New combined Paris furniture market set for January

— Furniture Today,
PARIS — Two home furnishings trade shows here are combining into a new event called Meuble Paris, which will debut in January 2018.
Operators of the Maison & Objet and Planete Meuble Paris shows here said in a press release that they have acquired rival event Salon du Meuble (the Paris Furniture Show). Financial details weren’t disclosed.


The new Meuble Paris show will take place Jan. 24-28 in the Paris Le Bourget exhibition center, which had been the site of the Planete event. Meuble Paris will overlap with Maison & Objet, the decorative home products trade show set for Jan. 25-29 in the Paris-Nord Villepinte exhibition center. Shuttle buses will carry visitors between the shows.
SAFI, the organizer of the Maison and Meuble Paris, is a subsidiary of Ateliers d’Art de France and Reed Exhibitions France. The Reed unit is a sister company of Reed Business Information, the parent of Furniture/Today.
UNIFA, the French furniture industry trade organization that was a backer of Salon du Meuble, will be a “partner” of Meuble Paris, according to the release.
The statement said the new furniture show will have “a strong focus on creativity to showcase the originality of companies working in the sector.”