ICFF, the International Contemporary Furniture Fair, is an annual design show in New York City that showcases trending furniture and industrial design. [1] Each year since its founding in 1989, the ICFF has hosted hundreds of international exhibitors, both established brands and emerging designers. [2] [3] Since 1993, it has also recognized selected exhibitors with ICFF Editors Awards. [2] The ICFF is held at the Javits Center in New York each May. [1] [2]
Art Cologne is an art fair held annually in Cologne, Germany and was established in 1967 as Kölner Kunstmarkt. It is regarded as the world's oldest art fair of its kind. The fair runs for six days and brings together galleries from more than 20 countries at the Cologne Exhibition Centre, one of the world’s largest exhibition centers. It is open to the public and attracts about 60,000 visitors.
Frieze Art Fair is an annual contemporary art fair first held in 2003 in London's Regent's Park. Developed by the founders of the contemporary art magazine Frieze, the fair has since expanded to include editions in four cities, in addition to acquiring several other art fairs. Following the original Frieze Art Fair, the fair added Frieze Masters (2012), also in London, dedicated to art made before the year 2000; Frieze New York (2012); Frieze Los Angeles (2019); and Frieze Seoul (2022). In 2023, Frieze acquired The Armory Show in New York, and EXPO Chicago.
Salone del Mobile or Milan Design Week is a furniture fair held annually in Milan. It is the largest trade fair of its kind in the world. The exhibition showcases the latest in furniture and design from countries around the world. It is considered a leading venue for the display of new products by designers of furniture, lighting and other home furnishings. The show, also known as "Salone", "Milano Salone" and "Milan Design Week", is held every year, usually in April, in the FieraMilano complex in the Milan metropolitan area town of Rho. Besides the Salone, in April every odd year Euroluce exhibition takes place and every even year EuroCucina and the International Bathroom Exhibition are held along the Milan Furniture Fair.
Brad Ascalon, is an American industrial designer who grew up in the Philadelphia suburb of Cherry Hill, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree at Rutgers University, and received a master's degree in industrial design from New York's Pratt Institute. His early artistic and design influences included his grandfather, the Hungarian-born Art Deco sculptor and industrial designer Maurice Ascalon, as well as his father, the American sculptor and stained glass artist David Ascalon, founder of Ascalon Studios.
David Weeks is an American designer of lighting, furniture, and household products.
The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF) is an annual art, antiques, and design fair organized by The European Fine Art Foundation in the MECC in Maastricht, Netherlands. It was first held open in 1988.
Robin Wilson is an American entrepreneur, author, interior designer, and thought leader on Clean Design, as a wellness and sustainability advocate. Inc magazine selected Robin Wilson for the Female Founders 100, its 3rd annual global list of leading women entrepreneurs. She is the founder of a lifestyle brand that relaunched as CLEAN DESIGN HOME at Macy's in 2021, and later BELK, Wayfair and every branch of the military. As the creative director of the licensing division, she has partnered with retailers and generated over $85 million in branded wholesale revenue from textiles, furniture and cabinetry since 2010.
Angela Adams is an American rug designer. Adams partnered with her husband and furniture designer, Sherwood Hamill, to launch a website, dedicated to the creation of custom rugs and custom furniture in Portland, Maine.
Molo Design Limited, stylized as molo, is a multidisciplinary design and production studio based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada led by Stephanie Forsythe and Todd MacAllen. The studio integrates the practices of architecture, craft, and product design. molo products develop from Forsythe and MacAllen's materials research and studies.
Designboom is a daily web magazine headquartered in Milan and covering the fields of industrial design, architecture, and art internationally.
The ICFF is a not-for-profit, publicly attended film festival in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, programming international films and taking place during the summer. Founded in 2012, ICFF has grown from a four-day, single-venue festival of 18 films, to a 10-day, nine-city festival of over 130 feature films, documentaries and short films.
Heimtextil in Frankfurt am Main, Germany is an international trade fair for home and contract textiles with more than 2,700 exhibitors and roughly 67,000 trade visitors. Throughout the four days of the event in mid-January, the trade fair serves as a business and information platform for manufacturers, retailers and designers from around the world. The next edition takes place from 14 to 17 January 2025. International exhibitors present their products to a wide trade audience on the Messe Frankfurt exhibition grounds. As the first marketing and ordering event of the year, Heimtextil showcases new home and contract textiles. By presenting bed, bath and table linens as well as floor and window coverings, upholstery and sun protection systems, Heimtextil covers the entire home and household textiles portfolio from across the globe.
Hlynur Atlason is an Icelandic industrial designer based in New York City.
Dakota Jackson is an American furniture designer known for his eponymous furniture brand, Dakota Jackson, Inc., his early avant-garde works involving moving parts or hidden compartments, and his collaborations with the Steinway & Sons piano company.
Grace Jeffers is an Australian writer, historian, educator and artist based in New York. She pioneered and continues to lead an interdisciplinary and integrated approach to the study of materials. Her writings and lectures draw on 20th century art, design and cultural history, emphasizing the intelligent use of synthetic and manmade materials in the practice of design.
Karen Chekerdjian is a Lebanese-Armenian designer and artist who was born in Beirut, Lebanon. After having started a career in the design and advertising sectors, Chekerdjian moved to Milan to study Industrial Design at the Domus Academy from which she graduated in 1997. Her Mentor was Massimo Morozzi, founder of Archizoom Associati.
Sophie Mallebranche is a French artist and textile designer known for her woven metal materials that mix fibers and industrial materials.
Souda is a design studio based in Brooklyn, New York, specializing in modern furniture, lighting and accessories. The studio was named as one of the “coolest design companies” at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) 2013 by Complex Magazine, and was awarded the Editors Choice Award for Best New Design Studio in 2014 at the ICFF.
Inimfon "Ini" Joshua Archibong is an industrial designer, creative director, artist, and musician who is active in product design, furniture design, environmental design, architecture, watch design, and fashion.
Joëlle le Bussy Fal is a Franco-Senegalese sculptor, art dealer, arts organizer, and art curator based in Dakar, Senegal, where she founded Galerie Arte in 1996.