Before an Angxi collection takes shape in objects, it takes shape in materials. Fall 2026 began the same way: with a set of questions about texture, weight, and what it feels like to reach for something in the colder months. This is a first look at that thinking — the materials we have been considering and what we are trying to say with them.
The Season as a Starting Point
Autumn has a particular quality of light and temperature that changes how objects feel in a space. Surfaces that seem neutral in summer read differently when there is less light and more time spent indoors. This is the season when texture becomes more present — you notice what things feel like under your hands, how heavy a cup is, whether a surface is cool or warm to the touch.
Fall 2026 is built around that shift. The question we kept returning to was: what materials feel right to hold, to use, and to look at when the days are shorter and the pace of the home is slower?
Clay
Clay is at the centre of this collection, as it often is. But for Fall 2026, we have been thinking specifically about clay bodies with a visible texture — surfaces that are not smoothed out entirely, that retain the marks of their making. This is a material choice with a reason behind it: texture in a ceramic piece makes it feel less like a product and more like an object. Something with its own presence in a room.
The palette is earthed: tones that carry some of the warmth of ochre, or the cool depth of ash. Nothing that reads as bright or seasonal in the conventional sense. These are objects that should still feel appropriate in February.
Carved Wood
Wood in this collection is present in carved and turned forms — objects where the tool marks are intentional and visible. We are drawn to the grain and slight irregularity that comes from working with a material that has its own structure. The piece does not look the same from every angle, and that is the point.
Fall is a natural time to bring wood into the home. It reads as warmth without the use of colour. A carved board on the kitchen table, a turned piece on a shelf — these are objects that belong to this time of year in a way that feels uncontrived.
Linen
Linen for this collection is considered alongside the other materials rather than separately. The weight and weave matter: heavier linen has a quality appropriate to fall that lighter summer cloth does not. We are drawn to undyed and lightly processed linens — colours that stay close to the natural fibre, with texture in the weave rather than in surface treatment.
Linen also ages in a way that suits the Angxi approach. It does not degrade so much as settle. A piece used regularly over a year will look and feel different — softer, more particular — and that change is something worth acknowledging rather than treating as wear.
Stone
Stone is a quieter presence in Fall 2026, but a considered one. We have been looking at objects in stone that serve a functional purpose: a small tray, a flat surface for objects to rest on, a piece that acts as a transition between the tactile softness of linen and the structure of clay or wood.
Stone brings a particular stillness to a surface. It is cool, dense, and completely stable. In combination with the warmer tones of clay and wood, it creates a contrast that does not feel stark — more like the difference between morning and midday in the same room.
Objects for Unhurried Hours
The phrase we have been using internally for this collection is “objects for unhurried hours”. It is not a marketing line but a genuine description of the kind of use we have in mind. The objects in Fall 2026 are designed for the slower parts of the day — early morning, a weekend afternoon, the time at a table that is not about speed or efficiency.
This sounds quiet, and it is. But quiet is not the same as inconsequential. The things that are present during the slower hours of a day matter in the way that accumulates rather than announces itself. The right object in the right place changes the quality of ordinary time. That is what we are trying to make.
What Comes Next
This is a first material study, not the complete picture. The collection will develop over the coming weeks, and we will share more as it takes shape. What you see here is the thinking behind the objects — the reasons for the choices that will eventually arrive as things you can hold.
More from Fall 2026 will follow in the Journal. In the meantime, these are the materials to pay attention to.