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

Innovations and smart ideas in kitchen tech from EuroCunica and Milan Design Week 2024.

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

From poisonous purgatives to Flemish masters, this rich yellow has a distinctly chequered history.

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.

The narrative around climate change and environmental protection is shifting from exercises in deprivation to celebration and positive action. Social and market signals for the 2025 design direction LAND.

An in-depth exploration of regional colour preferences with analysis and palettes for eight global regions. 2025/26 Design Directions PAY, CHANCE, SELF & FOREVER.