Focus/26 gathered a week of the world’s interior-design houses into their own Chelsea Harbour showrooms rather than a fair’s temporary stands, from 14 to 18 September 2026.
Design Centre Chelsea Harbour gave its showrooms over to Focus/26 from Monday 14 to Friday 18 September 2026. It is the week the building keeps for its own houses to launch new collections.
The building stands on a former coal yard that P&O redeveloped in 1987. It opened that year as Chelsea Garden Market, under glass domes by Moxley Jenner and Partners.
Marcol bought the site and rebuilt its interior from 2005. It added Design Centre East in 2010 and roofed the space between the two buildings as the Design Avenue in 2019. The site now holds 28,000 square metres of interior design showrooms.
These are the houses’ own showrooms, open the rest of the year, so during Focus a fabric was seen against the collection it belongs to. Focus is the week they all launch at once, with talks and installations programmed around the new collections.
The 2026 edition fell inside London Design Festival week, which placed the building’s launches within the city’s wider September programme. The Design Centre also stages London Design Week each spring and WOW!house, the five-week showhouse it launched in 2022, each summer.