Tradeshows

From newcomers Chapel Petrassi and Studio Ini to established stars including Luca Nichetto, these 20 designers, artists and creatives shone with new furniture and lighting launches – and immersive installations – at NYCxDesign. 

This weekend, the ICFF furniture fair kicks off as the central event of the month-long NYCxDesign festival. Here are 10 furniture and lighting debuts at the fair and beyond that we’re most looking forward to. 

From Broken Nature to mycelium architecture, from Magis’s flat-pack innovation to Starck’s whimsical mirror, and from Rossana Orlandi’s plastic rehab project to the rise of glass, Azure’s editors saw and loved a lot at this year’s Milan Design Week. Here are our 40 favourite moments.

In Milan, the singular “experience” was exalted with light and sound installations that spoke to design’s vaguer intimations of transcendence. But even these were eagerly consumed – Instagrammed as much…

Five fixtures from Euroluce scale up the magical effects of glass.

Judging by what Sé, De Castelli, Moroso, Seletti and others have planned, there will be a burst of vibrant colour and luxurious finishes at the Salone and beyond.

From Luca Nichetto’s glass sculptures at Svenskt Tenn to Claesson Koivisto Rune’s Portal Bar and the Målmo Upcycling Service’s protest exhibition, Stockholm Design Week showed a design culture deeply invested in timelessness and sustainability.

After partnering with West Elm as the retailer of his Good Thing label, Toronto designer Jamie Wolfond is debuting a very well-considered line of his own prototypes in Stockholm. 

Every year at IMM Cologne, young designers are given a platform to debut their concepts through the Pure Talents Contest. Here are three really smart designs that caught our eye. 

Last week, we were on the ground in Germany for IMM Cologne 2019, the year’s first major furniture and design trade show, and we spotted some gorgeous new collections by Casalis, Ligne Roset, Pulpo and more.