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NeoCon & Design Days 2025
NeoCon has served as the world’s leading platform and most important event of the year for the commercial design industry since 1969. A launch pad for innovation, NeoCon offers ideas and introductions that shape the built environment today and into the future.
Each June, Chicago becomes a global stage for innovation in commercial furniture and interior design with the return of NeoCon and Design Days.
This week, Chicago once again asserts its position as a critical hub for commercial design as NeoCon and Design Days run concurrently, offering two distinct but complementary experiences across the city. Between the corridors of THE MART and the street-level energy of Fulton Market, the events capture a cross-section of how workplace, education, and public space design is evolving—socially, environmentally, and technologically.
At THE MART, NeoCon continues to set the pace for workplace, education, and contract furniture. Across several levels, the fair presents a wide range of solutions addressing flexibility, circularity, and the evolving needs of public and professional environments.
HOWE
Location: 10-110, 10th Floor
HOWE presents a refined take on agile education and institutional spaces, with folding and stacking systems that speak to efficiency without compromising on design quality.
Extremis
Location: 355, 3rd Floor
Known for its socially-driven approach to outdoor furniture, showcases designs that encourage connection, products that are robust, but always human in scale and intention.
Design Days 2025
While NeoCon has taken over The Mart in downtown Chicago, Design Days inhabits the Fulton Market district each offering a distinct but complementary perspective on workplace, hospitality, and public space design.
Herman Miller
1100 W. Fulton Market Chicago
At this year’s Design Days, Herman Miller invites visitors to explore its newly refreshed showroom in Chicago’s Fulton Market District. The space brings together iconic pieces and new releases, offering a glimpse into the brand’s evolving design language and enduring legacy.
On display are beloved classics including the Wilkes Modular Sofa Group and the reintroduced Girard Stool, each reinforcing Herman Miller’s commitment to timeless design.
A new Seating Lab allows visitors to test the brand’s industry-leading ergonomic chairs, offering hands-on insight into fit, function, and performance.
Herman Miller also introduces Gemma, a healthcare seating solution designed for versatility, ease of use, and visual warmth. Alongside it, updates to the Mora casework system demonstrate the brand’s thoughtful approach to healthcare environments—combining practical needs with a human-centred aesthetic.
Located in the heart of Fulton Market, the showroom is open throughout the week, offering an immersive experience of one of the most influential names in modern design.
Muuto
1144 W Fulton Market, 3rd Floor
Muuto invites you to experience its newly opened showroom in Chicago’s Fulton Market. Open from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM on Monday and Tuesday, and until 3:00 PM on Wednesday, the showroom showcases Muuto’s latest designs shaped by how we live and work today. This year’s exhibition explores the creation of intentional spaces that foster a sense of belonging—balancing openness with intimacy, flexibility with focus, and offering room for connection, community, and collaboration through the lens of Scandinavian design.
As a special feature, visitors can enjoy the Muuto x Sparrow Café, a pop-up café serving signature roasts and pastries from local favorite Sparrow Coffee, known for supplying many of Chicago’s Michelin-starred restaurants. The café will be open Monday and Tuesday from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM, or until sold out.
Knoll
1100 W. Fulton Market Chicago
Knoll unveils Dividends Skyline, a refined, fully integrated system designed to bring privacy, focus, and collaboration to open-plan workplaces. Featuring a contemporary material palette and highly customisable planning options, Dividends Skyline gives architects and designers the tools to create a complete, cohesive interior.
Paired with this is the Skyline Lounge, developed to support informal collaboration and focused moments within today’s compact office layouts. Purpose-built to align with workstation dimensions, the lounge matches privacy screen heights and reflects the same visual language.
NaughtOne
1144 W. Fulton Market Chicago
NaughtOne is set to unveil its new North American showroom in Chicago’s vibrant Fulton Market during Design Days 2025, marking a major milestone as the brand celebrates its 20th anniversary. The new space offers designers a fresh environment to explore sustainable, versatile furniture solutions. The showroom features a striking exhibition with white sculptural forms suspended in space, inviting visitors to imagine the full potential of NaughtOne’s portfolio.
Debuting at the event are Mimo, designed by Keiji Takeuchi, a modular seating and table collection and Fin, a sculptural lounge chair by Daniel Schofield, drawing on 1960s space-age influences and origami-like construction, crafted from interlocking upholstered plywood shapes.
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