Decorex takes Olympia London from 11 to 14 October 2026, the autumn gathering for interior designers, architects and their private clients.
Decorex was established in 1978 as a place for the top of the interior design profession to meet and do business, at a point when Britain had trade shows for furniture and none for the people specifying it. Nearly fifty years on it is still built around that distinction. The audience it exists for is interior designers, architects and specifiers, and the stands are dressed to be specified from rather than bought off.
That changes what a visitor sees. A designers’ fair shows ranges, finishes and the makers behind them rather than a floor of finished rooms, so the conversation on a stand is about lead times, bespoke sizes and what can be made in a particular hand. Individual artisans are given stands beside the large houses. It is the fair a private client attends with their designer rather than alone, and the reason the British decorative trades treat the week as their own.
The 2026 edition runs at Olympia London from 11 to 14 October, with a talks programme, a section given to individual artisans, and a committee-selected set of installed spaces. It falls in the same week as PAD London on Berkeley Square and Frieze in The Regent’s Park, which is not a coincidence: the international design and art trade is in the city for one week and the fairs have arranged themselves around that.