Fairs

At Orgatec 2024, the contract furniture manufacturer presents a number of product innovations that combine sustainable design with functional solutions. The new developments primarily promote communication and collaboration in modern working

The new Interior Looks brand area is being set up in Hall 3.1 – in the centre of the design hub for interior designers, interior architects and contract furnishers.

Curated by Alcova Milano: The Heimtextil Trends 25/26 opens up exciting new perspectives for the textile industry under the title ‘Future Continuous’, impressively staged in the Trend Arena at Heimtextil from 14 to 17 January 2025.

A duo of design heavyweights join Architonic Editor-in-Chief Simon Keane-Cowell at the Texpertise Stage in Hall 4.0.

The exhibitors' stands are one aspect of a trade fair. But what would the spectacle be without an informative supporting programme? Here are the highlights of the world’s leading trade fair for home and contract textiles.

Discover Mara's Italian excellence at Orgatec in Hall 6.1, Stand D050, where renowned designers like AMDL CIRCLE, Pillet, Laviani and Ziliani unveil collections that blend hidden mechanics with versatile functionality.

Explore London’s leading interior design event, Decorex 2024, from 6–9 October at Olympia Events, showcasing cutting-edge innovations and eco-friendly solutions, celebrating 46 years of redefining high-end spaces.

Maria Papafigou of OOAK architects discusses using innovative materials to create more personal bathrooms: 'Be experimental and dare to take a leap.' Watch the video to learn more…

At this year's Light + Building, the speakers at our Architonic Live Talks provided otherworldly inspiration, forward-thinking solutions and honest industry appraisals. We round up the illuminated insights you may have missed.

Taking place this 2024 from 6–9 November, India’s first design show is set to showcase hand-picked local and international industry leaders, all while capturing the creative energy and consumer power of the world’s fifth-biggest economy.

GROHE SPA’S Aquatectures Installation for Milan Design Week 2024.

At this year’s Salone del Mobile in Milan, NEFF will showcase appliances that bring both functionality and playfulness to the kitchen. Visit its Flavour District at EuroCucina or join remotely via live stream to take it all in.

Make the most of Milano with our curated fair and city guides – put together by our expert team of architects and designers to make sure you know exactly what to see and where to go.

These temporary pavilions, installations and public spaces use the speed, strength and structural capacity of bamboo to ensure they’re here for a good time, not a long time.

A captivating and immersive exploration of the latest trends and materials, this year’s Surface Design Show was the place to be for interior designers and architects looking to stay one step ahead in the field.

There was strength (and warmth) in numbers at this year’s Stockholm Design Week and Stockholm Furniture Fair.

The style experts bora.herke.palmisano. have identified three relevant trends for 2024/25, which will be highlighted at Light + Building.

Celebrating the winners of the German Design Awards 2024

Cities and housing developers react sensitively to heatwaves and are making more and more room for cooling measures in their planning. Here are a few insights from Basel and Zurich.


The global carpet industry is on the move – in the direction of Frankfurt.

Between New Work, Healing Hospital, Outdoor Spaces and Sustainability: what are the key challenges in contract design and what do future-proof textile solutions look like? Heimtextil will provide answers to these questions from 9 to 12 January 2024

Me and you and everyone we know. That was 2023.

At Heimtextil from 9 to 12 January 2024, textile innovations, materials, interior design and trends can all be experienced under one roof.

The highly anticipated second edition of the Sharjah Architecture Triennial, themed ‘The Beauty of Impermanence: An Architecture of Adaptability,’ arrives to captivate audiences until March 10, 2024.

Lighting at Light + Building 2024 is a veritable treasure trove. Experts will present innovative lighting concepts for a host of indoor and outdoor situations.

As the largest consumer goods fair and one of the first globally relevant design events of the year, Ambiente is also a trend seismograph. In 2024, it will focus on new workspaces – and bring designers and producers even closer together with new

In this monthly format, we bring you the must-see projects and articles you may have missed over the last four weeks on Architonic. Featured in November: private and public spaces for the senses, a reimagined architecture archetype and an exclusive

Material innovation has become well established as a guiding principle of contemporary design. But in Eindhoven, one tried-and-tested building element in particular received not one, but multiple original modernisations.

Ambiente 2024 marks new beginnings that stimulate inspiration.

TOURS, TALKS & TOURS, LIBRARY TOURS and LIVE TALKS, big questions and clear answers as well as an elaborately presented material library: This is how you can keep track at the international marketplace for home and contract textiles…

For the upcoming edition in January, Heimtextil is adding an important new product segment, with textile floor coverings this year getting their very own stage.

This coming January, the international trade fair for home and contract textiles Heimtextil will address a style-defining ecological change in the sector with Heimtextil Trends 24/25.

Sitting down with imm cologne creative director Dick Spierenburg on the fair's 2024 theme of ‘Connecting Communities’ in a changing landscape and why the trade fair is returning to its January date...

The third edition of Switzerland's largest design event brought together emerging talent and established names for an investigation into circularity, place-making and contemporary design practice.

In this monthly format, we bring you the must-see projects and articles you may have missed over the last four weeks on Architonic. Featured in October: architecture that reinvents itself, the future of materials and spaces to cosy up in during the

Leaves aren't the only things changing. October was packed with industry gatherings to discuss new ways to tackle our shared future – while we proudly launched our new DAAily insights tool, which will help fuel yours.

At this year's fair, six Dutch furniture makers will band together for the first time in an exclusive exhibition that showcases sustainability dilemmas and invites dialogue. We get a sneak peek at what's to come.

Ambiente trends 24+ gives life to three key styles.

At the London Design Fair, Material Matters and other exhibitions and installations across the city, designers, architects, engineers and other change makers reveal their latest work on sustainable materials.

We're all in this together. Architonic's autumn kicks off with circularity and community.

Returning to Olympia London from 8 to 11 October for its 45th edition, Decorex will again show why it remains an unmissable date in the city's interior design calendar…

London Design Fair 2023 will have the LDNdesign Talks Theatre running throughout, with an inspiring line-up of world class designers and thought leaders.

DESIGNWEEK — the joint showroom event of the seven most renowned German interior brands will take place from 24 to 29 September 2023.

London Design Fair 2023 is sure to inspire in it's much-anticipated return to the iconic Truman Brewery in Shoreditch on 21 – 24 September 2023.

Climate action and actioning innovation. An Architonic summer.

In our final Architonic Live Talk at FRAMING during 3daysofdesign, Danish industrial designer Christian Troels discusses his lack of patience, the magic of physical prototyping and why creation is the source of his most existential dread.

For our penultimate Architonic Live Talk during FRAMING at 3daysofdesign, Signe Bindslev Henriksen and Peter Bundgaard Rützou explain the reason gut feelings are crucial to their success and why they think of Scandinavian design as a processing

Next up for our Architonic Live Talks at FRAMING during 3daysofdesign: a conversation with Katrine Goldstein of Norm Architects about the company’s ‘more is more’ beginnings and why young creatives are central to their design process.

At FRAMING during 3daysofdesign, Simon Keane-Cowell sat down for an Architonic Live Talk with the Danish architect to discuss the race for height in timber construction and why insurance companies aren't fans of the material.

The award-winning projects of the ICONIC AWARDS 2023: Innovative Interior impressively demonstrate how contemporary design can successfully combine social, ecological and economic aspects.

Cersaie 2023, to be held in Bologna from 25 to 29 September, will further cement the show’s status as the most important international exhibition of trends and products in the world of ceramic tiles and bathroom furnishings and as a unique

At this year's reenvisioned imm cologne, the speakers for our Architonic Live Talks provided inspiration, exclusive anecdotes and a healthy dose of humour. We round up what you may have missed and explain how ChatGPT played a role.

Check out our Architonic Live Talks – in-depth conversations with A&D heroes, filmed at the New York, Cologne and Copenhagen fairs – for a healthy dose of design inspiration and industry revelation.

Visitors to the Minotti Pavilion at Salone del Mobile.Milano this year were treated to an impressive two-level experience, designed to bring to life the soul of the brand and highlight its long journey.

The unheard tales from Clerkenwell’s cobbled streets represent the steep path of innovation in new materials, surfaces and technologies hitting the marketplace.

Experience the new intimate and personable world of the design fair at imm cologne's Spring Edition 2023, featuring new-concept connection spaces and an inspiring live talks programme with Architonic.

Design Shanghai returns to the Chinese metropolis in 2023 – bigger than ever and also celebrating its 10th edition with an eclectic mix of international exhibitors, events and speakers.

The simple beauty found in normal everyday life was a central theme for Arper at Salone del Mobile this year, and also reflected in a number of new collections from the Italian design brand.

As the hybrid model of working continues to evolve, office design specialist Hushoffice premieres the new range of HushFree acoustic pods, flexible solutions that help optimize success in this ever-changing landscape.

Milan Design Week 2023: our dear partners and friends – both long-standing and new – joined us at the DAAily bar to mark Architonic's milestone anniversary.

A collaboration with Italian design icon Piero Lissoni, Atlas Concorde’s ‘Fuoriscala’, unveiled at this year’s Salone, takes oversized ceramic formats to the extreme. Architonic spoke with Lissoni about the creative process, reflecting on

Running from 8-9 December, The Architect Show 2023 will spotlight innovation, technology and sustainability, gathering architecture and design professionals for two busy days of knowledge exchange in the Greek capital.

At Salone del Mobile this year, Architonic caught up with long-time Pedrali collaborators CMP Design to find out the secret to their happy relationship with the iconic Italian brand…

Returning to New York with a refreshed approach, ICFF and WantedDesign Manhattan 2023 bring a cohesive and interactive event, cutting-edge design and new spaces to meet.

From Salone del Mobile, designer Piergiorgio Cazzaniga takes us on a personal tour of his inviting Raglan Home sofa for Andreu World, sharing his thoughts on everything from the design concept and forms to the seams and the sewing technique. Watch

Using blockchain technology, Ruckstuhl’s Fellow project presents consumers with an NFT of their digital rug design to use as a production voucher, and to keep as a digital product diary. Watch the video to find out more…

Back from Milan with learned lessons, refreshed relationships and no lost luggage.

Physical trade fairs are getting smaller. But even with less square footage on show, can modern fairs still offer more? Peter Ippolito of Ippolito Fleitz gives his views on the future of the fair.

As trade fairs are forced to adapt to stay relevant in a fast-changing industry, Architonic invites leading German architect Peter Ippolito to share his thoughts on the meaning and and opportunities of the physical design exhibition. Watch the video

As part of the CONTÏNUUM experience at this year’s fair, Ukrainian pastry chef Dinara Kasko will give visitors a taste of the future with her architectural culinary creations.

Once again, our painstakingly produced DAAily guides to Milan – for both fair and city – navigate you through the crowds, saving you precious time on the ground. We help you find the best products, people, and, of course, parties.

At Milan Design Week 2023, visitors to Brera can look forward to the fabulous ‘Invisible’ pop-up installation by switch manufacturer JUNG – including an immaterial souvenir.

In collaboration with a variety of creative forces, Leolux will present a multi-sensory immersive installation called Rhythms during Milan Design Week, featuring pulsating volumes, a breathing ceiling – and don't forget the Dutch waffles!

At the Alcova exhibition during Salone del Mobile, Leolux will present its inviting new Lunetta sofa developed in collaboration with its design partner Studio Truly Truly and Milan-based Studiopepe.

Dutch furniture brand Leolux may have 90 years of history behind it, but close collaboration with contemporary creative studios and designers means its focus is firmly fixed on the future.

Just in time for the upcoming Milan Design Week, outdoor furniture expert FAST opens its new flagship store - with the premise of providing the best possible advice to (interior) architects in search of the best furniture in Italy...

The inaugural edition of Design Shenzhen wrapped up a couple of weeks ago, having happily hosted 40,000 visitors and over 250 brands in China's first city of design. Here we share a few of the highlights of the event…

At its Brera showroom during Milan Design Week this year, Italian brand Falper will demonstrate how the bathroom is more than just a collection of functional components with its Living Bathroom concept.

Last but not least, in the tenth and final part of our ISH news preview, we turn our attention to ROCA and present its latest achievement – the Hydro In-Tank WC that does not require a power supply...

In the ninth and penultimate part of our ISH preview of new products, follow us on a morning walk in the woods – with a bathroom collection by Kaschkasch for Villeroy & Boch.

In Part 8 of our ISH preview of new products, we transcend spatial boundaries with Antoniolupi, bringing bathroom furniture and sculptural washbasins closer to our living spaces.

With its new WC flush technology, bathroom brand VitrA will mark another milestone. Find out the secret behind this silent and powerful flushing principle in part seven of our ISH new product preview!

Wait, did you say smart water? LAUFEN Smart is the name of a new system for intelligent and networked water management in public sanitary rooms. Here we present a first impression of it, in part six of our ISH preview of new products.

Part five of our ISH Innovation Preview puts the innovative 3D-printed washbasins from ceramic design expert RAK Ceramics in the spotlight...

Ever heard of an infinity bathtub? Bento in the bathroom, anyone? Designer Philippe Starck has created a fascinating bathroom series for Duravit derived from the Japanese snack box. Immerse yourself in part four of our ISH preview of new products!

Organic wellness sculpture: For the third part of our ISH new product preview, we climb into a bathtub designed by Diez Office for KALDEWEI that combines pure bathing pleasure with a compact shape and recyclable material use.

Effective water vortex: In the second part of our ISH innovation preview, we reveal how Geberit makes the WC more efficient in several respects.

To kick off our 10-part ISH preview of new products, we turn our attention to AXOR. In Frankfurt am Main, the design brand will present itself with its pronounced focus on individualisation and a washbasin and bathtub series by Philippe Starck.

With this year's motto 'Solutions for a sustainable future’, ISH, the World's Leading Trade Fair for HVAC and Water, signals the industry's determined departure towards a more sustainable future. Around 2,000 exhibitors from the sanitation, heating

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The Design Forum, Design Shenzhen's platform for talks and discussion, will focus on themes of wellbeing, sustainability and technology, with guests including Satoshi Ohashi, Carlo Ratti, MVRDV, Stefano Piontini, Leon Krykhtin, Robert Greenwood,

Taking place for the first time from 27 February to 2 March, Design Shenzhen will host an inspiring mix of visiting international brands together with those flying the flag for the region's local design talent. 

Design Shenzhen's comprehensive features immerse visitors in a series of future-oriented installations, offering design insights and inspiration on how we may live tomorrow.

During Stockholm Design Week, Fogia introduces its latest products, designed with renowned designers Inga Sempé and Andreas Engesvik.

We are pleased to welcome you to the Stockholm Furniture Fair. As the world’s largest platform for Scandinavian design, we attract professional visitors from over 100 countries, making the fair an attractive playground for exhibitors.

Designer Stefan Diez shares his thoughts on the evolving landscape of physical fairs while proposing a potential path forward, in the first of a new series of imm cologne-sponsored interviews…

In the first instalment of a new thought-provoking series of candid interviews on the future of physical design fairs – sponsored by imm cologne – AW Designer of the Year Stefan Diez discusses the good, the bad and the ugly…

The 2023 AZ Awards is Open for entries! Submit your best work to the 13th annual competition, which recognises excellence in design and architecture.

Ambiente Trends 23+ are presented from February 3-7, 2023

From 3 to 7 February 2023, Messe Frankfurt will once again shine the spotlight on the world of consumer goods. And with an expected 4,500 exhibitors, the new combined format of Ambiente, Christmasworld and Creativeworld, promises to be an event not

Heimtextil in 2023 will not only continue its tradition as the sector's most important trend barometer, it's also going full circle. Under the 'Textiles Matter' banner, Heimtextil Trends 23/24 will revolve around the themes of the circular economy

How can aesthetics, functionality and sustainability be interwoven? What innovations and visions are on the horizon? And what do sustainable hospitality trends look like? The Interior.Architecture.Hospitality programme provides tailor-made insights.

In thematic terms, the overarching meta-theme of sustainability will also be clearly visible at Heimtextil 2023, with its holistic concept providing innovative answers to pressing questions about the future.

Metaversal musings, bright sparks and workplace affairs – that was 2022.

Trends 23/24 at January's Heimtextil in Frankfurt will focus on material cycles and sustainability strategies for textiles – and use the analogue fair platform to promote exchange, present new products and bring experts together.

Carmelo Zappulla of External Reference brightens up Light + Building, explaining how light adds an emotional layer to environments: 'It animates a space.' Watch the video to learn more…

There was a healthy dose of pragmatism on the agenda at this year's Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven, with organisers, exhibitors and visitors joining together towards a forward-looking, sustainability-driven common cause.

Anticipation builds after a two-year forced break for the Ambiente fair, set to run from February 3-7, 2023. The leading trade fair for consumer goods returns to Frankfurt, Germany for five days of product presentations, trend spotting and

Andreas Schulz of Licht Kunst Licht highlights the use of both daylight and artificial light as resources, but also notes the difference: 'We love the change from day to night.' Watch the video here…

Axel Schmid's illuminating discussion at Light + Building defends our use of artificial light as a material: 'Light consumes energy, but you cannot live without it.' Watch the video for more…

Ulrike Brandi spotlights the role of lighting design at Light + Building, claiming we must 'reorganise our design processes to serve society.' Hear more of what she had to say here…

Dutch company Dataflex has been supporting the health of office users for 40 years, but the carbon-neutral ergonomic specialists are equally dedicated to the wellbeing of the planet, too.

Offering a vision of the future with changing needs and material availability, Dutch Design Week’s exhibiting designers present possible answers on how to create more, with less.

At this year's Orgatec, Simon Keane-Cowell sits down with the Italian-British designer to discuss the state of office design and his latest Pedrali collaboration: a lightweight, versatile desk that makes space for our new workplace values and

With many emerging and established Hungarian designers and manufacturers on show, 360 Design Budapest blends the country’s culture and crafts with technology, and puts environmental eyes on the future.

As we stagger from one global crisis to the next, DDW gives reason to face the future with optimism, not fear, with creative and technological solutions from the fields of architecture and design.

Sascha Rullkötter of SOP discusses targeting timeless and flexible solutions over identifiable architecture: 'We are not the creator of big signatures.' Watch the video to hear more…

David Marquardt of MACH Architektur explains why flexibility is key for modern workspaces: 'You don't need big meeting rooms, sitting empty.' Watch the video to hear what else he has to say…

Russell Potter of Soda Studio describes how workplaces are creating more engaging environments: ‘We've seen offices put in show kitchens and yoga studios.’ Watch the video for more…