February 2025 / Dreamscapes & Design Futures


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As we step into 2025, the design world continues to challenge conventions, embracing bold new directions that blur the lines between craftsmanship, technology, and artistic expression. This February, Trendease explores the cutting-edge themes defining the latest industry showcases, from textile advances found at Heimtextil to the modern heritage spectacles of Paris Deco Off and Maison&Objet. Get inspired with the February edition!

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Jennifer's February Fables

Paris — Architect and designer Julien Sebban reimagines hospitality with Hotel Uchronia, a temporary 200-square-meter mystical environment where reality bends and time dissolves. Wrapped in undulating layers of fabric, the monolithic structure gives way to a warm, immersive interior designed to awaken the senses through scent, sound, and light.

Maison&Objet: Decor

Paris — The SUR/REALITY trend transforms interiors into immersive dreamscapes, blending fantasy with bold creativity. From surreal mazes to illusory salons, poetic dream chambers, and enchanted forests, it redefines spaces with vibrant patterns, optical tricks, and unexpected juxtapositions. This movement invites a return to magic, imagination, and deliberate irrationality in design.

Maison&Objet: Retail

Paris — Future retail embraces surrealism at Maison&Objet; here a concept store-inspired space explores fancy and illogicality. Organized into four dreamlike themes, it showcases unexpected comparisons, playful illusions, and poetic objects. This trend reimagines retail, inviting creativity, wonder, and a surreal escape from conventional design into a world of enchanted realism.

A Parisian Gem Transformed

Paris — Step inside a forgotten hôtel particulier in Paris and witness its spectacular rebirth at the hands of Maison Pierre Frey for Paris Deco Off. In an immersive, sensory-driven experience, the design house unveils its Deserts collection—an artistic celebration of global landscapes, expressed through fabrics, wallpapers, rugs, carpets, and the latest from Pierre Frey Furniture.

Celebrating 150 Years at Paris Deco Off

Paris / London — Liberty celebrates 150 years of design excellence with The House of Liberty, unveiled at Paris Deco Off. This home and interiors collection blends heritage and modernity, inspired by archival illustrations. Handcrafted in London and produced using global techniques, it honors Liberty’s legacy while embracing the future of artistic innovation and craftsmanship.

Heimtextil: Regenerative

Frankfurt — For the 2025 edition of Heimtextil a new team put together the 25/26 trends; while the unique presentation sparked curiosity, it left many trend-conscious visitors seeking deeper insight. There were oodles of color-blocked exhibitor samples on a circular factory-like set-up where laundromat-style textiles swooshed around in a loop.

Heimtextil: Radically Restructured

Frankfurt — The next direction for 25/26 at Heimtextil was titled ‘Radically Restructured’ where patterns suggested digital glitches and fragmented lines, manufacturing techniques are reimagined, some even calling upon AI and robots to lend a hand. Visitors could witness robotic arms picking up textile samples, doing a little dance between the two arms, and then replacing the textile to its original position.

Heimtextil: Naturally Uneven

Frankfurt — Naturally uneven textiles highlight the beauty of raw materials, embracing imperfections that reflect authentic, organic processes. With irregular patterns, uneven edges, and subtle weave variations, they reject industrial uniformity. Unbleached, undyed, and unfinished surfaces showcase tactile richness, celebrating craft and materiality through the unique marks of their creation.