Exhibition

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.

As the world moves on from the pandemic aesthetics and ventures out once more, Swedish designers are acutely aware of the importance of reinvention. Stockholm Design Week report.

Despite celebrating its 20th anniversary, 2022’s edition of London Design Festival was a somewhat subdued event, with the effects of the pandemic and current economic uncertainty continuing to be felt.

While the crowds were back to pre-pandemic numbers at this year’s contemporary art fair Frieze London, last year’s rejection of the brash and the shocking in favour of something gentler and more personal seems to have stuck. The dial remains firmly turned to commerciality, rather than shock and awe.

The latest edition of Dutch Design Week saw an abundance of introspective projects that express a complex and sometimes contradictory web of political, physical and spiritual viewpoints.

Over 600 companies from 26 countries came together to make the 39th edition of Cersaie, The International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings, a statement on sustainability.

Back after a significant gap of four years, Germany’s biggest office and contract show Orgatec was a chance to see if the recent seismic shifts in work have filtered through to office design.

Emerging from a two-year hiatus, this year’s EuroCucina marked the return in force of the kitchen sector, building on the collective experience of the pandemic to rethink aspects of one of the most important spaces in the home.