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Design Museum The world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form. The Design Museum's vision is a world where everyone values design.
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The museum's purpose is to make the impact of the design visible. It aims to achieve this by:

- Building public awareness of design by connecting design with people’s lives and passions
- Reflecting the designer’s role at the forefront of social, technological and environmental change
- Serving the design community. Design is a practice, a diverse discipline, infinitely rich in approaches and characters. It is a young discipline, whose role in the world is evolving. Our unique approach to working with designers is to invite them to ‘think in public’ with us.

To mark Le Corbusier’s birthday, here's a look at the final project of his career: Pavilion Le Corbusier ❤️Located on th...
06/10/2026

To mark Le Corbusier’s birthday, here's a look at the final project of his career: Pavilion Le Corbusier ❤️

Located on the shores of Lake Zurich in Switzerland, Pavilion Le Corbusier stands apart from much of the architect’s celebrated work. It is his only building constructed entirely from steel and glass, marking a departure from his renowned use of concrete.

Commissioned by Swiss gallery owner and interior designer Heidi Weber, the pavilion was conceived as a space dedicated to Le Corbusier’s artistic work. Although designed during his lifetime, the building was completed posthumously in 1967, two years after his death.

The pavilion is defined by brightly coloured primary-colour panels and a dramatic floating roof. Inside, concrete appears only in the form of a freestanding central staircase.

From the overall structure to its smallest details, Le Corbusier designed every element of the pavilion.

Photos: Gage Bantiles / Georg Aerni / Maureen Bouygues

NIGO: From Japan with Love has officially closed its doors 💔Since opening in May, this special exhibition - the very fir...
04/10/2026

NIGO: From Japan with Love has officially closed its doors 💔

Since opening in May, this special exhibition - the very first in the UK dedicated to the creative director and designer - has given visitors an exclusive look into the world of NIGO.

Over a brilliant 30-year career, NIGO has profoundly shaped contemporary fashion while remaining a massive influence across music, architecture, and interior design.

The exhibition brought his unique creative vision to life by showcasing rare designs alongside a recreation of his teenage bedroom, hand-thrown ceramics, and a stunning, life-size tea house built especially for the show.

We would love to hear from you if you managed to catch it. What was your favourite NIGO design?

📸 _yuta_kato_, joshmartinsilerio, jessylaw, ttfinlay_, agegaptwins on Instagram

Discover the exclusive collection for our brand-new exhibition, Es Devlin: Other Worlds 💫Marking the first exhibition fo...
03/10/2026

Discover the exclusive collection for our brand-new exhibition, Es Devlin: Other Worlds 💫

Marking the first exhibition for Es Devlin in her hometown of London, this collection brings together a curated selection of homeware, ceramics, limited-edition artworks, prints, books and more.

Tap the link to shop: https://bit.ly/4hBSbxb

Step inside our brand new exhibition, Es Devlin: Other Worlds, which is now open 💫This visually stunning retrospective i...
02/10/2026

Step inside our brand new exhibition, Es Devlin: Other Worlds, which is now open 💫

This visually stunning retrospective is the first in Europe celebrating 30 years of Devlin's genre defying practice across sculpture, stage design, music, language and light.

On display are artworks, installations and film alongside the largest solo presentation of Devlin’s archive to date.

Conceived in close collaboration with the artist and designer, the exhibition immerses visitors in her imaginative world through a collective experience that goes beyond a traditional exhibition setting.

Catch it at the museum until April 2027 - tickets: http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/es-devlin-other-worlds?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=OS_esdevlin_facebook

📸 1 Daniel Devlin 2-7 Luke Hayes

30/09/2026

Open now at the (and on view until 4 April 2027), ‘Es Devlin: Other Worlds’ is the multidisciplinary artist [] and designer’s first European retrospective and features a close-up view of her practice over the past 30 years.

Having spent much of the past year working alongside and her team on her Guest Editor contribution to October Wallpaper* (look out for the special-edition concertina cover, available from the Museum shop and Wallpaper* Store), the exhibition felt like a continuation of our conversations, and gave us further insight into a creative universe that feels both incredibly personal while touching upon universal, larger-than-life themes.

Read more on wallpaper.com

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Picture a pair of scissors. There's a good chance they're orange, but have you ever wondered why? ✂️It’s thanks to the F...
28/09/2026

Picture a pair of scissors. There's a good chance they're orange, but have you ever wondered why? ✂️

It’s thanks to the Finnish company Fiskars. In 1967 the plastics industry was exploding, and the material was finding its way into many household objects.

The industrial designer Olof Bäckström was working on creating plastic tabletops and other home goods at Fiskars. He had some orange plastic left over from making juicers, which became the material for his prototype scissors.

The invention of injection moulding meant that plastic and steel could be merged, and Bäckström took advantage of this by combining a pair of heavy metal sheers with plastic, and designing an ergonomic handle that actually curved to fit the user's hands - a first.

Fiskars have since sold more than 1 billion pairs of these iconic scissors.

🕶️ ONE WEEK TO GO 🕶️There are just seven days left to catch NIGO: From Japan with Love - the world’s first retrospective...
27/09/2026

🕶️ ONE WEEK TO GO 🕶️

There are just seven days left to catch NIGO: From Japan with Love - the world’s first retrospective of designer NIGO, the pioneer who helped bridge streetwear and luxury fashion.

Over a 30-year career, NIGO has shaped some of the world’s most recognisable brands while building influential labels of his own and helping define global street culture.

Explore more than 700 objects, from a recreation of NIGO’s teenage bedroom and rare designs to ceramics made by NIGO and a life-size glass tea house created especially for the exhibition.

Catch it until 4 October. Tickets via the link: https://bit.ly/4gTsEAD. Members go free.

📸 Elliot James Kennedy

26/09/2026

We’re counting down to the opening of our much-anticipated new exhibition, Es Devlin: Other Worlds 💫

The first retrospective in Europe dedicated to Es Devlin's genre-defying practice, the exhibition brings together artworks, installations and film spanning Devlin’s extraordinary career.

Created in close collaboration with the artist, Es Devlin: Other Worlds invites you into Devlin’s imaginative universe through a collective experience that goes beyond the traditional exhibition, encouraging new ways of seeing and thinking.

Discover Es Devlin from 2 October 2026. Tickets: https://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/es-devlin-other-worlds?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=os_esdevlin_facebook

A short hop from La Cité Radieuse, Le Brasilia is Marseille’s lesser-known concrete giant 🌀Completed in 1967, Le Brasili...
25/09/2026

A short hop from La Cité Radieuse, Le Brasilia is Marseille’s lesser-known concrete giant 🌀

Completed in 1967, Le Brasilia was Fernand Boukobza’s first major project in Marseille’s 8th arrondissement. Standing 21 storeys high and containing more than 200 homes, it sits almost directly opposite Le Corbusier’s La Cité Radieuse – and its influence is hard to miss.

Like La Cité Radieuse, Le Brasilia features duplex apartments, pilotis lifting the structure above the ground, internal access corridors, generous loggias and commercial spaces.

But while Le Corbusier’s building is defined by its strong rectangular grid, Le Brasilia sweeps dramatically through the skyline in a broad curve. Its south-facing arc was designed to maximise sunlight across the façade, while the apartments are oriented along a north–south axis.

The original design called for Le Brasilia to be roughly a third taller than the building we see today. Had the entire scheme been completed, it would have risen dramatically above the surrounding neighbourhood, creating an even bolder counterpart to La Cité Radieuse.

You can see its sculptural character most clearly in its staircases. Two emergency staircases spiral dramatically up the exposed concrete façade, turning a purely functional element into one of Le Brasilia’s defining architectural features.

Le Brasilia takes its name from Brasília, the newly built Brazilian capital whose radical modernist architecture was capturing the imagination of architects around the world. The building embodies the optimism of 1960s modernism – a time when housing could be both functional and sculptural.

📸 dec_michal on Instagram

23/09/2026

NIGO has made a traditional Japanese craft technique a recurring part of his visual world 🐻

Assistant curator of our NIGO: From Japan with Love Fiona McKay on NIGO’s use of hariko papier-mâché.

There are just two weeks left to catch NIGO: From Japan with Love at the Design Museum. Book your visit now via the link: https://bit.ly/4gTsEAD

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