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Basking under the Milanese spring sun, visitors to Salone del Mobile enjoyed a particularly vivacious 56th edition of the world’s leading furniture fair. Here we unveil the event’s best design pieces.

January is a packed month in the design calendar: straight after Köln’s IMM, interiors trade show Maison & Objet opens in Parc des Expositions in Paris. Across its eight halls there’s space for thousands of companies of all sizes. That’s what this fair does best: showcasing emerging new brands as well as firm furniture favourites. Here’s our pick of the bunch.

Every year hundreds of brands and buyers congregate at IMM, the first international furniture fair of the year. Hosted at the Koelnmesse in the German city of Köln, this tradeshow sets the agenda for what’s to come and shines a light on the European market. We’ve toured its expansive halls and picked out a few favourites.

As the autumn/winter 2017 edition of Pitti Uomo draws to a close and the fashion pack heads north to Milan, we select our final five finds from the Fortezza da Basso.

Day two at Pitti Uomo means business. It’s traditionally the busiest day of the week as all the buyers have jetted into town by now and the hallways of the Fortezza da Basso are filled with lively chatter and natty threads. Here are our favourite finds.

A freezing Florence has welcomed the 91st edition of eminent menswear tradeshow Pitti Uomo; fortunately there is plenty to warm the cockles inside the Fortezza da Basso halls. Here are our picks from the first day of the fair.

There were many new faces at this year’s Orgatec in Köln. Artek, Piure and Normann Copenhagen celebrated their debut at the biennial office-furniture fair, while long-time leader Vitra took over an entire hall for the first time and transformed the space into a holistic new fair concept. Here are the designs that caught our eye across Koelnmesse’s seven halls.

Setting the tone for a design-fair filled month in Europe, Paris’s Maison & Objet always features a wondrous assortment of releases from companies big and small. From Argentina to Slovenia, here are the standout designs from this autumnal edition.

After a sizzling edition of Pitti Uomo in Florence the fashion world descended on Milan for the spring/summer 2017 edition of Milan’s menswear week. With the thermometer hovering around 30C, Monocle scoured showrooms and runways in search of the best linen suits, colourful shirts and summery shoes. We bring you our pick of the bunch.

A warm and sunny 90th edition of the Pitti Uomo menswear tradeshow put visitors in the mood for summer. Our picks from the halls of the Fortezza da Basso will make for excellent holiday attire; here's what we suggest you pack for the spring/summer 2017 season.

Milan Design Week is by no means limited to the wares on show in the Salone del Mobile fair halls in Rho. All across the city – from Tortona and Brera to the up-and-coming 5Vie neighbourhood – designers display their latest goods in historic villas and sleek shop windows. Here is our pick of the best of Fuorisalone.

Some 300,000 people take to Lombardy’s capital each year to peruse the latest products from the 2,000-plus exhibitors at the furniture world’s premier event. Here are our favourite finds from inside the fair.

Sleek chairs, minimalist sofas and streamlined stools: the very best of Scandinavian design comes to Stockholm every February. We present our favourite finds from the Swedish capital, from poignant re-releases to brand-new designs and on-point colour updates.

Across its eight halls, Maison & Objet hosts brands big and small as part of a treasure trove of chairs, lamps and all manner of desktop accessories. Designers from Europe and beyond congregate in Paris in January to show off their wares; we’ve brought back our pick of the best.