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Key themes, materials and colours from Milan Design Week 2023

A sombre mood prevailed at this year’s Chelsea Flower Show, with the spotlight turned on sustainability, biodiversity and wellness.

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.

Emerging from an enforced two-year hiatus, the return of Heimtexil was marked by an overwhelming sense of optimism for the future of home and contract textiles.

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.

The latest edition of Dutch Design Week saw an abundance of introspective projects that express a complex and sometimes contradictory web of political, physical and spiritual viewpoints.

Over 600 companies from 26 countries came together to make the 39th edition of Cersaie, The International Exhibition of Ceramic Tile and Bathroom Furnishings, a statement on sustainability.

Despite celebrating its 20th anniversary, 2022’s edition of London Design Festival was a somewhat subdued event, with the effects of the pandemic and current economic uncertainty continuing to be felt.