Ten exhibitions for design lovers during Mexico City art week

As Mexico City art week kicks off, Dezeen has selected 10 exhibitions and showcases in architecture and design, from a collection of architect Alberto Kalach's notebooks to fairs showcasing collectible and industrial design.

Anchored by Zona Maco, the yearly art week has been a stop on the international fair circuit for years, but only recently began to be a destination for designers.

Galleries, institutions, and even full fairs dedicated to design have cropped up to represent the design world in the Mexican capital.

Read on for 10 exhibitions to visit during Mexico City art week 2025.

Woven Kitchen at Studio Davidpompa

Mexican industrial design studio...

A Snow Shovel Designed for How People Actually Behave

In a perfect world, when it snows out, you shovel your driveway while the snow is virgin. Then you drive off to work.

In the real world, sometimes you don't have time to shovel, and drive across your snowy driveway to get to work. Later, when you get back to shovel, you find the tracks left by your tires have solidified into an ice-like matrix. The weight of your vehicle has compressed the tracks, and your snow shovel slams into them and stops.

This Hammerhead Snow Shovel was designed for exactly that situation.

The polycarbonate shovel head...

UTRO architectural studio unveils Dizengof/99 cafe in Moscow

A vibrant Dizengof/99 new cafe was opened in Moscow on Lyusinovskaya street. The project brings a refreshing atmosphere of Tel Aviv’s natural and laid-back style to the city. Designed by UTRO architecture studio, the space redefines the brand’s signature aesthetic by infusing vintage and retro elements, while keeping the hallmark design elements that Dizengof/99’s guests [...]

The Baby Box: A $20,000 Unfolding Tiny Home by Boxabl

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Boxabl builds modular homes that unfold into their final form on-site. Their mission, which is to solve the national housing crisis, is admirable. To that end, they've just unveiled the Baby Box, a 120-square-foot home that will reportedly retail for $30,000.

The Baby Box can be towed to the site by a pickup truck, according to the company's website. (Not sure why the animation shows a Tesla robocab.) They say one person can unfold the house in an hour, without using tools.

There's a couple of things to note here. The flat roof is going to...

Liv tables by Interesting Times Gang x Ingridsdotter

Dezeen Showroom: Swedish studio Interesting Times Gang worked with design brand Ingridsdotter to produce two new versions of Jonas Bohlin's Liv table, with tops made from discarded fishing nets and takeaway packaging.

Interesting Times Gang and Ingridsdotter launched the Liv Mahalo and Liv Tundra tables during Stockholm Furniture Fair 2025, where they served as the centrepiece of a joint exhibition exploring the designers' fusion of Scandinavian aesthetics and circular material approaches.

Jonas Bohlin's 1997 Liv table was informed by his rowing adventures, with the spindly, curving, powder-coated steel legs symbolising the...

Hyundai's Three-Wheeler Concept, Designed for the Indian Market

Hyundai has spied a design opportunity in India. That country, the world's most populous, is home to 1.46 billion people. But car ownership is extremely low—just 6.7% of Indian households own automobiles. Instead, 75% of vehicles on the road in India have two wheels. For Indians who can't afford a car but need more than a two-wheeler, the three-wheeled auto-rickshaw is a popular choice. "Roughly 8 million auto-rickshaws are on the roads across the country," wrote the ClimateWorks Foundation in 2020, "and they are the main source of daily income for millions of drivers as well as a major...

Elemental Shifts and Enigmatic Narratives Anchor Rupy C. Tut’s Mystical Paintings

Verdant scenery inhabited by vibrant wildlife and graceful feminine figures center in the work of Rupy C. Tut, whose paintings (previously) draw upon her Sikh ancestry and experiences emigrating from India as a young girl. “As an environmentalist and Indian-American woman, she never takes place for granted,” says a statement from Jessica Silverman Gallery, which represents the artist.

Tut’s ethereal works tread the boundaries between abstraction, portraiture, pattern, and traditional Indian painting. Her compositions introduce narratives—often captivatingly mysterious—that highlight enigmatic mystical, elemental, and spiritual phenomena.

The Purple Ink Studio covers Tapmi Centre in India with bamboo parasol canopy

A canopy of parasols clad in bamboo shelters this business school's social hub in southwest India, which local practice The Purple Ink Studio has designed to challenge conventional academic buildings.

The Purple Ink Studio's extension of the Tapmi Center business faculty is located on a prominent corner site on the T A Pai Management Institute campus in the town of Manipal, Karnataka, set against a backdrop of lush forested valleys.

It consists of two white buildings arranged in wings, which provide classrooms, administration space, workshops and a small...

Swedish design is "bold, explorative, conscious and f***ing amazing"

Sweden's design scene is shining even as the country's economy struggles, with a trend for innovative, playful pieces marking its most important moment in a generation, Dezeen heard ahead of Stockholm Design Week.

Swedish design has long been associated with minimalism – or IKEA, whose affordable, practical furniture is now synonymous with the country around the world. But in recent years, Sweden's design scene has become increasingly varied.

With a difficult economic environment contributing to an uptick in innovative design, designers are blending traditional craft with new technology and focusing on sustainability.

"The perception has evolved"

"People outside Sweden often struggle to distinguish Swedish...

Mathieu Lehanneur's Olympic "flying cauldron" to return to Paris

French president Emmanuel Macron has announced that the cauldron balloon, a symbolic attraction of the Paris 2024 Olympics, will return to Paris every year until the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028.

Originally launched at the start of the Paris Olympics last year, the balloon is set to return on June 21, coinciding with France's Music Day celebrations, and will continue to appear through mid-September each year until 2028.

The cauldron will return to the Jardin des Tuileries, where it was located during the Games as a nod to France's history of flight and hot air balloons.

"She will come back every summer," said...