10–14 September 2025, Helsinki
Habitare
TOUCH – The Habitare 2025 theme addresses our human need to experience, touch and feel
Habitare, the leading furniture, design and interior fair in the Nordics, will be held at the Helsinki Expo and Convention Centre from 10 to 14 September 2025. Habitare 2025 brings together nearly 500 companies – both familiar names and first-timers. Two furniture brands known for their experimental spirit and respect for traditional craftsmanship will be featured as guest of honor exhibitions: Swedish Fogia and Danish New Works.
The theme of Habitare 2025, Touch, calls for a multi-sensory exploration of spaces, harnessing genuine curiosity as part of our experience, and discovering emotion in surfaces. To touch a surface, feel a material, or test the composition of something is often even more important than looking. To feel is also a form of looking at an object.
Habitare provides a platform for designers and brands from the Nordic nation and elsewhere. Founded in 1970, the fair annually brings together trade professionals and the general public, designers and architects, buyers and media, as well as 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.
Finnish and Nordic design will be widely showcased at Habitare 2025. Among them are a wide range of beloved furniture and interior brands such as Annala, Arkivé Atelier, Avolt, Bolon, Cover Story, Gauhar Helsinki, Genelec, Finarte, Hakola, Kuusilinna, Lapuan Kankurit, Masku, Matri, Nikari, Novart, Pihlgren & Ritola, SEES Company, Suomen Luonnonmaalit, .TEBIAN, Timberwise, and VM Carpet – and many more.
“It is interesting to see the return of very traditional materials and manufacturing methods. At the same time, new materials are being developed to replace fossil or otherwise harmful materials. As a result, we get an opportunity to feel new materials, surfaces and appearances.“
Päivi Helander, Creative Lead of Habitare
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Habitare
The leading furniture, design and interiors fair in the Nordics, Habitare provides a platform for designers and brands from the Nordic nation and elsewhere.
Founded in 1970, the fair annually brings together nearly 50,000 trade professionals, the general public, the press, designers, architects, influencers, buyers, and design enthusiasts.
Habitare Pro
Habitare Pro is the trade show division of the fair and is an enhanced platform dedicated for B2B companies for the business of design.
Providing a unique platform to meet, network and promote business relationships and showcase new products to a targeted audience. Habitare Pro helps facilitate business opportunities with leading architect and design industry professionals, developers, buyers, specifiers and press.
Nordic Quarters by Habitare Pro
Habitare Pro’s new digital publication, Nordic Quarters, features the most important design and architecture stories from Finland, the Nordics and the Baltics through people, products and spaces, whilst also offering current design highlights from around the world. The content of the quarterly publication is curated by Jessica-Christin Hametner, a writer, editor and creative consultant specialising in design and architecture.
The themed exhibition by Collaboratorio
The themed exhibition, to be featured as part of Habitare, will be designed by the architecture studio Collaboratorio. Founded in 2016 by Martino De Rossi and Kristiina Kuusiluoma, Collaboratorio is known for promoting ecological construction and a material-based approach to design.
Their aim is to renew the building culture and simplify the overly complicated processes of the present building world. They want to create beautiful habitats for modern families by using natural and ecological materials while at the same time paying close attention to the place and its history: more beauty, communality, affordability and humanity.
The design philosophy of Collaboratorio is based on simplicity, the sensory interaction of materials, and ecological ethics. At Habitare, the architects’ idea is to use the themed exhibition to illustrate how controlled incompleteness can create a foundation for life and experience.
The themed exhibition features partners such as Luonnonbetoni, The National Museum of Finland, Norden Moss, Svensson, and Wienerberger, as well as designers and artists: Didi NG Wing Yin, Antti Laitinen, Mari Paikkari, Pekka Paikkari, Atte Pylvänäinen, Stella Harasek, and Antrei Hartikainen.
“For us, ecology means naturalness – rather than high-tech thinking. The palette of ecological materials is narrower, but this, on the other hand, may even make a designer’s work easier, by bringing clarity and a focus on the essential.“
Martino De Rossi and Kristiina Kuusiluoma, architects and founders of Collaboratorio
Habitare Neighbours by Laura Seppänen
The Habitare Neighbours area presents an image or mood of a yard area of a residential block that lives and evolves with its residents. It features today’s design and materials, as well as topics related to homes, interior decoration and construction. Habitare Neighbours is designed this year by one of Finland’s most famous interior designers, Laura Seppänen.
“Habitare’s theme of Touch led me to reflect on Isaac Newton’s third law of motion, which can be expanded to mean ‘you cannot touch without being touched’. I believe that in our surface-driven time, many of us have a strong yearning for a connection, to touch and be touched”, she says.
“I’ve always been interested in how built spaces guide our behaviour. Everything that we see communicates something to our brain. This means that the visual choices in spaces have a significant influence on, for example, our routines and, through this, on our future as a whole.“
Laura Seppänen, interior designer and designer of Habitare Neighbours
Contact
Pia Sievinen, Communication & Brand, pia.sievinen@messukeskus.com, +358 40 559 9155