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14 Apr 2026

The dates are set: Interior Lifestyle China 2026 to drive brand growth with integrated marketing ecosystem

Shanghai, 14 April 2026. Interior Lifestyle China, a leading trade platform for the lifestyle industry, will return to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from 8 to 10 October 2026, presenting a curated selection of global products and new designs. Coinciding with Shanghai Fashion Week, this edition will strengthen connections between exhibiting brands and fashion buyers, as well as premium retail channels. Backed by year-round marketing activations, online-to-offline business matching, and strategic content collaborations with RedNote and others, the fair aims to expand its reach to traditional retailers, corporate buyers, and e-commerce channels. As a holistic sourcing platform dedicated to the home, gifting, and travel sectors, it is poised to attract a dynamic mix of retailers, distributors, professional buyers, and influencers across the country – empowering exhibitors to seize opportunities in the booming lifestyle sector.
30 Sep 2025

Redefining boundaries: Interior Lifestyle China 2025 concludes, charting borderless future for contemporary living

Shanghai, 30 September 2025. Successfully concluding its 15th edition on 14 September at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, Interior Lifestyle China 2025 has artfully amalgamated the lifestyle industry’s various segments, blurring the lines between the physical and digital. Under the theme ‘Lifestyle Alive’, the fair drew 9,123 buyer visits, all eager to engage with 226 exhibiting brands from 27 countries and regions. The show created a dynamic lifestyle community where brands and buyers could connect, while highlighting innovative cross-sector showcases enhanced by digital immersions such as the collaboration with RedNote. It also held various fringe events that brought new depth to the modern lifestyle concept, reinforcing the fair’s role as a catalyst for industry evolution.
9 Sep 2025

Interior Lifestyle China 2025 opens this week, defining a new standard for aesthetic living

Shanghai, 9 September 2025. Interior Lifestyle China returns from 12 – 14 September at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Themed ‘Lifestyle Alive’, the fair reflects the evolving global retail landscape and consumer trends. The show features in various new zones and returning areas with 229 exhibiting brands from 27 countries and regions, spotlighting new concepts in living aesthetics through products in home decor, kitchenware, drinkware, gifts, fragrances, accessories, and more. These diverse offerings are bolstered by a hybrid approach that blends online and offline engagement with exclusive in-store experiences and guided city walks.

19 Aug 2025

Interior Lifestyle China 2025 unveils global on-trend products and immersive city walk experience

Shanghai, 19 August 2025. The highly anticipated Interior Lifestyle China returns to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre from 12 – 14 September 2025, showcasing diverse lifestyle offerings under the theme 'Lifestyle Alive'. This edition will feature a vibrant ecosystem of global products alongside new consumer experiences – including curated city walks – while empowering brands through a strategic partnership with RedNote, China’s leading e-commerce platform. Together with the Commerce Commission of Jing’an District, the organisers will launch the Jing’an Lifestyle Festival, exploring new retail opportunities in this evolving market.
17 Apr 2025

Interior Lifestyle China 2025 announces September opening and expanded marketing agenda

Shanghai, 17 April 2025. The 2025 edition of Interior Lifestyle China will take place from 12 – 14 September at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, showcasing a vibrant selection of trendy lifestyle products and connecting international exhibitors to China’s dynamic consumer market. Enhancing its role beyond a trade fair, the show offers year-round promotional opportunities that empower brands to explore synergies across various sectors through the major trade fairs Notes Shanghai and Showroom Shanghai, along with a range of online and offline retail channels, including pop-up shops. Additionally, RedNote, a leading Chinese social media and e-commerce platform, has joined as an exclusive cooperation platform, further enriching the fair’s comprehensive services and broadening its influence into a diversified marketing matrix.
28 Oct 2024

Interior Lifestyle China 2024 strengthen inroads of high-quality global products into domestic market

Shanghai, 28 October 2024. The 14th edition of Interior Lifestyle China, a vibrant showcase of exquisite, design-driven lifestyle products, recently concluded after taking place from 10 – 12 October at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. The show attracted 9,016 visits from buyers eager to connect with nearly 200 selected brands from 26 countries and regions, including Germany, Hungary, Korea, and many others. Concept-oriented zones and a trend-focused fringe programme aligned seamlessly with market demands, while the diverse product offerings reflected the ever-evolving lifestyles of consumers, particularly with a noticeable increase in eco-friendly items across major categories. With many participants praising product quality, this year’s fair successfully facilitated connections between industry leaders and a wide range of segmented retail channels, both novel and traditional, further opening up opportunities in the promising Chinese market.

9 Oct 2024

Interior Lifestyle China 2024 set to open up a world of inspiration and opportunity with distinguished brands

Shanghai, 9 October 2024. Artistic inspiration through exquisite products and decorations awaits visitors at the upcoming Interior Lifestyle China. Opening 10 – 12 October at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, the fair will give a platform to nearly 200 prestigious brands from 26 countries and regions, showcasing a full range of design-oriented products from gift to homeware and lifestyle items. A new jewellery section and urban lifestyle area will broaden the scope of products to include personalised accessories and outdoor essentials. The offerings and fringe programme will align closely with the Chinese retail landscape, highlighting key market developments while allowing visitors such as designers, retailers, collectors, and distributors to explore opportunities and navigate challenges, in response to changing consumer trends.

9 Sep 2024

Celebrated collections from acclaimed brands at Interior Lifestyle China 2024

Shanghai, 9 September 2024. In this year’s bid to cater to the diverse tastes of the modern world, Interior Lifestyle China will once again bring together the elegant creations of designers and artists from high-profile brands. Taking place from 10 – 12 October at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre (SEC), the fair will boast a broad and colourful showcase of interior decoration, lifestyle products, and everyday accessories. With over 150 renowned brands attending from China and various locations around the world, the products will embody exquisite craftsmanship and age-old traditions from exhibitors’ home regions, each bringing a unique perspective to the concept of lifestyle design.

24 Apr 2024

Interior Lifestyle China 2024 to pave the way for boundless business opportunities this October

Shanghai, 24 April, 2024. Interior Lifestyle China is set to make a dazzling comeback from 10 – 12 October 2024 as it aims to draw an even more diverse range of enthusiastic visitors to the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. Coinciding synergistically with the well-known Shanghai Fashion Week, these events will create a vibrant atmosphere in Shanghai, capturing the attention of buyers seeking stylish and fashionable items. With a strategic focus on expanding into the growing domestic retail landscape, this year's show presents an unparalleled opportunity for exhibitors to access traditional retail channels, which remain vital, as well as emerging segments, including influencers from live-streaming platforms, fashion buyers, and buyers from the hospitality sector.
22 Sep 2023

Final report: Interior Lifestyle China 2023 – Shenzhen Edition amplifies confidence in the Chinese market

After a hiatus, China’s leading trade fair for interior decoration and lifestyle has made a successful comeback, concluding with positive in-person business interaction on the show floor. Nearly 100 international interior design brands from 14 countries and regions took part in this Shenzhen edition, which was held from 13 – 15 September 2023 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. Together with the co-located China (Shenzhen) Cross-border E-commerce Exhibition (CCBEC), this special edition recorded 56,711 visits. A wide spectrum of buyers representing retailers, designers and e-commerce platforms attended the fair to actively pursue new business, exploring products from designer brands and capturing inspiration from the latest trends.

13 Sep 2023

‘Happy Together’, Interior Lifestyle China 2023 – Shenzhen Edition opens, sparking an uplift in the home living sector

China's leading home furnishing and lifestyle trade fair opens its doors to visitors from 13 – 15 September 2023 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Center. Under its new theme ‘Happy Together’, this year’s show brings together nearly 100 lifestyle brands from 14 countries and regions, presenting a wide variety of products. In a unique first, this special edition is held concurrently with the China (Shenzhen) Cross-border E-commerce Exhibition (CCBEC). This co-location will provide retailers, designers, and lifestyle enthusiasts a unique opportunity to benefit from the synergistic advantage of two concurrent exhibitions, opening up a global spectrum of lifestyle products to explore.
27 Jul 2023

New dates, new venue: Interior Lifestyle China moves to Shenzhen to unlock Greater Bay Area potential

To capitalise on high per capita spending in Shenzhen and the wider Greater Bay Area market, China's leading home décor and lifestyle trade fair is heading to this vibrant city for its upcoming 16th edition. The relocation brings the added advantage of running concurrently with the Autumn edition of China (Shenzhen) Cross-Border E-commerce Fair (CCBEC) – guaranteeing a strong turnout of relevant buyers from the consumer goods industry. Instead of its previously scheduled late September dates in Shanghai, the upcoming edition will now take place from 13 – 15 September 2023 at the Shenzhen World Exhibition & Convention Centre.

22 Mar 2023

Interior Lifestyle China returns this September with new look and even more opportunities

The dedicated event for home décor and lifestyle, Interior Lifestyle China, will return to Shanghai from 21 – 23 September 2023. Participants are expected to unveil an enhanced layout at the fair, with new display concepts and a wider spectrum of buyers to engage the thriving Chinese consumer market.
26 Apr 2022

Interior Lifestyle China pushed back to 2023 due to travel restrictions

With pandemic travel restrictions continuing to hamper Interior Lifestyle China’s large contingent of international exhibitors, the organisers have decided to reschedule the 14th edition of the fair to 2023. The fair, which was previously set to take place September this year, is well known for drawing in crowds and exhibitors from across the world.

11 Jun 2021

Interior Lifestyle China rescheduled to September 2022

Originally due to take place this September, Interior Lifestyle China, the country’s leading international event for the consumer goods sector, will now be held in September 2022 at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. The decision was made due to travel restrictions likely remaining in place in the lead up to the fair, impacting international participation in the event.
3 Feb 2021

Interior Lifestyle China to return in September 2021 with restructured product zones supporting industry recovery

In light of industry disruption caused by Covid-19, Interior Lifestyle China 2021 will adopt an apt new show theme: ‘Life Re-connect’. Taking place from 16 – 18 September, the fair will support business recovery by providing a live, physical event, in conjunction with additional online services. The adjusted show dates were chosen to better fit into the global event calendar. Moreover, this year, a structural change to the product groupings will see products allocated in new zones to better suit domestic buyer’s needs and their distribution channels. Interior Lifestyle China will once again be held at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre.

24 Jun 2020

Interior Lifestyle China to take place in September 2021

China’s leading international trade fair for the consumer goods sector, Interior Lifestyle China, is to be postponed from its September 2020 date, and will now take place in September 2021 at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre. With the fair’s focus on serving China’s growing consumer goods import market and the international makeup of the exhibitors (27 countries & regions in 2019), Messe Frankfurt made this decision to give these companies more certainty in their planning for the remainder of the year given the possibility of travel restrictions remaining in place.
12 May 2020

Interior Lifestyle China 2020 offers the ideal platform to help the home and lifestyle industry rebound

Sina Home’s recent online survey targeted at homeware consumers suggests a positive outlook for the Chinese lifestyle industry following the worldwide COVID-19 disruption. And Interior Lifestyle China, China’s leading fair for the mid-range and high-end consumer goods and lifestyle market, provides a platform to help the industry recover and reconnect. This year, the fair, along with its dedicated marketing solutions can benefit exhibitors more than ever, as new retail trends and buying habits emerge while a market rebound is anticipated off the back of the global pandemic. This year’s edition will be held from 10 – 12 September 2020 in Shanghai.
26 Sep 2019

Interior Lifestyle China: strong demand for premium products at 2019 edition

Interior Lifestyle China reaffirmed its leading position within the country for the mid-range and high-end consumer goods and lifestyle market when it wrapped up its latest edition on 13 September. Held at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, the fair attracted 20,036 visitors. 431 exhibitors from 27 countries and regions showcased an impressive selection of high-quality products. With an impressive emphasis on lifestyle through product profile and fringe programme the fair matched its 2019 theme of ‘It's My Lifestyle!’.
9 Sep 2019

Over 400 lifestyle product exhibitors ready to exhibit at Interior Lifestyle China 2019

Interior Lifestyle China 2019 will open from 11 – 13 September at the Shanghai Exhibition Centre, for retailers, designers and home design experts. The fair will explore and display products that serve individual lifestyles, with 419 home and lifestyle suppliers from 27 countries & regions, including leading Chinese and international design brands such as ALESSI, DANHERA, ezpz, Hirota Glass, Hübsch, iittala, Linenme, MEISSEN, Muurla, Nakagawa Masashichi Shoten, PAPAHUG and Serafino Zani.
29 Aug 2019

Interior Lifestyle China explores new theme and lines up multi-functional products

Interior Lifestyle China, the leading platform for showcasing homeware and lifestyle brands and trends in China, will open from 11 – 13 September in Shanghai. Each year, the fair’s theme reflects current market trends and shapes the next buying season. This year, the theme will be “It’s My Lifestyle!”, placing a focus on the role that home design plays in expressing individuality and lifestyle choices. The show will highlight designs with functions that support the user’s day-to-day lifestyle.
15 Jul 2019

Millennial purchasing power to fuel demand at Interior Lifestyle China 2019

The concept of a status symbol has long driven Chinese consumer power in many markets. Expensive items such as designer apparel and cars are clear external and social indicators of financial success. However, one major generation of Chinese consumers, millennials, now looks inwards to the home, in order to express their identity and lifestyle through thoughtful interior design. Mid-range to high-end exhibitors from around the world are preparing to access these opportunities at Interior Lifestyle China 2019, to be held from 11 – 13 September 2019 in Shanghai.

3 Oct 2018

The best of both worlds at Interior Lifestyle China 2018: a high-end lifestyle and effective business platform

As the 2018 Interior Lifestyle China concluded on 15 September, participants endorsed the effectiveness of the fair regarding two of its central elements: having both a strong high-end lifestyle focus that reflects the latest consumer demands & lifestyle trends, as well as being an effective business platform to take advantage of the continuing potential in the Chinese market. In total, 437 exhibitors from 27 countries and regions participated in the 13 – 15 September fair (2017: 395, while the 23,570 visitors in attendance represented a 2 per cent increase compared to 2017.

12 Sep 2018

Brands from 27 countries & regions on display at this week’s Interior Lifestyle China 2018

Interior Lifestyle China returns from 13 – 15 September at the Shanghai Exhibition Center, breaking the fair’s record with nearly 440 exhibitors set to take advantage of the peak trade fair season in China’s home and lifestyle industry, and maximise synergistic opportunities. Interior Lifestyle China’s position, as the country’s only international fair for the mid and high-end markets, has attracted increased participation from more international brands looking to establish themselves in the highly-profitable Chinese interior design and lifestyle market.

14 Jun 2018

International brand participation to increase at Interior Lifestyle China 2018

With the recruitment period for exhibitors still ongoing, the confirmed participation of overseas brands is already higher than 2017. International exhibitors can also benefit from a new, innovative promotion campaign pre-fair to increase their brand awareness and test products in the market. Around 400 Chinese and international companies are expected at the fair which will once again be held at the majestic Shanghai Exhibition Center from 13 – 15 September, which coincides with the peak sourcing period for the industry in Shanghai.