Downtown Design Dubai 2025: recap, highlights and new global design trends with Marca Corona

As the main event of Dubai Design Week and now in its 11th edition, Downtown Design Dubai 2025 once again confirmed itself as one of the leading global showcases for furniture, materials and finishes, with both local relevance and international reach.

Created to promote contemporary, high-quality design in the Middle East, Downtown Design Dubai has rapidly become the leading fair and a strategic hub of opportunities in a constantly expanding market.

But how did the 2025 edition unfold, and what were the key highlights, innovations and emerging trends - especially in the world of Made in Italy ceramic surfaces?

On the occasion of our first participation at Downtown Design Dubai, we have gathered in this recap all the experiences and images from the event, offering a detailed and insider’s perspective.

Dedicated to originality and innovation, Downtown Design Dubai 2025 positions design as a universal language.

Here, collections, surfaces and solutions for contemporary furniture and interior design address a highly diverse audience: from architecture professionals and international contractors to private homeowners and design enthusiasts.

This year, more than 25,000 visitors attended the fair over five days, from 5 to 9 November 2025, held alongside Dubai Design Week.

As an annual meeting point for the furniture and interior design sectors, Downtown Design Dubai 2025 brings together the most prestigious brands in a dynamic and refined setting where relationships develop on a global scale.

The result is a cross-cultural exchange that celebrates diversity and the quality of high-end contemporary design, offering inspiration, discovery and surprise through an open dialogue on emerging material and finish trends.

Looking at the interior design trends showcased at Downtown Design Dubai 2025, materiality and luminosity remain central, helping to create innovative architectural experiences with a multisensory approach.

For ceramic surfaces, this means becoming narrative tools capable of transforming textures, colours and formats into refined, contemporary design languages.

With Exotic Appeal, Marca Corona interprets this trend through collections that express a “different yet universal beauty,” while remaining faithful to Italian aesthetic tradition and the needs of modern interior design.

This vision gives rise to projects where landscapes, memories and characteristics from distant latitudes converge in Made in Italy excellence, creating immersive and spatial wonder designed to engage and inspire those who inhabit the space.

This first participation at Downtown Design Dubai 2025 marks an important milestone for our company, projecting the Marca Corona name into increasingly influential and strategic markets on the international design scene.

For this reason, the stand was designed to alternate moments of strong inspiration with exclusive networking opportunities, inviting visitors to explore the versatility and quality of Marca Corona ceramic collections with our experts.

Among them, Scultorea Delicata stood out for its identity, emotional impact and performance.

Introduced in recent months, this collection makes a lasting impression through its gentle elegance, offering a new way to furnish spaces with a marble-effect aesthetic.

Balancing essence, light and material, Scultorea Delicata draws inspiration from Calacatta and Travertine, focusing on light, enveloping shades that enhance interiors without overwhelming them.

The collection allows for highly versatile combinations, thanks to three different finishes:

• Natural (Matt), ideal for contemporary projects
• Polished (Full-polished), for enhanced brilliance and light reflections
• Velvet, featuring a soft, velvety texture that enhances comfort and visual impact

In a Middle Eastern context, this elegant and forward-looking proposal is ideal for creating sophisticated, timeless environments, where light marble looks serve as a “canvas” for colour accents and decorative elements—such as precious metals or the combination with other effects like wood and concrete.