/PRZWT/August 16, 2024 Shanghai - Thirty years, just in time;
Crowds gather, business flourishes.
On August 14th, the 2024 China International Home Textiles and Accessories (Autumn and Winter) Expo (hereinafter referred to as "2024intertextile Autumn and Winter Home Textiles Exhibition") was grandly opened at the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai). This year, on the 30th anniversary of the China International Home Textiles and Accessories Expo, star enterprises and strength pavilions from all over the world have gathered here to jointly promote the continuous emergence of new products, new technologies and new processes, and promote the high-quality development of the home textile industry with new quality productivity.
The crowds are coming.
Home textile merchants are looking for opportunities
On the first day of the exhibition, the scene was as popular as the hot sunshine in August in midsummer. Visitors flocked to the registration office, the crowd in front of the corporate booth was surging, the forum area was also full, and every passage of the exhibition hall was filled with people. Every corner of the exhibition hall exuded a vibrant atmosphere, reflecting the vitality and vitality of the home textile industry.
This year, the intertextile autumn and winter home textile exhibition gathered nearly 1200 high-quality soft decoration enterprises, with an exhibition scale of over 110,000 square meters, occupying the four major exhibition halls and 12 exhibition areas of the National Convention and Exhibition Center (Shanghai). Manufacturers, buyers, brand enterprises, designers and professional visitors from all over the world flocked to the exhibition, fully demonstrating the strong industrial absorption and aggregation capabilities of the exhibition.
The lineup of the four major exhibition halls is strong, and the characteristic exhibition areas show the trend. Hall 5.1 "Brand Soft Decoration Hall" brings together high-quality soft decoration brands in the industry, and merchants have brought their "new works of housekeeping" to make a concentrated appearance. Hall 5.2 "Trend Fabric Museum" will bring the most creative and innovative design ingenuity, and interpret the fashion trend in simple terms and vividly. Hall 6.1 "International Brand/Boutique Home Furnishing Hall" is in line with the cutting-edge fashion and connected global market, allowing the audience to experience the latest fashion in the international home furnishing industry from a distance. Hall 6.2 "Furniture Fabric Hall" will display the most complete selection of soft decoration materials, unlock the latest fabric weaving technology, and bring overall soft decoration solutions.
Dozens of domestic buyers from Fujian, Jiangxi, Shandong, Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shanghai and other places, such as interior designer associations, furniture and home furnishing associations, home textile and home furnishing markets, agent purchasers, cross-border e-commerce, etc., rushed thousands of miles in groups, and the official photographers were overwhelmed by group photos. Looking at products, observing trends, talking about design, and talking about transactions, the business atmosphere continued to rise.
Buyer groups from more than 20 countries and regions, including Morocco, Algeria, Russia, Moldova, Thailand, Bangladesh, etc., came across the ocean, bringing orders to the scene one after another, pushing the exhibition business atmosphere to a new climax, and providing better quality, efficient and convenient channels for home textile enterprises to "go global".
The business docking area, JD.com e-commerce special, interior designer special, etc. are in full swing. Through one-to-one, one-to-many and other docking forms, purchasers connected with exhibitors in batches, and both sides called for high efficiency. Huang Baocai, president of Longfengyuan Bed Jiangsu Co., Ltd., said that the appeal of this business docking is to find partners who can complement each other in categories and join forces. In order to improve the efficiency of business, I signed up for a special docking meeting, and I am particularly satisfied with the results of today's docking. The representative of Jiangsu Boyang Home Technology Co., Ltd. also expressed his gratitude to the organizers for this special event. The matching partners are very accurate and efficient.
High Frequency Frontier Activity
Leading the industry into the future
The 2024 intertextile autumn and winter home textile exhibition, while maintaining professionalism and forward-looking, constantly explores the boundaries of innovation, bringing a series of fresh and interesting exhibition topics and content to the audience. The exhibition site, carefully designed booths, theme curation and super exhibits, as well as professional and in-depth design forums, together build an immersive home textile home design experience. Every detail is dedicated to letting the audience feel the collision of the pulse of the times and design inspiration, and experience a feast of vision and senses.
The 2024 · China Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage Innovation Exhibition, with the theme of "Time flies, innovation is sustainable", debuted at the 2024intertextile Autumn and Winter Home Textile Exhibition 5.1H-G82. There was an endless stream of visitors and inquiries, which became the "Internet celebrity" clock in the exhibition hall. The "2025 International Home Furnishing Trend Guide" curated by Ms. Anja Bisgaard Gaede, founder of SPOTT trends & business, transformed the concept of deep design trends into an easy-to-understand visual language by presenting a colorful home fabric space, depicting the core concept of "Healing Home". The "2025 China Fabric Fashion Trend" jointly issued by the China Home Textile Industry Association and the People's Government of Xucun Town, Haining City was brilliantly presented in the 5.1H-G70 exhibition area of the 2024intertextile autumn and winter home textile exhibition. This season's trend is based on precise research and development, with the theme of "Explore · Find", jointly "Explore" the way of ecology, "Find" the inner voice, and focus on the three themes of "Wisdom · Healing", "Green · Dynamic" and "China · Co", bringing together the elements of current fashion trends and creative and forward-looking fabric designs, presenting a new 2025 China Fabric Fashion Trend for the audience.
The 7th China International Fiber Art Exhibition in 2024 is in the exhibition area 5.1H-G88, and domestic and foreign artists who use fiber materials as a creative medium are specially invited to interpret the diverse styles of contemporary fiber art and the diverse possibilities of future fiber art in multiple dimensions. The "Haining Home Textile Cup" 2024 China International Home Textile Creative Design Competition successfully held an exhibition of winning works in the exhibition area 5.1H-C82. The theme of the competition is "The Charm of New Quality", which organically integrates the beauty of the times produced by "new" and "quality", bringing new vitality and new fashion to the home textile design industry. Mr. Shoyuki Sasaki, founder of IKASAS, an original furniture brand designed simultaneously by China and Japan, gave a keynote speech on "Smart Interpretation of Sustainable Design", explaining the 10 key elements of sustainability. The roundtable forum with the theme of "Talk Healing" was orchestrated by Shen Lei, founder and design director of Nei Architectural Design Office and China Trend Committee member of the International Home Furnishing Trends Committee, and brought together Anja Bisgaard Gaede, founder of SPOTT, and elite designers such as Lu Yuxing, Meng Ye, Tang Zhonghan and Zhu Baiyang.
In addition to the above activities, the first day of the exhibition also held a speech on "Unlocking Opportunities: Successful Business Strategies in the Middle East Design Market" brought by Ms. Esra Lemmens (founder of Esra Lemmens Agency), and a speech on "Psychology in Design" brought by Ms. Pallavi Dean (founder and designer of Roar Design Services), which conveyed the practical experience of overseas business and cutting-edge design concepts to the audience.
2024 China Textile Intangible Cultural Heritage Innovation Exhibition, Environmental Protection Ecological Leather Exhibition Area, China Guochao Popular Fabric Exhibition Area, Specialized Special New Products Exhibition Area, Preferred Furniture Fabric Innovation Space and other characteristic exhibition areas also made a stunning appearance at this exhibition, displaying a wide range of categories, design styles and design themes, skillfully integrating the home textile industry with traditional culture, art design, green environmental protection and other fields, presenting a more diverse and rich exhibition space for the audience. At the exhibition site, the characteristic exhibition area was very popular and lively, attracting many visitors to stop and watch and take pictures.
Thirty Years of Spring and Autumn
New attitude starts the journey
Sanzhi Fanghua, Building Dreams Home Textiles. For the intertextile home textile exhibition, the "thirtieth year" is also the opening of a new chapter. It will lead the home textile industry to a more mature and international development stage with a firmer pace and an open attitude. It will activate the innovation of the industry, the vitality of the enterprise, the influence of the industry, and the cohesion of the platform with deep industry insight and forward-looking vision. Thirty chapters have begun, and the future journey is long. China International Home Textiles Exhibition will take the new quality productivity as the engine and join hands with China's home textile industry to embark on a new journey.
