New & Noted: November 2026

A decade after establishing Hotel Henriette, interior designer and hotelier Vanessa Scoffier has opened the doors to Hotel Lulu on the Left Bank (Lulu is a cute, imaginary nickname for the nearby Jardins du Luxembourg). The 27-room hotel has modernist design influences, with poured concrete floors, tubular chrome furniture, and lighting by Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand – while the corridors are laid with leopard-print carpet for some contrasting art deco glamour. Lounge on the 1970s Klaus Uredat sofa in the lobby or do some people-watching in the light-filled and leafy winter garden, which doubles as a coffee shop by day.

US brand Apparatus has released its first collection in five years, Afsaneh, which includes this serpentine Rahvi light. The collection draws on artistic director Gabriel Hendifar’s Persian heritage – Afsaneh is his mother’s name, and the word also translates as fable, so the pieces may be viewed together as a contemporary story about the divine feminine and the circle of life. Rahvi is a family of lights united by their jointed brass elements that snake around cast-glass orbs, from compact single globe pendants to much larger pieces that make their way across a wall; amulets in semi-precious stones, including tiger’s eye and red jasper, can be suspended from each arrangement.

Hungarian artist and designer Boldizar Senteski’s latest series sees him work with oxidation and corrosion to turn metals into patinated pieces for the wall. Made from silver on glass, and set into crisp polished stainless steel frames, the Erosion pieces have an otherworldly feel, with distressed mirrored surfaces in differing states of reflectiveness depending on how they have been worked. The limited-edition series is available exclusively via design gallery StudioTwentySeven

Top-to-toe brick characterises Box 9 Design’s interiors for Kid, a new Soho dining spot from chef Sertaç Dirik and restaurateur David Carter. Dirik’s first solo venture, the space taps into his Turkish heritage and food memories, and with an open charcoal grill as the ground-floor centrepiece, the menu is shaped by fire. Ironically, the bricks are not, however – instead, they are a low-carbon unfired product, made from compressed materials that are at least 90% recycled. There’s a strong sustainability story to the rest of the interiors, too, with cork ceiling joists and textiles by Arc of Joan, which start life as surplus or waste products. The signature on the menu is the restaurant’s namesake – kid goat for two, served in a pot.

Traditional British textiles were the starting point for Cloth, interior designer Tom Morris’ first foray into product design, a collaboration with Swedish rug brand Layered. The two cotton and wool flatweave designs – the striped Racer, and Ryg, which features the familiar portcullis pattern of a Welsh blanket – are available in three colourways each, with colour names that are also solidly British, from margarine to Betty brown. The collection was launched with a six-day takeover of Charlie Borrow, the atmospheric east London leather-goods shop.

Jonathan Stene and Elena Alexopoulos founded their architecture practice in 2022, and at this year’s Paris Design Week they debuted a furniture collection that reflects their meeting of cultures. Titled Paris – Athens, the collection incorporates Greek-quarried stone, including red travertine and swirling green Cipollino marble, paired with rich American walnut for pieces such as the Plaka bench (pictured). The simplicity of the forms, with monolithic plinths and expressed joinery, leaves nowhere to hide when it comes to the quality of the craftsmanship, highlighting the skill of the maker.