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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.

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.

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.

Here we set out to discover if online colour palette generators are useful tools for colour professionals or simply a shortcut for Instagram content creators.

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Distorted realities, creative dissent and surreal artistic expressions. Social and market signals for the 2024 design direction HELTER-SKELTER.