July 2026 / Feel the Shift


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The July edition of Trendease explores design at a turning point, where heritage meets experimentation and human connection takes center stage. From immersive installations and emerging talent to evolving craft, layered interiors, and highlights from leading design showcases, this issue examines how materiality, texture, and emotional resonance are shaping more thoughtful, sensory-driven spaces. Get inspired with the July edition!

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REPORTING TO INSPIRE,
Jennifer Castoldi,
Chief Creative Director

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Features and Articles

Jennifer's July Jargon

South African Cities — Maison&Objet enters a pivotal new chapter with two distinct annual editions, aiming to balance heritage with a more experimental future-facing vision. This issue previews the September show, reviews standout moments from WOW!house, and spotlights emerging designers shaping contemporary craft through innovation, sustainability, and cultural storytelling.

Emotion, Energy, and Connection

Valencia — A new era balances heritage with experimentation and championing design as a force for change. These ambassadors embody this spirit through bold, immersive work rooted in intuition, cultural exchange, and material authenticity, advocating for slower, more human-centered creative processes driven by emotion, energy, and connection.

Prioritizing the Soul

Paris — Dive into this sneak peek of an exhibition that will explore design as a visceral, people-centric experience, shifting away from digital saturation and repetitive trends. It aims to celebrate physical presence, emotional connection, and the subtle energy between people and space. The environment will invite visitors to pause, reconnect, and experience design as something felt rather than merely seen.

Driven by Materials

Paris — An immersive craft installation explores the evolving dialogue between material, color, and perception through a curated selection of exceptional handmade works. Guided by a circular scenography, the experience reveals material as something living—shaped by time, gesture, and transformation—celebrating the emotional power, tactile richness, and enduring artistry of contemporary craftsmanship.

Armchair "Curry Mango", 2021

Advice for New Designers

Worldwide — Emerging in the early 2020s, this contemporary design collective has built recognition through collaborations, residencies, and institutional acquisitions, developing a strong contextual approach rooted in heritage, material exploration, and immersive spatial experiences across international platforms. Here within learn their advice to emerging talent.

Beyond Pattern and Shape

London — Rather than relying on pattern and shape, here we see upholstery that uses texture as the primary decorative language. Layered textiles introduce depth, warmth, and movement, proving that upholstery can define spatial identity just as powerfully as color or form. The result was a shift toward interiors designed to be felt as much as seen: tactile, immersive, and deeply human.

The Return of Designer Window Treatments

London — Window treatments are re-emerging as powerful design elements, shaping light, framing views, and softening architectural lines. Full-height curtains, layered sheers, and richly textured fabrics add movement and atmosphere, creating interiors with greater depth and warmth while bridging decoration and architecture through a more layered, emotionally expressive approach.

Rethinking How We Hang Art

London — Classic methods of displaying art are being thoughtfully reimagined through more layered and expressive arrangements. Suspended from picture rails, overlapping the edges of bookshelves, or mounted on projecting supports, artworks become part of the interior architecture itself, adding creative options to the hammer and nail approach.