Where Design Foresight Meets Italian Curation
Every season, TRENDBARK Atelier gives your brand a clear direction on how your products can evolve and be positioned ahead, aligned with future trends and the changing tastes of your market.
What makes the Atelier different is not just the strategic clarity, but the unmistakably Italian aesthetic sensitivity behind it: refined for your market, your audience, and your products.
A strategic advantage rooted in foresight, delivered through bespoke Trend Capsules designed to turn vision into direction.
The Trend Capsules are a personalized, applied interpretation of future trends, shaped around your products, your positioning, and your market needs.
Each Capsule transforms global and Italian design signals into clear, brand-ready creative direction, giving your team a practical and strategic compass for the next 12–24 months:
• which colors and materials will matter in the coming seasons
• how to refresh and evolve your existing products
• which aesthetic language aligns with your brand identity
• how to style, present, and position your offer for your market
• what to adopt, what to evolve, and what to let go
• how to differentiate through Italian taste and curation
A future-ready vision, made applicable, and uniquely yours.
For years, arch. Elisabetta Rizzato, through TRENDBARK, has guided design-driven companies in navigating the future of interiors with clarity and confidence.
Rooted in Italy’s design culture, TRENDBARK has become a trusted lens for transforming aesthetic intuition into strategic foresight — helping brands move from inspiration to informed, confident action.
For 2026, this vision evolves into a more focused and personal format:
the TRENDBARK Atelier.
Created for companies who value depth over data, it blends curated foresight, cultural intelligence, and a distinctly Italian sensitivity to design, all personally directed by Elisabetta.
Over the years, Elisabetta's bespoke trend collaborations have shaped the aesthetic and strategic direction of brands across different markets. Each project begins with the same intention: to bring clarity, coherence, and future relevance to a company’s creative vision. Here are two examples.
To refresh their upcoming season, the brand received a custom Trend Capsule built around eight refined style directions, each supported by tailored palettes and tactile translations inspired by emerging Milanese and Scandinavian signals. A dedicated focus on Christmas décor offered new atmospheric cues, color stories, and styling principles to elevate their seasonal displays and retail storytelling.
The impact was immediate: renewed visibility, stronger retailer interest, and a collection that felt clearer, fresher, and strategically aligned with the seasons ahead.
Seeking a renewed aesthetic direction without replacing their existing offer, the showroom partnered with us to reinterpret their current collections through the lens of emerging Italian design trends. The resulting Trend Capsule introduced fresh styling principles, updated atmospheres, and a clearer visual identity grounded in contemporary Italian cues.
Within six months, the showroom experienced higher engagement from designers, increased project inquiries, and a noticeably elevated aesthetic across displays and communication.
These stories, and many others, are the foundation of the Atelier, which makes this level of tailored guidance available as an ongoing, structured partnership.
A seasonal foresight partnership personally crafted by Elisabetta Rizzato, combining:
✧ Custom Trend Capsules - your seasonal creative and strategic direction
✧ Brand-specific Strategy & Application
✧ Direct creative collaboration throughout the year
✧ Access to the TRENDBARK full membership
A complete, future-ready framework tailored to your products, market, and aesthetic identity.
The Atelier also opens the door to insider perspectives shaped by Italy’s design culture and creative scene, including:
A curated insider perspective on the world’s leading design event, including a private post-Milan briefing and a tailored route aligned with your aesthetic world. In-person sessions available in Milan (limited seats).
A refined selection of emerging Italian designers, studios, and materials relevant to your brand: an insider vantage point available only through the Atelier.
The TRENDBARK Atelier is offered to a limited number of brands each year to ensure depth, discretion, and personal involvement. If you’ve reached this page, you are already on the priority list.
• Single-Capsule Partnership ( one tailored Trend Capsule per year )
• Seasonal Partnership ( two tailored Trend Capsules per year — S/S and A/W )
A preferred rate is available for brands joining before December 21, and for current TRENDBARK Members.
Investment details and next steps are shared privately.
Partnerships are confirmed upon acceptance.
E-mail to: atelier@trendbark.com
A discovery call can be scheduled upon request. Make sure to download the Atelier Full Program presentation below to review and share internally with your team.
For internal review only. Exclusive to waiting-list brands. Not for external circulation.