Paris Design Week 2026: Where to Go, What to See

Paris Design Week runs from 10 to 19 September 2026. It is free, it happens across the city rather than in an exhibition hall, and this year it gathers nearly five hundred addresses. That is its strength and its problem: no one can see everything, and the programme does not tell you what to see. Here is how we read it.

The principle

No ticket, no exhibition park: showrooms, galleries, workshops, museums and shops that open their doors for ten days, often to show a piece or a collection released at that moment. You step in, you look, you step out. Most addresses open between 10 and 11 a.m. and close around 7 p.m.; the museums keep their own hours.

Five territories

Rive Gauche — the densest block, around one hundred and thirty addresses. This is where the great Italian houses and the collectible design galleries sit: Saint-Germain, the rue de l'Abbaye, the boulevard Raspail, the rue des Beaux-Arts, the rue de Verneuil. If you have only half a day, take this one.

Marais, Bastille, République — around a hundred addresses, and the opposite of the previous one: workshops, independent editors, showrooms that open for the occasion, group exhibitions in courtyards. The neighbourhood is better walked than planned.

Palais-Royal, Place des Victoires, Pigalle — some forty addresses, including the manufactories and the houses of craft settled around the Palais-Royal.

Opéra, Concorde, Étoile — some forty addresses as well, the large showrooms and the institutions.

La Factory — one hundred and seventy-three participants, that is to say a third of the programme on its own. It is the place for young creation and collectible design, in the upper Marais (116 rue de Turenne and 16 rue des Minimes). It is also where you see what will be put into production two years from now.

Nine trails to decide by

The programme is also cut into thematic trails, and this cut is more useful than geography once you know what you are after: Projects (some fifty addresses), Art & Design, Iconic, Savoir-Faire, Nouvelles adresses, Parcours AD, Design sur cours, Appartements and Design à Table. Two of them are worth the trip on their own: Design sur cours, which opens private building courtyards, and Appartements, which opens lived-in interiors.

Fourteen addresses we are following, one a day

From 10 to 19 September, we devote an article to a house or a place from this edition — published on a day when the place is actually open:

Thursday 10 — Ateliers J&J, Botch n°3, a group exhibition of textile and ceramics, 17 and 20 rue Chapon, 3rd, until the 14th. And NM Atelier, the DePliable collection at the galerie mmatters, 2 rue Commines, 3rd, until the 13th.

Friday 11 — Galeries Lafayette Haussmann, Savoir Faire Savoir: Les Moires open the department store's archives, 40 boulevard Haussmann, 9th.

Saturday 12 — Fondation Le Corbusier, the two Parisian houses ten years after the UNESCO listing, 24 rue Nungesser-et-Coli and 8 square du Docteur Blanche, 16th. And Uchronia, Le Grand Bouquet under the rotonde d'Antin of the Grand Palais, 8th.

Sunday 13 — Éditions Disderot, the reissues of 1950s French lighting, showroom of the Passage Saint-Paul, 4th, last opening day. And Vie Projects, The Shape of Use, 55 boulevard Beaumarchais, 3rd.

Monday 14 — Galerie BSL, Béatrice Saint-Laurent's autumn exhibition, 14 rue des Beaux-Arts, 6th — one of the few addresses open that day.

Tuesday 15 — Maison de Victor Hugo, Anankè, an olfactory installation by Lucas Huillet and Alexandre Helwani in the courtyard, 6 place des Vosges, 4th. And Institut suédois, Tout est en ordre, art and fashion curated by Nicole Walker, 11 rue Payenne, 3rd, until 4 October.

Wednesday 16 — Emma Donnersberg, collectible furniture in her own gallery, 60 rue de Verneuil, 7th.

Thursday 17 — Studio Andrée Putman, the reissues and the new lines, 9bis rue de Saxe, 7th, from 2 to 5 p.m. only.

Friday 18 — Musée Bourdelle, Contrepoint, Anthony Guerrée's installation within the permanent collections, 18 rue Antoine-Bourdelle, 15th.

Saturday 19 — Sèvres, Petals, the Manufacture nationale's collaboration with Patrick Jouin iD, Galerie de Sèvres, 4 place André Malraux, 1st, from 2 p.m.

How to use it on the spot

The programme tells you where to go; it does not tell you what you are looking at. In a showroom, pieces rarely carry a legible label, and in a gallery there is none at all. Photograph the piece and scan it on Beyit: the tool identifies it, tells you who edits it, at what price, and what surrounds it — the original, the vintage, the equivalents at other budgets. It is the simplest way to leave with something other than a photo you will no longer be able to place come November.

Three practical tips

The first day and the last weekend concentrate the openings; weekday mornings are empty, and that is when you really talk to people. Many Factory addresses and the Design sur cours trails are open only a few days — check before you cross Paris. And the galleries of the 6th close earlier than the showrooms of the 3rd.

Paris Design Week 2026 — 10 to 19 September, free entry, across the whole city.