Interior design trends are always hot news around the Furniturebox HQ and we love to keep on top of emerging styles that we think you'll love. Part of that is getting to attend some pretty swanky fairs and conventions. Laura and Vicki, two of our product development team, went out to Milan to attend the Salone del Mobile furniture show in early May 2023 and picked out some key emerging interiors trends.
Here's our roundup of 15 key trends for living rooms, dining rooms and just in general, that we think you'll be seeing in all the style mags and Insta feeds soon! These are also concepts that we'll be looking to incorporate into our upcoming products so we can always be offering you gorgeous on-trend styles that won't break the bank.
Overall Top 5 Emerging Interior Design Trends From Milan
In general, we're seeing interiors embrace the idea of mixing things up. Maximalist bold colours with softer neutrals and pastels. Mixing materials. Mixing straight lines with a lot of curves. Taking inspiration from the natural world with wood, rattan, mushrooms and earthy tones. Furniture also seems to really be getting into the laid-back, relaxed vibe with a lot more low-slung and wide seating.
Our Top 5 General Trends
- Mixing Materials - wood with marble, wood with loose-weave fabrics etc.
- Curves and mushrooms - especially low curvy sofas and low nesting coffee tables.
- Warm pastel colours alongside creams and neutrals. Peach, pink, baby blues and yellows.
- Natural materials - wood, stone, marble, cork, ceramic OR sustainable materials -0 lots of recycled plastics and fibreglass.
- Pedestal-style tables with a central tapered plinth leg, largely in wood with bases becoming curvier.
Top 5 Living Room Interior Design Trends From Milan
Living room trends are leaning hard into relaxed and laid-back styles, combining minimalist shape with maximalist ideas of mixing materials up. The Industrial and Japandi influences are still there with comforting and soft, rounded touches in shape and fabrics.
Our Top 5 Living Room Trends
- Oversized - deep sofas, big and low coffee tables, big lamos, lots of big plants and massive textured rugs.
- Nesting coffee tables either at different heights that overlap or slotted over a footrest or sofa seats.
- Boucle (teddy bear fabric) - cream and pale neutrals.
- Shelving as room dividers - lots of black or white thin-framed open bookcases with planting (check out our blog on room dividers!)
- Accent chairs that hug - tactile materials like velvet and boucle, in curvy and low designs.
Top 5 Dining Room Interior Design Trends From Milan
Dining room trends seem to be following the things we're seeing in living rooms with the low and wide seating. Some retro made modern touches with open-frame chairs and again that mixed materials theme. Pastels and fabrics, simple shapes with pops of maximalist colour here, too.
Our Top 5 Dining Room Trends
- Large tables with pillars - one central one as per pedestal tables, or 2 pillar legs, with curvy legs featuring heavily.
- Wood-framed dining chairs - with a mix of materials.
- Pastel-coloured recycled plastic chairs.
- Low-backed dining chairs - table height at the back, less of the tall back throne style seats.
- Simple shapes for chairs with maximalist pops of metallics or colour.
And Some Of Our Fave Fun Stuff, Just Because...
Some of the things we saw at the Milan Furniture Show were pretty out there! Here are a couple of favourites.
Are You Already Incorporating Any Of These Trends?
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