Chelsea is home to some of the UK’s most beautifully designed homes so it’s only fitting that last week it was host to Focus/26 – one of the foremost UK design events. Here design enthusiasts descended upon the Design Centre, to see what over 700 brands and 140 different showrooms had to offer. From solid bronze cabinet hardware to wallcovering depicting Hong Kong junk boats, these are the major launches to know about and covet for your own home.
The Latest Interior Design Launches from Focus/26
Words by
Bo Frampton
25th September 2026
Focus/26 returned to Chelsea Harbour, showcasing the latest launches and bringing together the leading voices in interiors and designs.
The Chelsea Design Centre. ©Raccoon London.
Paul Smith x The Rug Company
What’s more British than a Paul Smith stripe? Now, thanks to a collaboration with London’s finest, The Rug Company, you can not only wear Paul Smith’s signature motif, but marvel at it on your very own floors. Featuring precisely the bold, expressive designs you’d expect, the collection makes for a striking accent piece in both modern living rooms and classic home settings. Of course, each rug is handcrafted in keeping with The Rug Company’s artisanal expertise so each piece carries a little of that unmistakable Paul Smith maverick.
Paolo Moschino x San Patrignano Wall Coverings
Not to be mistaken for the fashion house, Paolo Moschino, headed by Philip Vergeylen and Paolo Moschino himself, specialises in luxury interiors. At Focus/26, it unveiled Park Avenue, the second collaboration with San Patrignano, an Italian rehabilitation community founded 41 years ago. The partnership offers teaching programmes to help reinstate residents back into society, one of which centres on the art of craftsmanship. Inspired by the glitz and glam of Upper East Side New Yorkers, the new collection begins with designs by Moschino and Vergeylen before passing the baton over to San Patrignano’s artisans, who layer textures and finishes by hand, making each roll unique. With Park Avenue, the studio offers more than beauty and luxury for your walls: it brings a sense of community, too.
San Patrignano's artisans demonstrating their techniques in the Centre Dome, right under the installation.
Zoffany x Michael S. Smith Indoor-Outdoor Fabrics
Zoffany x Michael S. Smith's Showroom at Chelsea Design Centre
While Zoffany’s story begins with a lucky find, it’s now built a brand based on a dedication to the craft. While restoring a Tudor-Jacobean house near Leeds, a team stumbled across scraps of old wallpaper and woven silk. Instead of chucking them away, the team, namely Humphrey Boyle, the founder of Zoffany, set about restoring them. Decades later, the brand maintains that desire for change and innovation through its collaboration with Michael S. Smith, the designer best known for redecorating the Obama White House. Together, they’ve created a range of indoor-outdoor fabrics as visually refined as they are weather-wearing. Drawn from archive documents, the designs range from deckchair stripes, quaint florals, plain weaves, and are made to work just as well on a garden sofa as they do indoors. And since they’re built for the outdoors, a spilled drink or spring shower won’t do much damage.
Armac Martin x Jake Solomon Bronze Hardware
Armac Martin may be a fourth-generation family business, founded in Birmingham in 1929, it is anything but dated. Only months after launching Sketch Chapter One, a collection of solid bronze cabinet hardware created in collaboration with industrial designer Jake Solomon, the brand invited Focus/26 visitors to be the first to see what came next. Sketch Chapter Two carries the collection into the kitchen and bathroom, with sculptural accessories such as towel rails and hooks. Following in Chapter One's footsteps, each piece is made using lost-wax casting, a method dating back to 3000 B.C., so each casting emerges with its own quirks and is one of a kind. Sketch Chapter Three completes the trilogy, marking Armac Martin's first foray into lighting. From picture lights and wall sconces to a showpiece pendant, the aim is to light up the room in more ways than one.
Armac Martin's hardware scultping workshop
Casamance x Elsa Jeandedieu Mural Wallcoverings
Elsa Jeandedieu’s client list reads like a luxury shopping list: Chanel, Diptyque, Four Seasons and Mandarin Oriental. The French decorative painter, now based in Hong Kong, has partnered with Casamance, turning two chapters of her own life into wall coverings. Murmures du Mistral calls back to her childhood in the south of France, pairing swathes of ochre and terracotta with hand-applied gold leaf. And Danse des Sampans heads East, taking inspiration from the red, fan-like sails of Hong Kong’s old junk boats. Rendered through her signature “oscillation” brushwork and embossed onto chenille, this two-piece collection embodies her personal journey from West to East. Like much of what launched at Focus/26 on Design, Casamance and Jeandedieu’s collection is a reminder that the best new designs often start with an old story.
Madeaux x Chantal Turner Fabrics and Wallcoverings
Every established name was once a newcomer, and Madeaux is making room for the next generation. Fresh from launching Selborne, its first ever collaborative collection created with recent design graduate Chantal Turner, founder Richard Smith joined a Focus/26 panel on the value of design collaboration. The timing couldn’t have been any better. The collection takes its name and inspiration from the Hampshire village where Gilbert White, the pioneering naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist, once lived. Turner, who moved into textiles following a career designing childrenswear, brings a playful eye to the fabrics and wallcoverings, turning hedgerows, dandelions, and strawberries into its signature motifs. Ranging from spring-like patterns to deep autumnal tones, Selborne can both blend, and make a statement in a room.
Vispring x Tom Dixon Headboards
Vispring is celebrating its 125th birthday in style. The brand’s story began with an act of devotion: a husband hoping to ease his sick wife’s discomfort, who then invented the pocket spring and changed the way the world sleeps. More than a century later, that inventive streak is still going strong. Vispring has teamed up with Tom Dixon, founder and creative director of his eponymous design brand. Dixon’s trophy cabinet is already very well stocked, from an OBE for services to British design to the London Design Medal. During Focus/26, one piece from the collaboration took centre stage in Vispring’s Chelsea Harbour showroom. The sweeping arched Rainbow headboard was a statement piece if there ever was one, proving that neither Vispring nor Tom Dixon is sleeping on the job.
