Design Shanghai, one of the world’s most prestigious design events, is celebrating its 10th anniversary from June 8th to 11th 2023, and has announced an impressive roster of global brands and designers attending. With over 70,000 expected visitors over four days, the event will feature more than 600 local and international brands from 40 countries and regions, showcasing a wealth of creative accomplishments and sharing new ideas from both established industry leaders and emerging talent. Design Shanghai is known for breaking new ground, and this year it will expand by 50%, setting a precedent in China’s growing design community. Over the past decade, it has hosted some of the world’s leading designers and architects, including Zaha Hadid, Tom Dixon, Kelly Hoppen, Jaime Hayon, Marcel Wanders, Patricia Urquiola, and André Fu.
“This year marks the tenth anniversary of Design Shanghai, and we appreciate the contribution, support, and engagement the event has received and will continue to receive. During the past decade, we have provided a platform to share design ideas across China and the global stage, and it has been an honour to witness the vigorous development of the design community in China. This year’s edition of Design Shanghai hopes to enhance the audience’s perspective through exploring the “re-creation” of design. For this momentous 10th anniversary, we will be comprehensively upgrading the scale and content of the event, with exemplary design showcased from across the world. We cannot wait to welcome visitors, designers, and brands to this grand event.” says Zhuo Tan, Managing Director of Clarion Events Shanghai Limited.
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- LZF LAMPS, Interiors from Spain
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- Artichoke Pendants, Louis Poulsen
This year, Design Shanghai boasts the strongest line-up of international brands ever seen in China. The event will showcase a plethora of elegant designs from established international favorites, including LigneRoset, Carl Hansen & Søn, Scavolini, Humanscale, Cappellini, AXOR, Davise Groppi, Louis Poulosen, PaolaLenti, Flos, Mattiazzi, Zanotta, Interiors from Spain, Taiga Concept, OKAMURA, Porcelanosa, BontempiCa, Christofle, LALIQUE & Tradition, Verpan, Nude, as well as Chinese designers like Zinilife, CHENDARUI, 2-LA Design, Jianze, ZSPACEPLUS, Frank Chou Design Studio, and Kun Design, among others. This expansion is in celebration of Design Shanghai’s 10th anniversary, with the event increasing by 50% this year. In addition to Halls 1 (Furniture and Lighting) and 2 (Kitchen and Bathroom Design, and New Materials and Applications), the event will debut Hall 3: Living and Lifestyle Design Hall, a new offering for the homeware, interiors, and accessories industry in China, featuring international suppliers.
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- Paola Lenti
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- Scarlet Splendour, ZSPACEPLUS
The Design Forum programme, Kohler Exquisite x Design Shanghai, hosted by Design Shanghai, is renowned as the world’s top platform for design thought leadership, and is one of the most comprehensive and highly-attended seminars in Asia. It has attracted visitors from across the globe, who have had the opportunity to attend presentations from renowned designers such as Tom Dixon, Chi Wing Lo, Patricia Urquiola, Paola Navone, and Philippe Starck, who is scheduled to speak again this year. The theme for this year’s Kohler Exquisite x Design Shanghai Forum is “Beyond Sustainability: Re-Creative Design—Design for Wellbeing.”
The past few years have brought about a heightened awareness and understanding of our health and wellbeing. This has enabled us to apply these concepts to the design of interiors, products, buildings, and the environment, and most importantly, to ourselves. At all levels of design and architecture globally, there is a pleasing trend of extending the idea of health in all its forms: mental, physical, and spiritual. We engage with nature in a more authentic manner, with natural materials or those that derive from nature. Spaces are created that generate calm, serenity, and refreshment. Alongside the role of the natural world in design, artificial intelligence and the metaverse have introduced new parameters for us to live by. Our interactions with digital space and machine intelligence require a complete rethink of our relationship to physical space, as well as the way we see and create ourselves. Speakers at the event will include Ross Lovegrove, Adam Brinkworth, Frank Chou, Aldo Cibic, Michael Young, Ben Wu, Chi Wing Lo, Chris Leftteri, Stefano Piontini, and Satoshi Ohashi, Director at Zaha Hadid Architects.
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- Kohler Exquisite x Design Shanghai Forum Speaker Highlights
Design Shanghai’s Feature Area is designed to celebrate the best up-and-coming designers and craftsmanship in China. Over 100 Chinese independent design studios will take the stage to celebrate the rising design community in China. This year will be the strongest line-up for Talents, with 20 groups this year. The Feature is curated by designer Frank Chou to provide a platform for young and emerging designers in China, Rong, which will feature 28 designers experimenting with the deconstruction of weaving in Chinese traditional handicrafts, alongside the launch of a brand new feature, Design Street, a curated design platform by Design Burger. Other feature highlights not to miss include “Disappearing Borders” by Jamy Yang, an immersive exhibition space by Neooold inspired by Jianghu in collaboration with architect Chen Hao Ru, the New Product Launch, in which over 100 brands will debut new products, and the Design Shanghai Picks Awards, which recognise the exemplary brands and designers showcasing at this event.
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- Design Street, curated by Design Burger
Audi will again join Design Shanghai as the exclusive headline partner for the fourth consecutive year. In celebration of Design Shanghai’s 10th anniversary, Audi will present the China premiere of the newly launched Audi activesphere concept, the culmination of its innovative sphere concept vehicle, showcasing its ever-evolving progressive design philosophy and vision of future premium sustainable mobility driven by meaningful technology.
In 10 years, Design Shanghai has become one of the biggest design shows in the world, attracting over 2500 world-renowned designers from over 40 countries. The highly anticipated event will once again attract leading international and Chinese manufacturers, design-led brands, global industry leaders, architects, collectors, and interior designers, along with dynamic cultural programming unique to the city. It is comfortably the most significant international design show in Asia. Showcasing the best design brands and galleries from across the globe, Design Shanghai provides a unique and exciting platform to exchange and explore.
