HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2023/24: Second Nature

The seventh portfolio in the HomePage News 2023/24 InSight™ Trend Index examines Second Nature, elements of the living world cultivate renewed inspiration, innovation and growth in home and housewares.

As technology and information become pervasive (and invasive) elements of our everyday lives, instinct brings us back to natural elements and influences for a much-needed sense of reality, reassurance and relaxation. As we approach nature with a renewed sense of appreciation and wonder, we seek constant connection to it through objects of essential function and everyday use.

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The HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2023/24 is an exclusive digital guide that explores emerging and enduring home and housewares trends through the products and innovations that embody them. This comprehensive and expansive report series was developed in partnership with Springboard Futures and its founder, industry trend authority Tom Mirabile, who also serves as consumer and lifestyle trend analyst for the International Housewares Association and HomePage News.

The Springboard team explored influential trade shows in the U.S. and abroad seeking home and housewares trends driven by global influences such as design, consumer lifestyle and functional/material innovation.

The HomePage News InSight Trend Index 2023/24 will be rolled out on HomePageNews.com in a series of themed portfolios each week into the 3rd quarter of 2023:

• The Great Entertainers: The Artist, The Contemporist, The Naturalist, The Postmodernist, The Traditionalist, The Great Gifter
• Material Evidence: A New Standard, [RE]imagine
• All About Ease: Problem Solved, Get It Together, [RE]Innovations
• Pantone ColorWatch: Sustenance, Surrealism, Stylist, Scenic, Sanctuary, Replenish, Creative Mixology
• Fine Lines: Raise the Bar, Barely There, Something’s Brewing
• The Great Outdoors: The Grill Master, The Trail Blazer, The Backyard Bad@$$, Memory Makers
• Second Nature: Water Works, Into the Woods, Modern Romance
• The Shape of Things To Come
• World of Wellness

HomePage News, the leading B2B news and information media brand for the Home + Housewares industry, is a service of the International Housewares Association.