Milan Design Week has become so popular that it removed Fashion Week from the first place.

Fashion Week is a more private event. It takes place on the catwalks and private parties, you need to have an invitation to get there. Design Week is replete with events open to all. The whole Milan turns into one huge design location.

We do not want to analyze what we have seen in Milan in terms of trend colors, trend forms, trend materials.

The design is not fashion. And the interior is not for one year. We all know that good design loses nothing after many, many years.

Dezeen noted interesting social trends of this design week on its site:

— There are new uses for the recycled plastic;

— Retro nostalgia (retro projects are central to almost all leading furniture brands);

— Vegetarian materials (more and more materials without animal stiffness appear in the design;

— Finished furniture – less and less exposed prototypes. The world is changing so quickly today that presenting the furniture, which will be put into production in a year does not make any sense;

— Ethnic influence of Africa (more expressed in carpets and accessories);

— Technology promotes well-being (electronic devices of the future may become more tactile);

— Design and theater (more design in the theater).

And, of course, we cannot but show you the brightest new items from our favorite brands.

B&B Italia, Maxalto — to your kind attention.