COVER Connect
COVER Connect is a new virtual event hosted by COVER magazine, the world’s leading magazine on contemporary rugs. Playing host to a global audience of buyers and interior designers, it is the best place to source outstanding new rugs and to network with top brands capable of delivering unsurpassed custom rug solutions.
In the month when the world’s most dynamic designers, manufacturers and traders would traditionally have been flocking to fairs in different cities across the globe, COVER Connect is bringing them together online in a new event abuzz with ideas and initiatives, concepts and creativity, energy and enterprise.
Three distinct but intricately linked online platforms make up COVER Connect: Trade / Talks / Events
Trade is the virtual fair at the core of COVER Connect. Featuring thirty-seven of the most admired international rug brands, showcasing their latest designs and new collections; It will recreate the atmosphere of a fair by offering numerous encounters with outstanding design, superlative rugs and the companies who create them. High-quality photography and videos, live chat and bookable 1:1 meetings will facilitate active business. The virtual booths and catalogues for download will act as an easily accessible overview of each company’s rugs, representing individual style and ethos.
Events will deliver exclusive digital content to inspire and inform, from product launches to showroom tours, virtual exhibitions to documentary films.
Talks will invite some of the industry’s most eminent and innovative figures to address the themes of Sustainability, Collaboration and Interior Design.
Follow @cover.connect on Instagram for all the latest news. Registration is free.
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