The List: Our Editors’ Guide to Design-Focused Destinations and Products in July and Beyond

The monthly briefing from Design Anthology’s editors on the most interesting things to see, places to go and products to know

Objective Lifestyle Shop
London
Store

Objective Lifestyle Shop began as the retail counterpart to Studio Adjective, the Hong Kong design agency founded by Emily Ho and Wilson Lee in 2016. What opened in 2019 as an intimate Hong Kong shop has since expanded online into Melbourne, and now takes a physical address in Hampstead, carrying homewares, lifestyle and gifting pieces sourced from Europe, Japan and the UK. Inside the muted olive-green facade, visitors are welcomed into a calm, light-filled interior conceived as a ‘gifting destination’, where handmade ceramics, sculptural vases and small design objects are chosen to reflect the idea of living thoughtfully.

Fujiko Nakaya, Bourse de Commerce
Paris
Exhibition

As part of the Clair-obscur exhibition curated by Pinault Collection general curator Emma Lavigne, Japanese artist Fujiko Nakaya has transformed Tadao Ando’s Rotonde at the Bourse de Commerce into a landscape of white fog. Installed beneath the building’s skylit dome, Cloud #07156 — its title borrowed from a nearby weather station — is created by forcing water through precision nozzles that produce droplets the same size as those found in natural mist. As the fog rolls through the Rotonde, it alternatively reveals and obscures its surroundings, changing with the air current and the movement of visitors. The exhibition runs until 14 September 2026.

O-Light, Yamagiwa
Japan
Lamp

Long regarded as one of Japan’s foremost lighting manufacturers, Yamagiwa has turned to one of the country’s oldest woodworking traditions for its latest table and floor lamp, O-Light. Designed by Keiji Takeuchi and handcrafted in northern Japan, the pieces are made using magewappa — the centuries-old technique of bending Akita cedar, traditionally used for objects like bento boxes and sake cups. The lamp celebrates the natural character of the wood, whose grain will deepen to a warm amber over time.

Mius, Minus Workshop
Hong Kong
Bar

Minus Workshop principal Kevin Yiu has transformed a former appliance shop into Mius, the debut bar of award-winning bartender Shelley Tai. Removing itself from SoHo’s neon-lit streets, blackout glazing on the windows screens out the district’s glow, clearing the ground for a mid-century palette of warm oak, silver metallics and raw travertine that reflects Tai’s pared-back approach to cocktails. An awkwardly low central beam has been wrapped in oak and recast as a sculptural spine, sitting above a four-metre single-piece island counter, while a Lee Broom chandelier provides an ambient glow and sculptural presence.

Faces, Jaipur Rugs × Kengo Kuma
Milan
Collection

Among Jaipur Rugs’ introductions at Salone 2026 is Faces, a collaboration with Japanese architect Kengo Kuma that distils the quieter qualities of his work into hand-woven textiles. Rather than borrow directly from his buildings, the collection draws on architectural principles and their rhythms of light, shadow and material. The Kigumi pieces, for example, reference the traditional Japanese joinery system as seen in the GC Prostho Museum Research Center, translating its distinctive chidori timber lattice into an intricate woven pattern.

Palace Coffee, Kerry Kounnapis Architecture Practice
Melbourne
Cafe

Tucked into a 43-square-metre site off Ridgway Place, Palace Coffee turns a narrow laneway into one of Melbourne’s busiest espresso bars, serving up to 1,000 cups a day. Drawing on the warmth of Pellegrini’s and the layered character of the Nicholas Building, designer Kerry Kounnapis of Kerry Kounnapis Architecture Practice has shaped a recessed frontage and sculptural oxide-red steel service window that pull the street into the cafe. Inside, a backlit fibreglass ceiling, a powder-blue accent wall and generous use of spotted gum panels — across walls, joinery and perforated screens — create an interior that feels both open and intriguing.

Chorus Collection, Coco Flip × DesignOffice
Melbourne
Lamp

Born out of Dancer Editions, Coco Flip’s exhibition and auction during Melbourne Design Week 2025, Chorus began as an exhibition-specific collaboration between Coco Flip, DesignOffice and ceramicist Belinda Wiltshire. Refined over the following year, it now joins the studio’s collection as a compact wall and ceiling light, in finishes that include cast brass and aluminium. Its concentric form conceals the light source, casting a soft glow and a subtle play of shadow across the wall from its low profile. Image by Sean Fennessy

Halgatt, Studio Ilse × Ikea
London
Lamp

Continuing their long-standing collaboration, London-based Studioilse and Ikea introduce Halgatt, a pair of table lamps in ceramic, linen and brass. The collection revisits the classic base-and-shade typology through two distinct forms: one with an architectural white stoneware base, the other with a dark glazed cylindrical form. Both are dimmable and finished with textured linen shades and brass dimmers, their restrained material palette lending a versatile quality that sits comfortably across living, dining and working spaces.

Andy Dewantoro, Can’s Gallery
Jakarta
Exhibition

The suburban window has long been a recurring image in Andy Dewantoro’s work. Informed by Indonesia’s property boom in the 1980s and his subsequent experience as an interior designer, the motif emerged from the artist’s observations of the growing divide between private and social life. In Jendela Perilaku Urban, his solo exhibition at Can’s Gallery, paintings, photographs and maquettes return to this familiar frame, through which Dewantoro considers the relationship between domestic space and the world beyond. Curated by Jim Supangkat, the exhibition is on view until 27 August 2026.