Or, to be that fabulous new brand that will rock someone’s world. I can practically smell the dreadful coffee wafting through wonder-emporium aisles teeming with designer-clad human-life. I can feel the claustrophobia starting to set in as the air in the massive exhibition halls begin to tighten around thousands of busy little buyer-ants, scurrying through either at break-neck speed.
There is manic competitiveness in the mornings that eventually morphs into cross-eyed weariness after brains become saturated with sensory and visual overload. It’s completely exhausting. Intoxicating. Food for the soul. We willingly torture ourselves awake at 5:30 a.m. for days because there is nothing quite like it. Whether it be Maison & Objet in Paris, Salone del Mobile in Milan, or Ambiente in Frankfurt, these trade fairs are an essential ingredient to life in the world of interiors as we network, over-spend, and expand our infinitely malleable horizons.
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