Next year the colossal INTERIORS UK (it boasts that it is the UK’s largest interiors show with over 500 exhibitors and 21,000 visitors) will be rebranded The Furniture Show and relocate to London’s Excel as part of the May Design Series 2015, to overlap with Clerkenwell Design Week (not to be confused with London Design Week in March and the London Design Festival in September). And by way of a preview, organisers UBM Live Built Environment (also behind Decorex) will introduce The Furniture Show at this year’s May Design Series, which will include a selection of INTERIORS UK exhibitors. To further confuse matters, Furniture & Gift Fairs, the organiser of The Manchester Furniture Show, will continue to run a show which will also be called ‘The Furniture Show’ each January at the NEC.
Words: Jonathan R Jones – jonathanrjones.wordpress.com