FIND – Design Fair Asia will run from 22nd to 24th September 2022 at the Marina Bay Sands Expo and Convention Center during Singapore Design Week. FIND establishes itself as an essential business destination for the global and regional furniture and interior design industry, inspiring creativity and inspiration with an extensive free-to-attend roster of activities.
“The creation of FIND is a great step forward in our commitment to build and develop an iconic furniture and interiors design exhibition and summit in Singapore. The event enables us to provide our design audiences in Asia with an enviable spread and diversity of exclusive launches, innovations, and design thinking.
In addition to the positive impact of the trade and business that will be generated at FIND, the show will further catalyse design collaboration between creators, both emerging and established,” explained Marcus Magee, Vice President - Asia of dmg events, the organisers of FIND – Design Fair Asia.
“We’re delighted to see such a high-profile international delegation of buyers already confirmed to attend from across Asia, Europe, America and the Middle East. A testament to the strong programme and variety of products that will be on display and a good indicator that there will be many deals and collaborations taking place at the event,” he continued.
“We’re excited to unveil the inaugural edition of FIND – Design Fair Asia in conjunction with the return of Singapore Design Week. Together, we can showcase the best furniture, interiors and design from our very own region and across the globe, highlighting the key role that Singapore plays as an East-West connector and convenor for Southeast Asian design and lifestyle,” says Dawn Lim, executive director of Design Singapore Council.
Championing Innovative Design in Singapore
The Society of Interior Designers pavilion will bring together a group of building materials specialists that have contributed significantly to Singapore’s recognition of top interior designers in the country, and across the region via their showcase and the annual Singapore Interior Designers Awards (SIDA). Brands to be featured include AkzoNovel Dulux, Admira, TECE, Luxx Newhouse Group, Geberit, Lutron, T1 Glass, LuxConex, Lamitak, Philip Jeffries, Elegant Group, and Hafary.
The Society is a national association that represents the local interior design fraternity that governs, accredits, and recognises Singapore-based interior designers and their work; it brings together education and practice to raise awareness of good design by cross pollination of ideas and experiences.
The Asia Pacific Space Designers Association (APSDA) will also be hosting the Asia Pacific Interior Design Symposium (APIDS) where the association’s industry leaders from across 8 countries and territories will weigh in on how disruptions will impact the future of the interior design practice.
The Urban Living Showcase
The ‘Urban Living Showcase’ is a glowing representation of the Singapore Furniture Industries Council’s (SFIC) vision for the local furniture industry ‘to be the nexus of tomorrow’s work-life integration for sustainable urban living’.
The programme aims to shift industry players towards a differentiated proposition in influencing and creating new urban living concepts for international markets and innovative designs for urban lifestyles around the world.
The showcase is a realisation of SFIC’s Design Innovation Programme that was meant to foster partnerships between furniture brands/manufacturers and designers to design, produce and launch commercially-viable urban living products and solutions. The products and solutions aim to enhance the design capabilities of Singapore-based furniture and furnishings manufacturers and brands through collaborations with Singapore-based or overseas-based designers and partners, harnessing design as an enabler for differentiation and creation.
The idea for the showcase arose from the industry’s transformation roadmap and also insights gathered. SFIC has identified three key focal pillars over the next three years – Market Agility, Urbanite Centricity and Enterprise Adeptness.
