New Modern Furniture + Lighting and Future House® International Residential Awards Exhibition

Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Architecture and Design announce the exhibitions “2025 New Modern Furniture + Lighting” and “2025 Future House® International Residential Awards Exhibition” to celebrate the winners of 2025.

In 1949, the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) organized the “Prize Designs for Modern Furniture” to encourage the best of contemporary design by exhibiting the most notable examples in the furniture industry thereby stimulating production by manufacturers for the mass-produced market. Seven decades later, Global Design News and The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design are relaunching this historic event. Curated by Edgar Kaufmann, Jr., Prize Designs for Modern Furniture opened in 1950 at MoMA in New York.

Future House Awards is born out of the juxtaposition of residential design and architectural vision aiming to promote and award new and innovative residential projects on a global scale. “From a shed to a penthouse”—the vision is to present inclusive and pioneering architectural projects that define the present and shape the future of residential design globally. The award program seeks to define the New Domestic Landscape with the best and most innovative cutting-edge designs for residential architecture.

Prize Designs for Modern Furniture + Lighting winners and awarded Future Houses will be exhibited with photos, videos and furniture at the European Centre-Contemporary Space Athens with an opening reception on Friday, October 10.The same day and venue an award ceremony will take place with the attendance of the winners.

Information about architects and designers along with their projects can be found at globaldesignnews.com, futurehouseaward.com and Prize Designs Award – Modern Furniture + Lighting

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Opening Exhibition & Awards Ceremony:

Friday, October 10^th, 2025 at 18.00 -22.00.( Reservation only)

Duration: October 10 – November 23 2025

Days & Hours: Wednesday -Sunday, 12.00-19.00

Free public entrance.