Budapest has always been a city of extraordinary architecture. The problem, historically, has been that the world did not quite know it yet. That is changing fast. Over the past decade, a generation of Hungarian architects, interior designers, furniture makers and creative professionals has emerged with a visual intelligence and a design ambition that is drawing international attention, investment and, increasingly, clients from across Europe and beyond.

Every April, when Salone del Mobile takes over the fairgrounds at Rho and the Fuori Salone transforms the city's neighbourhoods into a week-long design festival, Milan becomes the most concentrated gathering of design talent, design ambition and design commerce on earth. But Milan as a design city is not just a one-week event. It is a permanent condition.