Editor’s picks: From tactile details to cultural storytelling and circular design, interiors+sources editors share the products that stayed with them after NeoCon and Fulton Market.

Watch the week unfold: Lauren Brant takes viewers inside Chicago Design Week 2026, with scenes from NeoCon, Fulton Market Design Days, and Illuminate at NeoCon.

From the editor: Clearer material conversations can help designers compare sourcing, reuse, transparency, and purpose with greater confidence.

Attend live or on-demand: Explore the 2026 hospitality market outlook and learn how guest experience, brand strategy, and design trends are shifting.

Worth a listen: Performance-based fire modeling can support adaptive reuse, code compliance, and design flexibility without compromising life safety.

Privacy with purpose: Schiavello’s Focus Quiet Phone Room combines acoustic performance, integrated systems, and reduced-carbon material choices for workplace calls and video meetings.

Culture in the details: Momentum’s Dance Off textile translates Michael Ford’s hip-hop-inspired design language into a textured seating option for commercial interiors.

Easier upholstery specs: Blu Dot’s Graded-In program adds pre-approved Maharam and Kvadrat textiles across 27 collections to streamline contract furniture selection.

Workplace seating, softened: Kettal’s U-Type chair pairs ergonomic support with a calm, residential-influenced silhouette for professional environments.