HABITARE 2025: International Furniture, Interior Decoration, and Design Fair in Helsinki

The leading furniture, design and interior event in the Nordics During the five days of Habitare 2024, the event attracted 45,300 visitors. It brought together design and interior enthusiasts, professionals, and over 400 companies and players in the field. The Habitare 2025 theme, Touch, explores our human need to experience, touch and feel things. It calls for a multi-sensory exploration of spaces, harnessing genuine curiosity as part of our experience, and discovering emotion in surfaces. “When the world is technical and remote, we want to have things around us that feel like something.” “The need to touch and feel is something eternally human and on the other hand, a counterforce to an increasingly digitalised society. When things evoke sensations, they are not just transient or disposable. To touch is also a precursor of curiosity. Fostering curiosity makes us imaginative and suitably adventurous”, says the creative lead at Habitare, Päivi Helander. The theme of Touch is also derived from our need to approach spaces and objects through touch. 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.

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