Meet design’s future icons
12 emerging designers to follow in 2026
| | 01. Supersedia’s chairs combine sculptural forms with emotional expressionsThe Italian design studio, founded by Markus Töll, creates furniture where ‘every detail is shaped individually’ |
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| | 02. Australian studio Cordon Salon takes an anthropological approach to designThis studio works across genres, techniques and materials, while exploring the possible futures of craft |
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| | 03. Ah Um Design Studio finds a rhythm in music and makingThe LA-based studio’s expressive furniture features zig-zagging wooden frames, mohair and boucle upholstery, and a distinctive use of tiles |
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| | 04. Grace Atkinson’s Ukraine-made textiles balance material and emotionNew Zealand-born Atkinson creates sensual domestic textile objects using 14th-century techniques |
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| | 05. Eddie Olin’s furniture merges heavy metal with playfulnessThe London-based designer and fabricator’s work celebrates the aesthetic value of engineering processes |
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| | 06. Glass designer Silje Lindrup finds inspiration in the material’s unpredictabilityThe Danish glassmaker lets the material be in charge, creating a body of work that exists between utility and experimentation |
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| | 07. Zbeul Studio’s ‘future relics’ merge traditional craft with unexpected materialsThe Paris-based studio merges archaeology, craft and design through innovative processes |
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| | 08. Korean designer Yoonjeong Lee tells ordinary stories in extraordinary waysThe designer’s work is based on a fascination for utilitarian objects, from pencils to nails, recreated with innovative casting methods |
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| | 09. The work of Salù Iwadi Studio reclaims African perspectives with a global outlookBased between Lagos and Dakar, studio founders Toluwalase Rufai and Sandia Nassila are inspired by the improvisational nature of African contemporary design |
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| | 10. A resort, ravioli and a rocket are among ongoing projects from studio Anda BaBritish-Indian studio founder Armaan Bansal draws inspiration from India’s natural materials and contemporary London culture |
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| | 11. Dublin-based designer Cara Campos turns abandoned bicycles into minimal furniture piecesThe Saudi-raised, Irish-French designer’s creative approach is rooted in reuse, construction and the lives of objects |
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| | 12. Design studio Palma is a tale of twos, where art and architecture meetIn São Paulo, artist Cleo Döbberthin and architect Lorenzo Lo Schiavo blur the lines between making and meaning |
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