Habitare Materials
Habitare Materials
Habitare Materials is a new kind of interactive material library at Habitare, where visitors can explore surface materials and experiment with combinations of different materials for their projects and purchases. As a visitor, you can choose, combine, and arrange the displayed material samples to create your own collage on the collage table, which you can capture and share. Additionally, you will receive product information from manufacturers for the materials you like, helping with future purchases.
The goal is to provide a participative exhibition experience for the visitors, increase material awareness and enable a new way of participation for material manufacturers.
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Welcome to Habitare Materials 2025
In spring 2025, Habitare Materials & Objects received a fantastic reception at Milan Design Week, as part of the internationally acclaimed Alcova exhibition. This success story continues in Finland, as a piece of Milan will be showcased at Habitare on 10–14 September 2025.
Habitare Materials is a loved and inclusive library of materials that is accessible to all. It’s a place to browse, experiment, create and learn more about the possibilities of materials from different material manufacturers and suppliers. The exhibition received great exposure in Milan and its success proved that it is not just an exhibition – but a unique concept with international appeal and real relevance in the design field.
The exhibition is currently in the making – now is the time to secure your spot! Spaces are limited and the curation will take place in June, so make your reservation soon.
“While we encourage play, experimentation and fun, we want to challenge visitors to think beyond the surface of materials.”
-NEMO architecs
Become a partner in Habitare Materials 2025!
The production of Habitare Materials Milan will continue into autumn 2025 with Habitare. By participating in Habitare Materials, your company will have a unique opportunity to showcase its materials at the largest design event in Finland. Participation in Habitare Materials in Helsinki includes extensive visibility on Habitare channels; social media, newsletters, website and Habitare programme.
Participation prices:
1 990 € + VAT / if the company has its own stand at the event
3 500 € + VAT / if the company only participates in Habitare Materials
NEW 2025: Habitare Materials small departments
The small department includes the participation of Habitare Materials, the wall structures of the picture, the lighting of the area and the counter shared between the two compartments.
2×2=4m2
4 650€ + VAT
Habitare Materials & Objects impressed at Milan 2025
The Habitare Materials exhibition was shown in spring 2025 at the world’s most important design event, Milan Design Week, 7-13 April 2025.
This time in Milan, the Habitare Materials exhibition was accompanied by a new Objects exhibition, which showcased top Finnish products from furniture to lighting. The Habitare Materials & Objects exhibition was presented as part of the Alcova exhibition series, which has become a hit in Milan in recent years.
Behind Habitare Materials are NEMO architects Jussi Laine and Maria Klemetti Laine
“Habitare Materials is a material library that is available to everyone, letting people touch the samples, experiment, and create something new. The exhibition offers visitors space and freedom to browse through materials and explore their own tastes by experimenting with different combinations of surfaces and colours. The materials are attractively presented, and there is product information on each sample that visitors can photograph and take with them for making purchases,” say Jussi Laine and Maria Klemetti Laine of NEMO architects.
“Although we encourage playfulness, experimentation, and having fun in our booth, we want to challenge the trade fair visitors to think beyond the surface of materials,” Maria and Jussi explain. NEMO architects will be present at the booth throughout the entire fair to engage in discussions with visitors about materials, their effects, and characteristics.
The selection of building and interior materials is vast, and information is only available if one is willing to make an effort to seek it. Habitare Materials aims to provide information about the possibilities of materials to trade fair visitors and hopefully inspire people to reflect on their material choices and their reasons, the impacts of choices, and to make conscious decisions for their homes.
In 2024, the Habitare Materials exhibition featured imperfection and incompleteness
Maria Klemetti Laine and Jussi Laine of Nemo Architects, who designed and curated the material library, believed in respecting the layered nature of spaces and highlighting old. “Combining new things with something old, worn and patinated – which may have been cared for, repaired, renewed and painted over – formed layers of eras and cultures.”
Nemo Architects also encouraged embracing imperfection, whether it was with natural materials, DIY colour experiments, or wallpaper installation. They revealed that the 2024 exhibition also featured incomplete and unfinished elements. The design had something of a construction site feel to it.
In 2024, the exhibition architecture of Habitare Materials gained new layers and was more spatial than the previous year. There were room-like spaces featuring larger pieces of materials, both hanging and fixed, adding a spatial collage element to the exhibition.
Become a partner of Habitare Materials!
We offer a new way of participation for material manufacturers and an inspiring experience for visitors. Join us!
