The Italian Lounge is coming back to CIFF Shanghai for its fourth edition, and it’s shaping up as a business and experience platform built to promote Italian design and lifestyle in the Chinese market. From 5 to 8 September 2026, inside Asia’s leading furniture and interior design fair, the project will set out a prime space for design culture, hospitality, networking and business. Read the interview to Sebastiano Cattiodoro from the Vudafieri-Saverino Partners Studio, Art Direction of the Project
September opens one of the busiest stretches on the international design calendar, with dozens of fairs, festivals and platforms running at once across the world. This is not the full list. It’s a reasoned selection: ten events picked for what they signal about where design is heading, from a furniture fair in Shanghai to a festival opening the autumn season in the Baltics. Here’s what’s on, where, and why it made the cut.
