The origin of London Design Festival In 2003, Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE founded the London Design Festival. Building on London's existing design activities, their idea was to create an annual event that would promote the city's creativity by engaging British design practitioners and thinkers, to provide a grand celebration of design. […]
From September 15 to 22, 2024, the 2024 edition of the Lake Como Design Festival returns to Como. Established in 2018 as the Lake Como Design Fair, curated by Margherita Ratti, over the years, it turned into the Lake Como Design Festival and is now in its sixth edition. Lake Como Design Festival is an […]
From September 23-27, 2024, Cersaie, the International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings, returns to Bologna. Founded in 1983, it reaches its 41st edition in 2024. An area of 145,000 square meters hosts 606 exhibitors - 38 percent foreign - from 25 countries. The ceramic surfaces for the architecture sector occupy 55 percent of […]
Singapore Design Week (SDW) returns this year from 26 September to 6 October 2024 in an 11-day celebration of Singapore's distinctive brand of design and creativity. Organized by DesignSingapore Council (DSG), the design festival, which debuted in 2005, is one of Asia’s premier design festivals that celebrates Singapore’s distinctive brand of creativity. It will traverse […]
The third edition of Pietrasanta Design Week-end runs in Pietrasanta, Tuscany, from September 26 to 29, 2024. The 2024 edition of Pietrasanta Design Week-end, an initiative founded by Paola Silva Coronel, takes place over three days, with a rich program of exhibitions, installations and talks. The common thread of this edition is the hallmark. That […]
Designblok, Prague International Design Festival, is the largest exhibition of design and fashion in Central and Eastern Europe. It takes place in the creative heartland of the European continent. Established in 1999, the six-day festival starts with the Professionals’ Day and continues with a five-day exhibition for the public. The design festival presents new projects […]
EDIT Napoli, which returns in 2024, is an innovative design fair created to support, promote, and celebrate a new generation of designers. It focuses on the rise of the designer-makers at the forefront of a movement, challenging the traditional production and distribution chain. EDIT Napoli selects international independent makers, artisans, and enlightened manufacturers, emerging as […]
From October 16th to 20th Design Miami.Paris 2024 returns at L'hôtel de Maisons for the second edition, showcasing over 20 collectible design galleries. Design Miami.Paris is the spin-off fair of Design Miami, the collectible design fair started in Miami twenty years ago. Design Miami connects the world through extraordinary collectible design, with live fairs that […]
The Dutch Design Week is an event dedicated to Dutch design that takes place in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, in the last week of October. Eindhoven, partly due to the presence of the Philips Headquarters for Benelux, is a city devoted to design. Established in 2002, the design festival takes place during the last week of […]
Dubai Design Week is the largest design festival in the Middle East, taking place since 2015. It aims to promote the region's talents through design. Like many design weeks around the world, Dubai Design Week includes installations, exhibitions, lectures, workshops, a marketplace, and the leading contemporary design fair, Downtown Design. Dubai Design Week is under […]
Design Mumbai is a new contemporary design fair debuting in Mumbai from November 6th to 9th, 2024. In a post-Covid landscape that sees some fairs going through severe crises, other initiatives are going strong. Salone del Mobile.Milano and Milan Design Week, for example, have already reached pre-Covid visitor numbers. Maison&Objet in Paris is also on […]
Established in Dubai in 2013 under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa Bint Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairperson of the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Downtown Design has become the Middle East’s premier platform for showcasing world-class furniture and product design. Since 2015, Downtown Design has taken place in the dynamic Dubai Design […]
