From collectible design to intelligent ecosystems: Milan Design Week 2026 outlines trends for the next decade Cattelan Italia - photo Temenouzhka Zaharieva Milan Design Week is the most important moment of the year for the world of design – it is here that professionals and enthusiasts gather not only to discover new products, but also to exchange knowledge, to be informed and, ultimately, to do business. It turns every corner of the city into a stage for bold ideas, surprising installations and projects that shape the direction of interior design for the coming months. The event is so vast that even seven days are not enough to cover everything – from the main fair, the Salone del Mobile at Rho Fiera, to the Fuorisalone – the dozens of exhibitions and installations scattered throughout the city. Milan Design Week is not really “about furniture”. It is a fascinating cultural phenomenon that uses furniture as its medium and predicts how we will live, work and connect in the next de...
‘A picture is worth a thousand words’ – you may say that this is a time-worn adage, but a visit to the exhibitions of Fotofabrika will let you remember it and will convince you that photos are really worth a thousand words. They tell stories, stir emotions, make us think of people’s tragedies, they are evidence of the transitional processes taking place all over the world. Fotofabrika Festival is an international photography festival held in Sofia, Bulgaria, each fall. Last year in its first edition Fotofabrika showed the protesting man . Accent in this second edition are refugees and socially excluded people. Photographs from around the world direct public attention to the people we do not notice in our everyday life or do not see them – the marginal people. Solo Exhibition by Maria Milkova, Grand Prix winner of last year's Documentary Photography Contest The Street: States and Conditions “Those, who are different.We look at the...