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SUMMARY:Dutch Design Week 2026: R.A.W. Takes Design Back to Its Roots in Eindhoven
DESCRIPTION:Dutch Design Week 2026 returns to Eindhoven from 17 to 25 October with a theme that goes back to the core of the discipline: R.A.W.\, short for Rebel Authentic Worth. At a time when so much of daily life feels optimised\, filtered and packaged\, DDW turns its attention to what can’t be fully controlled. The idea is simple. Design doesn’t start with perfection\, it starts with the urge to break open existing structures\, try things out and ask questions. \nFor nine days\, the 26th edition of the festival will show not only finished work but also early\, rough iterations. Some projects grow across several editions\, so returning visitors can follow how they develop over time. \nDiscover Dutch Design Week 2025 \nDutch Design Week 2025. Photo Max Kneefel\, courtesy Dutch Design Week \nR.A.W.: the DDW 2026 theme explained\nThe organisers point out that the word “design” is now used more widely than ever\, and sometimes that blurs what makes it distinctive. With R.A.W.\, DDW chooses the unpolished and the experimental\, and puts the design process itself at the centre: questioning\, testing and opening up alternatives. \nEindhoven fits this approach well. The city has long been in transition and has built a close bond with design\, with a habit of imagining\, making\, testing and starting over. Its industrial past works less as a backdrop and more as the ground on which a growing design ecosystem keeps building new connections. As DDW puts it\, design at this edition can be confronting\, uncomfortable\, hopeful\, or simply beautiful. \nDiscover Dutch Design Week 2024 \nSonic Maze\, Grand Project Dutch Design Week 2025. Photo Max Kneefel\, courtesy Dutch Design Week \nDutch Design Week 2026 Beacons: Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain\nEach year DDW names its Beacons\, pioneers who put together a project\, event or exhibition for both the public and professionals. Past Beacons include Julia Watson\, Piet Hein Eek\, Lidewij Edelkoort and Yinka Ilori. For 2026\, the Dutch Beacon is biodesigner Emma van der Leest and the international Beacon is Anab Jain of Superflux. Both share a focus on caring for the planet\, though they work at very different scales. \nEmma van der Leest (born 1991) is a Rotterdam-based biodesigner\, researcher\, lecturer and author who works with living organisms such as fungi\, bacteria and algae to develop fully compostable materials. She founded BlueCity Lab\, a circular hub for designers and entrepreneurs. In Hall D of the Klokgebouw she will set up The Biodesign Warehouse – Department Store For Life\, which brings the familiar format of a department store together with science and biology. The aim is to show how biodesign is already moving into everyday life and scaling up into an industry. \nAnab Jain co-founded Superflux in 2009 with Jon Ardern. The studio is known for speculative design and experiential futures\, and in 2022 received the Royal Designer for Industry title from the Royal Society of Arts. Its work has been shown at MoMA\, the V&A\, Tate Modern\, the Vitra Design Museum and the National Museum of China. Jain\, who teaches at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna\, will give a lecture built around one question: what role can design play in a changing world\, shaped by climate extremes and technological and geopolitical shifts? Her answer points to design as a way to make possible futures tangible\, something people can step into rather than just talk about. \n  \nEmma van der Leest and Anab Jain \nEight large-scale installations across Eindhoven\nWorking with Bureau Binnenstad Eindhoven\, DDW turns the city centre and the Strijp-S district into an open-air exhibition. The eight installations came out of an open call for designers and are free to visit throughout the week. Together they form a walking route that touches on inclusion\, community life\, public space and health. \nIn the city centre\n\nBLAUPAUSE\, Kollektiv Plus X (18 Septemberplein): three trailers turn into blue wooden structures\, a stage\, a grandstand and a kiosk\, showing how public space can take on new functions for a short time.\nHuis\, een installatie over drempels\, Studio Kars en Boom x RAUM (Nieuwe Emmasingel): a colourful play space on wheels where children with and without disabilities can play together without barriers.\nFIELD\, Isabel + Helen (Stadhuisplein): wind-powered turbines on wheels that visitors can move around\, creating patterns that keep changing.\nConsultation Room of the Future\, Atelier Van Lieshout (Markt): a seven-metre golden bird perched on a giant egg\, unveiled on 28 August to open the cultural season. Inside the egg\, visitors can get things off their chest\, while the work asks whether AI and robotics really help mental health\, or whether human contact matters more.\nWaiting for the Bus\, Luca Ortmann (Demer): yellow steel tubes shaped into a spot to sit\, lean and wait\, a reminder that pauses are part of city life.\n\nUmbra Pavilion\, Grand Project at Dutch Design Week 2025 \nIn Strijp-S\n\nBlind Spots\, Fairspace × Studio Shruthi Venkat × Sagitta Creatives: a web of cameras\, screens and voices that changes as visitors leave their responses behind\, bringing up hidden differences in how safety is experienced depending on identity.\nColonic Cleansing Clinic\, Atelier Van Lieshout: an intestine-shaped structure that looks at how illness\, treatment and recovery could fit into daily life. Like the golden bird\, it belongs to Van Lieshout’s project Sanitas Futurum on the future of wellbeing and healthcare.\nElectric Grand\, Antoon Versteegde + Bart van Dongen: an electric piano opened up into a bamboo structure\, with each note coming from its own speaker. Visitors stand inside the instrument while the two artists improvise.\n\nPolestar Design Rides and We Harvest Wind\nDDW 2026 also launches a multi-year partnership with Polestar. The Polestar Design Rides will run daily from 17 to 25 October\, carrying visitors between DDW venues in cars topped with design objects. At the Klokgebouw\, artist Thijs Biersteker presents We Harvest Wind\, an interactive installation on renewable energy\, and Polestar will show its new Polestar 4 SUV to the Dutch public for the first time.\n \nWhy visit\n\nFor nine days the whole city gives itself over to design\, with an open\, curious and hands-on mood that feels closer to a lab than a trade fair.\nBuilt on Eindhoven’s industrial past\, the week brings together designers\, companies\, schools and researchers in an ecosystem where new ideas\, partnerships and talent keep coming through. With the theme R.A.W.\, DDW 2026 shows design as it takes shape\, from rough first ideas to finished work.\nEight large-scale installations turn Eindhoven’s city centre and Strijp-S into a free open-air design route.\nThe Beacons\, Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain\, bring biodesign and speculative futures into a public debate.\nWorks by Atelier Van Lieshout\, Thijs Biersteker and young designers take on health\, inclusion and energy.\nPolestar Design Rides make it easy to move around the festival venues from 17 to 25 October. \nDutch Design Week dates and more\nOctober 17-25\, 2026\n\nLocation: Eindhoven\, with main hubs in the city centre and Strijp-S\nSize: 350\,000+ visitors\, 2\,500+ designers\nTheme: R.A.W. (Rebel Authentic Worth)\nBeacons: Emma van der Leest and Anab Jain (Superflux)\nPublic installations: eight\, free to visit\n\nDutch Design Week (DDW) locations are generally open daily from 11 am to 6 pm\, though hours can vary slightly by specific venue or exhibition\nPaid admission: discover more on Dutch Design Week website DDW.nl
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/dutch-design-week-2026-r-a-w-takes-design-back-to-its-roots-in-eindhoven/
LOCATION:Eindhoven\, Eindhoven\, 5502\, Netherlands
CATEGORIES:Design Weeks & Weekends
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SUMMARY:Design Miami Paris 2026 Gallery Highlights
DESCRIPTION:Design Miami is back in Paris for its fourth year\, and it’s keeping its home at L’Hôtel de Maisons\, an 18th-century residence in the 7th arrondissement. The fair runs from October 20 to 25\, 2026\, right alongside Art Basel Paris. \nMore than 20 international galleries will take part this year\, and a few clear themes already stand out among the first highlights. \nDesign Miami.Paris\, October 20-25\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\, paid admission \nSize: one venue\, over 20 galleries\nLocation: L’Hôtel de Maisons\, 51 rue de l’Université\, Paris\nOpening hours: October 21-24\, h. 11:00 am – 7:00 am; October 25\, h. 11:00 am – 6:00 pm\nVisit Design Miami.Paris for info\n \nInvitation-only preview: Tuesday\, October 20 (members 10:00 am – 7:00 pm\, collectors & press 3:00-7:00 pm) \nDiscover Design Miami.Paris 2025 \nDesign Miami Paris 2025 \nFrench Historical Design and Decorative Arts\nParis design history runs through several of this year’s booths. Galerie Mitterrand will bring iconic pieces by Claude and François-Xavier Lalanne\, among them a rare pair of Singes Attentifs and a Pomme de Londres from 2007. \nLaffanour | Galerie Downtown will lean into the way architecture\, craft and design come together in Paris\, showing work by Le Corbusier\, Pierre Jeanneret\, Isamu Noguchi and Charlotte Perriand. \nGalerie Maxime Flatry will look back at 1930s French modernism\, built around a strong group of pieces by Robert Mallet-Stevens alongside work by Pierre Chareau\, Eileen Gray and Pierre Legrain. \nGalerie SCENE OUVERTE will carry on its work on contemporary decorative arts with a show called Around a Desk\, bringing in Studio KRJST\, Adélie Ducasse\, Vincent Dubourg and\, for the first time with the gallery\, Studio Lugo. \nMeubles et Lumières\, which focuses on French and Italian furniture and lighting from the 1950s to the 1980s\, will show pieces by Pierre Guariche\, Pierre Paulin and Gio Ponti next to a few rediscovered names. \nDiscover Design Miami 2025 \nGalerie Scene Ouvert\, Design Miami Paris 2026 \nScandinavian Design Takes Center Stage\nNordic design runs as a strong thread through this edition\, from rare mid-century pieces to new sculptural work. \nModernity\, a Swedish gallery from Stockholm\, will show up as an exhibitor for the first time\, bringing 20th-century Nordic design pieces including a rare wing chair by Frits Henningsen\, a 1930s Flora cabinet by Josef Frank\, and a one-of-a-kind cabinet by Otto Schulz. \nHostler Burrows\, from New York and Los Angeles\, will debut a new hand-tufted rug called September\, made with designer Louise Hederström together with Kasthall in Kinna\, Sweden. The rug pulls in fabric from the archive of designer Gunilla Lagerhem Ullberg and takes its pattern from the shifting shapes of a broadleaf forest. \nGalerie Maria Wettergren will focus on Gjertrud Hals\, whose textile sculptures sit somewhere between structure and form. Her recent piece Jade\, part of the series she started at the Venice Biennale\, will show in Paris for the first time. \nGalerie Eric Philippe will round out the Nordic selection with a rare 1950s floor lamp by Finnish designer Paavo Tynell. \nDesign Miami Paris 2025 \nWearable Art and Artist Jewelry\nJewelry and sculptural wearable pieces come up again and again this year\, sitting right at the point where the body\, material experiments and craft meet. \nGalerie MiniMasterpiece will show a group of wooden necklaces made by Argentine artist Luis Quesada in the 1960s and 70s\, never shown in France before\, plus the first piece of jewelry ever made by German artist Franz Erhard Walther. \nElisabetta Cipriani Gallery\, from London\, will make its Design Miami Paris debut with Shared Grounds: Intimate Monuments\, a show on the link between sculpture and the body through wearable pieces. It includes Sheila Hicks’ Cosmic Jewelry series and Liens d’Amour\, the last necklace made by Sophia Vari before she passed away\, combining ebony\, coral and gold. \nDesign Miami Paris 2025 \nItalian Design\, Past and Present\nItalian design keeps its usual strong presence. NILUFAR\, from Milan\, will bring a mix of vintage masterpieces and contemporary work\, including a 2025 table lamp from Von Pelt Atelier that draws on Spanish silver decorative objects from the 1950s and 70s. \nGalleria Rossella Colombari will build a scene around the classic Italian home\, bringing together Angelo Lelii\, Ico Parisi and other masters of Italian design. \nGalerie Kreo will pair 20th-century French and Italian lamps with limited-edition contemporary pieces by designers including Virgil Abloh and Jasper Morrison\, keeping up its role as what the gallery itself calls a “research lab.” \nDesign at Large: Large-Scale Work Fills the Grounds\nThis year’s Design at Large program takes over the courtyard\, interiors and gardens of L’Hôtel de Maisons with big\, ambitious pieces that mix historical and contemporary design. \nGalerie Patrick Seguin will bring Jean Prouvé’s 1944 6×6 Demountable House\, a landmark piece of postwar architecture built around Prouvé’s belief in industrialized construction. Pierre Renart\, working with Maison Parisienne\, will show a monumental sculptural bench that turns into a chaise longue through one continuous line of wood. Craftica Gallery\, from Warsaw\, will debut Korallion\, a birch plywood bench by Cyryl Zakrzewski that sits between sculpture and architecture. \nJean Prouvé\, Maison D émontable 6X6\, 1944. Galerie Patrick Seguin at Design Miami Paris 2026. Photo courtesy of Galerie Patrick Seguin \nIn the garden\, Galerie Gastou will present swings by Irene Cattaneo cast in bronze\, weighing down an object usually tied to lightness and play\, in a nod to the opening scene of Effi Briest. Tokio.\, from Ljubljana\, will bring Isle Lounge in a bold Klein Blue finish\, while Galerie Negropontes will show Halga\, a two- to three-meter oxidized iron sculpture by Gianluca Pacchioni that carries on his decades-long work with light and openwork structures\, straight out of the courtyard. \nGalerie Gastou\, Irene Cattaneo\, Il Giardino Segreto. Photo Enrico Fiorese\, courtesy Design Miami Paris \nDesign Miami x Apple: Designers of Tomorrow\nFor the second year running\, Apple and Design Miami will keep supporting new talent through Designers of Tomorrow. The 2026 theme\, Design for Presence\, looks at how design can help people slow down\, connect with each other\, and stay in the moment. Under Rodman Primack’s lead\, a jury of design and creative figures will pick four designers to bring Apple technology into their creative process. Their work will show at Design Miami Paris in October 2026. \nDesign Miami.Paris\, October 20-25\, 2026\nFor professionals and general public\, paid admission \nSize: one venue\, over 20 galleries\nLocation: L’Hôtel de Maisons\, 51 rue de l’Université\, Paris\nOpening hours: October 21-24\, h. 11:00 AM – 7:00 PM; October 25\, h. 11:00 AM – 6:00 PM\nVisit Design Miami.Paris for info\n \n\nInvitation-only preview: Tuesday\, October 20 (members 10:00–19:00\, collectors 15:00–19:00\, press 15:00–19:00)
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/design-miami-paris-2026-gallery-highlights/
LOCATION:L’hotel de Maisons\, 51\, Rue de l'Universitè\, Paris\, 75007\, France
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SUMMARY:idd cologne 2026: Cologne's Urban Interiors Event
DESCRIPTION:After its debut in 2025\, idd cologne\, short for interior design days cologne\, comes back from 27 to 31 October 2026. The event keeps its urban-only concept\, with no trade fair halls of its own\, and spreads residential interior design across showrooms\, stores and design venues around the city. This year\, it gains a stronger centre: Design Post Köln\, which becomes the heart of the whole programme. \nidd cologne takes place alongside ORGATEC 2026\, the trade fair for workspace and contract solutions\, running from 27 to 30 October. Together they make up Cologne’s interiors week\, and for the first time they share a venue. \nidd cologne 2025 \nAn event built around the city\nidd cologne was designed to take interior design out of the fairgrounds and into Cologne itself. Private and trade visitors move between locations\, discovering brands in settings closer to how people actually live with furniture and objects. \nIn 2026\, Design Post Köln works as the starting point for this route. From here\, visitors can head out to machwerkhaus köln\, Design Season Cologne and a network of independent showrooms and stores. The result is a spread-out experience\, held together by one central meeting place. \nidd cologne 2025 at Design Post Köln \nThe brands at Design Post\nThe line-up at Design Post for idd cologne 2026 brings together names from living\, outdoor\, lighting and contract design: Arco\, Arper\, DEDON\, ECHTSTAHL\, Ferm Living\, Gärsnäs\, GLOSTER\, HOWE\, Lodes\, mdf italia\, Misura Rugs\, Mizetto\, mobitec\, Prostoria\, RIVA 1920\, Secto Design and Tubes. \nAlongside new products and current interiors trends\, the programme includes talks\, events and networking formats aimed at the international design community. \nidd cologne 2025 at Design Post Köln \nA shared venue with ORGATEC 2026\nDesign Post also hosts part of ORGATEC 2026\, with brands such as Flokk\, Hund Office\, Klöber\, Schneeweiss Interior and Wagner Living. For idd cologne visitors\, this means home and work interiors sit side by side in the same building.\nEntrance to Design Post Köln\, to the Mackwerkhaus and other venues is free of charge \nThe Machwerkhaus at idd cologne 2025 \nWhy visit idd cologne 2026\nidd cologne shows interiors where they make the most sense\, in showrooms\, stores and design venues across the city rather than in trade fair halls. At Design Post Köln\, visitors can meet more than twenty international brands in one place\, then head out to machwerkhaus köln\, Design Season Cologne and independent showrooms to discover the local scene. With ORGATEC 2026 running alongside\, one trip covers both home and work interiors. The event is also a good chance to get to know Cologne itself\, from the cathedral and the old town to the banks of the Rhine\, and the extra day on 31 October leaves time to enjoy the city once the fair has closed. \n\n\n\nLooking ahead to 2027\nThe partnership between Koelnmesse\, the organiser of idd cologne\, and Design Post Köln began in July 2025. On 1 January 2027\, Koelnmesse will take over the running of the venue\, with its subsidiary Koelncongress in charge of marketing and operations. \nFor idd cologne\, this suggests a more stable base in the years to come. An urban event needs a recognisable centre\, and Design Post now looks set to fill that role on a lasting basis. \nidd cologne 2026: 27-31 October 2026\nCentral hub: Design Post Köln\, next to the Koelnmesse fairgrounds\nOther locations: machwerkhaus köln\, independent showrooms and stores across Cologne\nSize: 70+ events\nParallel event: ORGATEC 2026\, 27-30 October 2026\nOpening hours: daily\, 27-31 October 2026. Design Post Köln is open from 10:00 to 19:00. Showrooms and store partners set their own hours\, so it is worth checking each location before visiting\nVisit idd-cologne.com for more info\nVisit DesignSeasonCologne.com for a list of the showroom involved \n\n\nSome images from idd cologne 2025 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n	\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n		\n			\n			\n		\n\n		\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n \n\n 
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LOCATION:Cologne\, 50667\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Design Weeks & Weekends
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SUMMARY:ORGATEC 2026
DESCRIPTION:ORGATEC 2026\, the leading international trade fair for workspace and contract solutions\, opens in Cologne from 27 to 30 October 2026. This edition comes back with a tighter format built around business\, a second venue in the city at Design Post Köln\, and a special exhibition on the architectural thinking of Charles and Ray Eames. It also runs side by side with idd cologne\, turning the last week of October into a full Cologne interiors week.\n \nORGATEC 2024 \nA leaner ORGATEC 2026\, built around business\nThe furniture industry is going through a hard phase\, and several key European markets are still slow. ORGATEC has responded by reshaping its concept around a single goal: helping exhibitors and visitors do real business. \nThe most visible change is a more compact hall layout. Product segments are now grouped into clusters\, so visitors can find the brands they need faster and move through the halls more easily. For exhibitors\, the organisers expect more focused contact with decision-makers. \n \nWho is exhibiting at ORGATEC 2026\nThe exhibitor list is already long and keeps growing. In Workspace Solutions\, names include Haworth\, Humanscale\, Kinnarps\, Sedus\, Interstuhl\, Brunner\, Bene\, Thonet\, Pedrali\, Nowy Styl / Kusch+Co\, NARBUTAS\, Koleksiyon\, BuzziSpace\, Interface\, Japan’s KOKUYO and China’s Sunon. \nIn Contract Solutions\, visitors will find Artemide\, Muuto\, Kettal\, Lapalma\, Fermob\, Framery\, Viccarbe\, Casala\, COR\, Freifrau\, Crassevig\, String and Ege Carpets\, among others. \nAsia plays a strong part in this edition. Of the roughly 450 exhibitors registered by 21 August\, 139 come from Asian countries. That puts Asia just behind the EU\, which counts 174 exhibitors not including Germany\, and ahead of the 96 German companies. The rest come from other European countries including Turkey (30)\, the Americas (8)\, Oceania (2) and Africa (1). \nThe full ORGATEC exhibitor list and the hall plan are online at orgatec.com and are updated regularly\, which makes it easy to plan visits well ahead.\n \nDiscover imm cologne  \nORGATEC 2024 \nDesign Post Köln joins both ORGATEC and idd cologne\nThe biggest structural news is the role of Design Post Köln. For the first time\, the heritage-listed design venue near the fairgrounds takes part in two events at once. It works as an extra exhibition space for ORGATEC and as the central hub of idd cologne 2026\, the interior design days that run from 27 to 31 October with an urban-only format. \nInside Design Post\, ORGATEC brings in brands such as Flokk\, Hund Office\, Klöber\, Schneeweiss Interior and Wagner Living. On the idd cologne side\, the line-up includes Arper\, DEDON\, Lodes\, mdf italia\, Prostoria\, RIVA\, Ferm Living\, GLOSTER and Tubes. From here\, visitors can move on to machwerkhaus köln\, Design Season Cologne and the independent showrooms spread across the city. \nThis is also a step towards something bigger. On 1 January 2027\, Koelnmesse will take over Design Post and make it a permanent part of its event venues\, with the Koelncongress subsidiary in charge of marketing and operations. \nDesign Post Köln \nThe Eames Pavilion System by Kettal at ORGATEC 2026\nThe cultural highlight of the fair sits in Hall 10.2\, Stand N-048\, where ORGATEC presents the Eames Pavilion System by Kettal\, developed with the Eames Office. Visitors can walk through two full-size pavilions and look at archive material on the architecture of Charles and Ray Eames. \nBehind the project are almost three years of research\, led by Eames Office collaborator Eckart Maise\, starting from the Eames House\, Case Study House No. 8. The result is a modular building system based on a clear grid\, which can be set up for homes\, hotels\, offices\, retail spaces or exhibitions. It fits well with the fair’s theme\, “From rooms to relationships: designing spaces in an ever-changing world”. \nEames Pavilion System by Kettal and Eames Office at ORGATEC 2026\, Hall 10.2 \nTalks and workshops: Wherever Whenever – Work Culture Festival\n\n\n\nAlongside the product halls\, the Wherever Whenever – Work Culture Festival\, run by Germany’s Interior Business Association (IBA e.V.)\, takes over Hall 6 for all four days of ORGATEC. Talks\, panels and workshops look at how work and company cultures are changing\, around three themes: wellbeing and personal growth\, stronger connections within organisations\, and the bold choices needed for sustainable change. \nThe speaker line-up mixes design\, science and sport. It includes Carlo Ratti\, Patrik Schumacher\, Ole Scheeren\, Miriam Meckel\, Julia Hobsbawm and Maja Göpel\, together with former Formula 1 driver Ralf Schumacher and tennis champion Angelique Kerber. Around the stages\, visitors will find an art exhibition\, food courts and a podcast booth\, and on Wednesday 28 October\, from 6 to 10 pm\, the ORGATEC x WW-Festival Party brings everyone together on the Board Stage. \nWherever Whenever Work Culture Festival 2026 in Hall 6 at ORGATEC Cologne \n\n\n\nLess waste at ORGATEC 2026: materials and food donations\nORGATEC 2026 also looks at what happens when the fair closes. Exhibitors can donate leftover stand materials\, such as wood\, banners and carpets\, to social\, charitable or creative projects through the Trash Galore initiative\, giving them a second life instead of sending them to landfill. \nThe same idea applies to food. Thanks to a partnership with Tafel Köln e.V.\, exhibitors can hand over leftover catering from their stands at the end of each fair day\, and the food goes to people in need in Cologne and the surrounding area.\n \nORGATEC\, October 27-30\, 2026\nVenue: Koelnmesse\, Cologne\, plus Design Post Köln\nSize: 500+ Exhibitors\nParallel event: idd cologne\, 27-31 October 2026\nSpecial exhibition: Eames Pavilion System by Kettal\, Hall 10.2\, Stand N-048\nFor tickets and info: visit Orgatec.com\nEntry to Design Post Köln is free of charge
URL:https://designweekguide.com/event/orgatec-2026-cologne-guide/
LOCATION:Koelnmesse\, Messeplatz 1\, Cologne\, 50679\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Design & Furniture Trade Shows
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