Our collector’s edit of London Design Festival 2026 prioritises sculptural furniture, studio glass, design history and emerging makers — the work most likely to matter after festival week ends.

Nearly 180 works at the Grand Palais trace Cézanne’s afterlife from Gauguin and Matisse to Joan Mitchell, Bridget Riley and Peter Doig—and reveal how artistic value is built before consensus.

London Design Festival 2026 arrives just as the border between art, design and material practice becomes harder to defend. Here are the projects collectors should see—and the questions worth taking with them.

At Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, Maurizio Cattelan turns Mies van der Rohe’s glass pavilion into a charged contemporary temple—and reveals the seriousness, historical intelligence and remarkable coherence beneath three decades of provocation.

Japan’s first major Sottsass retrospective brings more than 100 works to Tokyo and shows why serious design collecting begins with more than appearance: production, provenance and domestic context matter.

Twenty-five years after 9/11, Thomas Ruff’s monumental jpegs ny asks how compression, circulation and the internet have altered collective memory.