Melbourne Design Fair 2023

Overview

Whether your favourite objects sit in the realm of furniture, accessories or even lighting pendants, if you've got a thing for clever design, there's only one place you need to be next month. And that's at the Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre when it plays host to the next instalment of the Melbourne Design Fair.

From Thursday, May 18–Sunday, May 21, you can fuel your obsession with beautifully made items as you stroll among works by more than 150 designers. And if you spy something you love, lots of the pieces will be available for sale, too.

Installation view of works from Gallery Sally Dan-Cuthberton's display at Melbourne Design Fair 2022, presented by the NGV in collaboration with Melbourne Art Foundation. Photo by Sean Fennessy.

There'll be more than 60 exhibits from celebrated studios, galleries and collectives, including Sullivan+Strumpf, Craft Victoria, MARS Gallery and Neon Parc, plus Funaki, Canberra Glassworks, Design Tasmania and more.

Both established and up-and-coming talent will be on show, with everything from furniture and textiles to jewellery and ceramics to swoon over. Ogle at unconventional coffee tables, bold statement necklaces, covetable chairs and maybe even the next big thing in lighting design.

NGV-curated exhibition DISCOVERY will debut as part of this year's showcase, spotlighting — and selling works by — emerging designers including Charlie White, Annie Paxton, Livio Lucca Tobler and members of the Yarrenyty Arltere Artists. Meanwhile, return favourite FOCUS will take visitors on a deep-dive into the process and practice of five leading Aussie female artists.

Installation view of Nobody's Perfect, 2022, Gaetano Pesce (Neon Parc). Photo by Olga Antipina, courtesy of Gaetano Pesce.

Top image: Installation view of works from Modern Times' display at Melbourne Design Fair 2022, presented by the NGV in collaboration with Melbourne Art Foundation. Photo by Sean Fennessy.