October 2025 / An Exchange of Ideas


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Innovation thrives where craft and technology meet, and Heimtextil 26/27 explores this intersection. AI and human skill merge in hybrid works, and nature inspires generative patterns. Decorative playfulness, crafted irregularity, and exposed mechanical elements emphasize tactile, imperfect, and uncanny qualities, creating a design landscape where analogue, digital, and whimsical collide. Color palettes become quirky. Get inspired with the October edition!

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REPORTING TO INSPIRE,
Jennifer Castoldi,
Chief Creative Director

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Features and Articles

Jennifer's October Observations

Worldwide — Collaboration has always been at the heart of innovation. Today, as craft and technology intertwine more deeply than ever, we find ourselves standing at a crossroads—one where the handmade meets the high-tech, and the objects around us carry both memory and machine logic. We see it here as we delve into the Heimtextil 26/27 trend preview and its color palettes.

Textiles at the Interface

Frankfurt — Textiles increasingly bridge craftsmanship and digitality, translating hand drawings into digital renderings that are realized as jacquards or embroideries. Designs feature glitch-like motifs, pixelated gradients, and digitally altered imagery. Manual weaving transforms pixels into knots, emphasizing the dialogue between analogue and digital media.

The Boundary is Blurring

Frankfurt — Artificial intelligence and craftsmanship join forces on equal terms, producing hybrid works where human skill completes machine-generated designs. These pieces embrace contrast and tension rather than harmony, making the process and material contradictions visible as part of a new, layered design language.

Nature as a Source and a Model

Frankfurt — Nature serves as inspiration and model, with forms, rhythms, and structures decoded rather than copied. Digital tools translate organic patterns—like shells, lichen, or waves. Generative codes simulate growth and layering, which are then realized by machines, producing abstract, evolving surfaces that capture the complexity and beauty of natural systems.

For the Joy of Design

Frankfurt — Decorative details are reclaiming attention, bringing joy, humor, and playfulness to design. Accents like ruffles or tassels create deliberate interruptions, turning textiles and furniture into the whimsical and unexpected. Designs mix vibrant colors, biomorphic forms, and childlike motifs, emphasizing curiosity and delight alongside functionality or practicality.

Crafted Imperfection

Frankfurt — Fabrics celebrating irregularity and imperfection take center stage, emphasizing visible craftsmanship. Nodules, asymmetrical finishes, and uneven dyeing highlight human intuition and material responsiveness. Works capture spontaneity, environmental influence, and suspended gestures, resulting in textiles that are unique, tactile, and impossible to replicate.

Drawn into the Inner Workings

Frankfurt — Mechanical elements are intentionally exposed, creating designs and objects that reveal inner workings and hybrid forms. Wires, coils, and structural components merge with soft materials, producing strange, uncanny, almost extraterrestrial aesthetics. Designs embrace distortion, ritual symbolism, and surreal textures, blending traditional craft with contemporary technology and playful, otherworldly expression.

The Unfinished Home

Paris — After more than 20 years of attending the show, it is safe to say that the September edition of Maison&Objet was a shadow of its former self. Apropos of trends, the highlight was a teapot collaboration between designer and AI—a hybrid approach the Trendease Team is seeing increasingly across the creative industries.