The June edition of What Matters covers the defining interior design launches from Salone del Mobile and ICFF 2025, offering a focused look at the materials, movements, and makers shaping modern design. In Milan, heritage brands and emerging studios alike emphasized sustainability, modularity, and craftsmanship with a renewed attention to narrative and form. In New York, cross-disciplinary collaborations and cultural storytelling took center stage. From experimental lighting to sculptural furniture and textural textiles, this issue examines the most compelling directions in global interior design today.

DON’T FORGET TO FLOS

At Salone del Mobile 2025, Flos and Formafantasma lit up Milan with the debut of SuperWire, a sculptural lighting collection that’s part Bauhaus and part sci-fi. With hexagonal glass panels, a polished aluminum spine, and LED filaments that float in borosilicate tubes, SuperWire is more than a lamp—it’s a luminous rethink of what lighting can be. Engineered for disassembly and repair, it’s also a manifesto for sustainable design. Flos calls it “The Light of the Mind”—we call it brilliant.

SHAG TIME

CC-tapis and Rop van Mierlo dropped a textural fever dream in Milan with Grandma Patterns—and the shag is strong with this one. Think psychedelic fuzz meets grandma’s knitting basket after a trip to the candy shop. Hand-knotted in Himalayan wool, each piece is a playful, plush explosion of color, joyfully blurring the line between rug, relic, and rebellious art object. This isn’t your nona’s carpet—it’s a shagadelic statement.

FROM BASS DROPS TO TABLE TOPS

Tomorrowland, the legendary Belgian music festival renowned for transforming fields into fairytale raves, has made its way into the design world with Morpho, a sinuous, Art Nouveau–inspired furniture line unveiled at ICFF in New York. Conceived by Tomorrowland’s Great Library Design Studio and architect Dieter Vander Velpen, in collaboration with Belgian brand Ethnicraft, Morpho draws from the poetry of nature—dragonfly wings, gnarled roots, and flowing organic forms rendered in oak, teak, brass, and velvet. The brutalist backdrop of its ICFF debut only made its soft curves and biomorphic silhouettes sing louder. From the Aleta barstool to the Cena dining table, Morpho isn’t just furniture—it’s festival fantasy made functional.

PEARL FROM IPANEMA

At ICFF 2025, Portuguese design house Duistt brought quiet confidence and serious craftsmanship to the spotlight with the debut of their Ipanema Side Table. With its sculptural curves and rich wood finishes, the piece is a love letter to artisanal precision.  Known for timeless forms and luxe materials, Duistt’s showcase demonstrated understated elegance, reminding us that good design ages like fine port: smooth, soulful, and utterly collectible.