Design Mumbai, India’s most anticipated contemporary design event, returns for its second edition from 26-29 November 2025 at Jio World Garden in the heart of Mumbai. The four-day B2B trade event with selected VIP consumer access promises to be a landmark celebration of contemporary design, uniting international visionaries with India’s most exciting talent.
The Show
Building on the success of its inaugural edition, Design Mumbai 2025 has expanded its reach while maintaining its commitment to curation, connectivity, and quality. The event serves as a gateway for international brands entering the Indian market and provides a platform for Indian brands to gain international recognition. Design Mumbai captures the creative energy and consumer power of India, the world’s fifth biggest economy.
Exclusive Design Features
Seven exclusive design features will anchor the 2025 edition, each designed by prominent international names demonstrating ideas of sustainability, materiality, and emerging trends.
Venezuelan designer Juan Gerstl creates the entrance installation, Travel Through India, an extraordinary tunnel constructed from colourful geometric panels of UV-printed aluminium. Mirrored surfaces multiply and shift each visitor’s reflection, transforming movement into a spectacle of light, colour, and reflections.
Spanish designer Lucas Muñoz Muñoz partners with THE Park Hotels to design an on-site café using repurposed materials salvaged from the hotel group’s recent refurbishment projects. Known for his raw, experimental approach, Muñoz’s site-specific design explores the fleeting nature of materials while reimagining their second life.
British designer Chris Lefteri presents the Smart Materials Lab: Materials! Do touch!, featuring PEELSPHERE, a pioneering circular material made from fruit waste, plant-based leather made from tomatoes, and Panda Poop Seed Paper. The installation explores three narratives: Uplifting Tales from Nature (sponsored by Royal Enfield), Unrefined Stories focusing on brutalist aesthetics, and Distorted Dreams, which visualises artificial intelligence through ethereal, dreamlike imagery.
Soho House returns for a second edition of its members’ club pop-up, featuring sculptural artworks by Mumbai-based artist Vinita Mungi. Her tactile clay works will appear alongside craft and design pieces by local artisans.
Jaipur Rugs presents Court of Carpets, recreating its 2024 campaign with tennis player Rohan Bopanna. The installation features a carpeted court with a knitted yarn net, tennis balls of New Zealand wool, and rackets strung with bamboo silk, connecting the craftsmanship of its 40,000 artisans (85% female) with contemporary culture.
Image Courtesy: Jaipur Rugs
Former ELLE India Editor Kamna Malik curates The Object Edit, a gallery-like presentation of furniture, art, lighting, and functional objects from studios including Objectry, AndBlack, Scarlet Splendour, Abner Lighting, Stem, and Beso. The feature highlights discourse between pieces and their relation as decorative design.
Studio Saar’s Srivan returns with towering Jodhpur stone, steel, and cotton structures symbolising forests of prosperity from the Vedic tradition. The reusable installation provides tranquillity and immersion in nature.
Exhibitor Line-up
The 2025 edition features an extraordinary range of participating brands spanning international design houses and rising local talent.
International brands include Natuzzi, presenting the Mirai sofa collection inspired by 13th-century Federician architecture; Swedish brands String Furniture, celebrating its iconic String System first launched in 1949, and Blå Station; and Racconti, merging India’s artisanal heritage with Italian design through the Eterno collection by five renowned Italian designers.
The American Hardwood Export Council (AHEC) presents a landmark collaboration with Indian manufacturer Phantom Hands, featuring works by Melbourne-based Adam Markowitz and others, spotlighting sustainable use of American cherry, maple, and red oak.
Japanese exhibitor Set Up Co. brings minimalist brands Kakuhan and Reset, while French duo Lux Temporis presents kinetic lighting creations merging mechatronics and nature.
Returning brands include Poltrona Frau, Hästens, Istituto Marangoni, USM (presented by Cocre8), Loco Design, Light Forms Asia, Infiniti, and Vondom (presented by ABACA).
Emerging Indian Talent
A new Emerging Designers Pavilion, curated by Mumbai-based interior stylist Jasmine Jhaveri, spotlights rising stars including Studio Abrash, Wannas Design Atelier, Studio Klay, and Trnkts3D.
Indian brands debuting or returning include Sabbi’s stainable micro-concrete furniture inspired by wabi-sabi philosophy; Venjara Carpets with sustainable PET rugs woven in Bhadohi; Threadarte’s experimental textiles from waste materials; Karkhana’s collectible pieces at the intersection of art and design; Sarvatva’s handcrafted teak furniture blending ancient Indian philosophies with contemporary aesthetics; and Hobo Houz’s Sutrākha collection showcasing Aari embroidery.
Global Convergence
For the first time, the Australian Institute of Architects brings its annual conference to Mumbai, coinciding with Design Mumbai and reinforcing the show’s global reach. Delegates will participate in Design Mumbai Exchange, the acclaimed talks programme.
Tickets are now live at designmumbai.com/tickets.
Information derived from official media press kit of Design Mumbai 2025
Athmaja Biju is the Editor at Abir Pothi. She is a Translator and Writer working on Visual Culture.
