Dates: February 06-12 2012
Location: see website schedule
Stockholm Design Week includes the Stockholm Furniture & Light Fair – the world’s largest exhibition for Scandinavian furniture and lighting design.

Dates: February 07-10 2013
Location: Netherlands Architecture Institute (The New Institute), Museumpark 25, Rotterdam
OBJECT Rotterdam is the fair for contemporary design and will be held during Art Rotterdam in the Netherlands Architecture Institute.

Dates: February 20 – July 22 2013
Location: Sèvres – Cité de la céramique, 2 Place de la Manufacture, Sèvres, Paris
A retrospective of works in ceramic and glass created by the Italian architect and designer Ettore Sottsass ​​with the Manufacture Nationale de Sèvres and CIRVA, Marseilles.

Location: Koelnmesse, Cologne
Dates: January 14-20 2013
imm cologne is a key furnishing fair in the global primary furnishing market. The fair also provides an effective platform for young designers with [D3] Design Talents.

Dates: January 18-22 2013
Location: Paris Nord Villepinte
Under the theme of Vivant, trend-setters Elizabeth Leriche, François Bernard and Vincent Grégoire/NellyRodi will create 2013 inspiration displays for the January show under the sub-titles of Nourritures Premières, Pioneer and Renaiscience.

Location: Craft Central – 21 Clerkenwell Green EC1R 0DX & 33-35 St John’s Square EC1M 4DS
Dates: November 22-25 2012
Made in Clerkenwell Winter Open studio at Craft Central takes place November 22 to 25 2012 over its two Victorian buildings, showcasing over 100 designers.

Location: Corn Exchange, Brighton
Dates: November 22-25 2012
Look out for MADE12 in Brighton from November 22-25 2012. The 120 makers include a fair sprinkling of ARTS THREAD members, such as Karen Fox, Rhona McCallum, Ros Millar, Suet Yi Yip and Kirsty Fraser.

Venue: Business Design Centre, 
Islington, 
London, N1 0QH
Dates: part 1: Wednesday 27 June – Saturday 30 June 2012

, part 2: Wednesday 4 July – Saturday 7 July 2012
ARTS THREAD are for the second year hosting New Designers online graduate portfolios.

Website: mak.at
Address: MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Contemporary Art/Stubenring 5, 1010 Vienna

In its study collection of Glass, Metal and Ceramics MAK displays a selection of its numerous pieces of work in an arrangement that is specific to the material and technology of the objects and that correspond with the specialization of the director of each collection.

Website: madmuseum.org
Online collection: collections.madmuseum.org
Address: MAD Museum, New York, 2 Columbus Circle, New York, NY 10019

For nearly half a century, the MAD Museum of Arts & Design–formerly the American Craft Museum– has served as the U.S’s premier institution dedicated to the collection and exhibition of contemporary objects created in media such as clay, glass, wood, metal, and fibre.