Your All-Access Pass to Global Design Fairs
The world of materials and design is deep and wide, and moving faster than ever. And designers and architects are busier than ever. Material Intelligence brings these important international events to you!
We visit some of the most important international furniture, design and material fairs to capture the essence and energy of the event, interview the thinkers and doers, and bring it all back to you, the busy visionaries charged with creating the future of our built environment.
We regularly mine our archives for great content to help put current ideas into context. You’ll find highlights below.
NEOCON 2024
The Climate Positive Solutions Gallery at NeoCon will showcase low-carbon and carbon-negative materials and related technologies that meet the demands of commercial specification without sacrificing design, durability, or budgets.
NEOCON 2023
NeoCon is back at full blast, taking design and networking to 11 at The Mart in Chicago... North America's premier commercial furniture event!
Image Courtesy Salone del Mobile.Milano
MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023
Coming soon!
HEIMTEXTIL 2023
Anne Marie Commandeur is the owner and director of Stijlinstituut Amsterdam. She started her first agency for trend analysis under the name ‘Studio Commandeur’. With time its specific way of working, with a team of specialists, developed and this lead, in 2004, to a new name, ‘Stijlinstituut Amsterdam’.
SICAM 2022
This year’s SICAM offered a masterclass in getting “in touch” with designers and the furniture market.
Exhibitors from dozens of countries were on hand to show manufacturers and designers what’s next in residential cabinetry design and functionality.
Milan Design Week 2022
Milan Design Week is a never-ending mind party, for designers, design enthusiasts, and anyone that loves creators and their creations. The sensory overload of energy and inspiration is nothing short of addictive, whether you’re at the Salone Del Mobile fair, held just outside of the city, or wandering Fuorisalone, the official name for the several Design Districts that pop up throughout Milan…more casually known simply as Design Week.
SICAM 2021
The mood could safely be described as giddy at this year’s 12th edition of SICAM, the International Exhibition of Semi-finished Components and Accessories for the Furniture Industry. This trade fair, held every fall in Pordenone, Italy, focuses on materials, components, and hardware for the furniture industry. Organizers reported visitors from over 90 countries and 7,200 companies, all with proof of vaccination and a recent negative COVID test.
Heimtextil 2020/21
The first major international trend fair every year, with a focus on sustainable solutions for fashion and interiors. This year’s theme, “Where I Belong,” addressed layered identities via five diverse 20/21 trends.
Milan Design Week 2019
The coolest week of the year for furniture, interior design, and overindulgence in carbohydrates and Prosecco… where German-born designer and furniture builder Markus Benesch Discovers a Long-Forgotten Laboratory in the Heart of Milan.
Heimtextil 2019
Coverage of the world’s largest textiles fair, and the first design trend event of each year, where the trend space exhibit’s theme was, “Toward Utopia”
Orgatech 2018
The world’s largest office interiors exhibition happens only once every two years. See what you missed at the last one.
Decorative Surfaces Conference 2019
Featuring keynote speaker Alexis Readinger, founder of Preen Inc., on the future of hospitality design.
Milan Design Week 2018
Ventura Centrale: An image-rich tour of the design district tucked into the caverns under Milan's central train station.
HARU : Bold design for the commitment averse.
Eileen Fisher : A New Form of Aesthetic Activism, from the Debris of Overconsumption
Salone Satellite: Young Thinkers, New Design
Heimtextil 2017
'Explorations'
Commercial and Residential Textiles, Global Design Forecasting and Trends