EDIT Napoli comes back to La Santissima from 9 to 11 October 2026, with a press preview on 8 October. For its eighth edition, the fair brings together around 80 exhibitors from Italy and abroad, plus a delegation of 40 international guests from 12 countries, backed by ICE, the Italian trade agency for export and internationalization. New formats and a wider spread of projects across La Santissima and Chiaia push the fair further into international territory, while staying close to its roots: research, authorship, and quality design. 

EDIT Napoli Essentials
October 9-11, 2026

For professionals and general public
Location: La Santissima, Vico Trinità delle Monache, 1, Naples
Opening hours: h. 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Size: 80 exhibitors, over 20,000 visitors
Visit website EditNapoli.com for more info

Tickets: €20 full price, €10 reduced (under 25), free for under 14
Tickets are available online at editnapoli.com/visit

Discover EDIT Napoli 2025 

Where Design Shapes: the idea behind the 2026 campaign

This year’s campaign, “Where Design Shapes,” puts the design process back at the center: the materials, the gestures, the skills, the relationships behind an object, not just the finished result. At a time when design often gets flattened into an image or a trend, the fair chooses to look at what actually builds culture and new opportunities.

That focus fits EDIT Napoli’s identity well. Born to give room to independent designers, architects, and small studios, the fair keeps picking up on the new generation of designers, studios, and publishers testing out fresh languages, materials, and independent production models.

Camera con Vista: a new way to show design

One of the big new features this year is Camera con Vista, a format that asks designers, studios, and companies to treat a room as a space to live in and experiment with. The rooms look out symbolically onto Mount Vesuvius, each one offering a different take on contemporary living through furniture, objects, and materials — with the view over the Gulf of Naples as part of the project itself, not just a backdrop.

EDIT Napoli: the exhibitors and special projects at La Santissima

Several special projects take shape at La Santissima this year, built together with partners who bring their own perspective to the fair.

Lancia joins as Main Sponsor for the first time, sharing the fair’s focus on design, material research, and Italian craft tradition. On the first floor, Lancia teams up with DWA Design Studio for an installation tied to the launch of the new Lancia Gamma, turning the car’s defining features into a spatial language of light, material, and movement.

French designer and artist Olivier Vadrot welcomes visitors with an installation made for EDIT Napoli — a meeting point built to bring people and their surroundings into contact, in line with his work across art, design, and public space.

Among this year’s exhibitors, last edition’s winners Chiara Lionello and Katryna are back, alongside many returning names and a new group of Italian and international designers, widening the fair’s scope as a platform for research and experimentation.

EDIT Napoli looks outward

The international side of the 2026 edition gets a further boost from ICE, supporting the event for the first time with an incoming program bringing in 40 professionals — architects, developers, and media — from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, the United States, South Africa, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, and Poland.

Special collaborations add to the picture: the dialogue with España Diseño Mediterráneo and the Instituto Cervantes of Naples continues, and La Santissima hosts Cultural Currencies: Cape Town Furniture Week x EDIT Napoli for the first time. Curated by designer Francesca Lanzavecchia, the show brings together five South African studios — African Jacquard, Ananta Design Studio, James Mudge Furniture Studio x Mungo, Water Dixon, and Wiid Design — putting Cape Town and Naples in conversation as two cities shaped by geology, the sea, and design that grows out of the land.

Some previews from EDIT Napoli 2026

 

 

EDIT CULT: design meets the city’s heritage

Alongside the fair, EDIT CULT returns — the spread-out program of exhibitions, installations, and site-specific projects that puts contemporary design in dialogue with the city’s historic and architectural heritage. Over the years it has taken over cloisters, castles, charterhouses, and museums; in 2026, the CULT route moves into Chiaia, heading symbolically down toward the sea — a fitting move as Naples looks ahead to hosting the 38th America’s Cup in 2027. Historic palaces and churches, normally closed to the public, become the setting for new installations that put the spotlight on designers’ work and the processes behind it.

This year’s CULT program 

“Crochet Coral Reef” by Margaret and Christine Wertheim, with the Museum Frieder Burda, supported by Crédit Agricole Italia. Made entirely by crochet, this installation recreates the structure and color of living coral reefs, turning a handmade craft into a large collective work. Over 4,000 people from different countries took part, making more than 40,000 crocheted coral shapes — together forming the biggest crocheted coral reef ever made. Two of its six “islands” come to Naples. (Museo Diego Aragona Pignatelli Cortes)

“Archetipi di Pace” by Fabrizia Frezza with Felice Limosani. A site-specific installation across the five altars of the Chiesa di San Rocco in Chiaia, exploring the meaning of peace and encounter through sculpture, light, and words. (Chiesa di San Rocco a Chiaia – Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini)

“L’Equilibrista” by Lombardini22, with Mangini and B&B Italia. An immersive environment built around the idea of balance as something human and relational, not just physical — a space meant to be walked through, where every movement shifts the whole. (Palazzo Ruffo della Scaletta)

“Controtempo”, a show on glass master Massimo Lunardon curated by Domitilla Dardi. More than fifty works trace his collaborations with artists and designers over the years, alongside a new monograph published by Corraini. (Fondazione Plart)

 

Other Special Exhibitions

“Common Ground” by Margherita Rui, with NasonMoretti, Fornace Brioni, Fortuny, Imolarte, and Amenta Incisioni. Five Italian manufacturing excellences come together around the idea of the table as a place for meeting and sharing. (Chiesa di Santa Caterina da Siena – Fondazione Pietà de’ Turchini)

“Light on Spain”, curated by EDIT Napoli with support from the PICE program, featuring Tomás Alía, Álvaro Catalán de Ocón, Curro Claret, Mayice Studio, Lucas Muñoz Muñoz, and Jorge Penadés. Six lamps by six Spanish designers take over the historic rooms of Palazzo Cellamare, a building deeply tied to the long cultural exchange between Naples and Spain. (Palazzo Cellamare)

 

The jury and the awards

The award for the best unreleased product shown at the fair will again be handed out by a jury of industry figures: Aliai Forte, designer and entrepreneur at Rocco Forte Hotels; Francesca Lanzavecchia, designer; Asad Syrkett, Head of Editorial Content at AD Italia; and Maria Dolores Uribe, founder and Creative Director of Studio 84 and UNNO Gallery. The winner gets to come back and exhibit for free at next year’s edition. The jury looks for projects that combine smart design, respect for cultural heritage, and a well-thought-out price.

A new workshop program at EDIT Napoli 2026

For the first time, EDIT Napoli opens up a workshop program to the public, built to show what design looks like beyond the finished object — through process, gesture, technique, and material. This year, visitors don’t just walk through the fair: they can stop, try things out, and make something alongside other people.

“Brick after brick: bread after bread” by Studio CoPain. This French design collective invites participants to give stale bread a second life, turning it into a material to build with. Through sanding, scorching, carving, and cutting, the group builds a small dream house entirely out of reused bread, and even learns to make an edible glue and work with “dead dough,” a traditional pastry mix. The workshop ends around the table, sharing what everyone made. Duration: 3 hours. Up to 20 participants. Location: La Santissima. Saturday 10 October at 10:00, Sunday 11 October at 10:00.

“Woven 3D Shapes – Original Digital Technology” by Alison Grace Martin. This independent artist and researcher looks at the connection between geometry, craft, and the structures found in nature, guiding participants through building woven 3D paper shapes. Inspired by the fragility of flowers and shells, the workshop focuses on hyperbolic geometry and soft curves, offering a slow, hands-on approach to digital design. Duration: 3 hours. Up to 20 participants. Location: La Santissima. Saturday 10 October at 15:00, Sunday 11 October at 15:00.

Why visit 

EDIT Napoli 2026 mixes rare, independent design with real Neapolitan history — see it at La Santissima and inside palaces and churches usually closed to the public. New this year: Camera con Vista, a Lancia-backed installation, and hands-on workshops open to everyone. It’s a compact, walkable fair with real international reach, from Cape Town to Spain.

EDIT Napoli Essentials
October 9-11, 2026

For professionals and general public
Location: La Santissima, Vico Trinità delle Monache, 1, Naples
Opening hours: h. 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
Size: 80 exhibitors, over 20,000 visitors
Visit website EditNapoli.com for more info

Tickets: €20 full price, €10 reduced (under 25), free for under 14
Tickets are available online at editnapoli.com/visit

Some images from EDIT Napoli 2025