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Sober colours, cold metals and stone, an emphasis on performance; new directions in kitchens are heading into distinctly masculine territory.

A comprehensive, eight-page guide with all the essential take-home messages from this year’s Milan Design Week: Overview, Key Materials, Colours and Combinations.

In this new series we discover the people who inspire and inform colour directions. Here we look at painter John Singer Sargent.

Diverse themes were explored at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show; health, history, diversity, sustainability and fantasy, all inspired both soft and hard landscaping.

2025 Design Direction, LAND. Applications in Seating, Biodiversity Projects, Accessories, Textiles and Retail.

2025 Design Direction, SOUL. Applications in Accessories, Textiles, Lighting, Retail and Furniture.

Diverse possibilities from creativity to fakery emerge from the rapid developments in AI. Social and market signals for the 2025 design direction HACK.

Finding value in the physical and everyday is a response to overconsumption and the frenzied speed of life. Social and market signals for the 2025 design direction STILL LIFE.

Climate anxiety, nature symbolism, feminism and folklore merge to reaffirm culture and identity. Social and market signals for the 2025 design direction SOUL.