Passagen Interior Design Week
Passagen Interior Design Week is a seven-day event dedicated to interior design taking place in Cologne. If you have an undying love of design especially interior design, then Passagen is an event you can't pass up, where excellence in design is celebrated and explored.
Passagen is a city-wide event, focusing on current trends in design, particularly interior design, taking place annually since 1990. The exhibitors include international manufacturers, furniture stores, initiatives, institutes and universities, galleries, showrooms and design offices. It's a chance for designers and design enthusiasts to come together and enter into dialogue about fascinating new trends in the realm of interior design.
The Designers' Fair
The event is not only about state-of-the-art interiors by established designers. It's also a forum that encourages emerging talent, and that can be found in The Designers' Fair.
Passagen is dispersed throughout the city, and one of the central meeting points is The Designers' Fair, hosted in the Pattenhalle in the multicultural neighbourhood of Ehrenfeld. More than 20 up-and-coming international designers present their products and designs at exhibition stands in the hall. The Designers' Fair provides a space for emerging designers to showcase their work and offers the general public and trade visitors the opportunity to discover exciting design beyond the mainstream, all under one roof.
Participating venues at Passagen in Cologne
Museums, galleries, furniture stores, showrooms, design studios and hotels all across Cologne are hosting events related to Passagen. Here's a list of the participating venues where you'll find parts of the event.
- MAKK – Museum of Applied Art Cologne
- Labor Ebertplatz
- smow Köln
- Hotel Monte Christo
- Galerie Formformsuche
- Kunsthafen
- Handwerkskammer zu Köln
- Das Haus auf der Ehrenstraße
- Qvest The Room
- Designers Tower
- Mid Street Gallery
- Odyssey Kunstgalerie
- Pattenhalle Ehrenfeld
- Detmolder Schule für Gestaltung
- Atelier Lützenkirchen
- Studio Alexander von Dombois
- Atelier Dorrit Nebe
- Design Post
- machwerkschau
- Cologne Italian Culture Institute
Plan your visit to Passagen
Passagen takes place in multiple venues all over the city of Cologne. Visit the official Passagen website and take a look at the venues, map and timetable to find the festival events you'd like to attend. From there, you can plan your trip, whether you plan to go by public transport or by car.