Dezeen's editorial team has been trawling design weeks across Europe this month to seek out some of the best new furniture and lighting. Below, we've compiled ten favourites from London Design Festival, Helsinki Design Week, Currents and beyond. More about Dezeen's favourite furniture and lighting from September
Sewn paper and hand-hammered steel sit side by side in these lighting pieces and stools by designer Jesse Butterfield, displayed during London Design Festival 2026. More about Jesse Butterfield marries paper and metal in A Veiled Boundary exhibition
On the heels of London Design Festival, we have rounded up a selection of furniture and products presented during the city-wide event made of scraps that would otherwise have gone to waste. More about Seven savvy pieces from London Design Festival made of material offcuts
A lack of money, materials or equipment shaped every object in this mock apartment, which has taken over the basement of London shop Aram as part of an exhibition by guerrilla design collective Design Everything. More about With Limitations apartment reveals unvarnished glimpse into life as a London designer
The University of the Arts London has transformed a drab guest quarters at one of its colleges into a colourful showcase that lets visitors eat, sleep and bathe in student and graduate design. More about UAL turns Atterbury Flat guest apartment into riotous student design archive
British designer duo Isabel Gibson and Helen Chesner have filled The Conran Shop's gallery with colourful, kinetic models for their London Design Festival exhibition, Motion Sickness. More about Isabel + Helen showcase their "obsession with movement" with kinetic models at The Conran Shop
Danish design brand Fritz Hansen has teamed up with audio specialist Technics to transform its Farringdon showroom into a series of domestic listening scenes for London Design Festival. More about Fritz Hansen Sound Club invites visitors to enjoy music in Bauhaus-inspired listening spaces
This week on Dezeen, we looked at the highlights of this week's London Design Festival, which included a pavilion topped with police shields. More about This week we reported on London Design Festival
From laser-cut steel to melted polystyrene waste, 10 designers have reinterpreted the humble hanging basket for a London Design Festival exhibition curated by design gallery Slancha. More about Slancha presents Hanging Baskets referencing David Bowie, brutalism and the Romans
It's LDF week, and this year's edition is surprisingly strong. Could it be that London's creative scene is recovering after a difficult decade? Listen to the latest episode of Dezeen Weekly now. More about Is London having a design renaissance?
Chiselled acoustic foam, hand-bent metal and interlocking rulers feature in an exhibition of stools created with single tools, presented by students from the Royal College of Art at London Design Festival. More about RCA design students exercise restraint in One Tool One Stool exhibition
Designer Tom Pearson has created industrial furniture pieces with rivets that are both structural and decorative for the 10,000 Rivets collection, on show at APOC Store during London Design Festival. More about Tom Pearson unveils riveted aluminium furniture with droplet-like patterns
Artist Isamaya Ffrench has opened her second-ever Studio Iron show as part of this year's London Design Festival, with participants including Andu Masebo and Barnaby Lewis. More about Studio Iron exhibition is all about chainmail, cowhide and tattooed leather
Over 30 designers, makers and studios have created limited-edition and prototype furniture and objects for Lobby, a new design platform launched by recruitment agency Collate Form during London Design Festival. More about Collate Lobby curates fictional 1930s hotel suite to launch its first editions collection
Craft has become cool, while industrial design has lost its sparkle. What's driving the trend? And are they really so different? Debika Ray reports. More about How craft conquered design
As Shoreditch Design Week kicks off its inaugural edition at this year's London Design Festival, we interviewed creative director Duncan Riches about how he aims to bring design back to the east London neighbourhood. More about London has "the best architecture and interior design community in Europe" says Duncan Riches
Designer Lee Broom has created an "atmospheric environment" in his Shoreditch showroom with The Chant Chambers, an installation showcasing his glass-block Chant lighting collection at London Design Festival. More about Lee Broom evokes 1970s glamour with The Chant Chambers installation
This year's London Design Festival landmark project, The Pangolin Shield, explores Britain and India's colonial history through a bamboo-grid pavilion covered with shields used both for protection and aggression. More about Studio Saar tops LDF pavilion with police and rain shields
Look-but-don't-touch design exhibitions are inherently unfulfilling so it's good that some designers are finding ways to let people properly interact with their work, writes Alice Fisher. More about "Is touching really asking too much?"
With London Design Festival underway, we asked long-standing mayor of London Sadiq Khan for his thoughts on the festival and what to see this year. More about London design "an international success story" says Sadiq Khan