2026 Créateurs Design Awards Unveils Groundbreaking Innovative Designs

PARIS — A desert resort carved into a mountain in Saudi Arabia, a textile collaboration with a 17th century Japanese fabric maker and a shrine to elevated cuisine outfitted with grand stone portals were just some of the designs that came to the fore at the 2026 Créateurs Design Awards. On Saturday, 2026 Créateurs officially named the winners across 15 distinct categories spanning architecture, interior design, product design, landscape , digital art, creative journalism, curation and design culture. Among them, Italy’s Dimorestudio and Kyoto-based textile house Hosoo won for Best Design Collaboration with Hemispheres. For the collection, Dimorestudio’s Britt Moran and Emiliano Salci translated 20,000 obi patterns into modern fabrics. Miami- and Basel, Switzerland-based Oppenheim Architecture won for its monumental design of the Desert Rock Resort, an unprecedented eco-tourism development in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, envisaged to blend seamlessly within the rugged, tectonic landscape, echoing the ancient Nabatean civilizations that once lived in the region. Within the conceptual world, the exhibition “Re-Selvagem,” a reinvented jungle by French artist Eva Jospin and curated by Marcello Dantas, won the Excellence in Art and Design Curation prize for their exhibition at Brazil’s Oscar Niemeyer Museum which brought together nine large-scale works, incorporating raw materials like silk embroidery, cardboard, wood, bronze, fabric and other materials. Icelandic-born Gulla Jónsdóttir’s Atelier Gulla, known in the global design world for creating unexpected and poetic modern architecture, interior spaces, and furniture pieces like the Petal chair, won the Best Hospitality Project in Interior Design for Javier’s restaurant in Los Angeles. In addition to the category awards, the 2026 Créateurs Design Awards presented two of its highest honors. French architect and urbanist Christian de Portzamparc received the Andrée Putman Lifetime Achievement Award, recognizing a career that has shaped contemporary architecture worldwide. Chinese architect known for rural revitalization Xu Tiantian received Le Prix Charlotte Perriand, honoring her human-centered approach to architecture and her transformative work in rural and community-based projects. All of the winners were honored for their enduring designs and their imprint on modern lifestyle.