Wallpaper*'s June Design Drop: craft heritage meets flat-pack, image via Wallpaper*

Issue No. 02 · 13 July 2026

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The design world this week: real makers, real collections, real conversations, and the people worth knowing. Curated daily, released weekly, everything sourced.

James Cherry Studio

Designer of the Week

James Cherry

Lighting · Los Angeles & New York, USA

Named to Sight Unseen's 2025 American Design Hot List after a year lighting half the rooms worth photographing in New York.

James Cherry makes light look handmade. His lamps expose their internal grid structures, then soften them under resin-coated fabric and small cedar accents, a tension between engineering and glow. Commissioned by interior designers from Jamie Bush to Studio Shamshiri, he has quietly become one of the most in-demand lighting makers working today.

Warm GlowResin FabricCedar

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A weekly edit of what the design world is making and saying, and the people making it worldwide. Every image links to its source; every palette is our reading of the piece.

This week, in three

What caught our eye

House of Hackney's UNTAMED makes animal print pay its way, image via House of Hackney

WallpaperHouse of Hackney's UNTAMED makes animal print pay its way

Porta Romana lets the glass stay molten in Flow, image via Porta Romana

LightingPorta Romana lets the glass stay molten in Flow

PINCH greets the year with First Light, image via PINCH London

FurniturePINCH greets the year with First Light

Chapter I · FabricClothThe fabric housesRead the chapter

Hotel Designs

Fabric · June 2026

Zoffany and Michael S. Smith take the archive outdoors with 13 performance designs

Michael S. Smith has drawn 13 new stripes, florals and plains from Zoffany's archive, printing them onto performance cloth so that French chintz and Japanese silk references survive a terrace, with print marks and ink bleeds deliberately left in to keep the vintage handle. For a working scheme the point is coordination rather than novelty, since the palette and the scales were built to layer, so an indoor sofa and an outdoor cushion can finally come from the same story instead of two unrelated suppliers.

Winter Garden GreenFaded Chintz RoseArchive IndigoInk Bleed OchreBeaton Cream

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Chapter II · WallpaperWallsPaper and patternRead the chapter

House of Hackney

Wallpaper · February 2026

House of Hackney's UNTAMED makes animal print pay its way

The UNTAMED Collection, House of Hackney's SS26 trade launch, treats animal print as authorship rather than trend, with 1% of collection sales going to World Land Trust to protect the habitats the patterns are drawn from. A maximalist statement paper with a conservation story attached.

Leopard OchreJungle GreenRosette CharcoalBlush HideBone Ivory

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Cole & Son Wallpaper

Baobab: Cole & Son and Ardmore return to the Tree of Life

Cole & Son previewed Baobab, its nine-design collaboration with South African ceramics studio Ardmore, celebrating the Tree of Life with exuberant flora and fauna.

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Chapter III · ColourColourOn the paint card

Dezeen

Colour · September 2025

Dulux goes plural: Rhythm of Blues is three colours, not one

For the first time Dulux named a colour family rather than a single shade for 2026: three indigo blues, airy Mellow Flow, vibrant Free Groove and meditative Slow Swing. The clearest mainstream signal yet that blue is displacing the long run of earthy neutrals in client conversations.

Mellow FlowFree GrooveSlow SwingChalk WhitePutty Ground

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Chapter IV · LightingLightMade to glow

Porta Romana

Lighting · Spring 2026

Porta Romana lets the glass stay molten in Flow

Flow, Porta Romana's new seasonal collection, is built around motion held in solid form: handblown glass that reads as still molten, locally forged metalwork and surfaces shifting from raw to reflective, including the Edna Pendant and Boudica lamps. A dependable source of sculptural statement lighting from a newly B Corp certified English maker.

Molten AmberVerdigrisOld RustDecayed PlasterForged Bronze

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Wallpaper* Lighting

Porcelain lanterns: Lee Broom's Cascade for Lladro

Lee Broom launched Cascade for Spanish house Lladro at Euroluce, translating the paper lantern into glowing tiered porcelain; it has since taken the EDIDA 2026 lighting prize.

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Chapter V · FurnitureFormPieces with a spineRead the chapter

PINCH London

Furniture · Spring 2026

PINCH greets the year with First Light

First Light is the newest collection from Russell Pinch and Oona Bannon, gathering the Tove circular dining table, the Glover drinks cabinet, Soren and Pium pendants and the Ellery bedside into one warm, pared-back release. PINCH remains the reference point for quiet British furniture that photographs like sculpture.

Bleached TimberBlown WhiteBrass DetailInk BrownPlaster

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Chapter VI · Talking pointTalkWhat the trade is saying

Wallpaper*

Talking point · June 2026

Wallpaper*'s June Design Drop: craft heritage meets flat-pack

Anna Solomon's round-up of eleven June 2026 launches runs from Georg Jensen silver to IKEA flat-pack and slow tech, published 30 June. The most current single snapshot of what crossed the design press's desk this month, worth scanning before any new-season sourcing trip.

Gallery WhiteJensen SteelFlat-Pack BirchBottega GreenSignal Orange

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