Habitare 11–15 September 2024

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About Habitare

Finland’s leading furniture, design and interior fair and live creative event, Habitare, provides a platform for designers and brands from the Nordic nation and elsewhere. Founded in 1970, the fair annually brings together trade professionals, the general public, the press, designers, architects, influencers, buyers, and design enthusiasts.

“Habitare is not only an inspiring annual exhibition that brings the whole industry together, but also a place for meetings and discussions. I feel that good design, good homes and a functional environment are essential for human well-being”, says Päivi Helander, Creative Lead of Habitare.

Habitare 2024 to highlight the layered and lived-in feel of homes and spaces

The Habitare 2024 theme is Layers. The theme treasures and explores the layered and lived-in feel of homes, spaces and objects. It reminds us of the cyclicity of design, the revival of styles, and how old and new exist side by side every moment.

Layeredness includes a lived-in quality, whether we are talking about a city, a city centre, homes or buildings. It also includes narratives about homes, spaces, objects, and the built environment that each person can reinterpret to make them their own.

“When old buildings are being renovated, you find paints, wallpapers, markings or traces of life from different decades. The marks beneath the surface tell us that not everything is always what we see with our eyes. Different states, narratives and layers create what is called the soul of a space: a feeling that everything in the space is right, even if things are messy”, says Helander.

The themed exhibition is created by the Yatofu design studio

Habitare will feature an exhibition reflecting the 2024 Habitare theme of Layers, created by the Yatofu design studio Angela Lindahl and Yihan Xiang.

“We want to reveal different layers – stories, periods, aesthetics and processes – and explore and understand them. It’s the same when you visit someone’s home and see different pieces, old and new, and you wonder what their story is and why they are there. So revealing layers is a kind of a sub-theme of the exhibition. We don’t just focus on the spatial experience or the look of the exhibition, but also on the content”, say Lindahl and Xiang, the founders of Yatofu.

The designers were originally drawn to Helsinki because of their studies at Aalto University. The two designers, who respectively studied in New York and Beijing, founded the Yatofu design studio in 2017. The company currently has offices in Helsinki and Shanghai, but it delivers projects to customers around the world.

Habitare’s professional platform Habitare Pro continues its strong growth

A trade and business-to-business platform, Habitare Pro is a reimagining of the traditional design trade fair format. It has been revived for 2024 following its successful debut last year. Habitare Pro features interactive workshops intended to stimulate meetings, questions and conversations. Networking events are also held in the space, which includes a central bar and meeting lounge.

With the fair attracting both trade and consumer attendees, Habitare’s priority this year is to introduce international visitors to new Nordic brands and introduce Finnish visitors to international brands, as well as present Finland as a hub for sustainability-focused innovation.

Habitare spokespersons

Päivi Helander, Creative Lead, Habitare, tel. +359 40 588 4211, studio@paivihelander.fi

Hanna Laikola. Creative Brand Manager, Habitare Pro, tel. +358 44 980 2101, ext-hanna.laikola@messukeskus.com

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