Lisbon Design Week 2026 unfolds across the city in five directions, each one a different lens of what design means and where it lives.
Whether you're looking to discover new designers, explore unusual spaces in Lisbon or get to know the more legacy or established brands that are paving the way for a new chapter in Portuguese design, these round-up will help you plan your week. Explore the rest of the program in our Participants section.
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From a 16th-century chapel and baroque basilica to private apartments and restored palaces, Lisbon Design Week opens the doors to extraordinary spaces across the city. Transformed through contemporary interventions, and others rarely accessible to the public, catch these rare encounters only during 27 - 31 May.
Contemporary designers inhabit sacred spaces this year: Sam Baron and Joana Teixeira turn the 16th-century chapel Ermida da Ascensão de Cristo into an olfactory journey for Ach. Brito, while Luso Collective brings its precise vision and approach to collective design to the monumental setting of the Basílica da Estrela, with Integrity of Form, a group exhibition exploring the relationship between beauty, form and function.
Private residences are opening exclusively to the public; ceramicist and lighting designer Victoire de Lencquesaing of Main Edition and textile designer Bombony open their homes for rare glimpses into personal worlds and practices. Elsewhere, AB+AC Architects offers an exclusive invitation into Casa Aether, a newly completed apartment shaped around the idea of urban sanctuary and meditative spaces. A curation of designers and artists are shown in dialogue with the architecture.
The restored 18th-century palace Palácio Verride becomes the setting for an immersive collaboration between furniture and lighting designer Gabriel Tan and artist Tomek Sadurski combining light, textile and installation throughout the historic interiors. Meanwhile Santa Clara 1728, designed by Silent Living, opens once again during the festival, pairing its calm architectural atmosphere with the organic ceramic forms of Malga presented around the table.
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This year, collaboration is at the heart of it all and the group shows remain a defining aspect of Lisbon Design Week.
Two artistic collectives make their debut at Lisbon Design Week: Luso Collective and Sotaque, each formed by independent creatives united around a common aesthetic vision or political background, bring a new energy to the programme, proof that design is rarely made alone. This spirit runs throughout.
Sotaque brings contemporary designers, whose roots lie in the former Portuguese colonies, into a new exchange. Discover all the designers, amongst them Macheia, Thyra Correira, Le Brimet and Miguel Saboya.
Arquivo Aires Mateus hosts "Design, Feito à Mão", a reinterpretation of the jar as the oldest object produced by human hands. At Casa do Jardim da Estrela, "Arraiolos Reimaginado" takes Portugal's most iconic embroidery off the wall and onto the object: stools by Wesley Sacardi become embroidered surfaces, with works by Filipa Won, João Bruno, João Miguel Barrulas,Tomba and Sara Ratola.
The Curated Lisbon brings "Quiet Objects", exploring textile art as a bridge between tradition and contemporary expression. CABANAmad's "Dis.Functional Design, Voices of Diversity" opens design to a more fluid, multi-voiced practice. Studio Mirante, led by ceramic artists Clotilde and Margaux Carel, curates a diverse ceramic group show, as does curator and art director Felipa Almeida bringing together around 60 artists as part of her collective ceramic show.
And for the third year, LDW Young Design Generation (YDG) exhibition - a result of an annual open call - presents Portugal based young designers in a platform to experiment, question and exhibit on the main stage at MUDE museum.
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Lisbon Design Week continues to open its doors to the world.
From the Netherlands, Nick Valentijn collaborates with Antwerp-based Gallery ST VINCENTS on "Mineral", a new project that plays with depth and surface to explore design as a particular metabolism. Fellow Dutch designer Rian van Dijk presents "Wool, a Forgotten Material" at Espaço D'Alte in collaboration with Burel, a meditation on natural resources disappearing from everyday life, replaced by the synthetic.
From Belgium, ceramic artist Nathalie Campion brings to ESTADOBRUTO an installation of cartographies and intimate architectures, echoing Vieira da Silva in its tactile, material approach to form. Also returning to Lisbon are Belgian-based creative collaborators Eva Velázquez and Jimmy Beyens, whose deeply personal collection of clothing, objects and furniture reads as an ode to the past, dotted here and there by modernity.
French designer Lucas Zito showcases his Buoy collection at Kokuga, an inquiry on light and the idea that large-scale objects can emerge from minimal material.
Alongside, Spanish architect Ramón Esteve's latest Vondom collection, presented by Coletivo 284, blends architectural precision with organic form: shown for the first time in Lisbon. Also making its Lisbon debut is American artist Dozie Kanu's new table collection for Knoll, on view at QuartoSala.
Wewood celebrates the dialogue between Portugal and Brazil, a shared language becoming a space for design innovation, with acclaimed collaborations by Fabrício Ronca and a new partnership with Rafael Oliva, whose two new chairs will debut in 2026.
Finally, Bigger Splash, together with Spanish Apartamento and BD Barcelona, launches "Everyday Objects", a project rooted in a shared devotion to contemporary design and the spaces we inhabit.
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This year, textile practice runs through Lisbon Design Week like a thread, connecting tradition and experimentation, craft and contemporary expression.
At Roca Lisboa Gallery, Teresa Nunes presents a monumental textile installation conceived for the space, celebrating water as an essential natural element.
Rian van Dijk, in collaboration with Burel, brings "Wool, a Forgotten Material" to Espaço D'Alte: wall pieces made from local sheep's wool that function as both artwork and acoustic architecture, a quiet resistance to the use of synthetic fabric. Atelier Constança Entrudo, in collaboration with DC.AD, presents a system of flexible modular surfaces that merge architecture and textile: each piece a double layer of acrylic structure and printed cloth, exploring transparency, density and texture. Bryon Studios showcases "Samples", a textile collection by Chloé Skinner.
BÉHEN and Bordal's "Atrás da Cortina Mora o Tempo" unfolds as a series of organdy curtains reinterpreting antique motifs from Bordal's historic archive of traditional Madeira embroidery, whilst Rita Teles Garcia transforms poetry into material through crochet. Santo Infante presents embroidered lamps that traverse Portuguese geographies (Madeira, Guimarães, the Azores, Castelo Branco, Viana do Castelo): each lampshade a different technique. At Tivoli Avenida Liberdade, Galeria Tapeçarias de Portalegre shares the spotlight with Emmanuel Babled, whose furniture enters into dialogue with the tapestry collection.
Banema opens its studio with a live presentation of Portuguese textile brand Corvo, revealing the craft behind every piece. And The Curated Lisbon brings "Quiet Objects", where textile art functions as a bridge between tradition and the everyday.
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From workshops to showrooms, from living archives to design stores, Lisbon Design Week celebrates the places where Portuguese craft is kept alive, through heritage and evolution.
Branca, manufactured in northern Portugal, brings together traditional woodworking expertise and digital production tools for "Glass Works", a new series of experimental glass pieces that expands the brand's vocabulary.
Burel Factory, guardian of Serra da Estrela's wool heritage, collaborates with Studio Silva on "Matter in Dialogue": textiles, furniture and contemporary art are in conversation. Cutipol, born in 1963 from a generational commitment to craft and innovation, opens its Chiado store to new voices; alongside its permanent collection, a bespoke installation launches Portuguese home wear brand Thilburg.
A Vida Portuguesa, home of a wide inventory of brands that have survived the passage of time, opens two of its stores during the festival: Sam Baron exhibiting in Chiado, BÉHEN and Bordal collaborating in Intendente.
MOR, housed in a former garage turned carpentry workshop, presents Daniel Schofield's Allay and MIGO Collections in its curated showroom.
And at Atelier Daciano da Costa, founded in 1959, drawings, prototypes and archive documents are laid alongside the three iconic chairs now part of the Vitra Design Museum Collection. Centre stage belongs to the launch of the reedition of the Osaka chair by António Garcia, presented during LDW'26 at the Atelier and at MUDE - Museu do Design.
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From working studios to experimental ateliers, Lisbon Design Week pulls back the curtain on the places where things are made — discover the creative soul of this area.
Maria Pratas and Sofia Albuquerque of Sal Atelier merge textiles with ceramics in SALOIAS, a collection that weaves a thread between ancestral and contemporary feminine worlds.
Alongside, Studio K collaborates with illustrator Oskar Rink on a meeting of porcelain and drawing, while also unveiling "Nature Recast", founder Kiki's new private collection born from long walks along the beach and open countryside. Neighbours Pareidólia Design and Mafalda Girão present "The Practice of the Gesture", a limited collection of coffee tables and boxes that treats the object not as ornament but as a site of interaction.
At Atelier Boa Hora, Witold Riedel weaves drawing, photography and ceramics into "Transformations", an installation built on the idea that nothing around us is ever truly still.
