Handmade, nature-led furniture and ceramics at PAD London 2026

At PAD London 2026, nature was often the material itself, not only the inspiration. Writing for The Spaces, Jasmine Jackson picks out designers working with salvaged timber, bleached wood and hand-built ceramics, and pieces whose irregularities are left in on purpose. The question she keeps returning to is how such objects might sit in an actual home.

At Gallery FUMI, Lukas Wegwerth and Corinna Dehn's Armadillo series clad cabinets and chairs in wooden shingles gathered from old barns and houses in Germany's Vogelsberg region. Each shingle was sanded, stained with natural pigments and fitted by hand, so the overlapping surface reads like scales. Jackson finds it sculptural but warm and inviting to touch, rather than remote.

Sarah Myerscough's stand showed woodturner Eleanor Lakelin's Hypha, a bleached-timber wall piece whose branching surface suggests fungi seen under a microscope. Alongside it were Luke Fuller's ceramic vessels, built up in layers that recall rock. At Carpenters Workshop Gallery, Spanish designer Nacho Carbonell's Delicacy table combined cork, sand and fish scales in resin on a metal frame that hints at fishing nets.

The fair has been and gone, so treat this as a record of what caught the eye. It is a good read for anyone drawn to craft-led furniture and the galleries that champion it.

Our summary of a story from The Spaces, published 22 October 2026. Read the original

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