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As non-renewable resources become ever more depleted, the irrevocable, environmental and ethical damage synthetic dyes are causing is leading designers to rethink the future of dyeing by recalibrating their relationship with nature.

Continuing our series focusing on creatives with a special interest in colour, we speak to Ruben de la Rive Box and Golnar Roshan of Amsterdam- based design studio Rive Roshan about the importance of experimentation and imagination.

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.

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.

Made from a mineral mined as early as the 7th millennium BC, then employed as an indicator of wealth and status in Renaissance art, Ultramarine was once valued higher than gold.

As spa-like themes lose their novelty, bathrooms look to the bold, colourful and optimistic energy of the 70s, or embrace an inner goddess aesthetic for a bit of unapologetic, cinematic glamour.

You’d think nobody would want to embrace a snake motif, what with the unavoidable association with original sin. But in spite, or maybe because of, their dark side, the allure of all things serpentine persists.