Each week, we highlight a selection of global design headlines, from standout projects to innovative product launches and industry moments. Celebrating craftsmanship, creativity and contemporary design, we explore this week’s latest design news from Mike Hewson at Gallery Twenty Twenty, Design by WBL, Hästens, Humbert & Poyet, Cadogan Gallery and the Visteria Foundation.
Photography by Aaron Hargreaves
Mike Hewson’s The Opera House Table Opens at Gallery Twenty Twenty
Sydney artist Mike Hewson transforms a rare collection of late-1960s pre-cast concrete panels into a series of sculptural dining tables and bespoke seating, his first dedicated furniture exhibition, now showing at Gallery Twenty Twenty, Alexandria.
Photography courtesy of Hästens
Hästens Opens Its First Brisbane Showroom
Hästens brings its first Brisbane showroom to Great Dane Furniture in Fortitude Valley, an intimate, appointment-led space offering private Bed Test consultations. The showroom allows visitors to experience the Hästens collection firsthand, comparing bed models to find the one tailored to their individual sleep needs, alongside personalised pillow fittings guided by a Sweden-trained team. The brand has handcrafted every bed to order in Sweden for more than 170 years, using natural materials including horsehair, wool, cotton and flax. Each piece is made entirely by hand, favouring craftsmanship over mass production, with every bed built to last.
Photography by Tomo Yarmush
Visteria Foundation Presents The Matter of Earth in Paris
Curated by Eleonora Bojanowska and Bartosz Brylewski, the exhibition marks the Warsaw-based foundation’s French debut, bringing together eleven Polish studios and makers exploring the earth as material, landscape and memory. Presented with the Polish Institute in Paris during Paris Design Week, 10 September to 4 October.
Courtesy of Design by WBL
Design by WBL Transforms a 168-Year-Old Church into Restaurant Aptos
The Adelaide studio’s second collaboration with chef Justin James turns the former Ashton Memorial Church, later home to Aptos Cruz for four decades, into a 14-guest, 16-course dining experience across three levels.
Photography Richard Gaston, courtesy of Cadogan Gallery
Cadogan Gallery Presents Blues Rouge, a Solo Exhibition by Nuria Maria
The Dutch artist’s new body of paintings, drawn from the countryside surrounding her home in the southern Netherlands, moves between abstraction and figuration to explore the relationship between the outside world and the spaces we inhabit. Opens 17 September at Cadogan Gallery, Milan.
Photography courtesy of Humbert & Poyet
Humbert & Poyet Release First Monograph “Grand Interiors” With Rizzoli
Founders Emil Humbert and Christophe Poyet’s debut monograph traces nearly two decades of work, from Milan’s Beefbar to the Josun Palace Hotel in Seoul and private residences across New York, Paris, Switzerland’s Engadin Valley and Monaco. Written by Gay Gassmann, out 15 September.
