December 2025 / Provenance and Collaboration


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This edition celebrates the power of history and creative partnership. From circular textiles and reclaimed demolition materials to cross-disciplinary exhibitions and transformative ceramics, our features explore how designers honor provenance while working together. Discover how collaboration and respect for origin shape objects, spaces, and experiences, revealing unexpected beauty, value, and stories in every creation. Get inspired with the December edition!

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REPORTING TO INSPIRE,
Jennifer Castoldi,
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Features and Articles

Jennifer's December Diaries

London — County Hall Pottery transforms London’s historic venue into a hub for ceramics, showcasing collaboration and provenance. Here ceramicists are paired with artists from other disciplines, producing functional and sculptural works. Rooted in community studios, each piece reflects shared practice, material origin, and creative dialogue, highlighting the power of collective craftsmanship.

The Pioneering Circular Textile Hub

London — This London-based circular textile hub turning waste into new materials through local, transparent recycling opened its first retail shop, showcasing products made from reclaimed textile waste and beyond. Using custom mechanical processing, it transforms waste into recycled-material solutions for fashion, hospitality, entertainment, and beyond.

Envision Designer Clouds

Eindhoven — For those of us in the industry, we may board a plane and take note of the upholstery, curtains, and even the carpeted floor. When we think of textile design, the first thing that pops into mind is probably not our business class toiletry bag from our last long-haul flight. Until now. Thoughtful design embraces and encourages the keep it, don’t bin it mentality.

Fading Light

Transforming the Everyday into Art

London — Here, a designer transforms overlooked and discarded objects into art, creating harmony from randomness while exploring memory, modernity, and human experience. From chandeliers and sculptural tables to reflective mirrors and playful lamps, this work reimagines everyday materials, inviting reflection on value, nostalgia, and the surprising beauty hidden in the mundane.

What's New? In Decor

What's Next for 'Past Reveals Future'

Paris — Three trend-led spaces at Maison&Objet 2026 will explore how heritage shapes future creativity. Each zone reinterpreted décor, hospitality, and retail through modular living, visionary atmospheres, and expressive materials. The result will offer visitors an immersive look at evolving aesthetics, shifting lifestyles, and new possibilities for interiors and commercial environments.

Autonomous Practices Intersect

Eindhoven — Collaboration unites disciplines in a cohesive, museum-like exhibition for Dutch Design Week 2025. Blending new and existing pieces, the show highlights how design, art, and photography intersect, allowing individual practices to connect, complement, and transform within a shared creative space. Here autonomous practices intersect.

By Leonhard Pfeifer

Origins and Emerging Ideas

London — This major design showcase marked 21 years of its program supporting emerging talent, bringing past participants together to mingle and mentor, with a highlight on their earlier work. The exhibition celebrated diverse creative voices, craft innovation, and long-term impact, offering visitors a look at how young ideas evolve into influential, enduring design.

Building and Designing a Better Future

London — Here is another admirable case study on how waste can become a valuable resource. By reclaiming surplus materials and treating them as raw materials for new designs, this collective supports creative reuse, reduces carbon impact, and models circular urban design. Their approach shows how demolition and surplus can fuel meaningful, sustainable projects.