There’s a reason the best studios in the country clear their calendars for June. While the daily work happens in the studio, Design Show Australia is where the industry solves its biggest project challenges. It is the definitive platform for discovering new brands, latest product releases, and the emerging trends that will shape Australian projects over the next year.
A specification tool at an unreasonable scale
Furniture. Lighting. Textiles. Surfaces. Materials. Art. Everything needed to take a project from blank page to finished floor: 1,000+ products across 250+ exhibitors, curated and trade-grade, all in one place.
The show floor isn’t a gallery walk. It’s a working tool for designers who specify at scale, built so you can touch, compare and decide without booking a month’s worth of rep appointments or waiting three weeks for a sample. Brands including Bisazza, Buster + Punch, Cane-line, Escea, Natuzzi Italia and Kave Home have earned their place on that floor. So has your time.
And it goes further than the main floor. The Textile + Furnishings Village lets you experience fabrics, wallcoverings, rugs and soft furnishings the way they’re meant to be experienced – by touch, in context, side by side. Discovery Lane surfaces the emerging and under-the-radar brands you won’t find anywhere else. And when you need to decompress, the Design Show Bar & Lounge, sponsored by Natuzzi Italia, is exactly that a considered retreat at the centre of it all.
One pass. Three shows. The full picture.
Register once and you’re in. Design Show Australia, Kitchen+Bath Show (still the only dedicated kitchen and bathroom trade event in Australia), and Futurebuild Australia, which covers the materials, systems and technologies shaping the next decade of construction.
Because in practice, nothing is siloed. The kitchen choice affects the interior. The building system shapes every surface inside it. The format just catches up to the way you already work.
The next wave, before it’s a wave
Australia’s Next Top Designers is a live showcase and $10,000 prize competition presented with Workshopped, sponsored by Flexmirror Australia, Meir and Axolotl. It’s where emerging Australian design talent surfaces first. The materials and thinking on this floor have a habit of landing on the best mood boards in the country within twelve months. Seeing them here is the advantage.
60+ free sessions: built to be applied on Monday morning
Most trade events make you pay for the education program. Design Show Australia doesn’t. All 60+ sessions are included with every free trade pass.
The program covers AI in practice, material specification, wellness design, business strategy and global trend forecasting. Delivered by practitioners with active, high-output studios: Darren Palmer, Greg Natale, Meryl Hare OAM, Hans Galutera, Juliet Ashworth, Jamie Ford of Eight Inc., and Melissa Kaplan of Microsoft, among others.
The standard every session is held to: can your studio act on this immediately?
The business case, plainly stated
Inspiration is fine. What Design Show Australia actually delivers is sharper: supply-chain access, procurement intelligence, and a concentrated view of where Australian design is going. For anyone working in design or construction, this is the most efficient three days on the professional calendar.
- Trade-only access: Thursday 11 and Friday 12 June.
- Trade and homeowners: Saturday 13 June opens to trade and homeowners.
- Registration: Free trade registration is open now: door tickets are $50 from 11 June. Don’t be that person. Register for your free trade pass at designshow.com.au
Design Show Australia | 11-13 June 2026 | ICC Sydney, Darling Harbour
Co-located with Kitchen+Bath Show and Futurebuild Australia
