativity as a force for change. From emerging talents and South African designers to citywide installations and Paris Design Week, the fair reaffirms its role as a global platform for contemporary design.

✍️ Ludovica Proietti

Made from recyclable glass and aluminium, this aroma diffuser turns water and essential oils into a fine mist using ultrasound, without heat or flame.

Aroma diffuser by Transparent


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Filled with helium and tethered by a transparent thread, this rectangular pouf rises when not in use, shifting between furniture and suspended installation.

Pouf by Heflies


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Off the grid: 8 holiday retreats fully immersed in nature

From alpine bivouacs perched on rocky outcrops to floating cabins tethered to still water, this new wave of hospitality architecture treats nature not as a backdrop but as a collaborator. Merging the line between comfort and wilderness, architects are treating the holiday home less as a fixed object and more as a lens: a way of framing a landscape you'd otherwise only pass through.

Mentioned projects: Aldo Frattini Bivouac by EX., Biosphere by BIG, Cabin Devìn by Ark-Shelter and ARCHEKTA, Coucoo Cabanes by AW2, Woods Retreat by BE Design, EcoNeo by SAGA Space Architects, Floating House by Friday SA, Two Towers by Stinessen Arkitektur

The world’s best architecture 2026: research over spectacle
👉 https://designwanted.com/aawards-architizer-winners-future-architecture/

What will the architecture of the future look like? The 2026 Architizer A+Awards suggest local, sustainable, and research-based; dramatic architecture seems to be over soon.

✍️ Anna Lazzaron

Designed around a luminous core, this lighting collection encloses light within hand-carved volcanic stone, releasing it through narrow openings and blown-glass domes.

Ermita Series by OCUO Studio

📸 Emilio Torres


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China’s biggest furniture stage just rewrote its own rules
👉 https://designwanted.com/ciff-shanghai-2026-design-digital-sustainability/

CIFF Shanghai 2026, the 58th edition of the CIFF - China International Furniture Fair, will run September 5-8 at the National Exhibition & Convention Center in Shanghai Hongqiao, built around three pillars: design, digital intelligence, and sustainability.