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CIFF Guangzhou 2024: A record-breaking edition and a major boost to international furniture trade

Design Middleeast

An event tailored to the needs of influential buyers from all the world’s major markets , CIFF also attracted countless interior designers interested in discovering new trends and the highest quality standards for both the home and the workplace.

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Sleep.8 ‘Awakens’ the Kings Road with debut central London store launch

Retail Focus

8 over the summer on a pop-up basis at 227-229 & 239 King’s Road are interior design brands, Libby Blakey Designs and Mews Furnishings. The store launch of sleep technology and home furnishings brand Sleep.8, Joining Sleep.8 ft space shared with White Coco clothing retailers.

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Why Ikea, Nike, Li Ning and Atelier100 are going hyper-local

Inside Retail

Perhaps more of a recurring concept rather than an entirely new trend, the hyper-local concept is modelled on mom-and-pop boutique stores, factoring in the careful curation of merchandise and shaping the retail experience based on the store’s surrounding vicinity.

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