Design Days Dubai 2023


Dubai (AE)

Design Days Dubai: the trade show

Design Days Dubai presents highly collectable, modern and contemporary design pieces from the world’s established and emerging galleries and design talent, alongside a public programme of special projects, talks, workshops and guided tours allowing visitors to discover, engage with and acquire the works on display.

Retaining its position as the world’s most diverse design fair, Design Days Dubai brings together world-leading design galleries welcoming annual returning galleries Carpenters Workshop Gallery (UK/France/USA), Victor Hunt designArt Dealers (Belgium), Art Factum (Lebanon) and Gallery S. Bensimon (France) and newcomers J.C.T Haute Couture Interiors (France), Camp Design Gallery (Italy), Barcelona Design Gallery (Spain) and Dutch Creative Industry (The Netherlands). Exhibitors from a total of 19 countries.

Event profile Design Days Dubai

  • Industries: Design, Art
  • Frequency: anual
  • Scope: Nacional

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Welcome to the world’s most diverse design fair: Design Days Dubai

Now in its fifth edition, Design Days Dubai is the first design fair of its kind in the Middle East, bringing the most exclusive selection of purchasable, limited-edition design to the region. A showcase of desirable, rare and unique design creations, Design Days Dubai will be held from March 14-18, 2016, coincide with Art Week, the city’s premier art event. Don't miss any detail of the Show on our questionnaire with the organizers...

Design Days Dubai is the most important Show of its kind in the region but, what makes it different?

Bringing together some of the world’s most exciting design talent, Design Days Dubai presents a cross-section of the world’s most exciting design from over 180 designers represented by more than 47 exhibitors and over 750 works from 35 countries. Uniquely positioned as a fair of discovery, visitors will experience the vast variety and creativity that marks design today as well as having the opportunity to meet the designers and hear about their design process.

Binome Poussin In Design Days Dubai

How you noticed the economic growth of the country?

As a notable symbol of the growth and maturity of the design landscape in the UAE and beyond, additional strong regional representation can be seen through the number of returning exhibitors: 1971 Design Space, Aljoud Lootah, Cities, Fatima bint Mohamed bin Zayed Initiative, Fadi Sarriedine, Nakkash Gallery, Shamsa Alabbar and Tashkeel, all based in the Emirates, along with Coalesce (Pakistan), Naqsh Collective (Jordan) and Squad Design (Lebanon).

Over the past decade, Dubai has become known as a city of business, entrepreneurship, debate, and a meeting point for the creative industry. It is in Dubai that the art world as a globalised phenomenon is most stark. This homegrown support for artists, designers, exhibitions and museums has been vital to Design Days Dubai's success and provides a robust platform for international discourse.

Design Days Dubai Exhibition Area



Can you give some tips for companies exhibiting in Dubai for the first time?

Located on the Eastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula in the Southwest corner of the Arabian Gulf, Dubai is the second largest of the seven emirates in the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Home to over 200 nationalities, Dubai has been a trading post and meeting point for South Asia, Iran, the Arab world and Africa for hundreds of years. While its neighbouring emirate Sharjah is established as a place of heritage and art production, Abu Dhabi and Doha (Qatar) house major museums.

  • The official language is Arabic. English is widely spoken, especially in business.
  • The monetary unit is the dirham (AED) which is divided into 100 fils. The dirham is pegged to the US dollar at a mid-rate of approximately US $1 = 3.67 AED.
  • The UAE is 4 hours ahead of GMT (+4 GMT).

Exhibit At Design Days Dubai

What are the highlights of Design Days Dubai next edition?

The 2016 edition will have the participation of Saudi Arabia’s new King Abdulaziz Center for World Culture, Dutch Creative Industry’s presentation of 13 Dutch designers, returning exhibitor Crafts Council with the best of UK craft and a special showcase of design from China. All demonstrate the growing importance of reaching a global audience through the platform of Design Days Dubai.

Special projects as well as installations and live design-in-the-making performances from the likes of rising design star Lex Pott and Royal College of Art student Sheroy Katila, one of 10 Abraaj RCA Innovation Scholars, open the fair to a broader audience. Awe-inspiring large-scale works presented by UAE’s Monogram and UK’s The Carpenters Workshop Gallery to beautifully-handcrafted limited editions from France’s Galerie Gendras Régnier and Austria’s Wiener Silbur Manufactur and daring conversation-starting collections of Lebanon’s Vick Vanlian and Switzerland/Taiwan/UAE’s M.A.D Gallery ensure a fair that will appeal to design enthusiasts and collectors alike.

Design Days Dubai Exhibition

Why we can't miss the show? (some reasons)

  • Design Days Dubai, is the world’s most diverse design fair dedicated to collectable design - Brings together world-leading design galleries welcoming annual returning galleries and newcomers.
  • The Show has a record number of purchasable design from the Emirates and wider MENASA region
  • The fair has the continued generous support of returning sponsors since its 2012 launch edition, including the strategic partnership with Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, the Emirate’s dedicated Authority for culture, arts and heritage; French high-jewellery Maison Van Cleef & Arpels, Audi and Emaar.

Design Days Exhibitors In Dubai

Finally, give us some participation results from the last edition (2015).

  • More than 13,500 visitors, and 150 regional and international designers over five days.
  • Over 500 people attended the fair’s expanded Public Programme of talks and workshops, sponsored by Dubai Design District.
  • Featured 150 designers and more than 780 items from 44 exhibitors across 20 countries.