Established for the top of the interior design profession, Decorex gathered designers, architects and their private clients at Olympia London in October 2026.
Decorex, the fair established in 1978 for the top of the interior design profession, ran at Olympia London in Kensington from Sunday 11 to Wednesday 14 October 2026.
It was set up as a place for designers to meet and do business, when Britain had trade shows for furniture and none for the people specifying it. Its audience is still interior designers, architects and specifiers.
Stands are dressed to be specified from. A visitor sees ranges, finishes and the makers behind them, and the conversation turns to lead times, bespoke sizes and what can be made in a particular hand.
The 2026 edition carried a talks programme and a committee-selected set of installed spaces. A section gave individual artisans stands beside the large houses.
The fair fell in the same week as PAD London on Berkeley Square and Frieze in The Regent’s Park. The international design and art trade is in the city for that one week, and the fairs arrange themselves around it.
Decorex is the fair a private client attends with their designer rather than alone.