This is a Guide to a selection of the most popular design events.
It includes:
Design Conferences: Large-scale events where designers, creatives, and professionals gather to discuss industry trends, share insights, and attend presentations or workshops.
Trade shows or exhibitions, where designers showcase their work, innovative products, or the latest design solutions. These trade fairs provide a platform for networking, business development, and exposure to new design ideas.
Design Competitions bring together designers to showcase their skills and compete for recognition or prizes. These competitions can focus on various design disciplines, such as graphic design, industrial design, or architecture.
Workshops and Seminars are smaller-scale events where participants can engage in hands-on activities, learn new techniques, or gain practical skills in specific design areas.
Design Weeks: some cities or regions host design weeks, during which take place various design-related activities, exhibitions, and events. These weeks often celebrate and promote the local design community.
The Stockholm Furniture Fair named Faye Toogood the 20th Guest of Honour for the 2025 edition; she will create a captivating installation in the entrance hall. Known for her ability to seamlessly move between disciplines like fashion, furniture, textiles, and sculpture, Toogood’s work embodies creativity’s unifying power. Her appointment aligns with the fair’s focus on celebrating diverse design fields.
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Faye Toogood
After Mathieu Lehanneur, Designer of the Year 2024, the Designer of the Year at Maison & Objet 2025 is British designer Faye Toogood. Her Roly-Poly armchair, featuring a soft, embracing shape, was a big hit in 2014, and is the product that gave her great fame as a designer. But her activity is all-around creative, spanning various fields. She explains, “I was born in the UK to a very English family, and we lived in the countryside. My mother was a florist and my father loved ornithology. We didn’t have television, so I read, drew, and we got up early to watch birds. Nature was our playground, I would collect all kinds of things and then spend time arranging them. This still influences my work in the way I use materials. My color palette is inspired by those landscapes.”
Discover Mathieu Lehanneur, Designer of the Year at Maison Objet 2024
Toogood Showroom, Milan Design Week 2024, photo Federico Ciamei, courtesy Maison & Objet
The fourth edition of Courmayeur Design Week-end returns February 1-4, 2024. Like every edition, the event includes lectures, exhibitions, and convivial moments.
One of these moments, new to 2024, is the “Courma Beach,” a beach on the snow. An idea to use the Courmayeur Sport Center tennis court in the winter months. Courmayeur Beach will host a snow-beach volleyball court, classic Versilia wooden deckchairs and a bar with Oysters&Champagne.
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Mathieu Lehanneur , who designed the Olympic Torch and the Olympic Cauldron for Paris 2024, is “Designer of the Year” at Maison & Objet 2024. This award honors a prominent personality in the international design scene at each January edition. During Maison & Objet, January 18-22, 2024, Mathieu Lehanneur will create a setting dedicated to his work, Outonomy.
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The Mathieu Lehanneur headquarter. Photo Felipe Ribon, courtesy Maison & Objet
After the virtuous growth during the Covid emergency, the home decor market is settling. According to market forecasts, from 2024 to 2027, it will grow by more than 4% in value.
Discover Milano HOME, the new trade fair dedicated to the home decor
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