Frieze today announced the first details of Frieze Los Angeles 2026, the fair’s seventh edition, set to return to the Santa Monica Airport from February 26 to March 1, 2026. Now in its fourth year at the site, the fair will once again be staged within a custom-designed structure providing an immersive, indoor-outdoor setting that mirrors the city’s open character and invites exploration.
To map the global design landscape as it exists now, we asked leading designers, gallerists and makers to share the international creators and markets that continue to expand their imaginations. What emerged is a portrait of design in dialogue between old and new, local and cosmopolitan, tradition and reinvention. From English ateliers to South African galleries, these voices reaffirm that great design is inseparable from its origins, even as it finds its home far beyond them.
The piece explores the realities of life as a working artist and designer, emphasizing the necessity of selling in order to keep creating. It traces the author’s journey from early career decisions to navigating brand loyalty, evolving product lines, and the importance of “wow” moments at major markets. The article highlights how passion, risk-taking and commercial awareness shape long-term success in the design industry.
the three-day festival will see over 460 live pitches from the 2025 finalists in front of over 160 international judges. Today has seen shortlisted projects from around the world compete for 21 award categories within Completed Buildings, Future Projects, and Interiors. Award winners include OMA, Sordo Madaleno, Studio Arthur Casas and NIKKEN SEKKEI.
The fair celebrates Design Miami’s two decades of championing the design avant-garde, with curatorial director Glenn Adamson and the theme Make. Believe., honoring the collectible design visionaries of the past and present, and spotlighting those of the future. Focusing on the intersection between skilled and knowledgeable craft and wild flights of imagination, the theme perceives design as a space of fantastical projection, but a fantasy that is grounded in reality. Imagination comes to life through craft, in all its forms.




