The Salone Internazionale del Mobile, held every April, remains the world's most important design fair. It leads the way in furniture design, both from Italy and abroad, showcasingthe innovations that will soon be shaping interiors across the globe. This year, at the 53rd edition, more than 300,000 visitors (including 5,620 members of the press) attended the fair on the outskirts of Milan, where almost 1,400 exhibitors displayed their latest products. One of the main attractions was an exhibition called Where Architects Live, for which eight leading architects-including Zaha Hadid, Shigeru Ban, and David Chipperfield-created their own room installations exploring how we inhabit domestic spaces today. Big-picture trends -such as nostalgic reinterpretations of the 1950s and 1980s, futuristic iridescent surfaces seemingly covered in gasoline or oil spills, and wood and natural stones, like marble-all showcase the designs that will be findingtheir way into homes a year or so from now. Next edition: April 14-19, 2015.
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