Zara Home and Vincent Van Duysen have long redefined how considered design can reach a broad audience. Now, a new collaboration with New York–based stylist and creative director Colin King is pushing that conversation further. The result, released on March 13, 2026, is one of the most compelling home collections of the season.
The partnership was not exactly predictable. King built his reputation styling interiors and art directing campaigns, not designing objects from scratch. Yet, Zara Home and King had been developing a working relationship since 2019 when King began contributing his expertise to the brand’s photo shoots. This seven-year collaboration gave the collection its particular coherence. “When they asked about doing a collection, it felt like a natural next step. It was also a little scary, which is usually how I know I should say yes,” King told Wallpaper.
The collection, titled On Objects, centers on a tightly edited range of home accessories, including vases, lamps, candleholders, trays, boxes, and sculptural pieces. What sets it apart from typical high-street home collections is the intention behind each piece. King first trained in movement before turning to visual work, and his attention to how bodies relate to space carries over into his handling of objects. He founded Colin King Studio and is the author of Arranging Things, published by Rizzoli in 2023. The book laid out his philosophy long before it materialized in product form.
Materially, the collection moves away from Zara Home’s familiar Mediterranean warmth toward something more archival and considered. Brass and bronze sit alongside onyx boxes and handcrafted, iridescent, blown-glass vessels. Woven baskets are silver-plated. Hand-lacquered pieces have the kind of rich surface that takes time to achieve. The finishes are deliberately set in tension with one another: transparency against opacity and matte against gloss. The effect is not about visual noise, but rather about prompting you to look slowly.
King described the concept plainly: “The things we live with shape how we feel.” This statement could easily be a slogan, but it is evident in the actual objects. The collection was conceived around the idea of modern heirlooms: pieces designed not as seasonal accents, but as items meant to outlast trends. Structure and spontaneity, restraint and refinement, precision and natural asymmetry—these are the tensions the collection plays with, and they work. “It feels quite vulnerable to bring an object into existence from scratch,” King said. “Many of these pieces addressed a gap in what I wanted to use both on set and in my personal space.“
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For context, Zara Home has been running an equally serious design program with Belgian architect Vincent Van Duysen since 2022. The Zara Home + Vincent Van Duysen line, now in its fourth collection, works with leather, oak, and polished chrome steel. Its vocabulary is sustained across chapters rather than reset each season. While Van Duysen’s work is architectural, with furniture that reads like a built structure, King’s contribution operates at a more intimate level, focusing on the small rituals associated with tables, shelves, and windowsills.
The two collaborations complement each other well on the Zara Home platform. Both resist the idea that accessible pricing requires aesthetic compromise and both ask something more of the buyer than mere functionality. “Zara Home and I share a very similar approach to design,” King told Architectural Digest. “We aimed for the collection to be both beautiful and thoughtful yet also very accessible.“
The On Objects collection is currently available in select stores and online at zara.com.