Trade Shows & Events

How are commercial furniture manufacturers responding to this need despite President Donald Trump’s decision to take the U.S. out of the Paris Accord? “Every company, no matter its size, is responsible for its footprint on the planet,” American furniture brand Jasper Group included in their statement on sustainability. Many U.S. commercial furniture manufacturers h...

It requires better risk management, higher cleanliness standards and consideration of how different types of users, from patient to staff, visitor to cleaner, will interact with the design. In addition, recovery can be linked to a patient’s positive association with their surroundings. “Healing is tied to physical environment and what overall experience is created,” B...

This exclusive event, organized by Bomond, brought the most influential Russian architects and designers together in its flagship store in Krasnodar (Russia) so that they could become acquainted with the infinite possibilities in design, handling, processing, and installation of the XLIGHT large format porcelain tile. Once again, URBATEK - PORCELANOSA Grupo’s XLIGHT ...

As a highlight of the Qatar Germany 2017 Year of Culture, a mutual exchange of arts, culture, science and sport between the two countries, Qatar Museum opened the “Driven by German Design” show, which celebrates the evolution and achievements of German Design. The exhibition, running at Qatar Museums Gallery ALRIWAQ in Doha from 3 October 2017 – 14 January 2018, brings t...

Another edition of Maison&Objet fair is Paris was a great success for us. The most sophisticated product in the fireplace industry, our new FLA3 XL Suite Logs had its premiere in Paris. All visitors were amazed with the technology as well as new design.

During the 2017 edition of Euroluce, the biennial exhibition at Salone del Mobile Milan, 450 exhibitors from around the world created unique environments representative of their brand, evolving style and technological advances that shape the industry. The exhibit provided a resource for indoor, outdoor, industrial and specialty lighting, but most of the focus was on indo...

Darc room is a curated, creative lighting exhibition in the heart of London for specifiers and designers. Exhibition is part of London Design Festival on 21-23 September. Alongside our Carbon light we will be showing new lighting fixture Trilight. We hope to see you there!

With its 343,602 single admissions from 165 countries in just six days, the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan confirmed also this year to be the world's most visited fair of furniture design. The interest you have shown for our products is our incentive to keep improving, designing, testing and producing. For those who have not been able to touch our new creation...

Granulati Zandobbio, Bergamo company leader in the production and commercialization of natural products for landscape design, launches an international design competition for the construction of the new headquarters to be implemented in STONE CITY site in the municipality of Bolgare, in the province of Bergamo. Granulates Zandobbio wanted to embark on the road of the ...

From March 16th to 19th, PORCELANOSA Grupo was present at one of the world’s trailblazing interior design events, the 16th edition of New York’s “AD - Architectural Design Show”. The event acts as an umbrella for top-range brand names, allowing visitors to gain an insight into all the latest new ideas in avant-garde and classic furniture, lighting, coverings and item...

L&L is the technical sponsor of the artistic installation Wave/Cave on display at the INTERNI Material Immaterial exhibition in the Cortile d’Onore courtyard of the University of Milan as part of the FuoriSalone 2017. The installation, designed by the New York firm SHoP Architects, evokes the idea of geological time marked by the different eras. It uses 1670 blocks o...

Ghost means shadow, trace, semblance, spirit, soul. Only glass is able to transform this abstract concept into a physical object, and the architect Cini Boeri and his collaborator Tomu Katayanagi were the ones to accept and overcome the challenge of giving glass the armchair form, container of human bodies. Fiam, always attentive to the aesthetic and poetic value of the...

Esse-ci at EUROSHOP 2017, the international fair of retail trade. We are constantly striving for perfection to make our lighting solutions increasingly involved. Discover new products designed for the retail world. From 05 to 09 March, Düsseldorf, HALL 10 STAND B20

With a renovated set-up, Lema is back on the stage of Design Post in Cologne during Imm 2017. Designed by Piero Lissoni, the new outfitting presents the newest proposals alongside some of the brand’s best-sellers to perfectly describe the spirit of the Lema’s home: refuge of the soul, space thought like a tailor-made dress free of constraints, inspired to a lifestyle awa...

Presentations at the Big 5 trade fair in Dubai underscored the importance of green building practices, including structure orientation. But creating a pleasant living environment is also important. One innovation is electrochromic window glass that can be programmed to darken, reducing interior heat and glare. Another is an electric door lock that consumes much less ener...

A peeling contest showed that a leak sealing membrane could not be removed once applied. Visitors to a decorative concrete demo watched an artist use a stencil, black paint and some fancy brushwork to apply a design with a slightly weathered look to a bench. Another company offered fairgoers panoramic views and a chance to take selfies from an elevated boom lift platform...

Coffee grounds can be transformed into espresso cups and even wall and furniture panels. Another process uses heat-molded bamboo powder to make tableware. A French designer employed propolis, a natural biodegradable resin produced by honey bees, to fashion glass-like vessels. Upcycling food industry by-products has also broken new ground. A German designer transformed sa...

A new feature was the Air Tent exhibit, large, transparent plastic domes containing collaborative displays involving students, businesses and prominent Japanese designers. Young talent was showcased through a competition to create a one-room living space. Inspired by post-earthquake needs, college students also presented a simple disaster shelter of wooden panels and a t...

Phone calls, discussions and other ambient noise have pushed open-plan workers into a kind of mental isolation. New approaches stress varying office configurations to meet different needs—privacy, intense collaboration, casual exchanges and more. A good balance is essential for efficiency and worker satisfaction. This month’s Orgatec in Cologne will showcase solutions fr...

Notions of work as play, or the other way round, typify the younger generation’s approach to activity. Then there’s “break-and-make” design—taking things apart and recombining the elements to create anew. Playful design aims to destabilize and challenge the banal aspects of everyday life. The result is unexpected combinations and juxtapositions, such as hotels sitting at...

TTM Rossi attended the event with an innovative product: the glass laminated with metal mesh. Wire mesh is commonly used for glass laminated, with results both functional and decorative. The metal mesh is applied in flat panels sealed between two glass sheets joined by polymer films or in wrinkled panels assembled into double glazing, between two glass plates separate...

. Techlam® by Levantina becomes the second skin of a special site created by the Valencian architect Borja García to present new collections during the Cersaie 2016 exhibition. Techlam® Gallery, an exhibit where the product is seen with a core message: beauty. Techlam® is a large-sized thin porcelain plate that communicates a whimsical enveloping geometry. This produc...

Award-winning South African lighting company, willowlamp has launched two new art chandeliers, the Spiralling Tree and its related design, the Double Spiralling Tree. The Double Spiralling Tree had its official debut at a recent trade show 100% Design South Africa, held from 5-9 August 2016. The Spiralling Tree, is set to showcase for the first time at Maison & Objet, Pa...

Manufacturers, retailers and architects joined forces to create designs and patterns inspired by that country’s flora and fauna—the azulão bird, a freshwater fish called tambaqui and cajueiro, the cashew—which lent colors to wooden furniture lines of the same names. Other pieces evoked brita, the crushed stone common in Brazilian construction. And an innovative line, cal...

On 22 and 23 September the TTM Rossi will be present at Architect @ Work- Paris with an amazing innovative product: the glass laminated. Wire mesh is commonly used for glass laminated, with results both functional and decorative. The metal mesh is applied in flat panels sealed between two glass sheets joined by polymer films or in wrinkled panels assembled into doubl...

This year´s exhibition booth of Freifrau at the imm cologne was dedicated to the theme fairy tales. With opulent velours, a tasteful lighting, mystical colors and a hall of mirrors as a special staging – the fairytale world has been worked out and the area got a very special atmosphere by this. Besides reissued classics also the new seatings Ruby and Romie as well as two...

Founded in 1985, Calflex starts producing articles for tap producers. The innovation of the company leads to the launch of the new CARIMALI design shower space brand with complete and functional solutions (showerheads, faucets and accessories). Characterized by its modern design and 100% Made in Italy, CARIMALI products interpret the evolution of the shower space as a di...

Curated by Héloïse Parke, The Aram Gallery’s Future Stars? exhibition brings together seven forward-thinking designers at the very start of their career. Each of the chosen designers has an unorthodox, experimental approach to design, and through these select few, the exhibition captures the ingenuity, research and breadth of skill that serves as a larger motor for the i...

The Journey of Things is precisely what its name implies. The exhibition follows the act of making. Objects begin as ideas, an inspiration that leads to a series of intricate processes before yielding a tangible result. At IMM Cologne, The Journey presented a design odyssey from six different design entities: Sarah Illenberger, Milena Kling, Wednesday Paper Works, Brose~...

This year, Paris will get the privilege of hosting the first ever Mondial du Bâtiment. Three leading trade shows, BATIMAT, INTERCLIMA+ELEC and IDEOBAIN, are joining forces in one monumental event that will take place from November 2-6, 2015, at the city’s Parc des Expositions. Over two thousand exhibitors will present a comprehensive array of products, services and solut...

Gym equipment can be an instrument of change or an instrument of torture. Sometimes it is both. Treadmills, exercise balls and weights become symbols of a larger obsession with improvement, control and unattainable perfection. But after months of disuse, they can also become symbols of our best intentions or even self-perceived failure. Body Building examines this cultur...

Perhaps the most defining element of Dutch Design Week is the reigning sentiment of overwhelming freedom. The designers don’t seem crushed under the weight of producing to survive and many exhibits spend more time examining the design process than worrying if there is a viable product at the end of the chain. What’s so perfect about this way of viewing design is that ...

Every year, IFSEC welcomes over 27,000 global security professionals to experience the latest technological innovations and hear from industry leaders. Given its global importance, Fermax chose this major venue to present a new range of products for video door entry, access control systems and solutions for home automation and security. Visitors to the stand which c...

Many compliments to our designer Cristina Celestino Attico cristina celestino for the "Premio Speciale della Giuria" at Salone del Mobile.Milano Awards!

A variety of small- and large-scale installations were announced at a press conference that took place at the city's V&A museum this morning. Among the Landmark Projects – which last year included an upside down electricity pylon on Greenwich Peninsula – is an installation in the form of a smile-shaped tunnel by architect Alison Brooks and the American Hardwood Export...

Vitra, the Swiss furniture manufacturer and cultural-commercial project, will exhibit at NeoCon 2016, North America’s largest commercial design exposition in Chicago from June 13 – 15. Vitra is collaborating with Lukas Scherrer, the Swiss-born, San Francisco-based industrial designer to present his vision of an authentic design studio. Scherrer explores both the evolutio...