ITALY – The 58th edition of the Salone del Mobile.Milano ended on an extremely high note. The 386,236 attendees, over the 6 days of the event, from 181 different countries made for an 12% increase over the 2017 edition, which also featured Euroluce and Workplace3.0.

GERMANY – IKEA has received seven Red Dot Awards for the Symfonisk WiFi bookshelf speaker, Brusen outdoor sofa, Omtänksam table, Svallet work lamp, Fokusera extractor hood, Finsmakare forced air oven and Finsmakare microwave combi oven.

BRAZIL – Once more Brazil and the talent of the Brazilian furniture industry take part of the Milan Design Week, exhibiting at the Design halls of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, held in April 9-14 in Milan.

SPAIN – Formica Group presents its new collection Formica Younique® x Okuda San Miguel, a limited edition of laminates with exclusive designs by the artist, which presents a refreshing combination of art, design and architecture.

BRAZIL – This year’s Interprint Design Week in Sao Paulo, Brazil came with a new perspective: it became a meeting point for international designers, influencers, trendsetters as well as an entire global team of partners, customers and suppliers of the timber and furniture industry.

SWEDEN – This February marks 40 years of the iconic BILLY bookcase. Functional, flexible and modest, BILLY is a bookcase made for anyone and everyone.

U.S. – Pantone, provider of professional color standards and digital solutions for the design industry, today announced PANTONE 16-1546 Living Coral as the Pantone Color of the Year 2019, an animating and life-affirming shade of orange with a golden undertone.

BRAZIL – “Thinking outside the box” is to find solutions in a creative and intelligent way. And that is precisely the proposal behind “Unboxing”, an itinerant event promoted between October and November by the Impress Group.

GERMANY – Spanish panel manufacturer Finsa participated for the first time as an exhibitor at Orgatec 2018 Cologne, the leading trade fair for office furniture and workspace design.

GERMANY – On November 14 and 15 Interprint’s Interior Festival “The HUB” will celebrate its premiere in Essen. With ‘HUB’, Interprint is establishing a unique hub for the Design Community.

ITALY – Gruppo Frati SpA, founded by Luigi Frati in 1960, brings an innovation to the market with the introduction of “Specchio”, a mirror finish melamine panel.

U.S. – Uniboard, the North American leader in engineered wood products and the creator of the synchronized (EIR) texture technology in North America, celebrated its 35th anniversary at IWF Atlanta with the preview of 18 new designs and three new textures of its 2019-2020 Collection.