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Display will highlight cutting-edge design

LAS VEGAS — A display at the July market here will show the latest designs in furniture, lighting and decorative accessories from Italy.

The World Market Center and the Italian Design Agency will bring the I.DoT — for Italian Design on Tour — exhibit to the Las Vegas Convention Center, featuring about 100 contemporary pieces. Another 30 pieces will be shown in an adjacent exhibit called IDCS, for Italian Design Classic Selection.

I.DoT’s products will be contemporary, while IDCS will focus on updated versions of retro contemporary styles from the last century. A panel of design authorities from around the world will select the products to be shown in the I.DoT exhibit.

“We see our international exhibits as a window to the world — enabling our visitors to enjoy cutting-edge design trends alongside U.S. exhibitors, so we are particularly pleased to welcome the I.DoT and IDCS,” said Tim Branscome, the World Market Center’s director of international development.

In the Convention Center, the products will be presented in two distinct settings designed by internationally known Italian architects Denis Santachiara and Paola Navone.

I.DoT was founded in 2001 in Venice with the involvement of the Milan Chamber of Design and the support of the Italian government. In addition to the juried product, the display also will include the works of 10 young designers recognized with an award named after Almerico D’Angelis, the late architect and co-founder of the I.DoT project.

The summer Las Vegas market is set for July 24-28 at the World Market Center and the Pavilions tents on the WMC grounds, and July 25-28 for temporary exhibits in the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Online registration is available at http://www.lasvegasmarket.com/, as is information about discounted hotels.