Photography by James Mason
Design After Dark
Clerkenwell Design Week, London, May 2026
Some evenings just have the right energy from the start. This was one of them.
During Clerkenwell Design Week, OLISE Magazine partnered with Parador to host Design After Dark, an intimate evening at the Parador showroom celebrating the Harmonia Collection. It was a moment that felt entirely in step with the week itself: design as a lived experience, not just a product to be viewed.
The showroom became the setting for something genuinely special. Gourmet food by Christy's Kitchen gave the evening its warmth and generosity, while the space filled with some of the most creative and considered people working in design today.
Architects, interior designers, specifiers, editors. The kind of room where conversations move quickly from the surface to something deeper.
Throughout the evening, our Editor-in-Chief Bilen conducted a series of intimate interviews inside the Parador Pergola, a space that became a moment of quiet amongst the energy of the night. Conversations to find out what the crowd thought of Harmonia, Parador's award-winning collection.
The Harmonia Collection provided the perfect backdrop. Parador has long understood that a floor is never just a floor. It is the foundation of a room's character, the thing that holds everything else together. Harmonia, with its refined palette and considered texture, spoke to exactly that.
Then the music took over. And the room moved with it, until the lights finally told us it was time to go.
A sincere thank you to Parador for opening their doors and their world, and to everyone who joined us to make the evening what it was. This is exactly what Design After Dark was made for.
