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How do you balance respect for the past while still looking to the future? 3daysofdesign 2023 review.

Arguably the most influential contemporary art event of the year, Art Basel’s sheer size and breadth is impressive; 2023’s edition attracted 284 galleries from 36 countries and territories, showing artworks across all media, from painting to digital.

Veering from octopus tentacles to rain filled clouds, lighting at this year’s Milan Design Week was sculptural and immersive, with inspiration drawn directly from art.

A sombre mood prevailed at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, with the spotlight turned on sustainability, biodiversity and wellness.

Key themes, materials and colours from Milan Design Week 2023

A three-year pause has proved the ideal chance for reinvention, and Stockholm Furniture Fair has seized that opportunity, with a slew of fresh initiatives and even a streamlined name.

Whether it was sustainability, references to nature or even a little healthy hit of maximalism, a sheer diversity of surface choices was the defining feature of this year’s Surface Design Show.

Maison & Objet returned to Paris for its first edition of 2023, with a central theme, Take Care. This reflected broad, global drivers including the importance of self-care and care for the environment but also picked up on consumer demand for more meaningful, often craft-based objects.

Emerging from an enforced two-year hiatus, the return of Heimtexil was marked by an overwhelming sense of optimism for the future of home and contract textiles.