PAD London 2025: Highlights from the Collector’s Fair
- Alla Yaskovets
- Oct 16
- 5 min read
Updated: Oct 17
This week, the Visualista Edit team had the opportunity to explore the Collector’s Preview of the 17th edition of PAD London — the fair that continues to set the benchmark for collectible design worldwide.
Created in 1998, PAD was the first design fair of its kind and remains today an unmissable destination for international design collectors. Bringing together the finest French and global galleries in both historical and contemporary design, PAD reflects the aesthetic aspirations of its time while continually evolving its curatorial dialogue.
Each edition offers a refined journey through beauty and craftsmanship — a space where historical and contemporary design meet, and where the very notion of taste is both revealed and redefined.
As PAD London opens its doors to the public this weekend, the Visualista Edit team highlights the booths not to miss — from timeless historical icons to cutting-edge contemporary design.
Prizes PAD London 2025
Laffanour | Galerie Downtown
This year’s Historical Design Prize went to Laffanour | Galerie Downtown, which unveiled a scenography built around Pierre Chareau’s exceptional rosewood paneling (c.1924) originally created for Léon Bril’s Parisian apartment — a rare architectural ensemble at the heart of a striking presentation.
Faye Toogood | Friedman Benda Gallery
The Contemporary Design Prize was awarded to Faye Toogood for Maquette 208 / Paper Chair (2020) — a piece from her series Assemblage 6: Unlearning. The chair began as a playful paper maquette before being realised in cast aluminium and acrylic paint.
Presented by Friedman Benda, Toogood’s installation The Magpie’s Nest offered a poetic reflection on collecting and creation. The presentation featured The Magpie Tapestries — five woven still lifes inspired by her studio’s “cabinet of curiosities” — alongside Vale, a hand-carved oak wall relief, and Creatures of Love, a patinated bronze chandelier with hammered copper sconces finished in silver leaf.
Sceners Gallery
Newcomer Sceners Gallery took home the Best Stand Award for its debut presentation — an energetic display that captured the fair’s spirit of experimentation and collaboration.
Top 10 Booths at PAD London 2025 — Visualista’s Choice
Nilufar Gallery
Under Nina Yashar’s curatorial direction, Nilufar staged two elegant displays — one tracing a dialogue between 20th-century masters and contemporary experimentation, and another dedicated to Vikram Goyal, whose hammered metal works marry Indian craftsmanship with modernist geometry. Our team was especially captivated by the glass installation Mirror Phisophorum Floating by Christian Pellizzari, which added a striking, ethereal dimension to the presentation.
FUMI Gallery
Where material meets imagination, FUMI showcased works by Charlotte Kingsnorth, Max Lamb, and Saelia Aparicio. The booth balanced craft, process, and form — a dialogue between the poetic and the sculptural. At its centre, Jeremy Anderson’s new lighting installation hung above a massive table by Carlès & Demarquet, creating a striking focal point that unified the space.
Sarah Myerscough Gallery
Sarah Myerscough Gallery returns with a larger stand, anchored by Nic Webb’s signature pendant suspended over his Kanso sculptural table, both crafted from scorched oak. Webb carves, burns, soaks, and stains different species of fallen wood, exploring the natural drama of the material. He works intuitively, responding to each piece’s unique character, allowing cracks and splits to emerge naturally while contrasting raw grain with polished surfaces.
Objects With Narratives
The gallery presented a solo show by Vladimir Slavov. In Time, Slavov continues his exploration of material and transformation, where fire, texture, and intuition shape each surface. His works balance refinement and rawness, delicacy and intensity, functioning as both artifact and design object — capturing time preserved, transformed, and reborn.
Charles Burnand Gallery
At PAD London 2025, Charles Burnand Gallery presents Ethereal Monoliths — a dialogue between weight and lightness, substance and spirit. Works by Jan Waterston, Studio Furthermore, Deglan Studios, and Yaerin Art explore transformation through material, from charred ceramic to cast bronze.
At the centre, Jan Waterston’s Strata Cabinet turns solid ash into a living terrain — carved, eroded, refined. Monumental yet intimate, it shifts with the light, inviting reflection on how form, like self, evolves over time.
Aequo Gallery
Mumbai-based Aequo Gallery returned to PAD London with a celebration of Indian craft, featuring collaborations with designers including Valériane Lazard. The booth is enveloped in unbleached cotton strands — raw, matte, and suspended like a quiet workshop landscape.
On view: Lazard, Inderjeet Sandhu, Linde Freya Tangelder, Gaia Pilens, Wendy Andreu, Frédéric Imbert, Florence Louisy.
Rose Uniacke
The British designer and dealer of antiques presented a refined collection of European and Scandinavian design at PAD London. The stand, upholstered in Rose Uniacke Cotton Velvet in ‘Mole’, offered a tactile, timeless setting for works by eminent designers, reflecting her signature approach of blending old and new to create harmonious, curated spaces.
Galerie Gastou
Once again collaborating with Féau Boiseries, Galerie Gastou presented a refined booth combining palm wood and mirrored surfaces, merging heritage and contemporary audacity. Highlights included Philippe Hiquily’s Femme Cubiste coffee table and Ado Chale’s 1980s dining ensemble — both museum-level masterpieces — alongside bold new works by Emmanuel Jonckers, Béatrice Serre, and Omar Chakil. Jonckers’ Kozinga dining table, Chakil’s monumental alabaster mirrors, and Serre’s mosaic side tables exemplified the fair’s dialogue between sculptural power and timeless craftsmanship.
NM Art & Design
Making its debut at PAD London, NM Art & Design presented a thoughtfully curated booth under the theme “Traces”. The display explored time, memory, and transformation, offering a serene and tactile setting for works by Zlata Kornilova, Alexandra Volskaya, Benni Allan, Sfossils, Momoka Gomi, Adriana Meunié, Drozhdini, and Nitush–Aroosh. Each piece celebrated materiality and craftsmanship, reflecting the subtle dialogue between nature, human hands, and the passage of time.
Carpenters Workshop Gallery
A must-visit at PAD London, Carpenters Workshop Gallery welcomes guests every year with exceptional displays. The central booth highlights works by 11 pioneering artists and designers, showcasing pieces that blend functional innovation with striking aesthetic impact.
Additionally, the Carpenters Workshop Jewellery booth presents jewellery, design, and sculpture by over 15 leading female artists, celebrating their enduring influence on contemporary creativity and craftsmanship.
PAD London will be open to the public at Berkeley Square, Mayfair, until October 19, offering a rare opportunity to experience the finest in historical and contemporary collectible design.
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