Furniture. Objects. Retail. Makers.

We look to Europe in search of big ideas for today's smaller city housing because let's face it, they've been dealing with much smaller spaces than us in the US and their furniture product design has followed suit.

Buying a sofa is exciting right up until it arrives and something feels off. Maybe it swallows the room. Most people eyeball sofa size, skip the tape measure, and end up with a piece that never quite fits. The good news is that choosing the right size does not require an interior design degree. It requires a tape measure, about fifteen minutes, and this sofa size guide for your living room.

Every June, Copenhagen quietly becomes the design capital of the world. Not with the scale or spectacle of Milan, but with something more intimate: showrooms thrown open across eight historic districts, craftsmen and creative directors mingling on cobblestone streets, and a citywide conversation about what good design actually means. This is 3 Days of Design, and for its 13th edition, which ran from June 10 to 12, 2026, the festival drew over 560 exhibitors and an estimated 60,000 visitors under the theme "Make This Moment Matter," a deliberate step back from design world obsessions with nostalgia or novelty in favor of designing for the present.

We carry the complete Eilersen furniture collection at Trade Source, and we've been working with the brand long enough to know what makes them different from anything else in the modern furniture space. Here's the full guide.