Patricia-Urquiola

On 11 March 2026 the Praça do Comércio acquired a new tenant, and the Patricia Urquiola Andaz Lisbon opened its doors at R. do Comércio 132 — a 170-key conversion by Patricia Urquiola for Hyatt’s Andaz lifestyle brand, with Lisbon practice Moerschel Arquitectos as architect of record. It is Hyatt’s first Andaz in Portugal, the first opening since the brand’s refresh, and the sixth hotel in a Urquiola lineage that already runs through Lake Como, Milan, Rome and Knightsbridge. The Baixa address overlooks the Tagus from the river edge of the 18th-century Pombaline grid; the building itself is older than the hotel and considerably older than the lifestyle category it has been enrolled into. What Urquiola has done is a reading rather than a rebuild. ...

Linde Freya Tangelder’s Cassina Fluid Re-Collection is the first Cassina commission that asks the company’s industrial-design machine to behave like a glassblower’s workshop — six days at 10 Corso Como, four materials, three named pieces, and a thesis about whether the Cassina catalogue has room for objects that cannot be reproduced. Open from 21 to 26 April 2026 in the first-floor Project Room at Corso Como 10, the show was the Italian solo debut of the Dutch-born, Belgium-based designer who runs the studio Destroyers/Builders out of Antwerp, Brussels, and a workshop in Asse. It was also the most legible thing Cassina did during Milan Design Week 2026, which is a strong claim against a company that also activated the Le Corbusier archive the week before. ...

Twenty-four years after the Fjord chair, Patricia Urquiola has shipped a sauna for Effe — and the line from Moroso 2002 to Salone del Mobile 2026 is straighter than her catalogue suggests. The question FORMA tracks here is narrow and answerable: what has Patricia Urquiola actually designed for the brands we follow — Cassina, Moroso, Effe, and Loro Piana — in chronological order, with the materials and the edition details that the receipts support? The answer fits in a single table, and the table tells a more disciplined story than the airport-magazine version of her career. ...