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FIND - Design Fair Asia brings global design trends to Singapore
FIND - Design Fair Asia
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FIND - Design Fair Asia brings global design trends to Singapore

The design fair marks its debut at Singapore Design Week 2022 with more than 250 global exhibitors.

by Anushka Sharma
Published on : Sep 23, 2022

New design fairs are mushrooming across the globe and traversing regions with the sole intent of making global platforms for innovation and contemporary design accessible for all. Singapore Design Week, one of Asia’s premiere design festivals, returns after a two-year hiatus with a renewed vision of exploring design through three pillars: Design Futures, Design Marketplace and Design Impact. An acknowledgement of creativity and innovation, the design event showcases the best of design from Singapore and beyond in the UNESCO Creative City of Design. This year, the design festival launches the inaugural edition of FIND – Design Fair Asia, an official anchor event of Singapore Design Week organised by dmg events in collaboration with Fiera Milano. FIND will run in conjunction with the design week from September 22 to September 24, 2022, at the iconic Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Centre.

FIND aims to be a business destination for the global and regional furniture design and interior design industry, inspiring creativity and inspiration with an extensive inventory of activities. Alongside enlightening panel discussions and masterclasses, attendees get an opportunity to discover furniture, homeware, lighting design, bathroom, textile, interior design and product design showcases by over 250 international and regional manufacturers, companies and brands. “The creation of FIND is a great step forward in our commitment to build and develop an iconic furniture and interior design exhibition and summit in Singapore,” explains Marcus Magee, Vice President - Asia of dmg events. “The event enables us to provide our design audiences in Asia with an enviable spread and diversity of exclusive launches, innovations, and design thinking,” he adds.

Marina Bay Sands is the venue of the festival
Marina Bay Sands is the venue of the festival Image: Courtesy of FIND

Spanning across three days, FIND intends to be a catalyst for new design thinking and fostering connections that will establish Singapore as the design hub of Asia in the coming years. Providing a glimpse of what is on at FIND – Design Fair Asia, STIR enlists events and programs that highlight its debut edition.

FIND – Global Summit

FIND - Global Summit talks about the biophilic design movement
FIND - Global Summit talks about the biophilic design movement Image: Courtesy of FIND
Tony Chambers, co-chair of content for FIND - Design Fair Asia
Tony Chambers and Yoko Choy, co-chairs of content for FIND - Design Fair Asia Image: Courtesy of FIND

FIND – Global Summit, led by co-chairs of content Tony Chambers and Yoko Choy, is the highlight of the design fair. It brings together eminent personalities from the design industry to share their thoughts and visions in a face-to-face gathering for the design community in Southeast Asia. Across the three days, visitors get a chance to attend keynote speeches, panel discussions and masterclasses, and gain knowledge from the ideas and rich content. International and local speakers explore the role of design in sustainable development, the future of wellness, post-pandemic hospitality, the biophilic design movement, designing the metaverse and the three Cs in the creative industry – creativity, commerce, and communication. INTERNI magazine introduces a series of three masterclasses illuminating how design shapes hospitality design, the art of living, and sustainable materials.

Italian Design Futures Capsule

Italian Design Futures Capsule
Italian Design Futures Capsule Image: Courtesy of FIND
The event showcases craftsmanship and design thinking from Italy
The event showcases craftsmanship and design thinking from Italy Image: Courtesy of FIND

The Italian Design Futures Capsule at FIND – Design Fair Asia is a special showcase that will celebrate creativity, craftsmanship and design thinking from Italy. The design fair is supported by the Italian Trade Agency, under the patronage of the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, allowing the Italian design trade to contribute significantly to the fair. The avant-garde Italian Design Futures Capsule designed by Stefano-Boeri houses new creations of Italian companies such as Agglotech, Italian Texstyle, Fiam Italia amongst others. In partnership with Milan-based ADI Design Museum, the design fair showcases the winning projects of the Compasso d'Oro Awards. This exhibit is a part of the Italian Design Future Capsule and presents all kinds of product design.

Czech Republic Pavilion

Presentations by Hunat Glass
Presentations by Hunat Glass Image: Courtesy of FIND
Showcase by SilentLab
Showcase by SilentLab Image: Courtesy of FIND

A recent addition to the FIND – Design Fair Asia space is the Czech Republic’s pavilion exhibiting the country’s leading design brands. Their dextrous production and exemplary production quality across materials such as crystal, glass, wood, and acoustic variety, spotlight Czech craftsmanship. Organised by the Design Center CzechTrade and Czech Trade Promotion Agency / CzechTrade, the event allows visitors to explore the works of piano manufacturer PETROF, Ladislav Ševčík Bohemia Crystal, Robert Halama Czech Art Crystal, Elite Bohemia, Hunat Glass, UBRD and SilentLab. The event is a union of music, painting, and traditional production and features award-winning music composer and multi-instrumentalist Mr Karel Havlíček playing on the PETROF piano. His brother, an acclaimed painter and graphic designer, Mr Maxim Havlíček puts on an engaging show as he paints the ‘Parallel Universes’, a version of which is imprinted on the PETROF Gemini piano.

EMERGE @ FIND

Aureole Columnlight by Wei Ming Ten
Aureole Columnlight by Wei Ming Ten Image: Courtesy of FIND
Works by Nawwar Ali
Works by Nawwar Ali Image: Courtesy of FIND

dmg events and Design Singapore Council unveil a unique Southeast Asian design talent showcase at EMERGE @ FIND. Curated by Suzy Annetta of Design Anthology, the event sheds light on almost 60 established and emerging designers from Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. The designers present new works with materiality as a protagonist that fall under four categories: Natural, Salvage, Unconventional and Innovative. The theme of streamlining materiality highlights the union and individuality of Southeast Asian culture while paying homage to social realities. Additionally, EMERGE @ FIND hosted a panel discussion titled ‘Trash to Treasure’ on September 22, 2022, with four designers who shared their work process with salvaged or recycled materials in a time when the earth's resources are rapidly diminishing, and the climate crisis is looming in the backdrop. Suzy Annetta moderated the session accompanied by EMERGE designers Adhi Nugraha, Wei Ming Tan, Stanley Ruiz, and Saruta ‘Pin’ Kiatparkpoom.

Urban Living Showcase

Urban Living Showcase at FIND
Urban Living Showcase at FIND Image: Courtesy of FIND
SFIC envisions sustainable urban living for the future
SFIC envisions sustainable urban living for the future Image: Courtesy of FIND

The ‘Urban Living Showcase’ embodies the Singapore Furniture Industries Council’s (SFIC) vision for the local furniture industry to be the centre of the work-life union in the coming years for sustainable urban living. The programme intends to catalyse a shift towards creating new urban living concepts and innovative designs for urban lifestyles globally. The showcase is an actualisation of SFIC’s Design Innovation Programme that aims to foster partnerships between furniture manufacturers and designers to produce commercially-viable urban living products and solutions. The products push the boundaries of the design potential of Singapore-based furniture manufacturers through collaborations with Singapore-based or international designers. The showcase is conceived in response to the industry’s transformation roadmap with three key focal pillars over the next three years – Market Agility, Urbanite Centricity, and Enterprise Adeptness.

Innovative Design in Singapore

The Society of Interior Designers pavilion convenes a group of building materials specialists who have contributed to Singapore’s recognition of top interior designers in the region through their showcase and the annual Singapore Interior Designers Awards (SIDA). Brands such as AkzoNobel Dulux, Admira, TECE, Luxx Newhouse Group, Geberit, Lutron, T1 Glass, LuxConex, Lamitak, Philip Jeffries, Elegant Group, and Hafary feature in the design event. The Society is a national association that represents the local interior design community that governs and acknowledges Singapore-based interior designers and their work. It uses a union of education and practice to amplify awareness of good design through an exchange of ideas and experiences. The Asia Pacific Space Designers Association (APSDA) hosts the Asia Pacific Interior Design Symposium (APIDS) where the association’s industry pioneers from eight countries and territories discuss how disruptions will take a toll on the future of the interior design practice.

Independent Brands

Installation by Bull and Stein
Installation by Bull and Stein Image: Courtesy of FIND
Lighting design by Erco lighting
Lighting design by Erco lighting Image: Courtesy of FIND

FIND - Design Fair Asia encompasses a wide roster of independent brands that exhibit and promote their products, current ranges and novelties to the market. Manufacturers, retailers, product designers, artists, and global brands from over 10 countries create an extensive repository of product showcases that focus on furniture design, lighting design, bathroom, kitchen and art. Highlights of the showcase include brands such as Erco Lighting, Ernestomeda, Riva 1920, Jaipur Rugs, Javi Home, Bull & Stein and Jung Asia.

FIND – Design Fair Asia will run from September 22 to September 24, 2022, at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center during Singapore Design Week.

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