The Design Weeks & Events Guide

Designblok Prague 2024
2024-10-02 - 2024-10-06 | Prague, Prague, 100 00, Czech Republic
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 from over two hundred carefully selected makers, studios and established brands.
The festival’s curated exhibitions react to current social topics and draw attention to the work of both up-and-coming and long-established designers. They also offer a creative and professional business platform that allows designers and brands to meet the expert public, suppliers, and customers. The exhibitions also include a wide-ranging accompanying program in the form of lectures and discussions, field-specific encounters, fashion shows, and other special events that open spaces for networking and mutual inspiration.
Over 41,000 people visit the Designblok festival every year, including designers, curators, collectors, architects, interior designers, journalists, and design lovers.
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Designblok Prague 2024. Photo Nikola Tamchynova
The 26th Designblok takes place October 2nd-6th, 2024, at Prague Castle, the Museum of Prague, Bastion Florenc, the Museum of Decorative Arts, and other locations around Prague. The exhibition Bóda Horák: Biosphere will be open until 28 October 2024.
The complete program is on the designblok.cz website.
International guests at Designblok Prague
Design legend Ron Arad will come in person, to present his new work with Moroso. He will also accept the Designblok Award for Outstanding Merit in Design, from festival director Jana Zielinski. Winy Maas, the multi-talented Dutch designer and founder of the MVRDV studio, will transport festival visitors into a world where the foliage will overgrow the cities. Instead, Vitra has invited the Panter&Tourron design studio, which specializes in sustainable design. This year, the jury of the festival’s central competition – the Designblok Awards – will assemble under the directorship of jury president Benedict Hobson, co-CEO of the Dezeen platform, the most-read online design magazine. However, the Diploma Selection jury will welcome new faces, as will the Art House exhibition focusing on collectible design. The 26th Designblok, the grandest design festival in central Europe, will also welcome Italian gallerist Rossana Orlandi and designer and entrepreneur Giulio Cappellini.
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Rossana Orlandi. Photo Annica Eklund, courtesy Designblok
Designblok Awards
After the French journalist and critic Anne-France Berthelon (Designblok 2022) and the Dutch designer Ineke Hans (Designblok 2023), the position of president of the Designblok Awards international expert jury has been taken up by Benedict Hobson, co-CEO of the Dezeen online platform. The president is responsible for assembling the expert jury and overseeing the vote for the festival’s leading award. The Dezeen online platform has over three million monthly readers, and has been the festival’s primary media partner for the past three years. The Designblok Awards jury will further include designer Emma Marga Blanche of the Swedish Färg & Blanche design studio, Italian designer and creative director Luca Nichetto, director of Wallpaper* China magazine and founder of the Collective Contemporist creative agency Yoko Choy, as well as the British industrial designer Tej Chauhan.
Designblok 2024, in Prague, will also present the progressive designer duo of Stefano Panterotto and Alexis Tourron of the Panter&Tourron studio, in collaboration with Vitra. They will present their newest work to the Czech public, the Anagram Sofa – a modular sofa that will be on view at the Museum of Prague.
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Konsepti store in Prague, Designblok 2023
The collectible design at Designblok Prague 2024
The unique Art House exhibition of collectible design takes place at the Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague, curated by journalist and Elle Decoration Czech Republic director Eva Slunečková. Apart from Czech designers and artists, the exhibition will also feature Slovenian designer Lara Bohinc, French designer Audrey Large, whose works combine digital and physical design, Ukrainian designer Masha Reva and Victoria Yakusha, and Polish artist and material experimenter Marcin Rusak.
The Designblok Diploma Selection talent competition, in collaboration with the EUNIC Cluster Czech Republic, aims to develop and support graduates of European universities.
This year, it will welcome new jury members. The jury director in the category of Product Design is Tulga Beyerle, director of the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg. The other members are Thomas Geisler, director of the Museum of Decorative Arts at the Dresden State Art Collections; Jan Boelen, curator and art director of LUMA studio; independent curator, filmmaker, and professor at HEAD-Genève Alexandra Midal; and curator of the Gent Design Museum Evelien Bracke.
The Designblok Diploma Selection expert jury will select the winners from over thirty final projects who will receive 4000 EUR, courtesy of festival partner Ploom, and the opportunity to exhibit at next year’s Designblok. Last year’s finalists Esmée Willemsen, Janek Beau, Julia Huhnholz, and Friedrich Gerlach will present their projects at Bastion Florenc, as will fashion designer Maria Czarnecka during the fashion show at Lobkowicz Palace.
Designblok 2023, Galerie Zdeněk Sklenar. Photo Martin Polák
The Designblok family 2024
The “Designblok family” will also arrive for their traditional trip to Prague to see the grandest central European design event – every year, Designblok welcomes Italian curator Rossana Orlandi, Dutch designer Ineke Hans, Italian art director and entrepreneur Giulio Cappellini, curator, program head at the School of Form and dean of the SWPS University in Warsaw Agnieszka Jacobson-Cielecka, Milanese consultant Stephan Hamel, Paris-based gallerist François Leblanc, strategist and tutor Anil Gezmen and others. The festival will also welcome representatives of leading world media, such as the Dutch FRAME magazine, the Polish DesignAlive and Vogue Polska magazine, the German Wohndesign magazine, and others.
Italian art director and entrepreneur Giulio Cappellini
Why visit
First and foremost, Prague is a magical city in itself. Designblok, the design festival, adds the magic of seeing fine objects and design projects in a beautiful, historic setting. By collaborating with design personalities from all over Europe, the festival develops a program featuring great cultural depth. The festival takes place in charming locations: Prague Castle, the Museum of Prague, Bastion Florenc, the Museum of Decorative Arts, and other locations around Prague, so it’s a unique opportunity to see halls of historic buildings, with special setups.
Designblok, Prague, October 2-6, 2024
Designblok is for professional and general public
Different locations (Prague Castle, the Museum of Prague, Bastion Florenc, the Museum of Decorative Arts and other locations)
Size: over 200 makers, 41,000 visitors
Visit website Designblok.cz for more info
Some images from Designblok 2023

EDIT Napoli 2024
2024-10-11 10:00 - 2024-10-13 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Archivio di Stato, Vico Monte della Pietà 2, Naples, 80138, Italy
EDIT Napoli 2024 returns as one of the most 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 an autonomous force in contemporary design.
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EDIT Napoli 2023. Photo Eller Studio
Slow design for the living area at EDIT Napoli 2024
The world of living showcases a “slow design”, a sort of “mediterranean design”, to find a way to be different from the traditional production and distribution chain. The key features of EDIT Napoli are the products made from this spirit.
In fact, the event winds its way through different spaces to delve into various themes related to the world of signature design.
The next edition of EDIT Napoli runs from October 11th to 13th, 2024, in Naples. Brands and designers – both emerging and internationally renowned – exhibit in the city’s most prominent venues.
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EDIT Napoli 2023, Fabio Novembre x Feudi di San Gregorio, Homage to Riccardo Dalisi. Photo Francesco Squeglia
EDIT Napoli: a signature design fair
The sixth edition of EDIT Napoli, 2024, the signature design fair, welcomes exhibitors, the general public, and professional visitors at the Archivio di Stato di Napoli. As always, the event will revolve around the works of independent designers, creatives, and producers, displaying their work throughout Naples. The EDIT Napoli mission is to highlight sustainable design, territoriality, and the quality of the products on display, rather than quantity. It also supports production processes that combine craftsmanship with industrial design, even if at a small scale. Over 100 Italian and international exhibitors are expected this year at the Archivio di Stato di Napoli. A tribute to “mediterranean design”.
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The Archivio di Stato in Naples. Photo Eller Studio
Young designers and emerging brands
Alongside the winners of the last edition, Giorgio Bena and ruga.perissinotto, many firms have confirmed they will be returning this year. These include Dante Negro, De Marchi Verona, Eleit.it, Marco Ripa, MAS Design, Mediterranea Design, Monostudio, SKNYPL, newcomers such as Daniela Pinotti, Ethimo, Luca Gruber, Testatonda Studio, and many more. The product selection includes ceramics, textiles, furnishings, coverings, accessories and lighting.
As always, EDIT Napoli supports under-30 exhibitors and companies under three years old, displaying their products within the abbey at the Seminario. This area will also feature a solid Spanish contingent thanks to the España Diseño Mediterráneo (Spanish Mediterranean Design) competition brief, launched in collaboration with the Instituto Cervantes de Nápoles and designer Tomás Alía. Alía also selected five new talents for EDIT Napoli. Entirely in line with the spirit of EDIT, the principal location of the event will be the headquarters and epicenter for the entire community converging on the event.
Some images from EDIT Napoli 2023

Contemporary design in historic location
As in previous years, contemporary design will interact with the historic architecture of the Complex. This year, it will take the form of a specific setup in the first atrium of the Archivio, which designer Sara Mondaini will curate for Officine Tamborrino. Officine Tamborrino is a Puglia-based brand specializing in metalworking and creating design furnishings and micro-architectural elements. The brand worked with German designer Lilo Klinkenberg of Studio Lilo, who realized the concept for green areas.
The Corte EDIT will host metal furnishing elements, structural beams in steel; an explosive nature will interact with the existing architecture, welcoming visitors into a dreamlike space right in the heart of Naples dedicated to dialogue and conviviality. Feudi di San Gregorio, the historic winemaker from Irpinia, has managed the lounge in this area for the third year. The winemaker is also in charge of the event opening party, “Aperitivo all’italiana.” Over the three days of the event, the winemaker offers visitors wine and gourmet tastings.
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Edit Napoli 2023, The Archivio di Stato in Naples
Why visit
Naples can create impossible links between people and stories, where anything can happen. Bringing EDIT to Naples was a strategic choice. The city boasts a rich history of craftsmanship, a solid local manufacturing industry, a prestigious contemporary art scene, and a vibrant community of collectors and cutting-edge cultural institutions. It’s a tribute to “mediterranean design”. Past editions of EDIT Naples have attracted more than 20,000 visitors to the Complex of San Domenico Maggiore and more than 300 exhibitors.
EDIT Napoli, Naples, October 11-13, 2024
EDIT Napoli is for professional and general public
Location: Archivio di Stato, Naples
Size: over 300 exhibitors, 20,000 visitors
Visit website EditNapoli.com for more info
Some images from EDIT Napoli 2023

Design Miami.Paris 2024
2024-10-16 11:00 - 2024-10-19 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | L’hotel de Maisons, 51, Rue de l'Universitè, Paris, 75007, France
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 bring together galleries, designers, brands, experts, collectors, and enthusiasts. Each edition of Design Miami features museum-quality 20th and 21st-century furniture, lighting, and objets d’art from the world’s top galleries. Moreover, it showcases immersive design collaborations with celebrated brands. Design Miami’s flagship fair takes place alongside Art Basel in Miami, Florida, each December. Design Miami.Basel runs in Basel, Switzerland, each June; Design Miami.Paris is in Paris, France, each October in conjunction with Art Basel Paris, and Design Miami, Los Angeles is in Los Angeles in May.
Jean Royère piecese at Design Miami.Paris 2023
Design Miami Paris 2024 Gallery Highlights
For the second edition of Design Miami.Paris, the fair showcases the best of historic and contemporary collectible design. Several key thematic threads emerge within the diverse presentations from over 20 international galleries set to go on show.
Material Marvels
This year’s gallery program presents pioneering examples of collectible design by world-leading craftsmanship with a deep appreciation for materiality. Galerie Desprez-Bréhéret (Paris) and debut Paris exhibitor Galerie Yves Gastou (Paris) present a collection of pieces by Jean Touret.
Table, tabouret and totem by Jean Touret & Artisans de Marolles at Galerie Desprez Beheret. Photo courtesy Galerie Desprez Beheret
Refined Rarities
Design Miami.Paris 2024 welcomes a number of galleries whose presentations showcase designers who exemplify the pinnacle of their refined crafts.
Friedman Benda (New York/LA) returns to Design Miami.Paris to present an exhibition of works by leading international figures at the forefront of interdisciplinary innovation. Each piece is on display in Paris for the first time. Highlights include Raphael Navot’s Encompass sofa, which sits at the presentation’s heart. The gallery also showcases Dr. Samuel Ross’ Amnesia or platelet apparition? and ANAESTHESIA I – both reflecting upon the evocative power of materials. Other highlights include a rare and early ceiling lamp by Ettore Sottsass.
Anaesthesia I by Dr. Samuel Ross at Friedman Benda. Photo Timothy Doyon
The Legacy of Modernism
This year’s gallery program also pays homage to the profound legacy of Modernism. Galerie Patrick Seguin (Paris) presents the legacy of French Modernism through a curated collection of 20th-century collectible masterpieces by designers including Jean Prouvé, Le Corbusier, and Jean Royère. The striking dialogue with the classical interiors of L’hôtel de Maisons speaks to French design’s rich history and evolution.
Meanwhile, Galerie Downtown-Laffanour (Paris) places 20th-century French masterpieces in conversation with 21st-century icons. A thoughtful selection of works by French luminaries Charlotte Perriand, Jean Prouvé, and Serge Mouille is presented alongside visionary works by Ron Arad, Choi Byung Hoon, and Ettore Sottsass.
Design Miami.Paris Design at Large Highlights
This year’s Paris fair also offers an extensive Design at Large program. It includes rare and significant works presented across the courtyard, interior and gardens of L’hôtel de Maisons. The 17 presentations set to go on show span contemporary and historic highlights.
Friedman Benda (New York/LA/Paris) and Carpenters Workshop Gallery (London/Paris/New York/Los Angeles) present two works by celebrated American designer Wendell Castle (1932-2018), known for his groundbreaking approach to design and his crucial addition to the field’s sculptural vocabulary.
Another key highlight comes from Galerie Downtown-LAFFANOUR (Paris), which brings a Jean Prouvé post-war prefabricated house. It was originally built in 1946 in Prouvé’s home village, Carnac. The house was designed with easy assembly and dismantling in mind, intended to house his family. The only remaining building with Prouve’s signature character intact, the house references a rich historical dimension.
The Carnac House, by Jean Prouvé for Galerie Dowtown LAFFANOUR
Salon 94 Design (New York) presents two editions of Rick Owens’s Tomb Chair. Through his choice of subtle and rare materials, Owens suggests the beauty of nature, inspired by his favorite shapes from Eileen Gray to Brâncuşi to the skateparks in California.
Why visit
Design Miami.Paris is the French edition of Design Miami, and like the other shows it is a collectors’ fair. Even for non-buyers, it is an unmissable opportunity to see pieces by the great designers of the past up close. In addition, the Design Art Large program offers a chance to see rarer pieces, and contemporary designers who try their hand at one-of-a-kind pieces and limited editions. Design Miami.Paris, moreover, takes place in a stylish and elegant location and is also an opportunity to see collectible designs set in historic settings.
Design Miami.Paris, October 16-19, 2024
For professionals and general public, admission ticket
Size: one venue, over 20 galleries
Visit Design Miami.Paris for info

Dutch Design Week 2024
2024-10-19 10:00 - 2024-10-27 18:00 (Europe/Amsterdam) | Different venues, Copenhagen, 1050, Denmark
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 October and lasts nine days. It features exhibitions, studio visits, workshops, seminars, and parties throughout the city.
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Dutch Design Week 2023, Waterwall Fountain, photo Max Kneefel
Eindhoven: a city devoted to design
The event hosts companies such as Philips, Philips Design, as well as the famous Design Academy Eindhoven, which participates here with numerous installations and talks. In 20 years, Dutch Design Week has reached about 120 different events, and more than 300,000 visitors. Ambassadors of past editions include Li Edelkoort, president of the Design Academy Eindhoven from 1999 to 2008, Stefano Boeri, Marcus Fairs, Formafantasma, and other renowned architects and designers.
The social side of design
DDW (Dutch Design Week) is a stage for all the world’s design. Here designers meet, exchange knowledge and information, and the general public can explore and see where the design of the future is going. Innovation, expertise and talent are the keywords throughout the design festival, which brings together more than 2,600 designers. For the general public and the professionals this is an opportunity to delve into the social aspect of design.
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Dutch Design Week 2023, photo by Max Kneefel
Dutch Design Week 2024
The Dutch Design Week 2024 edition runs from October 19 to 27 and takes place in many different locations. The festival revolves around different leading themes and hosts various kinds of events and locations. The exhibitions are on different subjects: Signature & Collectible Design, Speculative & Social Design, Product & Craft Design, Service & Innovative Design, and Independent & Critical Design. The leading themes are Thriving Planet, Living Environment, Health & Wellbeing, Equal Society and Digital Future. Of particular interest is the youth program, DDW Young Route. It’s divided by age groups: 6-10 years, 10-14 years and over 14 years.
Real Unreal
The theme for 2024 is Real Unreal, and we can mention various exhibitions. In the Living Environment theme, at Piet Hein Eek, Strijp-R area, Teun Zwets showcases furniture from waste materials. Secrid Talent Podium, at Klokgebouw, spotlights talented product designers using creativity to drive sustainable industry change.
In the Thriving Planet theme, the Cooling Down the city exhibition, at NRE Terrain, Canal Zone. An innovative collaboration between designers and nature to tackle urban heat stress. With immersive speculative installations, including a green spa surrounding a revived oak tree. Designing Society, a Ketelhuisplein blends creativity, scientific insight, and corporate responsibility to envision a sustainable future.
For the Digital Future theme, Poetics of Prompting, at the MU Hybrid Art House, explores the emerging “language” of AI-human collaboration. The installation Processing the Unprocessed, in the Health & Wellbeing theme, in the Sectie-C area, invites visitors to experience the healing journey.
The Equal Society theme hosts the Trilix Bamboo Pavilion, at Ketelhuisplein, an eco-friendly architectural marvel, demonstrating bamboo’s potential in sustainable urban design. Temple of Peace at Ketelhuisplein, is a powerful artistic installation that brings together 80 unique flags, symbolizing new narratives of peace.
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Dutch Design Week 2023, photo by Max Kneefel
New 2024 program: Mission Days
DDW Mission Days, a new program for Dutch Design Week 2024, aims to facilitate meetings between designers and trade visitors. From Monday, October 21, to Friday, October 25, DDW and partners will host five themed days around missions.
During these Mission Days, DDW’s design and expert community will share insights, expertise, and networks through various workshops, conferences, tours, and events. Each day, there is a broad program with morning sessions, afternoon tours, and an evening program called DDW at Night. Professionals can curate their own Mission Day based on their preferences and schedule.
Why Visit
Dutch Design Week is one of the most interesting design festivals, thanks to the participation of the Dutch Design Academy in Eindhoven, and the presence of Philips, which has its Headquarters in Belgium here, and Philips Design. DDW thus becomes an ideal destination to discover where design is going, as a tool to change reality. Design, innovation, technology, are the drivers driving tomorrow’s world. The themes investigated by designers in this edition, which features more than 120 events, are global warming, digital future, and inclusive society.
Dutch Design Week, October 19-27, 2024
For professionals and general public
Size: over 120 events, 300,000 visitors
Visit Dutch Design Week website Ddw.nl for info
Some images from Dutch Design Week 2023

Dubai Design Week 2024
2024-11-05 - 2024-11-10 | Dubai Design District d3, Business Bay, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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 the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Chairman of Dubai Culture, in collaboration with Dubai Design District (d3), and with the support of Dubai Culture.
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2023, Dubai Design Week
Dubai Design Week 2024: tenth edition
The tenth edition is from November 5th to 10th, 2024, in the Dubai Design District (d3). Dubai Design Week 2024 underscores its decade-long cultural and economic impact on the $26 billion GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) design industry (Interior and Furniture Market). Its “seniority” also makes it the leading design event in the Middle East. The 2024 edition features over 500 well-known or emerging designers, brands and creative leaders from over 40 countries.
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2023, Dubai Design Week
Fueled by the rapid urbanization and diversification of the economy, with the rapidly growing population of tourists and residents, Dubai Design Week has evolved since 2015 to become a major international design event. Its success comes from many factors. Undoubtedly, support for local talent has played an important role, helping to develop a platform for local and international design.
Highlights at Dubai Design Week 2024
One of the main event of this edition is Downtown Design, the Middle East’s premier design fair, taking place November 6th to 9th on the d3 Waterfront Terrace.
Also in 2024 takes place Editions, the region’s first limited edition art and design fair. Editions hosts more than 50 galleries, collectives, and design studios.
Downtown Design 2021
The Urban Commissions competition
Dubai Design Week’s annual design competition, Urban Commissions, returns this year with the theme “Tawila,” which means “table” in Arabic. The competition invites designers and architects to explore the table beyond its form as a facilitator of common exchanges and experiences. The winner for 2024 is Altqadum, an architecture and interior design firm from Oman. Inspired by the musical culture of the Gulf, where communities traditionally gather around and accompany musicians, TukTuKDum is an innovative table encouraging interaction with the audience.
The Abwab program
Abwab, which means “doors” in Arabic, is a program that supports designers in the Southwest Asia and North Africa (SWANA) region. Each year, Abwab commissions installations or pavilions dedicated to relevant global and regional contexts. Since 2015, more than 180 designers from countries such as Algeria, Bahrain, Egypt, India, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Morocco, Pakistan, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and the United Arab Emirates have participated in Abwab. For the 2024 edition, professionals were invited to propose projects on vernacular architecture. The project also explores how architecture using local materials and techniques can interact with new environments.
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Abwab 2018
As part of the Abwab program, the public will see more than 30 projects exploring ancient technologies, innovation, and materials. Dubai-based architecture and interior design firm Bone will present a pavilion by prefabricated earth blocks, created in collaboration with Fetdeterra, a Spanish company specializing in clay architecture. Japanese architecture firm Mitsubishi Jisho Design invites the public to experience a traditional teahouse made from 3D-printed waste sawdust. Multidisciplinary technology studio DEOND, founded by Ross Lovegrove and Ila Colombo, explores the notion of phytotherapy, with a “second skin” fabric infused with artificial intelligence that responds to the body’s mood. In addition to these, other installations come from various organic and recycled materials, including banana fiber, soy wax, henna, Himalayan salt, terracotta, and scrap metal.
Workshops, talks, and master classes
The Dubai Design Week workshop program is open to all disciplines of design. The program is run by a range of facilitators, including lecturers, designers, independent makers, and cultural organizations.
Dubai Design Week also offers a Marketplace on November 9 and 10. The marketplace, which offers handcrafted products, is located in the heart of Dubai Design District (d3).
The Dubai Design District (d3)
The Dubai Design District (d3) is a global creative ecosystem dedicated to design, fashion, architecture, and art. Located in the heart of Dubai, d3 is a commercial district that houses multi-brand stores, art galleries, and showrooms, as well as architectural and interior design studios. Various events, such as Dubai Design Week, Arab Fashion Week, and Sole DXB, are part of the Dubai Design District.
Some of the region’s most popular events take place in d3 and attract international artists and audiences for events such as Dubai Design Week, Arab Fashion Week, and Sole DXB. The district also regularly hosts a number of industry conferences, workshops, and educational programs for people of all ages.
Why Visit
Dubai Design Week is an opportunity to see Dubai up close in a somewhat out-of-the-ordinary guise, and to understand the exciting path taken by the UAE. Investment in design, in fact, carries out research in innovation projected into the future, alongside the rediscovery of local materials and traditions. Design therefore expresses the desire to rediscover one’s roots, with objects bearing a solid identity. Local products manage to create emotional bonds, which foreign design hardly builds. Between Public Projects and Downtown Dubai, and from this year also Editions, Dubai Design Week is thus a comprehensive platform, to follow the evolution of design in this area of the world.
Dubai Design Week, November 5-10, 2024
For professional and general public
Location: Dubai Design District (d3)
Size: over 500 exhibitors, 200,000 visitors
Visit website DubaiDesignWeek.ae for more info
Some images from Dubai Design Week 2021, 2022 and 2023

Design Mumbai
2024-11-07 11:00 - 2024-11-09 19:00 (Asia/Kolkata) | Jio World Garden Mumbai, No 3 & 4, Jio Garden Public Gate, G Block BKC, Bandra Kurla Complex, Bandra East, Mumbai, Maharashtra, 400051, India
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 a positive trend, with visitors rising and back to pre-Covid numbers. In Asia, Design Shanghai has also recovered perfectly in its post-Covid editions, with 70,000 trade visitors at the last edition.
Jio World Garden, Design Mumbai venue
A new opportunity for design in Mumbai
No wonder, then, that the founders of 100% Design and Design Shanghai saw a new opportunity in Mumbai. Mumbai is a megacity of more than 20,000,000 people, the third largest city in the world in terms of the presence of billionaires. It is India’s commercial and entertainment capital; Mumbai’s economy generates 5 percent of India’s GDP, 25 percent of industrial production, 40 percent of maritime trade, and 70 percent of the country’s capital transactions.
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A carpet by Jaipur Rugs, designed by Luca Guadagnino, movie director and interior designer
A highly curated exhibition
The idea behind Design Mumbai, then, is a highly curated exhibition with the best that Indian design has to offer, and some very select exhibitors from abroad. The exhibition thus hosts several very established and emerging brands and new talents, from all areas of furniture, from furniture to lighting, kitchens to bathrooms, workspaces and outdoor spaces. Local craftsmanship also includes eco-conscious lighting collections made from natural materials such as brass, bamboo and terracotta, and zero-impact designs using recycled industrial materials.
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AKFD Studio, exhibitor at Design Mumbai 2024
International brands and Mumbai design studios
Among the exhibitors, we can mention some excellent names in high-end design from abroad, including Catellani & Smith, Poltrona Frau, VitrA, De Sede, Technogym, Hästens, and others. Interesting, however, is also the panorama of Indian companies and designers. These include Abaca, AKFD studio, El Kalakaar Design, Esvee Atelier, Faso Project, Hästens, Industrial Playground, Jaipur Rugs, Josmo, Michael Young, Poltrona Frau, Rhizome, Rockpaperscissors, Jaipur Rugs, The Wicker Story, and many others.
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Poltrona Frau
The organiser
Montgomery Group is the UK’s longest-running independent events organizer, with over 50 events and co-locates in 15 countries, including Art Hong Kong, Photo New York, and The India Art Fair, Delhi. The founders of Design Mumbai are Ian Rudge, co-founder of 100% Design and Design Shanghai; Michael Dynan, also co-founder of 100% Design and Design Shanghai; and Piyush Suri, designer, brand owner, event organizer and TV presenter (BBC1, BBC2 & Channel 4).
Design Mumbai location
Jio World Garden is a premium open-air turfed venue located in Bandra Kurla Complex. Its stunning landscape, with soothing water fountains, tranquil lotus ponds, seating areas, and energy-generating air trees, is ideal for cultural, community and sporting events. Jio World Garden also features an extensive public car parking facility.
Why visit
Design Mumbai 2024 is a highly curated design fair with an international perspective and presence. Visitors will see the most innovative design, with world-class brands and design studios from Mumbai.
Mumbai is the perfect setting for a new design exhibition. It is the beating heart of India, the financial capital and landmark for design and creativity. Mumbai is also home to India’s largest architecture and interior design community, with many design studios and creative activities. Mumbai is also a trendsetting city that attracts visitors from all over India and neighboring cities such as Ahmedabad, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, Goa, Cochin, and Chennai. In addition, the fair will also have a rich program of talks and seminars, which will provide an up-close look at the realities of Indian design.
Design Mumbai, Mumbai, November 6-9, 2024
For professional and general public
Location: Jio World Garden, Mumbai
Size: over 100 exhibitors
Visit website Design-mumbai.com for more info
Some images of exhibitors at Design Mumbai 2024

Downtown Design 2024
2024-11-07 12:00 - 2024-11-09 18:00 (Asia/Dubai) | Dubai Design District d3, Business Bay, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
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 District (d3).
Downtown Design 2024: the Middle East boutique fair
As the anchor event of Dubai Design Week held every November, Downtown Design brings together a rich mix of international design brands, manufacturers, individual designers, collectives, and studios from across the globe, with a special focus on the Middle Eastern region. Known for its high-quality and contemporary offerings, the fair presents the latest collections and products to an audience of international architects, interior designers, local homeowners, and design enthusiasts. The next edition takes place November 7-9, 2024, with preview on November 6th.
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Owned and managed by the Art Dubai Group, in partnership with Dubai Design District (d3) under the TECOM Group PJSC, and supported by the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Downtown Design 2024 takes place along the d3 Waterfront in the heart of Dubai Design District.
With a boutique format that emphasizes high-quality and thoughtfully curated selections, Downtown Design caters to the Middle East’s fast-growing, design-savvy market. The fair presents the latest collections, product launches, and prominent brands across a range of industry sectors and design categories.
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The Forum at Downtown Design
In 2024, Downtown Design will host key speakers from around the world in The Forum, a dedicated space for live talks, panel discussions, and keynotes featuring leading regional and international voices in design. This year, The Forum space, designed by Beirut-born interior designer Thomas Trad, draws inspiration from minimalist, Japanese aesthetics, supported by partners including BSH Walls & Floors and Lutron.
The Forum has featured renowned names over the years, including Lidewij Edelkoort, Kelly Hoppen, Ini Archibong, Christian Louboutin, Sabine Marcelis, and Sebastian Herkner. This year, acclaimed architect and designer India Mahdavi will deliver the opening keynote, joined by other prominent figures such as Eames Demetrios, Ross Lovegrove, Karim Rashid, Nika Zupanc, and Lina Ghotmeh.
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Every year, Downtown Design serves as a premier meeting point for connecting key audiences, fostering relationships, and supporting growth in the region’s thriving design market. The fair’s thoughtfully organized sections offer dedicated spaces for various industry sectors and product categories, welcoming influential B2B and B2C audiences from across the region and beyond.
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Why Visit
Downtown Design is an opportunity to see Dubai up close in a somewhat out-of-the-ordinary guise, and to understand the exciting path taken by the UAE. Investment in design, in fact, carries out research in innovation projected into the future, alongside the rediscovery of local materials and traditions. Design therefore expresses the desire to rediscover one’s roots, with objects bearing a solid identity. With a boutique format that emphasizes high-quality and thoughtfully curated selections, Downtown Design caters to the Middle East’s fast-growing, design-savvy market. The fair presents the latest collections, product launches, and prominent brands across a range of industry sectors and design categories.
Downtown Design, November 6-9, 2024
For professional and general public
Location: Dubai Design District (d3)
Size: around 300 exhibitors, 20,000 visitors
Visit website DowntownDesign.com for more info
Some images from Downtown Design 2023

The design conference at BDOW - Hong Kong
2024-12-02 - 2024-12-07 | Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, 1 Expo Drive, Wan Chai, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
The Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) proudly presents the Business of Design Week 2024 (BODW 2024), Asia’s leading annual event for design, innovation, and branding. The event runs from 2 to 7 December 2024, with the highlight BODW 2024 Summit design conference taking place from 4 to 6 December at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre. Featuring over 50 renowned creative leaders, entrepreneurs, and policymakers from around the world, the Summit explores how design-driven innovations address complex challenges and create a more sustainable future. Among the speakers at the design conference, we can mention Sir Thomas Heatherwick from UK, Poul Madsen from Normann Copenhagen (Denmark).
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Design conference at Business of Design Week Hong Kong 2024
This year’s BODW partners with France as the Partner Country, with support from the Cultural and Creative Industries Development Agency (CCIDA) under the HKSAR Government’s Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau as Lead Sponsor, and the Hong Kong Trade Development Council (HKTDC) as Co-organiser. The leading theme is “Inter/Section: Design, Artistry, and Innovation,” the Summit will spotlight cross-disciplinary and cross-cultural innovation, bridging design, artistry, technology, tradition, and modernity while emphasizing East-West cultural exchange. The program aims to demonstrate design’s transformative power in products, processes, and strategies, fostering global collaboration in a fast-changing business landscape.
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France is the country partner at BODW 2024
Marking the 60th anniversary of China-France diplomatic relations and the China-France Year of Culture and Tourism, France’s role as a Partner Country builds on a legacy of collaboration with HKDC, including BODW 2009 and this year’s Knowledge of Design Week (KODW). Highlights of this partnership include the Maison&Objet trade fair debuting in Hong Kong later this year, showcasing French excellence in decoration, design, and lifestyle.
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Maison & Objet Design Factory at Asia Design Hub
The HKTDC will host flagship events DesignInspire and Business of IP Asia (BIP Asia) alongside BODW 2024. Additionally, the Maison & Objet Design Factory will debut at DesignInspire (5–7 December 2024), reinforcing Hong Kong’s status as Asia’s design hub. BODW 2024 features design conferences with over over 50 distinguished speakers from France, Hong Kong, Mainland China, and beyond, including Sir Thomas Heatherwick and Poul Madsen from Normann Copenhagen. The program includes 40+ panels, keynote speeches, and fireside chats across five key themes: Urban Futures Brands & Retail Resurgence Craftsmanship & Material Mastery Culture & Digital Aesthetics AI & Future Tech Stay tuned for more details about the highlighted speakers and sessions at this exciting event.

The Hong Kong Design Centre: an interactive knowledge platform
The bodw+ has been launched by the Hong Kong Design Centre, built on the legacy of Business of Design Week (BODW), Asia’s leading annual event on design, innovation, and branding, since 2002. This interactive knowledge platform celebrates design excellence by engaging local and international communities. It aspires to be Asia’s top online design portal, offering design conferences, insights on emerging design trends, and exclusive interviews with creative leaders and rising talents.
The Business of Design Week Hong Kong is organized by the Hong Kong Design Centre. BODW fosters conversations on the transformative power of design and innovation, inspiring audiences worldwide and unlocking new business opportunities.
Established in 2002, Hong Kong Design Centre (HKDC) is a non-governmental organization and a key partner of the Hong Kong SAR Government. With a mission to advance Hong Kong as a hub of design excellence in Asia, HKDC promotes the strategic use of design and design thinking to enhance business value and societal well-being. Learn more at www.hkdesigncentre.org.
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The exhibitions program at Business of Design Week Hong Kong
BODW 2024 extends beyond its three-day summit, offering a vibrant array of Concurrent Programmes celebrating design and creativity across Hong Kong. Highlights include the grand opening of the Hong Kong Design Centre’s DX Design Hub in Sham Shui Po, the GBA Creative Fortnight, the prestigious BODW 2024 Gala Dinner, and DFA Awards Presentation. Other exciting events include BODW In The City, the Maison&Objet Design Factory, and the deTour 2024 Design Festival. Together, these activities transform the city into a hub of innovation and artistic inspiration.
Glass House by Chi Wing Lo at BODW 2022
Why visit
Business of Design Week (BODW) is Asia’s leading annual event focused on design, innovation, and branding. Since its launch in 2002, the event has been organized by the Hong Kong Design Centre. BODW brings together top design experts, brand leaders, and entrepreneurs from Hong Kong and around the world. It fosters discussions on the value of design and innovation, inspiring global audiences and opening doors to new business opportunities.
Business of Design Week (BODW), Hong Kong, December 2-7, 2024
Design Summit: December 4-6, Hall 3G, HKCEC
BODW In the city December 2-16, 2024
Business of Design Week (BODW) is for professionals and general public
Design Summit is for professionals – Size: 50+ speakers, 7,500 attendance (2023), paid admission
Bodw in the city: over 60 events
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Some images from BODW 2023, 2022 and 2021

Design Miami, December 2024
2024-12-04 11:00 - 2024-12-08 18:00 (America/New_York) | Miami Beach Convention Center, Convention Center Drive & 19th Street, Miami Beach, FL, FL 33139, United States
Design Miami 2024 is back for the 20th edition at Pride Park in Miami, from December 4 – 8, 2024, with Preview Day on December 3. The curator of this year’s edition, Glenn Adamson, who just curated an exhibition dedicated to Nike at Vitra Design Museum, chose Blue Sky as the leading theme for 2024. Forty-five world-leading galleries present contemporary and historical highlights demonstrating the power of a ‘blue sky thinking’ approach to design – past, present, and future.
Design Miami brief history
In 2005, entrepreneur Craig Robins and gallerist Ambra Medda founded Design Miami following the renovation of the Miami Design District, transformed into one of the world’s most important centers for design, fashion, food, and art. During the following years, Design Miami set up Design Miami.Basel, and, in recent years, Design Miami.Paris, Design Miami.LA.
In October of 2023, Basic.Space announced the acquisition of Design Miami. Jesse Lee, the CEO and Founder of Basic.Space, is now the chairman of the Design Miami board, with Jennifer Roberts remaining as CEO.
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Design Miami 2024: Under a Blue Sky​
The Blue Sky theme invites diverse engagement from exhibitors, underpinned by a commitment to design that exceeds expectations through bold leaps of imagination, thoughtful material innovation, and a respect for the natural world that houses us all under one, shared sky. Under this shared theme, we can identify several key thematic threads.
Taking a ‘blue sky thinking’ approach, the theme celebrates design as a fundamentally optimistic human activity, giving way to radical invention through conceptual and material innovation.
The Future Perfect (New York) reflects on the curatorial theme Blue Sky through a curated presentation of almost 100 new works from over 20 artists and designers, including Anina Major, Laurids Gallée, Olivia Cognet, Vikram Goyal, and Sophie Lou Jacobsen. The exhibition space continues exploring bifurcation, leveraging the concept of day and night occurring under a singular sky.
One-half of the booth will showcase works from a myriad of emerging and established artists, including the likes of Chris Wolston, Floris Wubben, Jane Yang-D’Haene, John Hogan, Lindsey Adelman, and Thompson Street Studio. This constellation of objects comprises pieces made especially for the fair alongside works that feel familiar in origin, but represent massive leaps in skill and practice. The second side will center on New Delhi-based designer Vikram Goyal, who is making his United States debut at Design Miami. Trained as an engineer, Goyal’s work utilizes artisanal techniques apparent in the rich legacy of Indian craft, to create modern and contemporary designs.
Living with Design: the bedroom
​The theme also focuses on the many ways design offers insight into our living habits. Sarah Myerscough Gallery (London) will delve into the forms and dimensions of the bedroom space. The curated exhibition showcases a collection of works from designers and artists, all centered around furnishing a bedroom.
Highlights include an Ethereal bed and accompanying side tables by distinguished designer Marc Fish, whose creative process focuses on material research. Tadeas Podracky, an experimental designer based in the Czech Republic, contributes a striking mirror – evocative of the opulent aesthetics of Rococo design. Complementing these pieces, there’s a monumental cleft wardrobe by Peter Marigold and Tadanori Tozawa, introducing an architectural presence to the space. Additionally, several specially commissioned works by a diverse array of designers – including the likes of Gareth Neal, Lin Fanglu, Diana Scherer, and Nic Webb – enrich the bedroom space with craftsmanship and artistic vision, inviting viewers to reconsider the significance of their own personal sanctuaries.
The living room
Lamb Gallery (London) debuts in the fair’s Curio program, presenting an immersive environment welcoming visitors into a living room setting. The Magnetic Midnight Maison exhibition unveils Lucía Echavarría’s newest capsule collection. Exploring Echavarría’s anthology of Colombian craft, and drawing inspiration from Miami’s surrounding coastal palette and Art Deco design cues, the furniture collection blends traditional Colombian artistry with a current Miami flair.
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The Magnetic Maison, collection by Lucía Achavarría from Lamb Gallery
Art design from Ukraine
Ukrainian artist, Victoria Yakusha (Antwerp) returns to the Design Miami Curio program in 2024 to present her new collection, Grun. Yakusha’s latest collection explores the extraordinary land of Ukrainian Polissia – home to boundless forests, dense carpets of soft moss, and sleepy swamps. When creating the collection, Yakusha was inspired to create a series of works that transcend mere functionality, to evoke an emotional response and an authentic connection to the natural world. Each design presents a unique geometry that mirrors its natural inspiration, while dark green upholstery evokes moss-covered forest hills and features beaded details reminiscent of morning dew.
Grun armchair by Victoria Yakusha
From Italy: a Gaetano Pesce special edition with Meritalia
In this year’s Curio program, Meritalia (Milan) presents the exhibition Le Edizioni del Pesce. The gallery spotlights one of the great Italian design masters, Gaetano Pesce, to pay homage to his creativity and ongoing creative partnership with the brand. A thread throughout previous editions of Design Miami, Meritalia connects Gaetano’s impression in the United States with his roots in Italian design, presenting a range of items – from umbrella racks and coat hangers to mirrors and lamps, all showcasing his unparalleled skill in manipulating unusual materials.
Under One Sky: A Global Outlook
​The theme also draws on the concept of our global community living under one sky, with galleries from around the globe coming together at Design Miami to spotlight artistic voices worldwide.
Based in Mumbai, æquō Gallery (Mumbai) highlights a unique blend of India’s traditional craftsmanship and contemporary design to present a curated selection of pieces all speaking to new explorations, narratives, and design dialogues. This year’s presentation will feature works by Frédéric Imbert, Valériane Lazard, and Florence Louisy, amongst others. Each piece embodies æquō’s philosophy: a balanced collaboration where the designer and artisan share equal prominence. Focusing on contemporary Japanese artists, Ippodo Gallery (New York) similarly focuses on traditional materials or mediums such as ceramic, metal, and wood to trace the journey of recursive design, engineering, and prototyping over the years.
New Voices at Design Miami 2024
​A stage for emerging talent, this year’s fair will introduce an array of emerging designers and debut exhibitors including BOCCARA GALLERY, Dobrinka Salzman, Donzella, Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthbert, JCRD Design, and Theoreme Editions within the Gallery program. Making their debut within the Curio program includes 1882 LTD, Anna Karlin, blunk space, Lamb Gallery, Meritalia, Mouvements Modernes, Nader Gammas, NUOVA, Roham Shamekh, and a group presentation by Tanya Singer, Errol Evans, Chris Nicholson, and Trent Jansen; and within the Special Projects program are Alexis Cogul, Mathieu Lehanneur (designer of the Olympic Torch and the Olympic Cauldron for Paris Olympics 2024), R & Company x Haas Brothers, The Spaceless Gallery, and Basic.Space Shop.
Why visit
Design Miami connects the world through extraordinary collectible design, with live fairs that bring together galleries, designers, brands, experts, collectors, and enthusiasts. Each edition of Design Miami features museum-quality 20th and 21st-century furniture, lighting, and objets d’art from the world’s top galleries. Moreover, it showcases immersive design collaborations with celebrated brands. Design Miami’s flagship fairs take place alongside Art Basel in Miami, Florida, each December, in Basel, Switzerland, each June, in Paris, France, each October in conjunction with Art Basel Paris, and in Los Angeles in Spring.
Design Miami, December 4-8, 2024
For professionals and general public, admission ticket
Size: one venue, over 40 galleries, around 30,000 visitors
Visit DesignMiami.com for info
Some images from Design Miami 2023

Guangzhou Design Week 2024
2024-12-06 09:00 - 2024-12-09 18:00 UTC | Guangzhou Poly World Trade Center, 1000 Xin'gang E Rd, Haizhu District, Guangzhou, Guangdong Province, Guangzhou, 510320, China
The first Guangzhou Design Week took place in 2006, under the Chinese government promotion. Since 2007, it has been jointly approved and promoted by IFI, ICSID, and ICOGRADA. After 19 years of development, Guangzhou Design Week has become one of the most important design events in Asia. In addition, it is a platform for resource integration and actively works to connect emerging designers worldwide.
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C&C Pavilion by C&C Design at Guangzhou Design Week 2015
Guangzhou Design Week 2024
The Guangzhou Design Week 2024 hosts more than 1,000 brand enterprises and institutions from 20+ countries around the world, taking part in this new format of contemporary living aesthetics. The fields are design cultural creativity, art, trend, intelligence, soft decoration, materials, and high-end custom. Moreover, the exhibition includes 40+ super curatorial projects, with new products, technologies, and trends.
Alongside the exhibition, there are other wonderful activities. 150+ themed activities covering “new business, cultural creativity, real estate, design, art, fashion, trendy toys, artificial intelligence, life aesthetics” and other directions will bring together 400+ celebrities to “speak” and guide the direction of design-related industries.
The theme for 2024 is Come Together.
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Guangzhou Fair venues for Guangzhou Design Week
Guangzhou Design Week takes place in some speciale sections of Guangzhou Fair, at Poly World Trade Center Expo + Guangzhou International Procurement Center + Nanfeng International Convention and Exhibition Center.
What you can find at Guangzhou Design Week 2024
Exquisite furniture and lighting
Various design-type finished furniture suitable for private houses and new commercial spaces, high-quality custom-made furniture; and various intelligent decorative lamps, functional lamps, lighting equipment, switch electrical and intelligent control systems, etc.
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Sansi House at Guangzhou Design Week 2023
Fashion home furnishing
All kinds of household utensils, curtains, fabrics, carpets, flowers, plants, wall decorations, space decoration art, etc.
Good life design
Space/art/product/lighting/brand and trend design related to private houses and new business formats, as well as design-driven lifestyle brands and various life aesthetic utensils emphasizing the sense of design, etc.
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Daniel Palillo x Grado in 2021
Fixed home system
Advanced fixed systems suitable for private houses and new commercial spaces, kitchen and bathroom systems, heating systems, fresh air systems, dust removal systems, water treatment systems, hot water systems, solar energy, air energy, smart home systems, paint
Smart whole-house decoration
Products, technologies and services suitable for whole-house decoration for private houses and new commercial spaces, including various integrated customized products, floor materials, decorative materials, doors and windows, sunshades, hardware, equipment and solutions etc.
Building decoration materials
All kinds of new decoration and decoration materials and products related to ceilings, floors, walls, acoustics, light and shadow, and electricians applicable to indoor and outdoor decoration projects of private houses and new businesses.
Why visit
Guangzhou Design Week is one of the most exciting design events in all of Asia. The event includes several exhibition formats. One fair welcomes more than 1,000 brands, from over 20 countries. Products for contemporary living aesthetics can be found here, blending design, trends and creativity. More than 40 curatorial projects showcase the best of new products and trends.
In addition to the fair, a set of more than 150 thematic activities offers a fresh look at contemporary living culture. Finally, more than 400 industry personalities meet, to talk about the state of the art in design.
Guangzhou Design Week, December 6-9, 2024
For professionals only, free entrance upon registration
Size: three venues, 1,000+ exhibitors, 150+ activities, over 450,000 visitors
Venues: NICEC (Nan Fung International Exhibition & Convention Center), PWTC (Guanzghou Poly World Trade Center Expo), ISC (Guangzhou International Sourcing Center)
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The Gateway: Taiwan Design Week 2024
2024-12-07 - 2024-12-15 | Songshan Cultural and Creative Park, No. 133號, Guangfu S Rd, Xinyi District, Taipei City, 11072, Taiwan
The second edition of the Taiwan Design Week, 2024, runs in Taipei, from December 7 to 15. Under the theme “The Gateway,” the event explores the fusion of technology and human imagination. Designers, artists, scholars, and tech companies from Taiwan will present groundbreaking works. These creations push the limits of design and cultural narratives, leveraging Taiwan’s AI hardware expertise.

AI as a Creative Catalyst
TDW 2024 frames AI as a modern-day monolith, sparking creativity. Like the iconic scene in 2001: A Space Odyssey, AI redefines design frontiers. In past decades, personal computers and the Internet revolutionized the world. Today, AI leads as a co-creator, inspiring new possibilities, like in the movie “The Gateway”. The exhibition invites visitors to see AI as both a tool and a collaborator.
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Innovative AI-Driven Installations
The event features cutting-edge installations. “Digital Home” by SHARE LAB and MMR Team converts subconscious inputs into dynamic visuals. AI translates these into 3D-printed designs.
“New Taipei Station: The Digital Nomad’s Playground” reimagines Taipei’s station. Created by Tunghai University, the project uses AI to adapt the station’s architecture to modern needs. It reflects the fragmented, fast-paced digital era.
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New Taipei Main Station, The Digital Nomad Playground
Other projects explore AI’s influence on architecture and culture. “Every Building’s OOTD” turns textile patterns into architectural concepts. “Infinite Evolution: Local Mascots” uses AI to adapt traditions to modern society.
TDW 2024 also tackles AI’s challenges. “Project Patching: AI & Geo-cultural Bias” critiques AI’s cultural biases and offers localized solutions for inclusivity.
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Digital Home at Taiwan Design Week 2024
Talks and Forums on AI and Design
The event extends beyond exhibitions with forums and discussions. Key highlights include:

Design Without Borders: A dialogue between Taiwan and Poland.
AI-Driven Design Talks: Insights from the Busan Design Center and World Design Organization.
Design Research Forum: Focused on micromobility, generative AI, and material innovation.

Global Platform for Innovation
TDW 2024 positions Taiwan as a leader in AI-driven design. Under the theme “The Gateway”, it examines AI’s influence on design, architecture, and culture. Global audiences will explore new opportunities and challenges in creative fields.
The Gateway: exhibition theme
This is a creative gathering where humans and AI dance together. As you step into the exhibition, a new world unfolds before your eyes.
Three Main Sections
Located in the Taiwan Design Museum at Songshan Cultural Park (Room 03), the long, rectangular space is divided into three main areas.​　　​
The Manufacturing Center
Here, you’ll find works by Taiwanese artists, designers, and industrial sectors. Every piece bears traces of AI’s involvement-whether generating content or awaiting your interaction. The intangible AI is transformed into tangible tools for you to explore.
The Experiment Field
This section features projects from the “Intelligent Environment Design” at Tunghai University. Students utilize AI for various forms of data analysis, experimenting with the boundaries of AI’s understanding of humanity.
The Inspiration Pool
Here, you’ll see recorded interviews with 14 experts. They will share insights on AI’s anticipated developments and applications across various industries.
Why visit?
Supported by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and led by the Taiwan Design Research Institute, TDW connects Taiwan’s design community to the global stage. It showcases Taiwan’s design talent and positions “Designed in Taiwan” as a global standard for innovation. The first Taiwan Design Week, in 2023, hosted over 100 designers and experts presented fascinating designs and creative ideas. With 220,000 visitors in total, it indicated high interests in design in Taiwan.
Taiwan Design Week, Taipei, December 7-15, 2024
For professional and general public
Size: over 100 designers, 220.000 visitors (in 2023, first edition)
Over 70 speakers in Design Forum
Visit Taiwan Design Week Instagram and Facebook profiles for more info
Some images from Taiwan Design Week 2023

CES - Las Vegas
2025-01-07 09:00 - 2025-01-10 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Las Vegas Convention Center, 3150 Paradise Rd, Las Vegas, NV, 89109, United States
CES Las Vegas: the technology show
CES, held annually in Las Vegas, stands as a global stage for innovation. It is the premier technology event, for testing ground cutting-edge technologies and global innovations. CES Las Vegas 2024 leading theme was “Human Security for All”. The 2025 edition takes place in January, 7-10, 2025. CES belongs to the Consumer Technology Association (CTA).
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CES Las Vegas 2024

CES 2024: Human Security for All
The 2024 edition of CES introduced the theme ‘Human Security for All’ for the first time, in collaboration with the United Nations Trust Fund for Human Security and the World Academy of Science. This edition emphasized sustainability and human rights, aligning with the United Nations’ definition. Exhibitors and speakers focused on providing solutions to global challenges impacting various industries. The exhibition featured a diverse program of talks, exhibits, and immersive displays. It showcased life-changing advances in mobility, digital health, sustainability, and more.
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From agriculture, manufacturing, transportation, games, and even space, CES 2024 showcased ingenious innovations that bolstered public confidence in the promise of technological advancements.
With 3,200 exhibitors covering an exhibition area of nearly 2.2 million net square meters, CES 2024 surpassed the size of CES 2023. Among the 138,700 visitors, over 4,800 were media members, with 35.5 percent of the 41,869 attendees coming from abroad. The areas of most significant interest included AI, vehicle technology, IoT, sensors, and augmented and virtual reality. Anticipating a continued focus on these technologies, CES 2025 is poised to be another groundbreaking event.
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More than 4,800 media representatives from 69 countries, regions, and territories covered CES 2024 extensively. TV, trade magazines, newspapers, portals, and blogs contributed to the ample coverage, spanning lifestyle, health and fitness, automotive, and other diverse media outlets.
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CES Las Vegas 2025: dates
As we reflect on the success of CES 2024, anticipation grows for CES 2025, where the industry can look forward to even more cutting-edge advancements and groundbreaking revelations.
The Consumer Technology Association (CTA) announced that CES is poised to replicate and surpass the success of the 2024 edition. Scheduled for January 7-10, CES 2025 anticipates over 4,300 exhibitors, around 140,000 visitors, and over 1,400 startups within Eureka Park.
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Key technology categories expected at CES 2025 include AI, sustainability, startups, digital health, transportation, and mobility. The LVCC West Hall will host over 300 companies, while the West Plaza will feature self-driving demonstrations and EVTOL exhibits. Notable global brands in attendance will include Amazon, BMW, Bosch, Google, Honda, Hyundai, Intel, John Deere, LG Electronics, L’Oreal, Mercedes-Benz, Panasonic, Samsung.
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CES Innovation Awards
The CES Innovation Awards program is an annual competition honoring outstanding design and engineering in consumer technology products. The program recognizes honorees in a multitude of consumer technology product categories and distinguishes the highest rated in each.
CES Innovation Awards judges are highly respected experts in their fields and include consumer technology industry designers, engineers and members of the media.
Why visit?
The CES, or Consumer Electronics Show, which takes place every January in Las Vegas, is North America’s largest technology trade show. Its only rival is IFA, which occurs each year in Berlin in early fall.
Each year, CES welcomes around 140,000 trade visitors. CES is the consumer technology industry’s flagship event, produced by the Consumer Technology Association.
The annual event is a huge consumer technology showcase with over 4,300 exhibitors.

The world’s most powerful tech event is your place to experience the innovations transforming how we live.

This is where global brands get business done, meet new partners and where the industry’s sharpest minds take the stage to unveil their latest releases and boldest breakthroughs. Get a real feel for the latest solutions to the world’s biggest challenges with immersive activations and demos. Engage with the greatest minds and most impactful brands of our time.

CES, Las Vegas Convention Center, January 7-10, 2025
Design Conferences at CES start on January 6th, 2025
CES is strictly for professionals, upon invitation
Size: 4,300 exhibitors, 140,000 visitors (2024)
Visit website Ces.tech for more info
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Passagen Interior Design Week Cologne
2025-01-10 - 2025-01-16 | Cologne, 50667, Germany
The first edition of Passagen without imm cologne aims to emphasize the importance of Cologne as a Design City. Passagen Interior Design Week Köln, January 10-16, transforms Cologne into a citywide celebration of design. Rather than being confined to a single venue, the event unfolds across approximately 150 exhibitions scattered throughout neighborhoods and various locations.
Since 1990, Passagen has been an annual exhibition and event program showcasing cutting-edge design and future trends throughout Cologne. In 2025, it will once again inaugurate the international design year, aligning with prominent festivals, trade fairs, and events. The program is made possible with the support of Köln Business Wirtschaftsförderung / City of Cologne as its main sponsor.
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Designers Fair at Passagen 2024
Machwerkhaus Köln: A Model for Sustainability and Circularity
A centerpiece of Passagen 2025, the Machwerkhaus Köln showcases the intersection of design and urban production. Exhibitors here prioritize circular design, presenting furniture built for durability, simple disassembly, and effective recycling. By utilizing sustainable resources such as FSC-certified wood and recycled textiles, Machwerkhaus sets a benchmark for eco-friendly manufacturing. For buyers, exploring these innovations offers a pathway to future-proofing their product lines, aligning with increasing consumer demand for responsible sourcing. In 2025, at Passagen Interior Design Week Cologne, Machwerkschau presents furniture by Sabine Bockemühl, color schemes and interior concepts by Paula-Lucia Brüggen and Kolorat, furniture sculptures by Jacqueline Lobodda, accessories and home textiles by Sanja Lulei, bags and accessories by Monolar, beautiful things from Plastikfabrik, upcycled furniture by reditum, handmade furniture by Tischlerei Sommer.
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Designers Fair: Celebrating Emerging Talent
The Designers Fair returns to the Pattenhalle in Ehrenfeld, featuring over 20 international designers on the rise. This platform allows young freelance designers to exhibit their creations, offering the public and trade visitors an opportunity to explore innovative design outside the mainstream.
Designers Fair 2024
In 2025, PASSAGEN further emphasizes sustainability by promoting young, eco-conscious designers, networks, and makers from Cologne. The Cartes Blanches program will spotlight talents such as Pablo Motjér (04), JBNG (05), Isabel Hamm (06), Ingrid Gossner (09), Fabrikat 89 (12), Felix Angermeyer (14), Alexander von Dombois (18/36), Peter Vosding (19), Avonté + Studio W (23), Pia Bonnen (27), Thomas Schnur (35), and Büro für Brauchbarkeit (96).
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Passagen 2024
Why visit
To experience the design atmosphere in Cologne. Cologne was the first city to invent the “Fuorisalone,” with spectacular events along the Rhine River. These included the Visiona exhibitions, curated by Verner Panton and Joe Colombo, in the early 1970s.
Today, the exhibitions are smaller, but Passagen is still a chance to discover alternative parts of Cologne, as well as upcoming design.
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Passagen Interior Design Week 2025, Cologne, January 10-16, 2o24
Passagen is a design festival open to general public
Size: Over 100 locations and events, 100,000 visitors
visitors
Visit website Voggenreiter.com/passagen2025 for more info

Connected by textiles: Heimtextil 2025
2025-01-14 09:00 - 2025-01-17 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Messe Frankfurt, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, Frankfurt, 60327, Germany
Textiles surround us. Textiles and fabrics are key players in our relationship with our surroundings, from clothing to all the furnishings in our homes and public spaces. This is the focus of the next edition of Heimtextil, taking place in Frankfurt from January 14 to 17, 2025, with the motto “Connected by textiles.” The world’s largest and most international trade fair for textiles and textile design is back with an innovation-packed edition. It also plans to expand the range of products for specific target groups. Furthermore, Heimtextil 2025 presents an interesting research study, Heimtextil Trends 2025&2026, by the Milan-based design platform Alcova, and an internationally renowned designer Patricia Urquiola installation.
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Connected by textile in platform for knowledge and networking
The textile and fabrics industry has many recurring themes, so the demand for knowledge is vast. The Texpertise Stage, for example, in Hall 4.0, addresses current challenges affecting the global textile industry; the Retail Stage, on the other hand, in Hall 12.1, offers a content program tailored to the retail sector. Circularity and sustainability play a crucial role today. The more than 50 textile fairs in Messe Frankfurt’s global Texpertise network, therefore, feature a series of activities dedicated to sustainability, Econogy. The term Econogy defines the direct link between sustainability and economic success.
Under this program, exhibitors can undergo an audit according to ESG/SDG-compliant standards and obtain a label to be displayed on the booth and online. The Econogy Finder list features selected companies and is a guide for visitors. Moreover, Econogy Talks and interactive Econogy Tours allow visitors to learn about innovative best practices. The Econogy Hub is a meeting point for certifiers.
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Econogy Hub at Heimtextil 2024
The global carpet industry
All the leading companies in the global rug industry come together at Heimtextil. “Carpets & Rugs” already has twice as many exhibitors as last year and is expanding its space. Hall 5.1 houses machine-woven carpets, fibers, yarns, and technologies for the carpet industry. In addition to Hall 5 (5.0 and 5.1), “Carpets & Rugs” occupies Hall 3.0, complementing products from the Wall Decoration and Textile Design sections. In the adjacent Trend Arena, there’s also the trend area, Heimtextil Trends 25/26.
Design Lounge and Deco Team for Textile Design
Wall Decoration and Textile Design, in Hall 3.0, are the places of choice for those seeking design in textiles. Here visitors can discover creative design studios, and a wide range of wall coverings and wallpapers, paints, digital prints, and CAD/CAM systems. At Window & Interior Decoration, there are sunscreen products; the DecoTeam and its members provide new inspiration and colors for textile interiors in Hall 3.1. A joint presentation of some companies occurs in the adjacent Design Lounge powered by DecoTeam.
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Textiles and fabrics for interior design, architecture, hospitality
Hall 4 hosts Decorative & Furniture Fabrics, with an extensive range of upholstery fabrics. Hall 4 is the ideal meeting place for the textile and upholstery industry, interior decorators, (interior) architects, and interior designers. Here, you will find abrasion-resistant, antimicrobial, or flame-retardant fabrics, and all possible choices of fabrics for contract, architecture, and hospitality. The Interior.Architecture.Hospitality Library in Hall 4.0, curated by an external panel of experts, presents a selection of functional fabrics.
A mega-trend: healthy sleep
Finally, adjacent to Hall 11.0 is the Smart Bedding area, featuring innovative sleep systems, bedding and comforters, pillows, mattresses, and fabric processing machines.
Why visit
Heimtextil is one of the world’s leading trade fairs in interior design textiles. As the year’s first major event, it sets the tone for the trends that will drive projects for designers and interior decorators across both residential and HORECA (Hotel, Restaurant, and Café) sectors. The exhibitors include manufacturers of fabrics and carpets and other brands, specializing in innovative technologies.
A key focus is on sustainability, with an emphasis on recyclable fabrics and less polluting manufacturing processes. Heimtextil provides a comprehensive overview of these critical issues, showcasing the latest technologies and innovations.
In 2025, Heimtextil is hosting the first edition of Heimtextil Trends 2025&2026. Trends are curated by Alcova, Milan’s design exhibition platform. Also noteworthy are talks and seminars featuring top experts in the textile and fabric design industry.
Heimtextil, Messe Frankfurt, January 14-17, 2025
Heimtextil is for professionals only
Size: 2,500 exhibitors (around), 50.000 visitors (around)
Visit Heimtextil website for more info
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Paris Déco Off - Paris Déco Home
2025-01-15 09:30 - 2025-01-18 19:30 (Europe/Paris) | Hotel Bel Ami, 7/11 rue Saint-Benoît, Paris, 75006, France
In 2025, Paris Déco Off will mark its 15th edition, while Paris Déco Home celebrates its 5th anniversary. The 2025 edition of Paris Déco Off / Paris Déco Home takes place January 15-18, 2025. These two complementary and interdisciplinary events spotlight both HOME (furniture, lighting, decorative objects, tableware, etc.) and OFF (fabrics, wallpaper, trimmings, etc.).
This avant-garde concept offers a distinctive alternative to traditional trade shows. It’s a warm and inviting experience, where visitors are welcomed “as if at home” in showrooms and pop-up stores, set amidst the vibrant and festive atmosphere of Paris.
Entirely free of charge – including shuttle services between the Left and Right Banks – the event draws an annual audience of 40,000 professionals and members of the general public. It provides a unique platform for participating brands to engage with a wider audience, including younger generations, while also expanding their international reach by fostering growth in contract and export markets.
The dual event serves to highlight essential elements of décor, such as wallpaper and outdoor furniture, while supporting the industry’s move toward more premium offerings.
This year, the event promises to astonish with the theme “LA MODE EN DÉCO, LA DÉCO EN MODE”, presented in partnership with ESMOD.
Information Point January 17-21, 2024, 9:30 AM TO 7:30 PM
Hôtel Bel Ami
7/11 rue Saint-Benoît 75006 Paris
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Alexander Lamont at Paris Déco Off 2025
Paris Déco Off / Paris Déco Home: open air showrooms and art galleries
This year, the not to be missed new space is the Passage Saint-Sulpice – place Saint-Sulpice. It hosts 600m2 pop-up with 12 Houses.
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Dedar at Paris Déco Off 2025
Why visit
Paris Déco Off / Home is an event that has been taking place in Paris every year since 2009. Side events in the city during Maison & Objet actually began in the late 1990s, again in conjunction with Maison & Objet.
On the same days, Paris Fashion Week, Men’s Collections, is also happening in Paris: a week of events, making the city’s atmosphere even more vibrant.
Since the early years, there have always been more than 70 interior design and furniture showrooms participating in the event, which has now grown to more than 120. For both professionals and the general public, it is an opportunity to visit the showrooms, with the convenience of a shuttle bus that takes you from one showroom to another. Thus, these days, it is possible to see many different products and styles together to get a clear overview of the latest trends in interior design.
In addition, unlike trade fairs, admissions to all locations are free.
Information Point January 17-21, 2024, 9:30 AM TO 7:30 PM
Hôtel Bel Ami
7/11 rue Saint-Benoît 75006 Paris
Paris Déco Off / Paris Déco Home, January 15-18, 2024, various locations
Paris Déco Off / Paris Déco Home is open to professionals and general public
Size: 120 showrooms (around), 40.000 visitors
Visit Paris Déco Off website for more info and the complete list and map

Maison & Objet Paris
2025-01-16 09:30 - 2025-01-20 18:00 (Europe/Paris) | Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, ZAC Paris Nord 2, Villepinte, Paris, 93420, France
Since 1994, Maison&Objet (organized by SAFI, a subsidiary of Ateliers d’Art de France and RX France) has been animating the international community of decoration, design, and lifestyle. Its trademark is the ability to provoke fertile international encounters. Moreover, it accelerates the visibility of the brands that join its shows or its digital platform. Maison & Objet Paris also sports a singular instinct to promote the trends that will make the heart of the decoration planet beat. Maison&Objet’s mission is to reveal talents, offer opportunities for online and offline exchanges and inspiration, and facilitate the development of companies.
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Maison & Objet: two annual trade shows
With two annual trade shows for professionals, in January and September, Maison&Objet is an essential industry barometer. Paris Design Week, which takes place in September, complete the Paris design shows.
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Online and year-round since 2016, MOM (Maison&Objet and More) is the digital platform. It allows buyers and brands to continue their exchanges, launch new collections, or make contacts beyond physical meetings. Weekly new products showcases stimulate the sector’s activity. In 2023, Maison&Objet deploys new digital services and MOM becomes a marketplace.
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On social networks, discoveries continue on a daily basis for a community of nearly two millions of professionals. M&O is present on Facebook, Instagram (+1M of followers), Twitter, LinkedIn, Xing, WeChat and now TikTok.
A leading design event in Paris
Spearheading the Paris Capitale de la Création label, Maison&Objet is a catalyst for positioning Paris as a major magnet for international creative talent.
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Why visit
Maison & Objet Paris has the power of one of the world’s biggest trade fairs
Maison & Objet hosts 2,500 exhibitors, 55 percent from abroad. On average, it has about 80,000 visitors, 45% from abroad, from 150 countries. Of these 80,000, 30,000 are professional operators with decision-making power. In addition, each edition hosts 1,500 journalists, influencers, and bloggers.
In addition to the fair, Maison & Objet has activated a digital platform, MOM, which, over time, has become a marketplace for decoration and table art. MOM has over 480 thousand visitors and over 1.5 million subscribers on various social media.
The January edition of Maison & Objet also includes the Maison & Objet in the City extension, which involves showrooms and design galleries. The event Maison & Objet in the City is attended by the 100 most beautiful addresses in Parisian decoration, complementing an event that attracts visitors from all over the world.
Maison & Objet, Paris Nord Villepinte Exhibition Center, Paris, January 18-22, 2024
Maison & Objet is for professional only
Size: 2.500 exhibitors, 80.000 visitors (average)
Visit website Maison-Objet.com for more info

January Furniture Show - Birmingham
2025-01-19 09:30 - 2025-01-22 16:00 (Europe/London) | National Exhibition Center, Pendigo Way, Marston Green, Birmingham, B40 1NT, United Kingdom
The January Furniture Show in Birmingham returns to the NEC on January 19-22, 2025. The January Furniture Show is the UK’s number-one destination for furniture and interior design buyers. Each year, since 1990, the show welcomes thousands of trade visitors from across Britain and abroad. On display, classic and contemporary furniture, flooring, lighting and accessories.
The 2025 edition hosts more than 400 exhibitors and expects more than 20,000 trade visitors. The fair is for professionals only. Among the brands exhibiting in 2024, we can mention Whitemeadow, Baker Furniture, Alstons, Alpha Designs, Tetrad, Buoyant Upholstery, Kettle Home, Sherbourne, Welcome, Westbridge, Kesterport, Ashwood Designs, La-Z-Boy, Global Home, High Grove Beds, Seconique, Bluebone Furniture, Premier Housewares, Taylors of Scotland, Kelston House, plus of course many more.
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Workshops and seminars at the January Furniture Show in Birmingham
Alongside the display of furniture and finishes, this edition of the January Furniture Show will see the return of Furniture Talks. It’s a program of masterclasses, panel discussions and workshops with manufacturers and designers. In addition, the show offers a rich program of workshops and seminars with industry experts. Organized with ACID, BIRA and FIRA, the program provides an opportunity to catch up on the latest trends. Moreover, experts also inform about the latest standards and regulations.
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Furniture Awards
Also returning at the January Furniture Show 2025 are the Furniture Awards. Established in 2015 by Furniture News magazine in collaboration with the January Show, the Furniture Awards express the quality of suppliers. The awards go to these five key categories: Sustainability, Best of British, Design Innovation, Global Player and Superior Service.
Women in Furniture Network (WIFN)
This year, the Women in Furniture Network (WIFN) returns for the third time. It is a speed networking event that aims to promote collaboration, expand professional networking, build lasting relationships, find mentors and contribute to a professional support network. WIFN will be reuniting once again to learn, connect and be inspired on the 21 January 2025, 5:30pm-7.30pm at the January Furniture Show, NEC Birmingham.
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The Home & Lifestyle Show
Back for the second edition is the Home & Lifestyle Show, held in conjunction with JFS. Located in Hall 2 of the NEC, Birmingham, Home & Lifestyle Show is dedicated to trends in interior design. Accessories, lighting, and products of the highest quality offer buyers a selection of the most current trends in interior design.
Among the participating brands, we can mention Asiatic Carpets, Blue Bone Imports, Crystal World, Febland Group, Final Touches Trading, Gallery Direct, Kelston House International, Malini, Premier Housewares, Scatter Box, SHH Interiors and others. For companies, it is a solution for exhibiting with turnkey solution, created to be a cost-effective, sustainable, and stress-free way to bring their business and products to the market.
Why visit
The largest event of its kind
January Furniture Show is the UK’s most extensive exhibition dedicated to furniture, interiors, accessories and lighting, in terms of exhibitors, attendees, and square meters. Together with the Home & Lifestyle Show, it creates an impressive hub for interior design trends.
A whole range of interiors
Exploring the complete interior and furniture product spectrum in one place, is an efficient way to source and purchase seasonal retail products.
For every style
It features a mix of leading brands and small niche players, classic styles, and new releases from contemporary brands to suit the tastes of every retailer and customer.
January Furniture Show, NEC, Birmingham, January 19-22, 2025
January Furniture Show is for professional only
Size: 400 exhibitors, 20.000 visitors expected in 2025
Visit website TheFurnitureShows.com for more info

IDS Toronto - Interior Design Show
2025-01-23 09:00 - 2025-01-26 17:00 (America/Toronto) | Metro Toronto Convention Center, North Building, 255 Front Street West, Toronto, Ontario, M5V2W6, Canada
Founded in 1999, the first Interior Design Show immediately established itself as a venue of choice for Toronto’s design community. A significant milestone for the Canadian design scene, the first show brought together 25,000 visitors. Guests of honor at the first Interior Design Show Toronto were Wallpaper* founder Tyler Brulé, Gijs Bakker, founder of the Droog Design collective, and interior designer Holly Hunt.
Interior Design Show: a milestone for design in Canada
In 2025, the Interior Design Show celebrates its 26th edition. Through the years, it has become one of the most successful recurring design events in Canadian history. It has inspired more than 660,000 visitors.
In 2012 Informa, one of the world’s largest event organizers, bought the Interior Design Show. With 150 offices in 40 countries, Informa brings together more than one million professionals each year. The newly formed Informa Canada runs more than 53 trade shows, consumer exhibitions, and conferences across the country. Events span a variety of markets, from construction to real estate, crafts, art, and design.
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Interior Design Show 2024

An authority on Canadian design
Over the past 20 years, Interior Design Show has become an authority on Canadian design. The designer of yesterday is now becoming the problem solver of today, and the visionary of tomorrow.
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As Canada’s premier showcase of new products, superstar designers, and cutting-edge concepts from North America and beyond, IDS is the platform to experience the importance of design firsthand. In fact, in addition to the products on display, IDS offers talks, featuring emerging talent and key experts in the field.
Canada archistar to spark at Interior Design Show 2025

Yabu Pushelberg is thrilled to partner with CIOT to craft a unique and impactful experience that showcases the versatility of Neolith. The Night & Day concept highlights top designers and manufacturers in the field. It features multiple spaces, each envisioned by a leading interior designer or architect, illustrating cutting-edge trends, technologies, and forward-thinking concepts that are set to define the future of design.

Maria Porro and Made in Italy
Maria Porro will be on the Main Stage, Presented by Khayeri, on Friday, January 24 at 2pm.
She is the Marketing Director of Porro, which was established in Brianza in 1925 and whose designer roster includes such icons as Piero Lissoni, GamFratesi and Jean-Marie Massaud. She is also the elected President of Salone del Mobile, the biggest design fair in the world, which takes place in Milan each April. Sustainable development – both at Porro and at the Salone – are at the forefront of Maria’s vision, who will tell also what’s in store for next April’s event.
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Alcova Milan Design Week 2025, photo Piergiorgio Sorgetti, courtesy Alcova
Why visit
Interior Design Show is the premier trade fair for design in Toronto and Canada. Founded in 1999, in 25 years it has established itself as a platform for products and cultural exchanges in the industry.
Currently, it is an inspiring showcase of cutting-edge concepts, transformative trends, and visionary projects. The limitless possibilities of the future of design are explored here.
Along with the best-known international brands, every year IDS Toronto provides a forum to discuss the latest issues in the industry and look forward at how today’s innovations will tackle problems and create solutions for the future.
On the occasion of its 25th edition, IDS unveils a new graphic identity, by Toronto-based studio Sali Tabacchi.
Interior Design Show, Metro Toronto Convention Center, North Building, January 23-26, 2024
Interior Design Show is for professional only (January 23-24) and general public (January 25-26)
Size: 400 exhibitors (2024), 50.000 visitors
Visit website Interiordesignshow.com for more info
Interior Design Show 2024

Milano HOME 2025: a platform shaping the future of retail
2025-01-23 09:30 - 2025-01-26 18:30 UTC | Rho-Fieramilano, Strada Statale del Sempione 28, Rho (Milano), Milano, 20017, Italy
Milano Home 2025 (Fieramilano) returns from 23 to 26 January 2025, connecting top manufacturers with retail leaders. The event fosters networking and innovation, helping businesses stay essential to consumers. The global home sector faces big shifts. Buying habits, production, and distribution strategies are changing fast. Milano Home champions a “Product Renaissance,” spotlighting quality and craftsmanship. The goal is to guide producers, regions, and retailers toward fresh opportunities.
Specialist stores are at the heart of this movement; these stores link producers, designers, distributors, and customers. In Italy, 38,000 stores sell home products, from furnishings to fragrances, and they employ 100,000 people and generate €16.5 billion annually (Hoover, 2022). Retailers are becoming key players in this Renaissance: they amplify brands and guide consumers toward ethical, sustainable, and innovative choices. These stores highlight quality production, skills, and regional heritage.
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Milano Home first edition, 2024
Italian style leads the world
“Made in Italy” continues to drive global demand. Italian home products, known for beauty and innovation, reached €2.6 billion in exports last year. By 2027, exports are expected to grow steadily, averaging +3.3% annually from 2025–2027 (Expoplanning, September 2024).
Milano Home attracts buyers from North America, Asia, the Gulf States, and Europe. Carefully selected by Milano Home Brand Ambassadors, these buyers seek the best of Italian design: for exhibitors, it’s a chance to expand globally and build key international relationships.
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Milano Home 2024
Pavilions and special areas: inspirations and innovations
Milano Home spans four pavilions, each showcasing unique themes:

Elements: Highlights sustainable home décor blending tradition and innovation.
Vibes: Focuses on sensory products like fragrances, fabrics, and immersive experiences.
Mood: Showcases creative designs that bring personality to living spaces.
Taste: Celebrates the art of the table, from cooking essentials to elegant dining.

Special themed areas add depth to the exhibition:

Manifatture in Scena: Explores European craftsmanship and table art with striking displays.
The Green Circle: Curated by architect Isabella Goldman, it showcases sustainable materials and innovations.
Brand Power: Brings award organizers and industry leaders together.
Piazza di Carta: Debuts this year, celebrating paper, stationery, and writing.

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Milano HOME Academy: training for change
Training plays a vital role in shaping the industry. Milano Home offers 80+ hours of sessions over four days. These include workshops, debates, and presentations. Participants can explore creativity, innovation, digital tools, and market trends. The program provides practical skills and insights in a lively, engaging setting.
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Why visit
Milano HOME is the trade fair dedicated to the entire world of home decoration.
It’s a platform where novelty and innovation converge, in a journey through all the worlds of the home. From fragrances to tableware, from decoration to textiles, and up to concept gifts, to discover above all the excellences of the sector, between industrial productions and craft realities, Italian and foreign.
Milano HOME offers a rich program of seminars and talks, along with the exhibition. The Milano Home Retail Academy organizes seminars to train retailers. On the other hand, Poli-design organizes seminars on retail changes resulting from the pandemic.
Finally, Platform magazine manages some lectures, where architects and interior designers show their way of designing.
Overall, the fair is an opportunity to explore the home decoration landscape and its contemporary evolution.
Milano HOME, Rho-Fieramilano, January 23-26, 2025
Milano HOME is for professionals only
Size: 1,400 exhibitors, 56,000 visitors
Visit website Milanohome.com for more info
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DesignTO: The Toronto Design Festival
2025-01-24 - 2025-02-02 | Toronto, M5H 2M9, Canada
DesignTO, in Toronto Festival returns in Toronto from January 24 to February 2, 2025, marking its 15th anniversary. Recognized as Canada’s premier annual design festival, DesignTO transforms Toronto into a vibrant nexus of creativity, presenting over 100 complimentary exhibitions and events. Over the past 15 years, the Festival has welcomed more than 1 million attendees, showcased the work of over 6,500 creatives, reached an audience of 2.6 billion through media coverage, and generated $120 million in tourism impact. This year’s Festival presents bold and innovative ideas addressing critical issues such as the climate crisis, social justice, and advancements in technology.
“DesignTO is not merely a festival; it is an ‘anti-loneliness machine,’” remarked co-founder Christina Zeidler. The Festival serves as a platform where creativity fosters connections, inspiring a future that is more sustainable, equitable, and filled with joy.
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2024 DesignTO Festival Launch Party

DesignTO festival and the promotion of schools and young designers
In collaboration with the University of the Arts London (UAL), DesignTO highlighted Canadian and British designers. In addition, faculty, students and alumni from UAL and OCAD dialogued with each other and with experts in the field, talking about research and creativity in design.
DesignTO Youth, on the other hand, is a community engagement program that gives young people access to creative disciplines, culminating in a public exhibition of their work at the DesignTO Festival. For 2022-23, DesignTO Youth has partnered with JAYU, a charity that shares human rights stories through the arts and conversation. Thus, young artists have the opportunity to imagine Toronto’s future.
The DesignTo Awards
The DesignTO Awards started in 2013 with the iconic design brand Herman Miller. Since then, the DesignTO Awards has partnered with organizations such as DIALOG and Yabu Pushelberg.
DesignTO recognizes design excellence in the Festival each year with up to 24 DesignTO Awards. An annual jury of designers and industry experts vote for the ‘Founders,’ ‘Emerging Artist/Designer’ and ‘Best Product’ awards, as well as three ‘Best in Festival’ categories and three ‘Juror’s Choice’ each, while the public votes for four ‘People’s Choice’ awards.
Awardees are recognized and celebrated through DesignTO’s extensive network. Prizes accompany most awards.
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2025 DesignTO Launch Party
Date & Time: January 24, 2025 | 7–11 PM
Location: Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto
Celebrate the start of DesignTO’s 15th Festival at the official Launch Party! This event brings together Toronto’s creative community while raising funds for the non-profit Festival.
Enjoy a one-night-only installation by Toronto artist Asli Alin, preview the ‘REVIVE’ exhibition at Gallery 235, and explore new exhibitions showcasing works in lighting, sculpture, glass, textiles, and more. Dance to music by DJs Fly Lady Di and Delicious.
At the Conjuring of Roots, I Wished to Meet Me…
Dates: January 1–31, 2025
Location: Sankofa Square, 1 Dundas Street East, Toronto
Photographer and visual artist Delali Cofie presents a series of photos on five digital screens, exploring themes of identity and heritage.
BIPOC Portfolio Collaboration 2025
Dates: January 30–31, 2025
Format: In-person and online
Hosted by Gensler, this collaboration offers BIPOC students a chance to engage with industry professionals in architecture, interior design, landscape architecture, and more.
Bubble Quilt
Dates: January 24 – February 2, 2025
Location: 55 St Clair Avenue West
Studio Rat’s immersive installation transforms reclaimed waste plastics into an inflatable, glowing quilt, inspired by traditional patterns.
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DesignTO Talks: Net Positive
Date & Time: January 31, 2025 | 2 PM
Location: Ace Hotel Toronto, 51 Camden Street, Toronto
This half-day event gathers ten multidisciplinary experts to discuss innovative, abundance-driven responses to the climate crisis.
Tickets: $40 + HST (member discounts available)
DesignTO Youth: Story Story
Dates: January 25 – February 15, 2025
Location: Collision Gallery, 30 Wellington Street West, Toronto
A group exhibition featuring nine emerging artists from the DesignTO Youth program, reflecting on themes such as family, identity, and femininity.
DesignTO Youth Story Story – Lacework by Mal Yu
Dwell
Dates: January 24 – February 2, 2025
Location: Union Station (West Wing), 65 Front Street West, Toronto
A design exhibition that offers moments of pause in the busy urban environment. Showcasing furniture, florals, rugs, and animation, it invites visitors to reflect and reconnect.
Ideas Forum: Labour in Architecture
Date & Time: January 28, 2025 | 12 PM
Format: Online
This panel discussion, hosted with the Toronto Society of Architects, delves into the workplace dynamics of architecture teams and their evolving practices.
REVIVE
Dates: January 24 – March 30, 2025
Location: Gallery 235, Harbourfront Centre, 235 Queens Quay West, Toronto
This exhibition features works by seven local and international artists, exploring endangered creative practices through sculpture, installation, photography, and more.
Surface Impressions
Dates: January 24 – February 21, 2025
Location: Umbra Concept Store, 165 John Street, Toronto
An exhibition exploring how creative processes can transform materials in unexpected ways, with contributions from nine local and international designers.
The Invisible Tide
Dates: January 24 – February 1, 2025 (specific dates vary)
Location: Mason Studio Cultural Hub, 91 Pelham Avenue, Toronto
A sensory installation by Mason Studio that immerses visitors in an unfamiliar yet resonant journey through light, sound, smell, and touch.
Why visit
Some data show that the DesignTO festival has a very positive impact on Toronto. In 13 years, the Festival has produced over 1,000 events. It has involved over 6,000 artists and designers. Visitors to the various events, including exhibitions, presentations and talks, totaled more than 160,000 in 2024, over 950,000 since 2011, attracting more than 19,000 tourists. And the figures on the economic impact generated by the DesignTO festival on Toronto are really interesting. In fact, the Festival produced more than $11.3 million in tourism spending, increasing direct GDP +$5.9 million, and $9.5 million in total economic impact on GDP.
The DesignTO festival engages the design community and citizens in a positive development throughout the city. The events, exhibitions, and presentations revolve around all the issues surrounding design. Several talks, with experts and internationally renowned designers, address a wide range of topics.
The aim of the Festival, in fact, is to make the general public love design and understand its value.
With more than 100 exhibitions and product presentations, talks, and guided tours, the DesignTO festival is an ideal place to expand design knowledge, especially among the general public.
DesignTO, various locations, Toronto, January 24-February 2, 2025
DesignTO is a design festival open to the general public
Size: 500 exhibitors, designers and artists, 160.000 visitors in 2024
Visit website DesignTo.com for more info on venues and exhibitions

Norwegian design at Oslo Design Fair
2025-01-26 10:00 - 2025-01-28 17:00 (Europe/Oslo) | NOVA Spektrum, Messeveien 8, 2004 Lillestrøm, 2004, Norway
Oslo Design Fair began in 2015 as a rebranding of the Gift & Interior Fair, and is Norwegian design leading fair. The fair takes place at NOVA Spektrum in Lillestrøm, a new and modern facility near the capital. Twice a year, the fair opens its doors, thereby attracting domestic and international visitors. Organizer of the Oslo Design Fair is NOVA Spektrum (formerly Norges Varemesse), which has long experience in promoting products and services for the industry.
The next edition of the Oslo Design Fair takes place January 21-23, 2024.
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In Norway, a trade fair for interior decoration
The fair focuses on interior decoration, and products on display range from furniture to decoration, to contemporary design. Beyond simply showcasing products, the trade show reinforces Norwegian design culture. Highlights include pop-up shops, interactive workshops and seminars. Speakers, experts in the field, offer insights into the latest trends, colors and tendencies in interior design, residential, and retail. Of particular interest is the “Oslo Contract & Furniture Fair (OCFF)” segment. This brings together interior architects, manufacturers, designers and retailers. A fashion design zone showcasing the latest trends completes the exhibition offerings.
Oslo Design Fair – January edition – hosts about 300 exhibitors, and the last edition attracted around 10,000 visitors, from Norway and abroad. Visitors are mainly professionals, buyers, designers, architects, journalists and bloggers.
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Why Visit
Oslo Design Fair is the leading trade fair for Norwegian design and furniture professionals. Although small in size, it hosts leading brands from Scandinavia and other countries and welcomes major players. With two annual editions, including one dedicated to contract, it represents a comprehensive offering in the interior design scene. Giftware completes the range of home decor products.
Oslo Design Fair, NOVA Spektrum Lillestrøm, January 21-23, 2024
Oslo Design fair is for professionals only
Size: 300 exhibitors, 10.000 visitors in 2023 January edition
Visit website Oslodesignfair.no for more info
A-Lab exhibition at Oslo Design Fair

Architecture festival Elev8: a celebration of architecture and design
2025-02-01 11:00 - 2025-02-02 19:30 (Asia/Kolkata) | Atma House, Atma House, Ashram Rd, Vishalpur, Muslim Society, Navrangpura, Ahmedabad, Gujarat 380009, India, Ahmedabad, Gujarat, 380009, India
Elev8, a dynamic architecture festival by The Architects Diary, is bringing together the brightest minds and trailblazing thinkers across India. This prestigious event is set to take place in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, on February 1–2, 2025, as an offline gathering that promises to inspire, connect, and ignite change. With over 2,000 attendees expected, the third edition of Elev8 celebrates meaningful conversations, cutting-edge ideas, and the collective power of the design community.
The theme for 2025, “Building a Legacy – A Vision for Generations,” explores how design can create lasting impacts, spark transformative change, and shape a resilient future. The architecture festival Elev8 provides a platform for exchanging insights, fostering collaboration, and amplifying the voices shaping the architecture and design industry.
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Why architecture festival Elev8 is Unmissable
1. Curated Excellence
Elev8 2025 prioritizes quality with its carefully curated sessions, featuring thought leaders, celebrated architects, and industry experts. Explore the latest trends, tackle pressing challenges, and dive into innovative solutions transforming the design world.
2. Immersive Experiences
Step beyond traditional events with hands-on workshops, experiential installations, and tech-driven showcases. Engage directly with pioneering ideas and solutions designed to redefine design and architecture.
3. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration
Elev8 bridges architects, designers, builders, engineers, and brands, fostering meaningful conversations and partnerships that spark actionable insights.
4. Future-Forward Focus
This year’s architecture festival highlights sustainability, emerging technologies, and cutting-edge practices. Elev8 is the hub for future-oriented professionals committed to shaping the future of architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC).
5. Unmatched Networking Opportunities
With a meticulously curated attendee profile, Elev8 facilitates one-on-one networking, connecting top-tier professionals, brands, and influencers in meaningful and impactful ways.
6. Festival-Like Atmosphere
Blending learning with celebration, Elev8 offers a vibrant, creative environment. From interactive design showcases to cultural performances, this event is more than a festival—it’s an experience that inspires.
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Stockholm Design Week
2025-02-03 - 2025-02-09 | Stockholm, 12530, Sweden
Stockholm Design Week, started in 2002 by the Stockholm Furniture Fair, highlights Scandinavian design and attracts buyers, architects, designers, and journalists. The 2025 edition runs from February 3–9, featuring open studios, showrooms, exhibitions, and workshops.
Led by newly appointed managing director Daniel Heckscher, the 2025 edition is visually defined by the work of Finnish textile artist Kustaa Saksi, setting the tone for a dynamic and inspiring week.
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Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024
One of the key highlights of the event is the Stockholm Furniture Fair, held at Stockholmsmässan, which serves as a central hub for professionals and enthusiasts alike.
Stockholm Design Week 2925 main events
Spanish furniture brand Andreu World will host a showroom to unveil its latest collections, including the launch of the Calma Lounge by industrial designer Benjamin Hubert on February 5. Other featured collections include collaborations with renowned designers Philippe Starck, Patricia Urquiola, and Alfredo Häberli.
Benjamin Hubert
The Claesson Koivisto Rune exhibition will present contemporary designs from the Swedish studio alongside historical pieces from Jackson Design’s archives, with works by iconic designers like Hans Wegner, Alvar Aalto, and Gio Ponti. Visitors can also view the Hand Suite collection, a handcrafted dining set created by a Japanese master cabinetmaker. Swedish design brand Bolon will open its showroom, inviting attendees to explore its innovative rugs and materials through interactive activities and presentations. Svenskt Tenn will display a collection of upcycled rugs made from salvaged textiles, originally designed by modernist architect Josef Frank. This collaboration with Vandra Rugs highlights the artistry of weaving and celebrates Frank’s bold, colorful patterns, such as the Delhi print.
Bolon showroom in Stockholm
NK Interior will present the “Made in Sweden” exhibition, emphasizing local production, sustainability, and the use of high-quality materials. The exhibition will feature works by notable designers such as Monica Förster, Pia Wallén, and Jonas Bohlin, as well as pieces by Lukas Carpelan, a recipient of the 2025 Together scholarship. This initiative, created by NK Interior founder Kadi Harjak, highlights the collaboration with Kasthall, Sweden’s oldest rug brand.
Exhibition Made in Sweden 2024
Through its diverse programming, Stockholm Design Week 2025 offers a vibrant blend of contemporary innovation and historical craftsmanship, fostering connections and inspiring creativity across the global design community.

Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair
2025-02-04 09:00 - 2025-02-08 17:00 (Europe/Stockholm) | Stockholmsmässan, Mässvägen 1, Stockholm, 125 80, Sweden
The Stockholm Furniture Fair began in 1952 as a showcase of Scandinavian design. From 1951 to the present, in more than seventy years, the Stockholm Furniture Light Fair has gone from being a local furniture fair to a world-renowned event. And exhibitors have adapted, becoming increasingly international, as have visitors.
The next edition takes place February 4-8, 2025.

Stages of evolution
1950s
In 1951, the first furniture presentation took place in S:t Eriksmässan. Before long, Scandinavian manufacturers were also presenting at the new furniture fair, Svenska möbelmässan, in Stockholm.
1960s
The Fair already had about 300 exhibitors. The products on display were mainly residential furniture, objects and accessories.
1970s
In 1970, S:t Eriksmässan moved to a new location in Älvsjö, and after a couple of years, changed its name to Stockholmsmässan. The furniture fair debuted at the new location in 1971.
1980s
Students from Konstfack (Stockholm University of Arts, Crafts, and Design) made their debut, and furniture for public spaces increased their presence at the Fair. In the mid-1980s, the exhibition space reached 45,000 square meters; today, it has grown to 70,000 square meters.
Farming Architects at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024
The Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair
1990s
In 1995, for the first time, the Northern Light Fair ran in parallel with the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Furniture for public spaces occupied an increasing amount of space, and the Fair became a leader in Scandinavia.
2002
In 2002, the Stockholm Design Week was started to complement the Fair. Thus, the second week of February became the most important week of the year for Scandinavian design.
2003
It was the year of the first Greenhouse, the arena for emerging designers and design schools. In Greenhouse, there are prototypes of young people seeking manufacturers on show.
2004
In 2004, the Stockholm Furniture Fair invited an internationally acclaimed designer to create a lounge in the Entrance Hall for the first time. From 2004 onward, each year, the Stockholm Design Fair invited a different designer as a Guest of Honor.
2010s
In 2010, the Fair redesigned Hall A, and the size of the fair increased. International presence has been expanding year by year.
2014
In conjunction with the Fair, the Stockholm Design Talks have been launched. The lectures are attended by various figures who excel in design and architecture.
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Reading Room by Formafantasma at Stockholm Furniture Fair 2024
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair 2025
After a forced three-year hiatus due to the pandemic, the Stockholm Furniture Fair returned to full capacity in 2023. In the meantime, it also adopted a new name, Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair. In 2023, the Fair invited Sweden’s first guest of honor, the design studio Front. The Guest of Honor 2024 was Formafantasma, and the Guest of Honor 2025 is Faye Toogood. Also, in 2023, it debuted the new Älvsjö Gård platform, which showcases limited-edition experimental design. In 2024 and 2025 the programme includes also Green House, the international platform for up-and-coming designers at the Stockholm Furniture Fair. Also in 2025, is coming back the design Bar, designed by Emma Olbers and All Matter Studio.
Why visit
The Stockholm Furniture Fair is Scandinavia’s most important furniture and design fair. In addition to exhibiting products, the Fair features a rich program of talks. Its various cultural programs and lectures make it an ideal platform for professional development. The new concept, The Nude Edition, allows for enriching education in booth design. The Greenhouse platform also makes it possible to learn about trends among young designers and in schools.
Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair, February 4-8, 2025
Stockholm Furniture Fair is for professionals; on last day, Saturday february 10, is open to the public
Size: 270 exhibitors, over 18,000 visitors in 2024
Visit StockholmFurnitureFair website for more info

Surface Design Show London
2025-02-04 16:00 - 2025-02-06 17:00 (Europe/London) | Business Design Center, 52 Upper Street, London, N1 0QH, United Kingdom
The Surface Design Show is a design event in London, focusing exclusively on interior and exterior surfaces. Founded in 2005, the Surface Design Show London is the perfect spot to showcase your products to an audience of architects, interior designers, and specifiers.
It takes place in Business Design Centre London, and the next edition runs February 4-6, 2025. The exhibitors come from the United Kingdom and abroad. They are related to the sectors of graphic design, plastics industry, architecture, building materials, multimedia art, cinema, industrial fairs, construction, and electronics.
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More than 180 companies will gather at the event to showcase flooring, ceiling systems, carpets, façades, recyclable surfaces, roofing, coatings, tiles, architectural lighting, and much more. The 2025 edition expects over 180 exhibitors and 6,000 professional visitors.
Focusing on the core market, the Surface Design Show hosts in London exhibitors who inspire others throughout their live projects at the event. On top of the exhibitors, the show consists of seminars and presentations, featuring over 40 experts.
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2025 Highlights
The theme for 2025 is Creative Conscience. Here, some highlights from 2025 edition:
Surface Spotlight. This year, we are excited to celebrate the intersection between future-thinking design and creativity. Surfaces and finishes explore technological developments while retaining the human touch, bringing life into our environments.
Stone Knowledge Hub, in collaboration with Stone Federation GB
The Stone Knowledge Hub is returning to the 2025 Surface Design Show for its 9th year running. Located at the heart of the show, this hub presents natural stones for interior design.
Designers Hub
Innovation Gallery, featuring showcases from The Royal College of Arts and GREEN GRADS. A showcase of the newest innovations in material design, hosted on the gallery level at Surface Design Show 2025.
• The Royal College of Arts will exhibit work from groups of both students and alumni, presenting a fantastic display of forward-thinking design.
• GREEN GRADS will feature eight graduates from UK universities, with projects addressing some of the world’s most pressing eco-issues.
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2025 Highlights
Main Stage Program
Featuring 40 expert speakers across multiple sessions.
Surface Design Awards
For over 13 years, the Surface Design Awards have been the ultimate celebration of creativity and excellence in surface design.
The 2025 event takes place on Wednesday, 5 February 2025.
Italian Pavilion
Presented by ITA – Italian Trade Agency – the Italian Trade Agency (ITA) is a governmental agency supporting Italian businesses abroad while promoting foreign investment in Italy. In partnership with Confindustria Marmomacchine, ITA is pleased to present 14 Italian marble companies, showcasing their stunning collections at stands 471/460/450.
Why Visit?
Over 6,000 senior professionals in the interior design community will gather to explore the very best in surface know-how. Engage with over 180 exhibiting companies showcasing an array of products from across the globe.
Learn from over 40 industry experts within our comprehensive speaker program to enrich your professional knowledge.
Get close to the best beautiful natural stone in the Stone Knowledge Hub, with Great Britain’s and Italy’s pavilions.
Discover the next big thing in the Innovation Gallery section, by connecting with up-and-coming designers with fresh perspectives and ground-breaking ideas.
Experience a hands-on encounter with innovative and tactile products at Surface Spotlight Live.
Surface Design Show, February 4-6, 2025
Surface Design Show is for professionals only
Size: 180 exhibitors, 6,000 visitors in 2024
Visit SurfaceDesignShow website for more info

The Madrid Design Festival
2025-02-06 - 2025-03-15 | Madrid, Madrid, 28001, Spain
February 6 to 15 March, 2025: these are the dates of Madrid Design Festival, now in its eighth edition. The festival transforms Madrid into the capital of design, cementing its privileged position on the international stage. The Madrid Design Festival 2025 event will spotlight Berlin as the invited city and feature around 200 activities, 20 exhibitions, and more than 80 OFF spaces, Open Studios, and showrooms.
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Madrid Design Festival 2024
Madrid Design Festival: a long running-project
The Madrid Design Festival is a long-running project that spreads throughout the city. A design festival becomes the best tool for democratizing design, and to convey the importance of a discipline that transforms our daily lives. A language that generates methodologies, changes mindsets, positively modifies our environment and, most importantly, redesigns the world.
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Castilla La Mancha exhibition, 2024
A festival rich in events and renowned guests
The Festival is an event rich in ambitious proposals, putting design on the city’s cultural calendar. The many events attract a national and international audience throughout the capital for both exhibitions and educational activities. The Madrid Design Festival’s cross-disciplinary program features prominent designers and, at the same time, promotes young professionals.
The Festival organization works to turn the city of Madrid into a Design Festival every February; thus opening the season in which the city becomes a leading space in design and creativity. The Madrid Design Festival, conceived and created by La Fábrica, with the direction of Álvaro Matías, relies from the beginning on the collaboration of an advisory board including independent experts and specialists in different fields.
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Álvaro Matías, Director at Madrid Design Festival. Photo Madrid Design Festival
Since its first edition in 2028, the Madrid Design Festival has established itself as an international design event. Thanks to 48 exhibitions, 25 brands, and more than 200 initiatives with 320 professionals, by 2018 the Festival had already attracted more than 160,000 visitors. Today, nearly 500,000 people participate in each edition, along with 100 brands and institutions and 700 professionals.
The Madrid Design Awards at Madrid Design Festival
The Madrid Design Awards honor the world’s most outstanding designs, celebrating excellence through the festival’s prestigious accolades. These awards have showcased the visionary work of design luminaries such as Miguel Milá, Piet Hein Eek, Irma Boom, Gaetano Pesce, El Último Grito, Giorgetto Giugiaro, Neri&Hu, Bruno Monguzzi, Jaime Hayón, Selgascano, Patricia Urquiola, Peter Saville, Hella Jongerius, Curro Claret, and Stefano Boeri—distinguished winners of recent editions.
The dates of the next Madrid Design Festival are February 6-March 15, 2025. It hosts over 200 events, including exhibitions, installations, talks and more. One hundred seventy-seven brands and institutions and 700 professionals will participate.
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Designers awarded in 2024
Madrid Design Festival 2025
The 2025 edition of Madrid Design Festival presents a program structured around distinct themes. Madrid Diseña serves as an umbrella for all private and public initiatives that promote visibility for design. It incorporates exhibitions, showrooms, open studios, and a range of activities aimed at exploring the future of design.
Tejiendo Redes emphasizes visibility and value, focusing on often-overlooked areas where design plays a crucial role. It also fosters connections between cities, professionals, industries, and institutions, illustrating the power of collaboration and shared vision.
Fiesta Design celebrates design as a sensory experience, featuring installations, workshops, exhibitions, and brand and institutional presentations that merge seamlessly with creative expression.
Diseñoesfera unites business and design, providing an environment where new projects can flourish. This segment focuses on the professional sector, promoting activities that nurture the design ecosystem, stimulate economic and cultural growth, and create opportunities for industry professionals. It underscores design as a catalyst for business transformation, economic progress, and innovation.
Why visit
To experience Madrid in a different and more vibrant atmosphere. The Madrid Design Festival is an event that can be experienced at different levels. There is the MadridDesignPro platform, which charges an entrance fee and features talks by many internationally renowned architects and designers.
Then, there’s the Festival OFF, where showrooms, design galleries, stores, studios, workshops, restaurants, and pop-up venues highlight their uniqueness and offer different events. There are exhibitions, installations, and product launches here, which can also be of interest to a more general audience, and they are free.
In addition, there are other various other installations and exhibitions linked to different institutions, which create opportunities for social and cultural deepening.
Madrid Design Festival, February 6-March 15, 2024
Madrid Design Festival is both for professionals and general public
MadridDesignPro is the talks program, February 19th to 22nd, paid entry fee
Festival OFF is the large program of exhibitions, open to the public, free of charge
Size: 200 brands and institutions, 700 professionals
Around 500,000 visitors
Visit MadridDesignFestival website for more info

Courmayeur Design Weekend
2025-02-06 - 2025-02-09 | Courmayeur, Courmayeur, 11013, Italy
The fifth edition of the Courmayeur Design Week-end will once again transform Courmayeur, its mountains, and valleys into a showcase for Italian and international design, from February 6 to 9, 2025. As every year, the region will not only provide a backdrop but will be a central part of the prestigious event, bringing design to this alpine location, far from the typical urban setting. Courmayeur Design Weekend is organized by Paola Silva Coronel in partnership with Courmayeur Mont Blanc, under the patronage of the Industrial Design Association, Altagamma Foundation, the Architects’ Order, and in collaboration with Courmayeur Mont Blanc Funivie and Skyway Monte Bianco.
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The Courma Beach, photo Giacomo Buzio, courtesy Courmayeur Design Weekend
Courmayeur Design Weekend 2025
This year’s theme is “Unexpected Directions,” reflecting the awareness that, in a world where everything tends to be predictable, sometimes something unexpected happens. This requires the courage to dive into life, like riding down a slope on a sled, knowing that even losing control might be surprisingly positive. The theme will be explored through installations blending snow, ice, and creativity, such as sleds decorated by a select group of architects. These will be auctioned off for charity during the Dinner Party on Saturday, February 8, at the Palazzetto dello Sport in Courmayeur.
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Courmayeur Skyway. Photo Giacomo Buzio, courtesy Courmayeur Design Week-end
Many renowned guests are expected. The main keynote speaker for 2025 will be Alberto Meda, an engineer and industrial designer, winner of numerous awards including 6 Compasso d’Oro, 6 Red Dot Awards, and Designer of the Year 1999. He has curated and participated in exhibitions from Tokyo to New York’s MoMA and Milan’s Triennale. Meda will speak at the “Talk on Top” event on Friday, February 7 at the Skyway Monte Bianco Pavillon.
On February 7, a preview of Alice’s Flowers, a special edition Save The Glacier by fashion designer Tiziano Guardini and architect Luigi Ciuffreda, will be presented. This project aims to protect glaciers and promote sustainability, using regenerated cellulose. It features a flower-shaped pillow embroidered with emotions, created as a versatile accessory for Kartell seating.
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Why visit
Design week-end is a format inspired by design weeks, but it avoids large cities in favor of small towns and villages where local identity, history, landscape, cultural context, and even social life create the perfect setting for a new way of communication and sharing. Over the course of a weekend, brands, designers, and communication professionals take the lead in exhibitions, talks, and installations.
Selected from the most important Italian and international brands and figures, they attract a diverse audience, including both industry professionals and people interested in culture, beauty, and discovery. Design Weekend is a format and an organization that brings a complete package of content to each participating location. These contents evolve and enrich according to the specific features of the location and local traditions.
Design Week-end is realized with the support of the Ministry of Tourism, and the sponsorship of Altagamma, ADI and the Order of Architects, Planners, Landscapers and Conservators of the Autonomous Region of Valle d’Aosta.
Courmayeur Design Week-end, Courmayeur, February 6-9, 2025
Courmayeur Design Week-end is open to the public
Different locations
Visit website Designweek-end.it for more info
Some images from Courmayeur Design Week-end 2024

Ambiente Fair in Frankfurt
2025-02-07 10:00 - 2025-02-11 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Messe Frankfurt, Ludwig-Erhard-Anlage 1, Frankfurt, 60327, Germany
Ambiente Fair, in Frankfurt, is one of the most important trade shows in the world, for the home décor industry. The 2024 edition takes place from February 7-11. Organized by Messe Frankfurt, it’s held every year in late January or early February. Frankfurt has a long tradition of trade fairs: the first Frankfurt Autumn Fair became a regular fair in 1240. Ambiente grew from the International Spring Fair in 1990, as Premiere and Ambiente. In 1996, the trade fairs Paperworld, Beautyworld and Christmasworld replaced Premiere, while the Autumn Fair was rebranded as Tendence.
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Ambiente Fair: a show inFrankfurt for HoReCa and residential
Today, Ambiente is a trade show rich in inspiration, design trends, new products and ideas. The show caters to residential and HoReCa markets, with product areas Dining, Living, Giving and Working, and is for professionals only. The Living area offers all styles of furniture and decoration. The Giving zone, on the other hand, provides a broad overview of gifts and personal accessories, as well as high-quality stationery and school supplies. The new Working area focuses on the work of tomorrow. Finally, the HoReCa and Contract Business sectors express future intersections.
Ambiente 2025 focuses on major contemporary issues. Sustainability, the work of the future, design, lifestyle, retail, and e-commerce are the most current topics, featured in products, seminars, and workshops.
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A very international trade fair
In 2024, Ambiente hosted 140,000 visitors from 170 countries, with 4,928 exhibitors, on 250,000 square meters of floor space. The five countries from which the most professionals arrived were Germany, Italy, China, Netherlands, USA.
In addition to the fair, Ambiente has set up a digital platform, which allows people to keep up to date with trends and maintain contact with exhibitors throughout the year. Conzoom Solutions, in fact, is the platform for industry professionals with a directory of consumer goods manufacturers, and nmedia.hub is the content platform for the home & living sector.
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Why visit
Ambiente, in Frankfurt, is one of the world’s most international and important home decor fairs. Established in 1990 in place of the Autumn Fair, it has become one of the most influential trade fairs in the world over time. From here emerge trends for objects and accessories, in the different environments of the home and HoReCa sectors.
The fair offers a comprehensive panorama of giftware, divided by sectors. Dining, Living, Giving and Working provide a close look at the countless offerings for the home, table, gifts and the future of work.
In addition to products, Ambiente offers a rich program of lectures and talks, featuring international industry experts. Designers, researchers, trendsetters, bloggers, offer insights into the latest trends in decoration.
In addition, Ambiente Trends 25+ is an exhibition showcasing products that express the most up-to-date trends. And the Talents section gives space to emerging talents, young designers and their proposals.
Ambiente, Messe Frankfurt, February 7-11, 2024
Ambiente is for professionals only
Size: 4,928 exhibitors, 140,000 visitors in 2024
Visit Ambiente.Messefrankfurt.com for more info

Bangkok Design Week - BKKDW
2025-02-08 - 2025-02-23 | Bangkok Design Week, Bangkok, 10500, Thailand
Bangkok Design Week (BKKDW), now in its 8th year, has long been a regular highlight on Bangkok’s events calendar.
The 2025 edition takes place February 8-25, 2025.
Designed as a city festival, Bangkok Design Week contributes to the growth of creative industries and promotes Bangkok as a UNESCO Creative City Network, Bangkok City of Design. The event is organized by the Creative Economy Agency (Public Organization) or CEA, in collaboration with more than 60 state agencies, public organizations, universities, and international institutions. In addition to institutions, more than 2,000 designers and creative enterprises participate in Bangkok Design Week; the festival attracts about 400,000 visitors from Thailand and abroad.
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Bangkok Design Week: a growth engine for Thailand design
BKKDW is a growth engine for Thailand’s design and creative industries, stimulating business competitiveness. In different ways, it includes showcasing innovative companies and projects. It also boosts competitiveness and promotes the creative industry.
Moreover, Design Festival Week also positively impacts Bangkok’s tourism industry, galleries, cafes, restaurants, gifts and souvenirs, travel, hotels, and public transportation.
Bangkok, in fact, is one of the most desirable tourist destinations, but it’s not an ideal nice place to live. In the several rankings of “tourist cities,” Bangkok always ranks high among the cities everyone wants to visit. This may be because of the appeal of its various tourist attractions, the reasonable cost of living for travelers, and the friendliness of the people.
However, Bangkok needs to catch up in the ranking of livable cities due to various structural problems.
These include traffic congestion, lack of infrastructure, air quality problems, insufficient green spaces, and insufficient public areas. In addition, Bangkok faces future challenges, such as rapid urban transformation.
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Bangkok Design Week: Livable Landscape
Against this backdrop, Bangkok Design Week becomes an opportunity to invite the design community to create a “Livable Landscape” in all possible forms, from the relationships we build to the space we inhabit to the environment we live in. A city that is physically well-designed, easily accessible, and promotes good health. A city that cares for its inhabitants and offers diverse activities and celebrates authentic culture.
In this sense, design matters: a well-designed city ensures good living, thriving public spaces, and strong communities and contributes to the creative economy.
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Why visit
The festival takes place in a number of districts in Bangkok, with design and creativity potential to help promote the areas’ well-being and economy. You may enjoy the event and learn about the city’s fascinating elements by visiting the creative economy districts.
Bangkok Design Week (BKKDW) proposes the prominence of Bangkok’s design and creative works. Through these works, the festival presents ambitious ideas and new possibilities for Bangkok, now and in the future.
Celebrated in the creative districts, these creative works range from experimental pieces to works with social and business impacts. With fun activities and memorable experiences, the festival blends beautifully with the charm of Bangkok and attracts visitors from across the world to experience Bangkok’s latest happenings.
Bangkok Design Week, February 8-23, 2025, many locations
BKKDW is a large, public, event, open to the general public
Exhibitors are designers and galleries
Size: 2000 exhibitors, 400.000 visitors
Visit BangkokDesignWeek website for more info

The first Design Biennale Rotterdam
2025-02-19 - 2025-03-02 | Rotterdam, Rotterdam, 3012, Netherlands
Design Biennale Rotterdam: a bold new chapter in collectible design
For ten days, from Thursday, February 20, to Sunday, March 2, Rotterdam hosts the first edition of Design Biennale Rotterdam. This city-wide event, spanning more than 15 locations and featuring over 100 local and international designers, will challenge perceptions of design and reality under the theme: What’s Real is Unfamiliar. With Rotterdam’s reputation for resilience and reinvention, the Biennale invites visitors to explore the hidden complexities beneath the familiar, questioning what we accept as real.
A Movement, Not Just an Event
Unlike traditional design festivals, Design Biennale Rotterdam is raw, independent, and powered by its community. Without reliance on subsidies, it is built on the collective efforts of hundreds of designers, curators, and creators. This Biennale is not just an exhibition—it is a statement, boldly positioning design as a tool for critical conversation and cultural evolution.
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Co-Founder Liv Vaisberg & Sarah Schulten. Photo by Michele Margot, courtesy Design Biennale Rotterdam
Programme Highlights
Groothandelsgebouw – This is Us
A celebration of Rotterdam’s design spirit, showcasing work from multiple generations of designers who blend industrial heritage with contemporary innovation. This exhibition reflects the city’s dynamic energy, shaping its evolving design identity. Laurids Gallée will also unveil a new solo exhibition featuring an unseen collection of lighting designs. Groothandelsgebouw is also home to the exhibition Show not Show. Featuring six visionary designers – Frank Penders, Lucas Zito, Marc Meeuwissen (Dear Objects), Mokko (Aad Bos), Studio Fabius Clovis, and Studio Luuk van Laarhoven – this exhibition showcases a mix of functional and autonomous objects, each offering a fresh perspective on design. After the debut at Dutch Design Week 2024, Show not Show returns, at the inaugural Design Biennale Rotterdam.
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aSR Building on Weena – Reimagining Spaces
Abandoned office spaces near Central Station become immersive exhibitions exploring the future of design. Highlights include:

A radical rethinking of everyday furniture—chairs as symbols of transformation.
A group exhibition curated by Barry Lewellyn, questioning the role of ornamentation in contemporary design.
A solo showcase by REM Atelier, presenting thought-provoking spatial interventions.

The W70 venue, a former offices building
Baanhof – A Promise of Happiness
Once an electricity hub for the city’s public transport system, Baanhof now hosts Robert van Oosterom’s curated selection of design pieces. This exhibition explores the balance between individuality and harmony, with works by Umberto Bellardi Ricci, Audrey Large, Bram Vanderbeke, and Najla El Zein.
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The Baanhof venue
Huidenclub – Diaspora & Identity
Curated by Biennale co-founder Liv Vaisberg, this exhibition delves into the complexities of diaspora and cross-identity. It highlights how designers of mixed heritage reclaim traditions and challenge dominant cultural narratives through innovative design.
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The Huidenclub venue
Katoenhuis – Future Materials
A deep dive into AI, 3D printing, and reimagined materials like plastic. This exhibition pushes the boundaries of sustainability and production, redefining what is possible in design.
DOEN & ELLE DECORATION – Fragments of Form
A collaborative exploration of design through collage. Curated by Monique van der Reijden (ELLE DECORATION Netherlands) and Eva Pertijs (DOEN), this exhibition, featuring Berry Dijkstra, Pim Top, and Marie Bernard, challenges conventional design boundaries and reimagines composition.
Store Projects – Emerging Talent
Young designers (ages 15–18) from underrepresented backgrounds present experimental glassworks created in Design Club workshops led by Rinke Joosten at STORE, a socially engaged network of artists and designers. Their works are exhibited alongside pieces by Joosten, fostering a dialogue between emerging and established creatives.
Professional Programme (February 19–20)
Exclusive to design professionals and enthusiasts, the two-day professional programme offers:

Symposiums on the intersection of design, urbanism, and identity.
Masterclasses with leading designers.
Private curator-led tours.
Networking events, parties, and early exhibition access.

Design conferences (Symposiums)
Day 1: Design & the City (February 19)
Rotterdam’s innovative urban environment fosters experimental and socially driven design. Featuring a keynote by Joseph Zeal Henry, sessions will explore how harbor cities drive creative innovation, and the influence of Rotterdam’s working-class history on contemporary design.
Day 2: Design & Identity (February 20)
How does design navigate cultural hybridity, historical legacies, and appropriation? This session will explore how to balance tradition with innovation.
The Design Biennale’s Ambassadorial and Honorary Network
Our 5 hosts are established, Rotterdam-based designers who will help to bring the Design Biennale to life through involvement in our programme, creative contributions, and fostering collaborations which connect the city’s design community internationally.
Ambassadorial Host Designers
Anna Aagaard Jensen Sabine Marcelis Chris Kabel
Laurids Gallée Marga Weimans
Design Biennale Rotterdam 2025 — Participating Venues (confirmed so far)
Gallery Joey Ramone, Baanhof, DOEN, Fundamental, Groothandelsgebouw, Huidenclub, Katoenhuis, Kunstfabriek, Kunsthal, Multi, Nieuwe Instituut, Spazio Viruly, STORE Projects, Team Thursday, Voorhaven 57, Weena 50 and Weena 70
Design Biennale Rotterdam, February 19-March 2, 2025, many locations
Check Design Biennale Rotterdam website for entry fees info
Press and professional program: February 19-20
Design conferences: February 19-20
Public program: February 20, March 2
Size: 4 main venues, 10 partners venues
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