Trendshow Outdoor Lifestyle at spoga+gafa

As the world's largest garden trade fair, spoga+gafa showcases the new trends for outdoor living and presents groundbreaking design from the garden industry for the fourth time with the Trendshow Outdoor Lifestyle. This year, trend-setting innovations will be presented by exhibitors on the theme of spoga+gafa Social Gardens. The special area in Hall 10.2 presents pioneering outdoor furniture, unusual garden accessories and innovative grill & BBQ products in four thematic presentations.

For shared moments outdoors with family, neighbours and friends, private living nowadays leaves its traditional boundaries: chairs and tables, armchairs and sofas, barbecue grills, even entire kitchen units move into the garden and invite people to get together. People eat, laugh, talk and relax together. Large gardens and terraces become social places with a high degree of design and function.

All over the world, more and more people are moving to cities - and there is a growing desire for gardening and outdoor living. Private outdoor spaces such as balconies or roof terraces are being used for shared outdoor activities with family, neighbours and friends. Practical solutions that take up little space are in demand for the trend of city gardening. Compact furniture and plant pots transform one's own outdoor space into an urban open-air oasis.

Community gardening in urban open spaces is gaining more and more followers. Trends like urban gardening, neighbourhood and other social initiatives are bringing people together. Together, people take care of growing fruit and vegetables or sowing plants in the city. Inner courtyards, pavements and urban wastelands are becoming biotopes. Where grey concrete used to dominate, flowers now bloom.

Plants and greenery play an important role in offices, hotels and restaurants today. Trends such as Biophilic Design create retreat areas with green room elements. Natural design stands for sustainability and a healthy working environment and is one of the benefits when recruiting new employees. Also outdoor areas of Hotels and restaurants are upgraded with plants and stylish outdoor furniture for relaxed get-togethers.

Broekman+Partner from Düsseldorf will act as curator of the Trend Show. The content agency Broekman+Partner specialises in consulting and communication in the fields of architecture, product design and art and is a long-standing companion of spoga+gafa.