INTERNI Design Guide New York, in its 8th edition this year, is published in May for Design Week in New York. The guide is composed of two parts. Inside, on the ICFF International Contemporary Furniture Fair (exhibitors, exhibits, programs, awards, conferences), May 17-20, 2008. Outside, on the city, the neighborhoods and places of design: SoHo, Chelsea, Flatiron District, Greenwich Village, Meatpacking District, Tribeca, Midtown, Uptown, Brooklyn. Over 300 places including design stores, hotels, restaurants and cafes, bars, clubs and music venues, seen in evocative images that form an architectural and gastronomic itinerary for shopping and relaxing. A real Who’s Who of design that conceives, realizes, presents, informs, photographs, and more... At the same time, an urban itinerary marked by INTERNI banners will help visitors to recognize the locations of the events. Along with about 90 outstanding day-by-day events of New York Design Week (May 16-20, 2008), organized through the different moments of the day and night, including conferences. But the real new development in this edition is the important partnership with the Italian Trade Commission-ICE New York and i Saloni WorldWide by Cosmit/Federlegno-Arredo, with the for international tastemakers, and in New York, the central generator of American design culture, this role has particular strategic significance. In the Big Apple, as in the rest of the world, Italian Style has always been synonymous with quality, good taste and innovation. The record numbers of visitors at the Italian exhibitions organized during Design Week in New York confirm the guiding role of Made in Italy for the world of “overseas” furnishings. We are certain that a more direct, incisive and coordinated presence of the operators and institutions that have always represented this great excellence of Italian enterprise can consolidate the role of stimulus that New York, in turn, can have and undoubtedly will have for the entire world of American design. The role played by INTERNI and i Saloni by Cosmit/Federlegno-Arredo is seen to its fullest extent in Milan in April, when the city becomes the real world Design Capital and welcomes more than 270,000 visitors including 165,000 foreigners architects, journalists, buyers and designers - who split their time between the Saloni and the over 400 events of the FuoriSalone scattered around the city, in pursuit of new design themes, new materials, new trends, new aesthetic and technological research.