ICFF 2025 Highlights: Creativity, Innovation and Connection in NYC
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Jack Ovadia is the founder of Ovadia Design Group, a Brooklyn-based studio known for creating interiors and environments that combine detailed craftsmanship, intentional design, and timeless elegance. Inspired by his early fascination with storytelling and emotion, Ovadia designs spaces that shape human experience, from luxury residences to community-centered projects. As ICFF 2026 approaches, the fair continues to serve as a dynamic platform for design leaders, emerging studios, and global brands redefining the future of interiors. This year’s exhibitors represent an inspiring cross-section of furniture, lighting, materials, and artistic innovation—united by a commitment to craftsmanship, experimentation, and timeless design. Álvaro Viscarret is a designer and founder of ANYARO, a studio dedicated to creating spaces that balance craftsmanship, nature, and time. Guided by a philosophy of restraint and materiality, his work favors atmospheres over objects, homes, retreats, and interiors where light, texture, and the surrounding landscape shape every detail. Lindsey Wikstrom is an architect, author, and professor, known for advancing regenerative approaches to design with a focus on material innovation, biodiversity, and non-extractive processes. As the Founding Principal of Mattaforma, she leads the design of all projects big and small, public and private. ICFF is proud to introduce the first edition of the Emerging Designers Spotlight Online, a new editorial series dedicated to showcasing the creative voices shaping the future of contemporary design. Expanding the program beyond the fair floor, this ongoing initiative highlights emerging talent discovered through ICFF’s global network, spanning Launch Pad studios, student showcases, international exhibitions, and more. Founded by visionary creators Jack Sulkin and Gabriel Askenazi, SULKIN ASKENAZI is a boundary-pushing design studio redefining the landscape of contemporary architecture and interior design. Their approach is... Courtney Brannan is a Principal at Champalimaud Design, where she brings a deeply informed, craft-driven approach to interiors rooted in history, materiality, and a strong sense of place. Influenced by architecture, fine craftsmanship, and years of seeing projects through from concept to completion, her work balances restraint with richness, creating spaces that feel layered, personal, and enduring. Dubbed “the go-to decorator for Manhattan’s well-heeled millennial set”, Sasha Bikoff is known for her unapologetically maximal interiors and bold use of color and pattern. Her kaleidoscopic staircase... Rooted in early dreams of theatre and set design, this bi-continental designer’s practice bridges architecture, interiors, and product design with a distinctly human point of view. From a...Stories
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