Gift Focus - Sep/Oct 2019 (Issue 115)

61 TOP DRAWER PREVIEW Breaking boundaries & defining trends PULSE, now co-located with Top Drawer and joined with Spotted, will give those visitors looking for emerging talent and new names access to original and innovative brands IN BRIEF Show Top Drawer Organiser Clarion Events When 8 th –10 th September, 2019 Where Olympia London Website topdrawer.co.uk Twitter @TopDrawerLondon Breaking boundaries and defining trends, Top Drawer, one of the UK’s leading design-led lifestyle and interiors trade shows, returns to Olympia London from 8 th– 10 th September, bringing an unmissable edit of more than 1,000 carefully curated brands. Showcasing everything from cutting- edge to classic design and firm favourites to undiscovered names, creative retailers and interior professionals will have access to the best and newest design-led homeware and lifestyle products at the autumn/winter edition. The 10 beautifully curated and presented sectors – Home, Gift, Fashion, Greetings & Stationery, Play, Pulse & Spotted, Craft, Food Emporium, Wellbeing and the brand-new Retail Clinics – as well as the inspirational show features, will provide an unrivalled experience for buyers to learn about the latest trends, gain expert advice and successfully source products for the new season. NEW THIS EDITION PULSE, co-located with Top Drawer for the very first time and joined with Spotted, will give visitors looking for emerging talent and new names access to original and innovative brands. Of the enhanced offering, Top Drawer show director Alejandra Campos said: “Top Drawer has always been at the forefront of industry trends and cutting- edge content. The co-location with Pulse, which is known for presenting the next wave of design talent, makes for the perfect complement to our existing offering. With the amalgamation of the two shows, visitors will have the ability to explore the largest presentation of commercially ready emerging brands and design, as well as the industry’s bigger, more established names.” Seminars & awards Following its successful January debut, Top Drawer’s DesignTalk – a dedicated seminar stream for interior professionals and design-savvy retailers – will join the September edition of the show for the first time. Shaped by industry experts, DesignTalk will present specialist advice, trend analysis and spirited discussion from leading interior designers and key exponents of the craft, a perfect complement to RetailFest, the show’s  Lara Gorlach