It’s a Wrap – Explore the Highlights

Clerkenwell Design Week 2026 brought together creativity, conversation and new perspectives on design, reuse and responsible materials.

If you couldn’t attend, or want to revisit the experience - explore our curated content from the week, including talks, CPDs, workshops and product showcases.

Open Studio: Designed for Creative Freedom

What happens when you treat flooring like a canvas?

Introducing Open Studio—a collection inspired by artistic experimentation, time-honoured techniques, and the freedom to create without restriction. Rooted in the raw, expressive nature of making, Open Studio invites designers to step into the role of artist: to explore, layer, and compose spaces with intention.

A new expression of calm, crafted through design

Quiet Statement, a new modular carpet collection for Milliken, celebrates the beauty of restraint — where clean architectural lines, subtle references to brickwork and soft, tactile textures come together to create spaces of calm confidence.

Barely-there patterns introduce depth and warmth without distraction, allowing interiors to feel composed, refined and quietly expressive. Designed for clarity and balance, this is a collection where simplicity does the talking — and design speaks with quiet confidence.

Milliken is excited to announce its event guide for Clerkenwell Design Week 2026.

Make the Milliken showroom a true highlight of Clerkenwell Design Week. Join us as we unveil show‑stopping new collections, celebrate 40 years of UK manufacturing, experience Reuse in action and hear from our headline speakers.

We’d love you to be part of it — book your slots now.

We hope to see you at CDW2026.

When Czechian-based insurance business Renomia was creating a new office space the well-being and comfort of Remomia’s employees was central to the design. The new workplace needed to be an inviting and productive space that would allow employees to thrive. The design team chose to incorporate Milliken’s biophilic inspired flooring, bringing the outside in and boosting comfort, creativity and productivity.

Urgent climate action isn’t just about protecting the planet but about creating healthier spaces for people as well. Responsible design decisions can help accelerate the way to a more sustainable circular future. At NatWest’s Manchester office sustainable design drove decision making. That’s why the team chose Milliken flooring, renowned for its sustainability credentials and its ability to support a circular future.

Milliken’s brand new capsule floor tile collection ‘The Sisal Edit’ draws its inspiration from the tactility and textures of plant fibres, in particular: sisal, seagrass, and jute. The collection is led by a natural aesthetic, neutral colours and biophilic design, but interpreted for more practical use in heavy wear environments such as the workplace or hospitality interiors.

Milliken Floors Europe is pleased to announce they will take part in Clerkenwell Design Week, which will be held from the 19^th to the 21^st of May 2026.

Mainstream schools educate the majority of autistic children, yet many learning environments are not designed with sensory processing differences in mind. While some design strategies can be integrated into existing mainstream settings, others are more commonly found within specialist schools, where environments are purposefully shaped around neurodivergent needs. By examining where mainstream schools fall short and drawing on principles proven in specialist autism schools, this blog explores how thoughtful design can better support autistic children’s well-being, independence and ability to learn.

When Milliken launched the Pattern Play collection at last year’s Clerkenwell Design Week, it was a moment of excitement and a massive shift in possibilities for what could be achieved in modular carpet design. As well as winning the CDW 2025 Carpet Product Award, it also won the hearts of interior designers who could see the collection’s enormous design potential.