Furniture is having its fashion collab moment. First to catch our eye was Gustaf Westman x IKEA, the Swedish design darling behind those wonky mirrors bringing his signature squiggly aesthetic to IKEA’s VINTERFINT holiday range, followed by a co-lab with Selfridges. Both sold out fast. Since then it’s only ramped up: Kelly Wearstler just did her first-ever furniture line for H&M Home, the Barbican has gone into business with MADE on a brutalist-inspired sofa, and IKEA can’t stop teaming up with big-name designers. Here’s what’s actually worth knowing about, and where to get your hands on it.
West Elm x Russ & Daughters
West Elm‘s collaborations have included some big dogs like Emma Chamberlain and Marcus Samuelsson. Now it’s the century-old Lower East Side deli Russ & Daughters, bringing the deli’s signature blue-and-white piping to stoneware mugs, platters and serveware, pickled herring motifs and a menorah included. Less furniture, more tabletop.
H&M Home x Kelly Wearstler
This one’s a genuine first. Maximalist LA designer Kelly Wearstler has built a career on super slick, stylish interiors and H&M Home has never done furniture as part of a designer collaboration before now. The 29-piece collection debuted at Milan Design Week in April and lands properly on 3 September, spanning modular seating, sculptural stools and marble trays, with an eight-piece ready-to-wear capsule bridging the fashion and interiors sides of the brand. Read our full piece on the collaboration here.
Yinka Ilori x Dunelm
Homegrown talent, and one of the best examples of the trend done right. The “Architect of Joy” has brought his signature bold patterns to a 40-piece collection with Dunelm, inspired by Leicester, where Dunelm began life as a market stall in 1979, and by Ilori’s own Nigerian heritage. Prices start from £9 for a hand towel: proper design storytelling at supermarket-adjacent prices. We covered it in full here.
IKEA’s Affordable Design Collection
Beyond the one-off names, IKEA has been quietly building an entire strategy around “collectible design at a price the many can afford.” The new Konstrunda collection reimagines pieces from designers including Andu Masebo, following the tenth edition of IKEA PS: 43 playful, function-first pieces from twelve international designers. It’s the flatpack giant’s answer to the collab trend at scale — one roster of designers instead of one.
Barbican x Made
And finally, the one with a London postcode. The Barbican has teamed up with homeware brand MADE on a 23-piece interiors collection inspired by its brutalist bones, drawing on the original 1960s show flats designed by architect Miriam Howitt. Think stained ash, chrome accents and jacquard upholstery patterned on the Barbican’s balconies, alongside a coffee table with the kind of geometric presence you’d expect from the building itself. Prices start from £32, so you can get a fragment of London’s most divisive architecture without needing planning permission.
