With idd cologne 2025, a new premium interior design event will be celebrating its premiere in Cologne from October 26 to 29, 2025. With its innovative urban-only focus, the format will bring presentations by around 100 design brands, a theme-specific information program and a wide range of networking opportunities to where people live and work: right in the heart of Cologne. The idd cologne is aimed at professionals and private individuals interested in design and transforms the city into a stage for modern living and furnishing ideas for four days.

"The new approach of interior design days cologne focuses on proximity, experience and exchange. Around 100 renowned brands from the residential, hospitality and business interiors sectors will present themselves in various locations in the city. The format thus creates an inspiring platform for brands and trade visitors and positions Cologne as a fixed point of reference in the European design landscape," says Maik Fischer, Director of idd cologne. In this way, the trade fair with event character also combines regionality with an international design language and specifically includes the markets in Germany and the Benelux countries.

With its modern event concept, idd cologne deliberately focuses on an integrative approach. Exhibition venues such as the Design Post Köln, a long-established meeting place for the international design scene, the listed Moeller fabric pavilion, an architectural Riphahn highlight of post-war modernism, or the machwerkhaus köln, a center for design and urban production, form the framework for the presentations of leading exhibitor brands such as Bielefelder Werkstätten + IP, Bretz, COR, Evavaara Design, Hem, kaas + heger, Kettnaker, KFF, Lammhults, mobitec, Möller Design, raumkörper, Ruhe und Raum and THONET.

The temporary "light hall" at machwerkhaus köln is also a special space dedicated to the theme of light. Renowned manufacturers and designers such as Baltensweiler, Buschfeld, Casambi and Oligo will be presenting new products, prototypes and selected collections here. The exhibition will be complemented by workshop insights, individual pieces by designers as well as lectures and training courses on smart building topics.

In addition, a network of more than 20 local showrooms and store partners spans the event. In the creative spaces of Bretz Store, Heerdt, JAN KATH, smow with bulthaup and Stoll Wohnbedarf + Objekt, for example, diverse brand worlds will open their doors as part of idd cologne. The exhibition platform thus extends across the entire city and transforms Cologne into a customizable design route where numerous premium design brands can be experienced.

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